{"id":16042,"date":"2025-01-20T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16042"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:17:23","slug":"jonas-kaufmann-leaves-agency-focus-career-festival-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/20\/jonas-kaufmann-leaves-agency-focus-career-festival-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonas Kaufmann Leaves Agency To Focus On Career As Festival Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16043\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann.jpg\" alt=\"Jonas Kaufmann\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonas Kaufmann (Photo: Gregor Hohenberg \/ Sony Music)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann has announced he will be leaving his agency to focus on his career as a festival director. Kaufmann\u2019s announcement suggests the tenor may be winding down his performing commitments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the buzz:<\/strong> After 20 years of collaboration, the tenor Jonas Kaufmann has <a href=\"https:\/\/jonaskaufmann.com\/en\/2025\/01\/15\/jonas-kaufmann-and-alan-green\/\">announced<\/a> he will be ceasing collaborations with the Zemsky\/Green agency. Since September 2024, Kaufmann has been <a href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/tiroler-festspiele-erls-winter-season-succeeds-under-jonas-kaufmanns-leadership\/\">Festival Director of the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.<\/a> Kaufmann\u2019s announcement that he will no longer collaborate with his longtime agency suggests he may be winding down his performing career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few Leitmotifs:<\/strong> Many of Jonas Kaufmann\u2019s years with the Zemsky\/Green agency were spent with Bruce Zemsky as Kaufmann\u2019s personal manager. In recent years, the respected agency changed considerably. In 2017, Bruce Zemsky died after a short illness, and in 2022, Alan Green <a href=\"https:\/\/slippedisc.com\/2022\/03\/jonas-kaufmanns-agent-sacks-all-his-staff\/\">dismissed his entire staff<\/a> aside from his wife and daughter following a meeting during which staff voiced concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Kaufmann\u2019s tenure with the Tiroler Festspiele Erl has been a success, already leading to record ticket sales. Perhaps the tenor is ready to manage other peoples\u2019 performance cancellations rather than continuing to deal with audiences\u2019 disappointment when he himself is forced to withdraw. We wish him well, regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann has announced he will be leaving his agency to focus on his career as a festival director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,3,233],"tags":[506],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/Jonas-Kaufmann.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16044,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16042\/revisions\/16044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16042"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}