Dame Felicity Lott
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I went to Pate's Grammar School in Cheltenham.
I think Mum sent me for singing lessons when I was about 12.
And she said, it's too early to teach you to sing, but I'll teach you to breathe, which is actually quite a useful thing to learn how to do.
I didn't correspond in any way to my idea of what a singer should be, what she should look like.
And we'd watch musicals on the TV with people like Mitzi Gaynor and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and they didn't look like me at all.
There wasn't a lot in Cheltenham, really.
I think the first opera I ever saw was La Bohème, probably.
I mean, you can't sing Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen when you've got a great mitt like I've got.
And nothing about me corresponded to anything that I thought was appropriate, really.