Profiles of four leading British opera singers.

The Yorkshire-born baritone has achieved a spectacular climb to operatic success... from an amateur jazz cornet player working as a bank clerk in Sheffield to singing one of the greatest baritone roles in opera, Verdi's Rigoletto, at La Scala, Milan.
In this programme he talks about his career in opera, and sings excerpts from Rigoletto, Andrea Chenier, Il Trovatore, The Barber of Seville, and Billy Budd with Joyce Blackham and Donald Smith in The Barber of Seville and contributions from friends, colleagues, and members of his family including Dorothy Camplin, Brenda Collier, Francis Fair, Alicia Scaife, Marcus Smith and Norman Tucker, C.B.E.
With the BBC Concert Orchestra
Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by Edward Downes