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The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

I’m engaging my diaphragm as I’m speaking to you right now.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

I’m very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

I wouldn’t want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I’ve always cared about the long term.

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.