Christina Johnston

She has sung before various heads of state, including Miloš Zeman, President of the Czech Republic, and Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

Johnston herself spent three weeks in the same hospital with a broken left leg and numerous cuts on her head, and returned for further surgery six months later.

Johnston attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London when she turned 18, having been offered a scholarship immediately after her first audition.

[4] It includes Mozart's "Der Holle Rache Kocht in Meinem Herzen", which has since become one of her regular items, as it allows her to sing notes in the sixth register.

[5] Johnston was married on 17 October 2010 to Viacheslav Myachin, who is credited as executive producer on the Blessing album, along with Janet Fitzpatrick.

[6] Having lost her paid work due to the pandemic, Johnston has performed a series of "lockdown" concerts from her home in Suffolk, with help from her husband.

Those performed most recently have included Johnston's selected vocal renditions of tracks from Evita, Moulin Rouge, The Greatest Showman and Phantom of the Opera.