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"Due to the weather forecast indicating a windy and cloudy week ahead, katara confirms that the Jonas Kaufmann concert will still go ahead but will be held at the indoors opera house instead of the open air amphitheater on February 29th, at 8pm. Tickets can still be purchased from virgin mega stores and customers who have already bought tickets will be allocated the best opera house seating to ensure they enjoy an exclusive and rewarding experience. For any questions regarding the seating arrangements, customers can call 44080978." Jonas Kaufmann Born in Munich, tenor Jonas Kaufmann is internationally recognized as one of the most important artists of our day, and has received the highest acclaim in the world’s greatest opera houses, on the concert platform, and in recital. Commanding an unusually wide repertoire of varying periods, styles and languages, his debuts as Lohengrin in Munich’s new production in 2009 as well as at the Bayreuth Festival in the same role in 2010 were met with the highest critical and public acclaim, as were his first performances of Massenet’s Werther in 2010 at the Paris Opera, and his debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in 2008 under Antonio Pappano...Download Full Story Jochen Rieder Conductor Born in the Pfalz, German conductor Jochen Rieder began his professional career at the Badisches Staastheater in Karlsruhe and at the Bremen Opera. He was invited as Maestro Suggeritore by the Bayreuth festival in 2001 and 2001. He then began his collaboration with the Opernhaus Zurich and has also worked with the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, the Opera National, Paris, the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. Rieder made his operatic conducting debut at the Zurich Opera in December 2006 when he replaced Christoph von Dohnanyi in Ariadne auf Naxos.  He has also conducted Die Zauberfloete in Zurich, L'Italiana in Algeri for the Theater Basel, Le Sacre du Printemps in St.Gallen, Tosca in Innsbruck. Reider conducted the Tonnhalle Orchestra in Zurich in 2008 and 2009 in a cycle of five concerts of the world premiere of "Eelemwentenzyklus" of the Swiss Composer Rodolphe Schacher. He also made his first recording with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Schacher's The Rose of Jerico. In 2009 Rieder returned to the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck for Les Contes D'Hoffmann in a production staged by Brigitte Fassbaender. Rieder has also joined Jonas Kaufmann for concerts in Prague, Athens, Copenhagen, Essen and Regeneburg.  He recently conducted Rachminanov's Symphony Number 2 with the Hofer Symphoniker. In Zurich he joined the Zurich Kammerorchester for the premiere and recording of Schacher's Die Wilden Scwaene.