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‘My husband worries about my mental health if I stop singing’

‘My husband worries about my mental health if I stop singing’

The soprano Lesley Garrett, 70 in April, has been contemplating retirement on the How To Be 60 podcast:

‘My husband says I’m only at my happiest when I’m singing. He says he worries about my mental health if I stop singing.

‘He says I’m at my most energetic and positive when I’m involved in singing. But there are other aspects; there are other things that start to go, like memory. Any kind of singing is about remembering huge tracts of text and suddenly you’ll not be able to remember a word.

‘You can’t do that on a stage in front of 2,000 people. You don’t want people to be leaving the auditorium saying, ‘well, you know, she’s not as good as she was.’ I would hate that.’

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