"They Rightly Do Inherit Heaven's Graces": Five Years Without Alan Bates

Of all the great actors who unfortunately did not train as opera singers, Sir Alan Arthur Bates, CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003), is the one Opera Chic wishes the most had sung an opera: think of Bates as Werther, as the Duke of Mantua...

 We bow our heads in memory of the great man.