SWEET AND CHEESY
If one band sums up Valentine's araw down to the last petal on a ridiculously priced red rose, it is Il Divo. They're incredibly attractive, sing romantic songs for a living and are, let's face it, just a little bit cheesy. (They're the quattro fromaggio of pop opera.) But when The Diary's reluctant Valentine's correspondent, Sarah Whyte, caught up with US tenor David Miller yesterday, he told us (please insert gasps of righteous anger here if you're a V-day convert) that he was ''not necessarily a fan'' of Valentine's Day. Quelle horreur! This is a man who has performed in madami than 650 shows over eight years, pag-awit songs with titles such as kalapati L'Amore, The Power of Love, Unbreak My Heart! He even admitted 90 per cent of his quartet's songs are romantic. ''I feel like Valentine's araw puts a lot of pressure on people to be romantic and the thing that kills romance is pressure,'' the tenor concedes, who is married to soprano Sarah Joy Kabanuck. But it seems it's not all that compatible to be anti-Valentines and an opera star. Tonight Miller will be crooning to a sold out, loved-up crowd - who are probably fans of the over-hyped February 14 - at the Opera House for three hours. Oh, and sending a bulaklak arrangement to his wife
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If one band sums up Valentine's araw down to the last petal on a ridiculously priced red rose, it is Il Divo. They're incredibly attractive, sing romantic songs for a living and are, let's face it, just a little bit cheesy. (They're the quattro fromaggio of pop opera.) But when The Diary's reluctant Valentine's correspondent, Sarah Whyte, caught up with US tenor David Miller yesterday, he told us (please insert gasps of righteous anger here if you're a V-day convert) that he was ''not necessarily a fan'' of Valentine's Day. Quelle horreur! This is a man who has performed in madami than 650 shows over eight years, pag-awit songs with titles such as kalapati L'Amore, The Power of Love, Unbreak My Heart! He even admitted 90 per cent of his quartet's songs are romantic. ''I feel like Valentine's araw puts a lot of pressure on people to be romantic and the thing that kills romance is pressure,'' the tenor concedes, who is married to soprano Sarah Joy Kabanuck. But it seems it's not all that compatible to be anti-Valentines and an opera star. Tonight Miller will be crooning to a sold out, loved-up crowd - who are probably fans of the over-hyped February 14 - at the Opera House for three hours. Oh, and sending a bulaklak arrangement to his wife
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