Tenor who sang Wagner's Tristan under Reginald Goodall, Beethoven and Mahler at the Proms, and many rarer works A familiar figure on the concert platform and a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, the tenor John Mitchinson has died at the age of 89. Many of his broadcast performances were of relatively obscure works, leading him to quip: "I think I've got the biggest repertoire of useless roles of anybody in the world!" The 38 BBC Proms appearances he made between 1959 and 1964 reflected this versa...
Tenor who sang Wagner's Tristan under Reginald Goodall, Beethoven and Mahler at the Proms, and many rarer works A familiar figure on the concert platform and a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, the tenor John Mitchinson has died at the age of 89. Many of his broadcast performances were of relatively obscure works, leading him to quip: "I think I've got the biggest repertoire of useless roles of anybody in the world!" The 38 BBC Proms appearances he made between 1959 and 1964 reflected this versa...
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