77-Year-Old Tenor To Be World’s Oldest Otello

Jon Andrew, once a regular at houses like Covent Garden, La Scala and Munich, is coming out of retirement to sing the punishing Verdi role in England this June. (He last sang Otello in 1979.) Whatever the state of his cords, he’s physically strong enough to do it: “Andrew looks at gym equipment as Pavarotti once looked at dinner.”