Queen Elizabeth Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonThe singular violin-cello duo turn music into exhilarating conversation. And the father of all Germonts dazzles at Covent GardenSkirts flowing, instruments held aloft, feet jingling in bell slippers, stamp…
Norman Bailey obituary
Bass-baritone who excelled as Wagner’s Wotan, Hans Sachs and Flying Dutchman, and in big Verdi rolesThe generation of British opera lovers who got to know Wagner’s works in the late 1960s and 70s was fortunate indeed that Sadler’s Wells (from 1974 Engl…