One tenor played the BBC Proms. The right one?

One tenor played the BBC Proms. The right one?

Opera

norman lebrecht

October 27, 2024

The one on the right is Sam Smith ‘the first openly non-binary musician to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and to win a Grammy Award’. Not, by any definition, a classical artist.

The other one is Italian.

Go figure.



photo: Facebook today

Comments

  • George says:

    What an utterly childish post. First of all you mention Sam’s non-binary status and then go on to use the wrong pronoun for effect. It’s like GB News making “clumsy errors”.

    Actually Sam’s performance was very well reviewed and the Proms has stopped being exclusively about classical music decades ago. The overrated chap on the left is surely less welcome to The Proms than a pop artist of worldwide repute.

    An utterly useless critique we don’t need.

  • Rofrano says:

    Would you mind at least correctly gendering Sam Smith please, that’s really just basic human respect at this point which I think we could all do with.

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