A SLOVENIAN opera singer shared video of himself singing Schubert while undergoing brain surgery in the Netherlands.

    Ambroz Bajec-Lapajne posted a video to YouTube showing himself performing the first and last couplets of Schubert’s “Gute Nacht” while undergoing surgery for a brain tumor allowing doctors at University Medical Center Utrecht to monitor his ability to sing and recognize key changes.

    Bajec-Lapajne trails off about the 2:40 mark, when he said “things start to get very interesting.”

    “I’m just a singer and tenor at that,” Bajec-Lapajne cautioned in a comment attempting to explain his temporary silence, but “I believe he rewired my brain for a while and that was the result. I could not control my tongue anymore and could not stop phonating. It was a very weird feeling.”

    Doctors can be heard praising Bajec-Lapajne’s singing and he is soon able to start again from the beginning.

    Bajec-Lapajne said the surgery was more than a year ago and he is “doing fine, continuing my professional singing career.”

    (SD-Agencies)