In June, I'm going to be in an opera for the first time in over half my lifespan. In three concert performances of Valkyrie , I'm singing Hunding. I'm trying to keep the Anna Russell's Guide to the Ring out of it. And any thoughts of my parents and their inter-competitive singing careers. After she sang along once too often at one of his Country and Western gigs, he held her head underwater in the sink in among the after Sunday roast crockery soak. We'd had lamb. I'd been sent round as usual to ask Welsh Lil for some fresh mint from her plant out on the balcony. #opera #singing #baritone #family #memoir #amwriting #attemptedmurder #childhood #Wagner