Angela Gheorghiu showing the aspiring young singers at the Royal College how to embrace their audience from the moment they step on stage.

Her magnetic stage presence and emotions had Solti persuade the BBC to change their schedule to transmit live her Traviata from Covent Garden in 1994.Considered by many to be the true heir to Callas she has thrilled opera audiences around the world ever since.A beauty of voice and technical perfection but above all a hypnotic personality that knows how to possess the stage and absorb the personality of the part she is playing.

Emotion,emotion emotion she implored her young colleagues.Music is something live and vibrant even the long held notes make them live ….and wow she certainly showed them ……what it means to live every moment on and off the stage …….in fact she held us all in her spelll for almost three hours that passed all too quickly.She brought magic to us and a lesson that will remain more importantly for the stars of tomorrow who hope to follow in her footsteps!