Jonas Kauffman

L’Opera
Jonas Kaufmann t, Sonya Yoncheva s, Ludovic Tézier bar, Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Bertrand de Billy
Sony 88985390832

“I am young, and I love life” sings Eléazar in Halévy’s La Juive. The world’s most in-demand tenor, Jonas Kaufmann, may no longer be in his first youth, but in this collection of 19th-century French opera arias he looks back to the early years of his career and the roles that made him. The result is an album with a curious double narrative – following opera’s development from Halévy in the 1830s through to Massenet in the 1890s, as well as Kaufmann’s own evolution from these...