Tony Henry

Tony was coming to sing at the Benidorm Palace and joined Vince over the airwaves en route to the venue from the airport. Vince spoke with him just a few days before he was due to sing both the anthems at Wembley when England played Croatia. The man is not just a fantastic voice but well extremely well educated and a great entertainer. 16th November 2007

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Modern Arias Opera singer TONY HENRY tells Northings how he plans to pursue his successful career from a base in Ross-shire I GREW UP in London, and I have to admit that the Highlands and London could not be more different. We moved here for family reasons, and to be honest my management at the time were very against me making that move. They saw it as being the end of my career, but to be honest it has been anything but. Tony Henry. Tony Henry. In fact, I think it works to my advantage if anything. The timing couldn’t really be better – Inverness is expanding, and the services from the airport are opening up. Flights are not as frequent as in London, obviously, but if I need to get down there I can book a flight the day before and fly down there in the morning, so it’s not even an issue. Given the nature of my work, I can really be based anywhere, and I thought why not. My work is really global, but I would like to generate as much as I can up here to limit the amount of travelling I have to do. I have three children and they resent me being away. I’ve already had a concert in Strathpeffer that went well, and I just did a Christmas concert as a soloist with the Black Isle Singers in Fortrose. In February I’ll be performing in Skye. I do a lot concerts and recitals, and I do a lot of corporate work. I still keep my hand in on full-scale opera as well, but I plan to do that on an annual basis, one big contract a year. One reason for that is simply that I enjoy it, but I also want to keep reminding people that I still do opera – if you step away from that, people start to come up with all kinds of assumptions that usually couldn’t be further from the truth, especially if you are also perceived to have somehow moved away from the centre of things by leaving London. If you asked me for my favourite role, I’d have