Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
An opera singer and young star of the operatic stage.
On the island
Eight records
unspecified children's recording
I would like very much to take one that belongs to my two children because I'd miss them very much
The keepsakes
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:34How well could you endure loneliness?
I just don't think I'd survive. Not complete loneliness on a desert island. I like to have time to myself. When I feel that if I need people, you know, they're there, but
Presenter asks
1:14Did you have any plan in choosing your eight records? What's the music to do for you?
Some of them I've chosen for nostalgic reasons, but I think it's basically just the sort of thing I would put on in the evening if I ever get a free evening to listen to records.
Presenter asks
4:10When did you decide that music was to be your profession?
About the age of eighteen, I would say.
Presenter asks
4:26Was that [qualifying as a radiographer] important to you or was it a sort of second string in case things went wrong with singing?
The luxury
It was a second string. It was always meant to be, yes, a good standby in case I um didn't make it as a singer.
Presenter asks
5:41What happened next [after leaving the Royal College with the award]?
Uh I had a scholarship to study in Italy. I went there for a year. … And then I went to Austria, to Salzburg, to the Landers Theatre and sang in with their opera company. And then I came back to England. … I decided to come back to England and I simply did auditions for every opera company here.
Presenter asks
10:13Are you a quick study?
Well, I've had to be up to now, but I'd like to think that in the future I'll have a longer time to study the roles that I'm going to do.
“I just don't think I'd survive. Not complete loneliness on a desert island. I like to have time to myself. When I feel that if I need people, you know, they're there, but”
“I've got those already. I don't need to go to the But uh yes, I mean uh just to name a few, I'm petrified of the dark and uh I can't bear creepy crawlies.”
“I think just theatre, because I I remember stories from way back in my childhood about my father, really. I think that's where it all started. It all sounded so exciting and romantic. And it was a a life, of course, that I didn't have any part in at that stage.”
“Well, yes. Um that morning I didn't have time to think. I just had to get up there and do it.”