Since a disastrous throat operation eight years ago, Andrews has been unable to sing.
On the podium afterwards he said he was unable to sing the Star Spangled Banner for fear he would become "too emotional".
Having survived yet another tsunami, Ms. Ito said that her regret was that she had been unable to sing that night.
Aldridge, whose father was the great black actor Ira Aldridge, fell ill and was unable to sing, but Cosima remained solicitous toward her.
Though she was unable to sing it there — political turbulence in Italy caused the performance to be canceled — she made her debut in the role in Nice, France, in 1957 and later sang it elsewhere in Europe.
Last summer she was forced to pull out of several big festival slots, including Glastonbury, after undergoing surgery on her vocal chords which could have resulted in her being unable to sing at all.
Despite being unable to sing, the young Geza passed entry to a Catholic seminary, which taught him, (boringly, he thought), and later hid him, (perilously, he gratefully remembered), from the Nazis.It got worse.
Few who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s are unable to sing a chorus of "Island in the Sun", "Scarlet Ribbons" or "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", all hits for Harry Belafonte.
At the Rameau performance on June 15, Marcel Reijans was unable to sing and so acted Hippolytus while the music was brightly and strikingly sung from the side by William Ferguson.
Extra drama was injected into a performance of Wagner's "Rheingold" at the Royal Opera in Covent Garden in London on Monday when the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, left, lost his voice and was unable to sing Wotan.
