Can opera singers act " or do they just wave their arms around like traffic cops?
A new production of King Lear, drawn from the world of opera, aims to put paid to the notion that great singers make second-rate actors. We speak to its stars I had coffee recently with King Lear and Goneril. To be more precise, with John Tomlinson and Susan Bullock, who play these roles in a brand new production of Shakespeare's tragedy " one to be staged at the Grange festival in Hampshire next month with a cast ex…