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Opera Singer Performs Schubert During Brain Surgery [MUST SEE]

By The Violin Channel

August 13, 2015

1 MIN READ

A Slovenian opera singer has this week uploaded YouTube footage of himself singing Schubert while undergoing brain surgery in the Netherlands.

Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne posted the video, now viewed by more than 70,000 people, of himself performing the first and last couplets of Schubert's “Gute Nacht” while undergoing surgery for the removal of a glioblastoma brain tumour.

AMBROZ BAJEC-LAPAJNE | SCHUBERT | GUTE NACHT | BRAIN SURGERY

Bajec-Lapajne has indicated the surgery was more than a year ago and he has since made a full recovery.

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