The beloved opera star talks about his new album 'Sea Songs', singing at the king's coronation, and the ENO cuts
Bryn Terfel, whose album ‘Sea Songs’ features folk songs from Wales, England, Ireland, Shetland, Brittany and beyond The beloved opera star talks about his new album 'Sea Songs', singing at the king's coronation, and the ENO cuts– sober up the sozzled seaman in this familiar shanty with such gleeful ferocity that he’d probably never touch a drop again. “We recorded it in 10 minutes,” Terfel says with a grin.
While he says he is not a sailor himself, he is never far from those who are; he credits his friend Richard Tudor, the round-the-world yachtsman, for helping him to master nautical terminology for. “He was one of the most famous, iconic sailors to come out of Wales,” Terfel says. “He sailed the world and saved his crew once, in the middle of the furthest region that you could ever find yourself in when your mast has fallen over. He was the one that pulled the mast out of the sea.
Terfel’s hoping to perform these songs in concert in the next few years. “I’ve been invited to many folk festivals to perform a set and that’s something I will do,” he says. “It’s a departure from my usual 90-piece orchestra.”Terfel’s voice has always projected with apparent ease over such giant forces – and he has been blessed with a lengthy, remarkably consistent career. Not all opera singers are so fortunate.
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