Breaking: Jonas Kaufmann cancels Elgar

Breaking: Jonas Kaufmann cancels Elgar

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norman lebrecht

September 15, 2016

The German tenor has pulled out of two concerts of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in Berlin next week ‘for health reasons’, the Staatsoper has announced.

He is to be replaced by the UK tenor Toby Spence.

The other soloists, on September 19 and 20, are Sarah Connolly and Thomas Hampson.

Barenboim conducts.

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