Tertia, 58, and Adam, 57, met at an opera conference in Philadelphia in 1997. They now live together in London with their daughter
hen Tertia was awarded a Churchill fellowship in 1997 to research music education in primary schools, she was delighted. The fund gave her the chance to travel to the US for eight weeks. “As an opera singer, it was a really exciting project,” she says. “There were lots of opera education programmes in the US at the time, which is why I wanted to go there and explore. I began writing to different companies to find out more about their work.
In April, Tertia attended the Opera America conference in Philadelphia, where she met Adam. “I realised he was the person from San Diego that I’d been emailing,” she says. Later, they went to the bar and began chatting. “I thought she seemed really intelligent, easy to talk to and the most beautiful woman I’d ever met,” says Adam. During their conversation, he opened up about the bereavements he had struggled with. “He’d lost most of his family and had been through so much.
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