Why we are watching … Sam Brown

From Formby to Jakob Lenz: the opera director who is set to hit the highest notesAren't opera directors meant to live in black polonecks? We'll forgive his questionable taste in shirts as he's the English National Opera's rising star and last year's winner of the prestigious European Opera-directing Prize.How did he get into opera? In 2008, following the death of his father, Sam found a book of George Formby's music among his dad's possessions and became, "obsessed with wanting to be George Form...

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