Operatunity
Earlier this week, news emerged that The Royal Opera House was thinking of setting up a production base in Manchester.
That caught the well-tuned ear of an iPM listener who has a special reason for being so interested in this. She wrote to us commending the project and suggesting something similar for Scotland.
Linda Gray teaches singing these days and loves it...but that wasn't the original plan. On a freezing cold October morning, Eddie and I went to meet Linda in London's Covent Garden.
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And I should say a large thank you to The Coliseum for letting us in when we knocked on the stage door...sad I know.
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Linda is absolutely right. The classic skills of a trained voice are in danger of being lost without focused investment by the Arts Council in formal training that will support and preserve an art form that has underpinned our cultural landscape for centuries. What would we do without opera? Good on ya Linda!
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It is so interesting to hear about Linda's belief in the need to cherish the human voice, and that "everybody should be encouraged to sing" - when I went to visit Linda in the hope of correcting some bad habits, she cut short the lesson and told me to go and learn golf instead!
Perhaps she was rather cheesed off because I turned up late, having travelled many miles, but to try to take away someone's motivation as she did was very surprising. As a teacher myself (of a non-musical subject) that is something I would never do.
In any case, I am glad to say that her reaction failed to discourage me, and actually because she really does know about singing, she could not help letting some gems of advice slip, so after feeling seriously non-plussed for a day or two, I have improved a great deal.
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