Alfie Boe, opera star and Liverpool Football Club fan

Tenor Alfie Boe can’t wait to get back to Liverpool to appear in the Welsh National Opera’s new production of La Traviata. 

Because not only is the singing star a big fan of the city (he told me if he moved back to the north west it would be to Liverpool), but he’s a big BIG fan of LFC too.

Apparently it all started when he was a young boy in Fleetwood in the late 1970s and all his friends turned up to school PE lessons in Manchester United kits.

He told me: “My mum made me a sports bag to take my PE kit in, and I remember the first game I watched it was Liverpool v Man United, and Liverpool thrashed them.

“So I decided that was the team I wanted to support and so she bought me a red bag and painted in white letters ‘Liverpool FC’ on it. Because we couldn’t afford a proper kitbag.

“And so that was how I started supporting Liverpool. I’ve stood firm. You can’t go off and change you’re allegiance, you’ve got to stick with your team.”

Everton-supporting opera lovers shouldn’t hold this allegiance against Alfie though when he arrives in the city later this month with the WNO which presents La Traviata and Madam Butterfly in tandem at the Empire.

Source: Liverpool Echo