Kaufmann Denies Culpability in Neapolitan Probe

Jonas Kaufmann has issued a formal denial following the Naples Public Prosecutor’s investigation into Teatro San Carlo’s financial management. The tenor asserts his contracts were standard, shifting the focus back to the institutional governance of the former administration under Stphane Lissner. The investigation highlights the absurdity of a system where a single artist’s fee can trigger a fiscal probe. This is less about the individual singer and more about the failure of the superintendent-star model that has dominated European opera for three decades. The fallout will likely lead to a tightening of oversight in the Italian Fondazioni, ending the era of fiscal opacity that allowed such contracts to exist without parliamentary scrutiny.