Covid-sick Kaufmann cancels Paris

Covid-sick Kaufmann cancels Paris

Opera

norman lebrecht

October 08, 2024

Jonas is out for a month.

Nous sommes navrés de vous annoncer que Jonas Kaufmann, atteint du Covid 19, se voit contraint de reporter son concert prévu le mercredi 9 octobre à 20 h au lundi 4 novembre 2024 à 20 h.

Comments

  • It is to laugh. says:

    Jonas! Don’t be afraid to retire. It’s not as hard as you think. For Gott’s sake, you’re half way there already.

  • Philipp Lord Chandos says:

    Can we be confident that this is really COVID-19 and not the next variant?

    I mean given the kinetics of the pandemic and assuming Kaufmann was/is vaxed and/or has acquired immunity through previous infection(s).

    • Saxon Broken says:

      Being vaccinated will not stop you catching Covid-19. It just means you are much less likely to get seriously sick.

      Everyone, by now, has likely had Covid three times. This is true whether or not you have been vaccinated.

  • Ragnar Danneskjoeld says:

    According to this statement Kaufmann has postponed his Paris concert from 10/9 to 11/4. That’s all it says.

    • Barney says:

      Thank you. Postponement is not the same as cancellation.

      Since the story doesn’t mention the venue, it’s the Théâtre du Châtelet and it’s a Puccini concert with Valeria Sepe, the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, and Jochen Rieder.

      Repeat performances at the Konzerthaus Wien and at La Scala, Milan, where he’ll be performing with Ms Netrebko!

  • zandonai says:

    Didn’t he just have Covid a month ago??

  • Erlkönig says:

    What has become of his engagement in Erl?

  • Harpist says:

    A month? For COVID? That seems quite long… I mean, we have vaccines and it’s not 2020 anymore.

    • Barney says:

      He did a concert in Bulgaria ten days ago. There’s an extract on YouTube. You can see him coughing several times.

      • Milena says:

        He was not ill but certainly out of shape. Seemed like he was still recovering from the reported flu at the beginning of September.

    • Patricia says:

      Vaccines achieve that we stop the infection in the upper tract without reaching the lungs. If he has laryngitis, he will be hoarse for 3 weeks.

  • Coughman says:

    Many down-votes on justified doubts that this is really due to COVID-19.

    Humans will never be smarter than nature.

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