On stage they’re usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: “Insieme”, meaning “together” in Italian, to be released on Sony Classical. Accompanied by the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, they present duets they’ve sung together on stage, plus works specially chosen for the album.

REVIEWS:

Their voices fit like a glove here in the Don Carlos duet. Like Milnes and Domingo, they’re quite close in timbre, so the bond of friendship seems especially strong.

 -- Gramophone (Editor's Choice, October 2022)

Whether as sworn foes in La Forza del Destino, devoted friends in Don Carlos or puppet and master in Otello, Kaufmann and Tézier give performances of total conviction and passion with Pappano and the Santa Cecilia orchestra empathetic enablers. Each duet evokes past productions or whets the appetite for future ones.

-- The Sunday Times (UK)