Christopher Purves

[3] He sang as a boy treble in the choir of King's College, Cambridge,[4] where he was later a choral scholar, studying English literature.He was one of the artists on the Lamenti recital (Virgin Classics) which won Record of the Year in 2009 at France's Victoires de la musique classique.In 2016, Purves was the bass soloist in Beethoven's Ninth at the Proms and later in the year played the title character in Don Giovanni with ENO.In 1993, Purves married Edwina Vernon, company manager at the English National Opera, and they set up home in a flat in Stoke Newington.They have three children and later moved to Oxford,[7] where Edwina Vernon became a music teacher at St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Headington.
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