Video Interview, Elgan Llŷr Thomas on Unveiled

Opening with a frank new English translation of Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets (the first major work which he composed for his life-partner Peter Pears) and closing with his own song-cycle SWAN, Welsh tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas's debut recording on Delphian sketches 'a history of male homosexuality from necessary discretion to the (relatively) liberated present', including music by Michael Tippett, Ruth Gipps and W. Denis Browne along the way.

Ahead of tomorrow's album-launch at Wigmore Hall, I spoke to Elgan via video-call about the secret histories behind the works on the album, queer representation in opera and song - and why he feels that 'it's about time we started adding other stories into the mix'...

(You can read a lightly-edited transcript of the conversation here).