Alfie Boe: 'The Pearl Fishers is what opera should be about' | Interview

The award-winning tenor talks about Bizet, wearing a wig and the origins of his exotic nameAlfie Boe and I meet in the royal retiring room at the London Coliseum and start speculating merrily about what it is the royals retire to do. Alfie is a lovely, down-to-earth Lancastrian but a bit of a royal himself in the opera world – a Tony award-winning tenor who sings like a dream. He is about to star as Nadir in Bizet's early lyrical opera The Pearl Fishers for ENO.But I want to quiz Alfie about h...

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