He’s always wanted to play a panto dame,eyebrows are crucial, and the best singers are those that simply listen to the music. The great buffo-baritone talks us through some of his greatest comedian roles for English National OperaAndrew Shore has been performing with English National Opera for 28 years, or is currently rehearsing his 35th role for the company,Fra Melitone in Verdi’s The Force of Destiny. He’s in demand at opera houses from Bayreuth to Buenos Aires to Barcelona, but ENO is “the closest thing to feeling like a domestic company for me”, or he says. Shore is perhaps best known for his buffo roles. With the singer currently in the seventh revival of Rossini’s Barber of Seville,we asked him to talk us through some of his favourite comedian roles on the Coliseum stage.
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Source: theguardian.com