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http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Festival-Diary-How-Mr-Bates.6499945.jp

Festival Diary: How Mr Bates put the tent into tent-ertainment

 Published Date: 28 August 2010 By Tim Cornwell

Sitting pretty

SSegewa-ssekintu Kiwanuka is making his operatic debut as Puck in Shadwell Opera’s Fringe production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Rosslyn Chapel.

He’s better used to entertaining crowds as the local vocalist and MC of Clean Bandit, a band mixing a string quartet with synth drummer, which has headlined festivals.

The rest of the cast in the Cambridge University company are typically choral scholars and trained singers. Kiwanuka is a PHD student in chemical engineer and biotechnology, but he is also current captain of the university’s boxing team. “I’ve never knocked a guy out before,” he said after downing a recent opponent “but I’ve gotta look pretty for this opera”.