What’s it all about, Alfie?? Well, I’m afraid I have to agree with the above comment. I’m all for making opera popular but the concert overall was disappointing to say the least. OK, Bring Him Home showed off Alfie’s great talent but the whole show should have been to that level of performance. He said it himself that he should have started the show with that number (indeed, it got him a standing ovation). The only other time he got people standing was when they were trying to dodge the sweets he kept throwing into the audience. The Medleys were poorly orchestrated and a bit of a mish-mash. It seemed he sung one line of one song and then straight into the other. I would have much preferred him to sing Some Enchanted Evening in full. Alfie needs to decide who his target audience is? If he wants to totally dumb-down then he should carry on in his current format. And what’s with the Meet and Greet thing? OK, I know his true fans want the extras which is fine but to call giggly girls on stage to sing Have Yourself a Merry Christmas to and the two little girls singing with him (OK the latter was a sweet touch and can be forgiven), but this kind of stuff should be done during the meet and greet. I don’t want to pay 35 quid to listen to this! Alfie, the first time you threw quality street into the audiences it was funny…the 2nd and 3rd time wasn’t funny ! I appreciate he has to sing a variety of songs to please his audience but there wasn’t much continuity of song choice. As for the James Bond stuff, great music but Alfie, nobody does it better than Carly Simon, honest !! As for Laura Wright, all credit to her – a beautiful voice although again I thought the song choices unusual. Furthermore, it would have been better to have Laura singing one or two songs at most, but again, folks don’t pay 35 quid to see someone else sing who isn’t on the promotional billing. The duet was nice but isn’t it a little bizarre to close the show with a duet when you should be able to carry the final number in order to show off your talent? Overall, too much larking around for my liking and you might want to refine your stage presence…i.e. try walking on/offstage as though you are a professional opera singer and not some pub singer who just happened to saunter in forgetting to put on a decent evening jacket. Make the most of it Alfie ‘cos you won’t keep your fanbase if you carry on in your current format of things. You do have a really excellent talent in your voice but you are doing it / yourself no favours in acting as you currently do on stage. I won’t be coming to any more of your concerts and only yesterday I bought a new tenor CD and I’m afraid it wasn’t yours.

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