Musicality and opera may have been lost on me in school – but perhaps it’s time to give it a second chance?

Frank's former colleague Sean Rafferty spoke about his love for opera, including La Bohéme When I worked in the BBC, Sean Rafferty, undoubtedly the best known TV presenter in Northern Ireland at the time, would drop into the production office and talk about opera. He knew sopranos and tenors in the same way I had a knowledge of Susan McCann and Big Tom. I felt lost during the conversation but I would listen to how the enthusiastic words flowed across the room.

Sean struck me as an amazing conversationalist and as he spun anecdotes about La Boh è me , Tosca , La Traviata and so on, I wondered where his rich appetite for the arts had been developed..