07 May 2008
A knight at the opera
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/A-knight-at-the-opera.4061045.jp
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/A-knight-at-the-opera.4061045.jp
By TIM CORNWELL [The Scotsman, 8 May 2008]
A BAWDY bedroom scene is playing on Scottish Opera’s rehearsal stage. Baritone Peter Sidhom, playing Sir John Falstaff – in a padded fat suit that bulges bizarrely from both his front and rear – is comically attempting to pin soprano Amanda Roocroft on the bed.