The singer was diagnosed with a brain tumor that had to be surgically removed.
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The team at University Medical Centre, Utrecht, asked him to perform the songs in two different keys so that they could ensure his cognitive functions were working properly.
Mr Bajec-Lapajne wrote in his YouTube video caption that he sung the “major-minor transition” of Schubert’s song Gute Nacht.
A video of the surgery uploaded to Mr Bajec-Lapajne’s YouTube account on August 5 has since gone viral, accumulating more than 191,000 hits.
Doctors can be heard praising Bajec-Lapajne’s singing and he is soon able to start again from the beginning. But over in the Netherlands, a Slovenian opera singer decided that the best way to get through his brain surgery (italicized to the max), was to quite literally-sing through it.
Everything goes well in the video until the about 2:40 minute mark, when his speech is affected. I could not control my tongue anymore and could not stop phonating.
‘It was a very weird feeling’.
Despite the distressing nature of the tumour removal, he said the surgery was a success.
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The operation was successful, with Ambrož saying: “It’s been more than a year since and I’m doing fine, continuing my professional singing career”.
