Any danger that Bryn Terfel would cast his shadow over the rest of the cast and the orchestra in WNO’s first production of Die Meistersinger quickly melted away.
All established bands start out playing other people’s songs, but when established bands continue to play other people’s songs, the results can be invariably mixed.
Having graced our television screens in the mid-nineties with cult comedy favourites Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard not Judy, Richard Herring has always favoured humour with an anarchic edge.