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Music Matters: Jonas Kaufmann Interview

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Jonas Kaufmann Interview

31/05/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Jonas Kaufmann Interview

Tom Service presents an extended interview with tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

Tom Service presents an extended interview with tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Tom meets Kaufmann as he starts rehearsals for Jonathan Kent's new staging of Puccini's Manon Lescaut.

Presented by Tom Service. This edition of Music Matters is given to an extended interview with Jonas Kaufmann, acclaimed by the New York Times as "currently the most in-demand, versatile and exciting tenor in opera". Tom meets Kaufmann in London, as he starts rehearsals for Jonathan Kent's new staging of Puccini's Manon Lescaut at Covent Garden.

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