Opera critic dies, 60

I am greatly saddened to learn that Alexander Waugh has died, far too soon, of prostate cancer.

Among his many writings, he was opera critic of the Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard in the 1990s and the author of Classical Music: A New Way of Listening. He went on to write a brilliant study of the Wittgenstein family and a very brave biography of God.

Grandson of Evelyn Waugh and son of Bron, Alex was funny, good company, unpompous and erudite in surprising ways. He married Eliza, daughter of his father’s best friend Alexander Chancellor, and maintained the family estates down in Somerset. Later, he got involved in fruitless controversies over Shakespeare’s authorship and the Brexit hysteria (he was briefly a Farage candidate).

He will be widely missed.

Telegraph obit here.

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