Andrew: Telegraph obits are always a good read, but this was well above

par. I was rather taken with this paragraph: “Hemmings was nine when he

first sang for Benjamin Britten. For three years he toured in The Turn Of The Screw, until his voice finally broke during a high aria on stage at the

Champs Elysee Theatre in Paris. His understudy had been waiting, in full

costume, throughout these three years, and was brought on after a brief

interlude; alas, his voice broke three days later.”