Jonas Kaufmann, the tenor of our time, takes us to The Age of Puccini. This collection showcases the unique quality of Kaufmanns award-winning recordings of best-loved Italian operatic verismo repertoire for Decca. This album contains some of Kaufmanns greatest roles recorded in resplendent Decca sound. He is joined by Renee Fleming for the duet from Puccinis La Rondine. Accolades for Kaufmanns Decca recordings include the inaugural International Opera Award for best male singer, three Gramophone Awards, a Goldene Deutschland Award, a Grammy, an ECHO Award, Artist of the Year from Musical America and the Bayerische Europamedaille.

Artist: Jonas Kaufmann
Title Of Album: The Age Of Puccini
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
Country: Germany
Genre: Opera, Vocal, Classical
Quality: FLAC (*tracks, d.booklet)
Bitrate: Lossless [24Bit/48kHz]
Time: 76:16
Full Size: 830 MB (+3%)

Artist: Ana Maria Martinez, Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo
Title Of Album: Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Year Of Release: 2014
Label (Catalog#): Decca, Universal Music GmbH
Country: International
Genre: Classical, Opera
Quality: FLAC (*tracks, d.booklet)
Bitrate: Lossless [24Bit/96kHz]
Time: 01:58:10
Full Size: 2,18 GB

Recorded: February 2014, Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia, Spain.

Puccini’s Manon Lescaut with Ana Maria Martinez, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Coro de la Generalitat Valenciana and conductor Placido Domingo is the dark story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death. Manon calls for dramatic, forceful performances and gets the full treatment here in this new studio recording.
The story of the doomed heroine Manon Lescaut has inspired more than one composer, but is perhaps most passionately portrayed in Puccini’s opera, written just ten years after Massenet’s Manon. A grim story of love, betrayal, jealousy and death, it calls for dramatic, forceful performance, and gets the full treatment here in this new studio recording starring Andrea Bocelli.