As a mark of respect, today we’re devoting the site to playing Charles Kennedy’s Desert Island Discs in hourly portions.
Disc number three is ‘Vissi d’arte’ from Tosca, sung by Maria Callas with Paris Conservatoire
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Two and a half years ago, my daughter gave me a ticket for Tosca at the Coliseum for Christmas (excitement! I live in the country). Afterwards I walked her to the Tube before catching a bus to Brixton. The next day I went to see old friends from my London days, who said that they too had been at Tosca, and had seen CK at the bus stop – where I had been just a bit later. I had worked with him on the constitutional review when he was party president and my kind daughter was in nappies, and it would have been nice to say hello.