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Article: Nothing's `right' about opera star except the voice.(By Paul Horsley)
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- October 23, 2000
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There's a new royal family in opera, and this time the king of the court is not a tenor.
The reluctant regent of today's new Golden Age of singing does not have a Mediterranean-sounding name. No Corelli, Pavarotti, Boccelli or Domingo. In fact his name's a bit heavy on consonants.
And despite a growing cultlike admiration of his imperial voice, Bryn Terfel would just as soon be at home in his native north Wales as appearing on the operatic stages of London, Berlin, Paris, Milan, Sydney or New York.
The Welsh bass-baritone, whose linebacker physique has inspired such descriptions as "a Labrador retriever in a tux," ...