hello, sir bryn terfel! are you here for a singing lesson? i wish! you know, i admire people like you who can sing but ijust can't sing myself. i can sing but i can't teach singing, so i'm glad you said no. oh, well, excellent, excellent. so, here you are in the barber of seville, and this is very much a comic role for you. yeah. i mean, first of all, do you like all the getting into costume and being made up and all the rest of it? it's a crescendo in rehearsal process. you have the rehearsals in the rooms, then you go onto the stage, then you have your costume fittings and then, all of a sudden, you're in your costume and you're in your make—up and you're portraying a character, so that's when the fun really does begin. do you ever get nervous? i think we have — well, i certainly think i have a nervousness that takes me to a certain limit that will not hamper anything that i have to do on the stage, so the adrenaline is a good adrenaline and it's a good nervousness. you know, we're all warming up in our dressing rooms and excited to go on the s