LEADING LIGHTS OF THE OPERA WORLD DANIELLE DE NIESE AND GUS CHRISTIE PROUDLY INTRODUCE THEIR BEAUTIFUL BABY AT THEIR GLYNDEBOURNE HOME
‘It was a big dramatic entrance. I couldn’t deliver the baby without looking at Gus’
Every parent thinks their child is special, but soprano Danielle de Niese has good reason to believe that her eight-week-old daughter is destined for an extraordinary life. Born on Friday 13th after a speedy delivery, Scheherazade, who is named after the Persian queen from One Thousand and One Nights , even arrived wrapped in a bubble.
“It was a big, dramatic entrance,” says her opera-star mother proudly.
“She came out intact in the amniotic sac.”
“It’s very rare – only one in 80,000 babies are born like this,” adds her father, Gus Christie, executive chairman of Glyndebourne. “It’s part of her enigma.”
We are sitting on the sofa in the elegant living room of the couple’s beautiful Elizabethan country house on the East Sussex estate where the famous opera festival takes place
