Songster on the stage

Sorab Wadia enjoys the challenges of multiple disciplines of the performing arts
Firdaus Gandavia

Sorab Wadia has always straddled the world of the performing arts — pianist, tenor and actor. The son of Coomi of the Paranjoti Academy Chorus fame and the late Nariman, a jeweler, he modestly explains, "Everything led to something else, choral music and piano in India led to piano in my initial foreign student days and then to opera during my second masters which in turn resulted in a career in acting.”         Above, front row, center: Sorab Wadia played a Sikh in the musical version of Bend it Like Beckham       At present, he is playing the Sultan on the North American......



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