I wrote:
My second-favourite tenor, as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at Covent Garden July 2005.
In March 2006 Nina wrote:
If you will hear him now he will become your first-favourite tenor. I just heard him in Covent Garden in Tchaikovsky Onegin. It is really uncomparable.
I wrote:
Oh Nina, I have heard him in Eugene Onegin and he is still my second favourite tenor. I'm sure he won't mind being only second...!