Dame Felicity Lott

I did win a few things, actually, but always with knobbly, shaking knees.

When I was at the Academy, I think we sang the final trio, which everybody loves, in Rosenkavalier.

And then at Glyndebourne, they offered me this amazing part of The Countess in Capriccio on tour.

And, I mean, that music...

almost especially when she is naturally singing, is so beautiful.

I just loved it, the nostalgia of it.

And with Strauss, it really was the end of an era.

What he was writing, it was all going a bit more atonal after him.

And it just suited me somehow, my sort of voice.

So I just fell in love with that.

Well, in the first act, the marshal in who's an elderly lady of about 35, I think.

Played by you in this particular... Played by me in this instance.

And actually many times since I graduated from playing the boy who is Octavian.

And they are naughtily having a relationship.

So you quite often start off in bed in that opera.

There are two other principal characters, Baron Ox, who is a cousin of the Marshalin, and Sophie, who is the young girl who Ox is down to marry.

It was jolly difficult to summarise.

Anyway...

Absolutely, we could say that.

Yes.