Jonas Kaufmann won't be coming back to Bayreuth

If you've got a ticket to see Jonas Kaufmann's Lohengrin in Bayreuth, count yourself lucky, because he's not returning in 2011.

Director Hans Neuenfels has naughtily let slip that next year's swan knight will be Klaus Florian Vogt. This year's Ortrud, Evelyn Herlitzius, will also be replaced.

We also learn the reason for Lucio Gallo's late withdrawal from the role of Telramund this year; not a disagreement with the director as some speculated, but a vocal crisis.