Opera in a boxing ring

I don't even know what to think of this. It's so, I don't know, bizarre that I'm sitting here smirking in disbelief. As Intermezzo points out, "Kaufmann himself has worked many years on his craft and has a notorious and understandable dislike of being judged purely on his looks - did he really agree to this?"

Somewhere, I bet, the poor man is banging his head against a wall, or comforting himself with the knowledge that the money he's earning with this will at least put his kids through college.