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HISTORICAL FACTS: Nicky spence - The Untold Story

Battle of the Sexes review – tennis’s most famous match becomes kitschy, pacey opera

Tenor Nicky Spence was the comic ringleader in this all-singing all-dancing Hollywood-ready work that was anything but subtle

The Guardian - UK

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District review – semi-staged Shostakovich is vivid and claustrophobic

With Nicky Spence and Amanda Majeski the striking leads, the nastiness in Shostakovich’s ‘tragic satire’ was disturbing and powerful in an impressive Proms performance

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Parsifal; Yunchan Lim – review

Depleted yet straining every sinew, Welsh National Opera deliver a formidable new Peter Grimes. Elsewhere, down the aisle with Wagner and fearless Bach from the world’s next great pianist

The Guardian - UK

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Peter Grimes review – WNO’s production of Britten’s masterwork seethes like a wild and cruel sea

Melly Still’s new staging production brilliantly captures the tortured guilt, small-minded bitching and flash-points of volatility, with Nicky Spence a sympathetic Grimes

The Guardian - UK

Fauré: La Bonne Chanson and Other Songs album review – the ecstasy of unbuttoned love

The later, string-quintet version of Fauré’s song cycle, celebrating his affection for the married Emma Bardac, is sung and played with beauty and finesse

The Guardian - UK

Jenůfa review – this opera is in Hrůša’s DNA, his account is not to be missed

The Royal Opera’s incoming music director conducts a performance of rare intensity and authority, with Corrine Winters and Karita Mattila compelling in the two central roles

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Welsh National Opera’s Il trittico; Oxford international song festival – review

Even as they fight for survival, WNO give their all in Puccini at his most affecting – and funniest

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The week in classical: Elektra; Jenůfa; Scottish Ensemble with Jasdeep Singh Degun – review

In the hands of two great conductors, high drama and outstanding playing converge in Strauss’s unyielding tragedy and Janáček’s dark masterpiece

The Guardian - UK

Thornhill opera singer awarded OBE in King's Birthday Honours

Nicky Spence, who started his serious singing life with the Dalgarno Singers as an early teen, has gone on to become a much-loved classical singing sensation

Daily Record

'I'm a celebrity surrogate aged 50 - this pregnancy will be my hardest one yet'

Dawn Allen has been a surrogate six times before, and now the mum-of-two is hoping to bring another couple's baby into the world for potentially the last time, at the age of 50

Daily Mirror

Mum-of-two wants to become a surrogate at 50

Dawn Allen has had three surrogate babies

Wales Online

Woman, 50, to become a surrogate mother for same-sex couple

Dawn Allen was unsure if she could do it again until she met Nicky and Dylan

The Independent UK

Classical home listening: Das Lied von der Erde for piano; The Splendour of Florence with Gothic Voices

Claudia Huckle, Nicky Spence and Justin Brown’s minimalist Mahler wants for nothing, while the pioneering ensemble take on Dufay, Ockeghem and more

The Guardian - UK

The Makropulos Affair review – fast-flowing and flamboyant

WNO’s production of Janáček’s opera tackles the question of the desirability of immortality with life-affirming purpose

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Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs review – characterful overview of a great songwriter

Every song Barber is known to have written is brought to life by 10 UK singers, including Nicky Spence and Mary Bevan

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s like putting your soul on a dinner plate’: can anyone sing if they try?

Sky Arts’ current series proudly announces Anyone Can Sing. Its coach, tenor Nicky Spence, explains that however vocally challenged you might think you are, you can find your inner diva

Daily Mirror

Singer Myleene Klass encourages everyone to have a go at singing - in Hyde Park

Speakers' Corner in the famous London park has been turned into Singers' Corner for the launch of new Sky Arts show, Anyone Can Sing

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Nicky Spence’s On Wenlock Edge; the Belcea Quartet

The Scottish tenor’s rousing take on Vaughan Williams’s AE Housman-inspired cycle; and the foursome-turned-sextet do justice to Brahms’s early works

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