A lover of cocktails, cigars and conservative politics, Stuart Skelton isn’t your typical opera star.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Stuart Skelton is discussing the conclusion to Sibelius’ mighty Second Symphony, singing the theme sotto voce and sketching it out animatedly with his hands.
Cronulla is home turf for Skelton. He grew up around the corner in Yowie Bay and his parents still live in the Shire.Edwina Pickles “I had no concept of what church music was or was not,” Skelton says. “But having that amount of music thrown at you just on a weekly basis – stuff that you’ve never seen and have no reason to know what it sounds like – had to be insanely good training, even if you didn’t realise it at the time.”
Literally “heroic tenor” the powerful voice type is intimately associated with physically demanding Wagnerian roles such as Parsifal and Siegfried, as well as the works of Richard Strauss and roles including Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. The full Heldentenor package also comes with a powerful dramatic presence on stage.As a younger singer, Skelton initially resisted the Heldentenor tag he now embraces.
“I used to try to think of ways to avoid that being the case,” he continues. “And then I decided I didn’t want to, so I stopped worrying about whether it was going to take me over the edge or not. And I think those performances where I’ve not cared if it broke me are the performances the audience and, certainly, my colleagues and I, have remembered most.”
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