In this season of coughs and colds I’m not always very chatty in the taxi to a gig where I will be singing plenty of arias later on, but I had lots of time before my Messiah rehearsal yesterday...Read More
John Copley’s production of La Bohème for the Royal Opera is now thirty-eight years old and being dusted off again for performances at Christmas and beyond. Rolando Villazón is Rodolfo, alongside ...Read More
This week I have been experimenting in cold-weather wear for use during concerts in cathedrals and other arctic venues. I do feel it worse than many colleagues, and get grumpy very quickly when cold, ...Read More
I made my debut as a soloist at the Proms on Saturday. It was a pretty gentle experience, all things considered. A beautiful and relatively short a capella duet at the beginning of Debussy’s Mar...Read More
For the past couple of months I’ve been working with a director to construct a show which gets its first performances later this week. Despite the “everyone’s a creative person” school of thou...Read More