Dmitri Hvorostovsky v Jonas Kaufmann

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Jonas Kaufman

The two hottest guys in opera today. I adore them both! Have to say Dmitri Hvorostovsky might just edge out Jonas Kaufmann in a looks alone competition and also it's very hard (for me) to prefer a tenor over the silky depths of bartitone tones so I suppose it all comes down at the end of the day to the roles I have seen them both perform in.

OK, just as a taster, here are the both of them performing on stage together in concert

yes, I'm dribbling already, lol.

I have seen Dmitri in just three main roles that I recall, Count di Luna (Il Trovatore) and Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin) and Valentin (Faust) whilst Jonas, three roles also Siegmund (Die Walkure), Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Faust (Faust) Dmitri and Jonas both pulling off absolutely blinding performances in each of these roles - just stunning!!! So which is it to be, Dmitri or Jonas. As I say Dmitri has it in bucket loads in the looks department doesn't he and that voice is to die for ...... so why oh why do I feel an overwhelming pull on the heartstrings towards Jonas. It is simply down to the romantic roles a tenor inevitably wins over a baritone every time, and those fabulously moving interpretations Jonas has put into those romantic scenes have left me helplessly in love with him. I still adore them both, top guns in the opera world. I include below some snippets of these noteworthy performances....



here's Dmitri singing Onegin's aria from Eugene Onegin alongside the lovely soprano Renee Fleming, the first role I saw him perform on TV in the Met Opera production

diviiiiiiine!!!


and now Jonas Kaufmann in the first role I saw him perform in, The Met's Die Walkure, I saw this in the cinema live in HD

alongside Eva-Marie Westbroek as Sieglinde, the chemistry between these two was just incredible!!!! They just sizzled!!! Totally blew me away!!!


Dmitri again, this time as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, saw this Met Opera production Live in HD at the cinema, Dmitri stole the show and bowled me over, totally!!!

stunning duet with soprano Sondra Radvanovsky.


Jonas again, and this time performing the role of Cavaradossi, this is his performance in Munich, unfortunately I can't find a clip of the Royal Opera House cinema screening I saw him in but his performance in that was truly magical, so much so that that was the performance that made me fall in love with him

stunning interpretation.

Now Dmitri in rehearsal as Valentin in Faust, afraid it's the only clip I can find of him in this role, picture quality isn't great but that stunning stunning voice rings out as Valentin, having been in a fight with Faust, departs this world cursing his sister Marguerite

WOW! Just a shame that in the role of Valentin he is not on the stage for longer in this opera, but I got to see this Royal Opera House production twice, once at the Opera House and again for the live screening in cinema, Dmitri again stole the show!


My latest view of Jonas was the Live in HD screening from The Metropolitan Opera of Faust, here he is with Marina Poplavskaya, a short clip of part of the love duet ..... how can she resist him, lol

OK, just a tiny bit more of Jonas as Faust as that was such a short clip, here he is with the fabulous Rene Pape (Mephistopholes)

After all those delicious performances from both Jonas and Dmitri how can anyone not just adore the both of them, how lucky we are to have these two fabulous singers, both with great voices and charisma oozing from every pore, around in the world of opera! Brava the both of them!!! I need a very cold shower now they are both so HOT!!!