“You still write music, but you do other things. The life of the “semi-retired” musician is a strange one, Smith reflects. ‘Her answer was, ‘Mama goes to the office and Papa goes to the gym’ One day at preschool, his eldest daughter was asked what her parents did. Smith realised that his identity was mysterious to his children. “I went in there and I f**king nailed it,” he recalls of his performance of Giordani’s Caro Mio Ben in a suite at the Savoy Hotel in London that winter.
He took the audition seriously, practised diligently, sought out an opera coach near his home. “I’m thinking, This was meant for me,” he says. Orzabal, who had sung opera in the past, felt the stars were aligning. Meanwhile, back in England, Smith’s bandmate Roland Orzabal had received an invitation to audition for the reality-TV show Popstar to Operastar. “And no one paid a blind bit of attention,” he says now. How hilarious it would be, he thought, when people clocked that he was the actual singer of the song. There, before the stage, Smith was struck by the idea to get up and sing one of his band’s most famous hits, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, from 1985. He was filming one of several guest spots he made on the US TV detective series Psych, and after work that day he joined the rest of the cast at a local karaoke bar. Some years ago, Curt Smith, the singer and songwriter best known as one half of Tears for Fears, found himself in Vancouver.
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