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Bryn Terfel: ‘I’d stand on a table and sing Elvis at the drop of a hat’
The opera singer, 59, on his love of Wales, performing for the King, and where he goes to let his hair down
I was brought up on a sheep farm in Pant Glas, north Wales, with my older brother Ian. My father was a farmer, my mum worked in a school for children with disabilities, and they and my grandparents were in different choirs. But if I’ve done the hard work of learning, be it a simple Schubert or Schumann song or a Fauré or Vaughan Williams, I enjoy it.
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