When the Swiss French tenor Benjamin Bernheim sang the Hymn to Apollo at the Paris Olympics closing show he had been given a weekend leave of absence by the Salzburg Festival.
By rights he should have been singing in Tales of Hoffmann on Satursday night.
His Salzburg jump-in was Léo Vermot Desroches.
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