Newspapers are dead, believe it. Rene Pape's agent dispenses with the press and interviews Der Superbass himself.
I'm not sure which is the best bit - that his ring tone is Méphistophélès' devilish laughter from Gounod’s Faust, or that he has a dachshund called --- Wotan.
Compulsive reading, and apparently there are more instalments to come.

