Miguel And Naomi

Two strangers, looking at my camera with well practiced facial expressions, polite and impenetrable. They must be used to being in the spotlight. They must be quietly taking pride in something that few people have in such abundance...

He is a tenor, she is a soprano. They are Opera Intima. Their voices, beautifully entwined in well known love arias, were soaring high and uplifting the spirits of those, readily receptive to this exquisite musical genre.

Last night's performance by the Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra and today's random street encounter proved to be a long needed morale boost and a brilliant cure for apathy and winter blues.