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Radio 3,31 May 2014,45 mins

Jonas Kaufmann Interview

Music Matters

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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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