Few singers balance quiet humility with powerhouse vocals quite like Alfie Boe. Now more than 25 years into a career that has taken him from Lancashire to the world’s biggest stages, the 50-year-old tenor has little left to prove — yet he still speaks with the passion of someone who can’t quite believe where life has taken him.
“When I was first asked to do Les Misérables, I didn’t think it was something I could do or was my sort of thing,” he tells the Standard. “I came from the Royal Opera House, working in the opera world, so I approached it that way. But when I listened to the music and got involved in the character, did my homework, it just grew on me. I fell into the role and wanted to play him to the best of my ability.”
