At Home with Michael Ball and Alfie Boe as they head out on tour | Music | Entertainment
The spell-binding singers found friendship through parallel careers (Image: Ball and Boe)
They met in Kismet, a disastrous 2007 English National Opera stage musical dubbed “gloriously awful” by theatre critics. Alfie Boe was performing a sensitive love duet with soprano Sarah Tyran when he spotted Michael Ball supplying his own review in the wings.
“I was in a kaftan, nothing else, in the worst production ever, and I thought I’ve got to keep the spirits up,” explains Ball,…
