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Diana Damrau – soprano
Jonas Kaufmann – tenor
Helmut Deutsch – piano
The Telegraph titled Jonas Kaufmann as "the world's best tenor". The singer has more than 70 operatic roles in his repertoire, which he has performed in the world's leading opera houses, such as Milan's La Scala, London's Covent Garden, Bavarian State Opera, New York's Metropolitan Opera, Opera Zurich, Paris National Opera and Vienna State Opera.
Jonas Kaufmann is esteemed in the whole world as the best contemporary performer of the lieder repertoire, especially the works of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, whose songwriting is the pinnacle of this specific artistic genre. In particular, the recitals with his main pianist Helmut Deutsch are considered unsurpassed. His performances and recordings have earned him numerous honors and awards, including eleven ECHO/OPUS Klassik awards. A number of classical music magazines (Opernwelt, Diapason, Musical America, etc.) awarded him the title "Singer of the Year". He was appointed a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and is a holder of the Bavarian Crown Order of Merit. In 2022 he received the title of Kammersänger and in January 2024 the highest French state award, the Legion of Honor.
Jonas Kaufmann performed in Prague at the invitation of the Nachtigall Artists agency for the last time in February 2024 in the completely sold-out Smetana Hall of the Municipal House. There, he paid tribute to the great composers of film music in the project The Sound of Movies.
The famous German soprano Diana Damrau, who has been performing on the world's leading opera and concert stages for two decades will be his partner in the March concert in Prague. Opera fans admire her great vocal skills at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Covent Garden in London, the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, etc. The Metropolitan Opera is the house where the soprano performed her most important roles, and thanks to Live in HD broadcasts, her vocal art is admired by opera fans all over the world. Diana Damrau is a Kammersängerin of the Bavarian State Opera and holder of the Maximilian Order for Science and Art, or the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She was also voted "Singer of the Year" (Opernwelt, International Opera Award London, Opera News, Gramophone Editor's Choice).
Diana Damrau, too, devotes herself to lieder repertoire and has collaborated with Helmuth Deutsch for many years. Jonas Kaufmann and Diana Damrau's European tour in the spring of 2022 earned them the label "lyrical dream couple for German romanticism". The artists will come to Prague with "their" pianist Helmut Deutsch. The Viennese born artists is one of the world's best and most successful piano partners and accompanies the most renowned singers.
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Zueignung
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10 No. 1
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Nichts
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10 No. 2
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Die Nacht
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10 No. 3
Die Georgine
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10 No. 4
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Geduld
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10 No. 5
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Die Zeitlose
from the cycleAcht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 19, No. 7
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Die Verschwiegenen
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“ Op. 10 No. 6
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Wer hat's getan | Who did it?, Op. 84A
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Allerseelen
from the cycle Acht Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter“, Op. 10, No. 8
text: Herrmann von Gilm
Liebeshymnus
from the cycle Fünf Lieder, Op. 32, No. 3
text: Karl Friedrich Henckell
Schlagende Herzen
from the cycle Drei Lieder, Op. 29, No. 2
text: Otto Julius Bierbaum
Ich trage meine Minne
from the cycle Fünf Lieder, Op. 32, No. 1
text: Karl Friedrich Henckell
Einerlei
from the cycle Fünf kleine Lieder, Op. 69, No. 3
Text: Ludwig Achim von Arnim
Nachtgang
from the cycle Drei Lieder, Op. 29, No. 3
text: Otto Julius Bierbaum
Freundliche Vision
from the cycle Fünf Lieder, Op. 48, No. 1
text: Otto Julius Bierbaum
Ich liebe dich
from the cycle Sechs Lieder, Op. 37, No. 2
text: Detlev von Liliencron
Amor
from the cycle Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, No. 5
text: Clemens Brentano
Interval
GUSTAV MAHLER
Rheinlegendchen
from the cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn
text: Anonym
Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
from the cycle Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
text: Anonym
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? | Who Thought Up This Song?
from the cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn
text: Anonym
Ablösung im Sommer
from the cycle Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
text: Anonym
Es sungen drei Engel | Three Angels Sang
from the cycle Des Knaben Wunderhorn
text: Anonym
Ich atmet‘ einen linden Duft
from the cycle Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert
text: Friedrich Rückert
Liebst du um Schönheit
from the cycle Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert
text: Friedrich Rückert
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
from the cycle Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert
text: Friedrich Rückert
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen | Zmizel jsem ze světa
from the cycle Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert
text: Friedrich Rückert
RICHARD STRAUSS
Leises Lied
from the cycle Fünf Lieder, Op. 39, No. 1
Text: Richard Dehmel
Wozu noch, Mädchen | What is the purpose, my sweet
from the cycle Sechs Lieder aus “Lotosblätter“, Op. 19 No. 1
text: Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Breit über mein Haupt | Spread over my head
from the cycle Sechs Lieder aus “Lotosblätter“, Op. 19 No. 2
text: Adolf Friedrich von Schack
Ich schwebe | I float
from the cycle Fünf Lieder, Op. 48 No. 2
text: Karl Friedrich Henckell
Heimliche Aufforderung | The Secret Invitation
from the cycle Vier Lieder, Op. 27 No. 3
Text: John Henry Mackay
Ruhe, meine Seele | Odpočiň si, duše moje
from the cycle Vier Lieder, 0p. 27, No. 1
text: Karl Friedrich Henckell
Morgen | Morning
from the cycle Vier Lieder, Op. 27 No. 4
text: John Henry Mackay
Cäcilie
from the cycle Vier Lieder, Op. 27 No. 2
text: Heinrich Hart
Program is subject to change
