1. Three operas you love most?
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Parsifal
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
2. Three favourite baritones?
Hans Hotter
Hermann Uhde
Tito Gobbi
Baritone Warwick Fyfe
3. Three favourite roles (you have performed or are scheduled to perform)?
Alberich
Beckmesser
Klingsor … or Holländer… or Mandryka… don’t ask such hard questions!
4. Most memorable musical experience as an audience member?
Parsifal, Bayreuth 1993
5. If you weren’t an opera singer, what would you be?
Unemployed. But for preference a writer.
6. Three operas you could happily never hear again?
Roméo et Juliette
Pearlfishers
Lakmé
7. Funniest moment onstage?
When I reached round from behind slid my hand into an Aida’s cleavage mistaking her left breast for the arm I was meant to clutch.
8. Three favourite movies?
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Wagner by Tony Palmer
The Life of Brian
(Actually third place is a sort of dead heat involving umpteen films: The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Braindead, Videodrome, The Devils, The Thing (1982 version), Jaws, Alien… I could go on and on..)
9. Three operas you like but never get to see?
Khovanshchina
Friedenstag
Palestrina
10. A recording to be stranded with on a desert island?
Keilberth Ring
Meistersinger with Hotter as Sachs
Elektra – both the Solti/Nilsson one and the DVD with Rysanek, Varnay and Böhm
11. A singer of the past...
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