The full video of this La Boheme:

For the educated Opera fan they understand different voice production and styles. They will understand that we want to hear our favorites opera stars sing different roles that might not be perfectly suited for their voice, but we pay good money and fill the opera house to hear it. To the non educated or casual fan, they will be the hardest on the singer performing these roles outside of their specialty because they do not understand that the composer wrote for different types of voices when developing their music. Example would be, how many fans in the 80's were upset when Pavarotti started singing lower heroic voice roles that brought him away from the Bel canto lighter roles. Bottom line... take it easy on Mr Kaufman, people pay millions to hear him sing these roles in his Spinto darker hero voice, and we are just fine with that because we are NOT expecting to hear a Pavarotti High C!

He has definitely gotten older vocally. He sings very strained. This role is no longer for him. It sounds as if the aria is transposed down.

I don’t think many people can understand how delightfully honest this performance is.

I love both Jonas and Jussi Bjorling. I listened to both tonight. Jussi was a wonderful singer but, in this aria, he sounds as if he is merely singing a song, Jonas sounds as is he is truly the character, chatting up his lady. To me they are both wonderful, but one sings pure notes, the other means what he sings.

I don't know if his singing is worst than his acting...

The emotion in his voice is the difference. Quite superb

HE needs pitch...the voice is rich but this aria needs christened clear pitch and there is a heaviness to his delivery

Beautiful rendition of this great aria. BRAVO Jonas!

Wonderful ♥

Going back to Rodolfo after singing Otello is quite a challenge , but his high C is there even if less solar as he could do earlier on. Sorensen’s Mimi is fabulous.

Voce meravigliosa!Stupendo e anche molto bello!!!

Toujours merveilleux,Jonas.

Jonas sei troppo e dico troppo bravo bravissimo non smetterei mai di ascoltarti ti abbraccio forte

Wonderful singer & actor

quel air merveilleux bravo Jonas !

Meraviglioso Jonas Kaufmann!

Me encanta está Ópera, bravo mí Príncipe, eres el mejor, se te quiere ⭐🌹💝🥰

Ich liebe diese Szene😍❤️🎶🎶🎶

Kaufmann, kaufmann you are such an enchanting man with barrels of talents.