This is what really matters," added the tenor, whose last performance before an audience was in November in Denmark. Audience we need you and we need you now more than ever," he added. "People needed distraction, people needed something to at least forget for a couple of hours all their sorrows. If you take that away and at the same time, when you take away pretty much everything else, I think it's a huge, huge mistake." Kaufmann urged the authorities to reopen concert halls and other cultural institutions and be inventive to revive the arts.

Source: The Local January 17, 2021 08:26 UTC