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Opera singer Bryn Terfel: ‘Who would play me in the film of my life? Meat Loaf’


The bass-baritone on nerves at King Charles’s coronation, upsetting conductor Daniel Barenboim, and a nasty dog bite

One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. That moment in Bilbao in 2020, when I tried to cross the street and did a pirouette and suffered a dreadful break in my right leg, which means now I have 10 screws and a band in it.

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