It's opera in primetime, of course I'm aware

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Just in case anyone's managed to miss it so far: Britain's Got Talent (Brits might recognise Simon Cowell in the jury), mobile phone salesman, opera.

See Simon Cowell jawdrop to Nessun Dorma:

And the git got better in the semi-finals:

I mean, honestly. The guy's got vibrato, he's got a lovely scale, and that depth there - so many tenors have voices that have been squashed flat. He's good, and since he hit even Polish papers, he's going places :)

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[winter]

Emotion is key :) I'm more oriented towards musicals, and I freely admit that John Owen-Jones is the best tenor-Phantom and tenor-Valjean ever (and that only because I need to make allowances for Yuichiro Yamaguchi's knock-you-dead baritone). Yay for Wales indeed.

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There's a not very well known saying over here, part of which is:

...two Englishmen together will form a queue, two Welshmen together will form a choir...

Unfortunately for those of us females who like to do choral singing the tradition here in the Welsh valleys is *very* much Male Voice Choirs :-(