Sir Thomas Allen's career is going full circle ... that would lead him to become one of the world's most celebrated baritone singers. Two men from a very different era and with different stories ...

But the two of them are then joined by one of Britain's greatest singers, the Bass/Baritone Sir Thomas Allen, at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. It's there that Mendelssohn's revised vocal score ...

2025’s judging panel features arguably England’s most famous living operatic baritone, Sir Thomas Allen, the pioneering female conductor Dame Jane Glover, and pianist Sholto Kynoch.