Jonas Kaufmann will miss Hamburg’s big night

Jonas Kaufmann will miss Hamburg’s big night

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norman lebrecht

December 16, 2016

The star attraction has, ‘with a heavy heart’, pulled out of the opening of Hamburg’s dazzling new Elbphilharmonie on January 11-12.

His replacement, announced overnight, is the Slovak lyric tenor Pavol Bresnik.

Kaufmann has been out for three months with a vocal cord injury and his return has been repeatedly delayed on doctors’ orders.

Following the Hamburg cancellation, it seems likely that he will also cancel a long-awaited Lohengrin in Paris.

We wish Jonas a speedy recovery.

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