‘If anybody had made a film of my year,’ says John Tomlinson, our latest musical knight, as he lolls on a sofa on the top floor of the Royal Opera House and enjoys a gentle chuckle, ‘I suppose it would have been called My Left Knee!’
It has been a memorable year for the world’s greatest Wagner bass, who returns to Covent Garden on Sunday to sing Wanderer (Wotan, by any other name) in Keith Warner’s new production of Siegfried.
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