Following the success of his first Christmas album It's Christmas, which was a great success in 2020 and an Extended Edition last year, the famous tenor Jonas Kaufmann returns with a new version of IT'S CHRISTMAS GOLD EDITION, including for the first time Christmas stories and poems read by Jonas Kaufmann. The new feature of the Gold edition is a personal compilation of Christmas stories and poems read by Jonas Kaufmann - a true labor of love for the artist. The most popular and most acclaimed tenor of the moment steps away from the operatic repertoire for the holiday season to offer a magnificent Christmas album. The range of texts goes from the biblical Christmas story according to Luke to poems by Goethe, Morike and many others. Jonas Kaufmann has chosen many well-known German Christmas carols (O du frohliche, O Tannenbaum, Still, still, still) that he already sang as a child with his family on Christmas Eve under the tree. It also includes English carols (What Child Is This ?, In the Bleak Midwinter) and evergreens popular worldwide such as Minuit, chrétiens and Adeste fideles, as well as a very personal selection of American pop songs for the Christmas season: Let It Snow ! Winter Wonderland, The Christmas Song, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and White Christmas, as well as six alpine miniatures. In this new edition, Jonas Kaufmann is joined by musicians and friends such as Stefanie Iranyi and trumpeter Till Bronner. The accompaniment of the songs and pieces on It's Christmas ! is provided by the Mozarteum Orchestra and the Bachchor Salzburg, the St. Florianer Sängerknaben, all under the direction of Jochen Rieder. Also featured are harpist Florian Pedarnig and the Cologne Studio Big Band, conducted by Wieland Reissmann. Warm and swinging, IT'S CHRISTMAS - GOLD EDITION once again reveals a new side of Kaufmann, more intimate and surprising, surrounded by many guests!