What a wonderful performer Lesley Garrett is having attended her concert at the Brighton Dome.

I can say her renditions of a variety of music outside her normal arias were superb and she displayed great empathy with her audience.

Having seen Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - who has a more pure operatic voice - at the same venue but who had no rapport with her audience, there can be no doubt Lesley is head and shoulders above Kiri and is the supreme performer.

The only disappointment was that the hall was only two-thirds full. I therefore wonder whether Mike Howard (The Argus, April 1) was actually there, as he talked of the capacity audience and Lesley's voice not quite being able to cross over to popular music.

-J A Geall, Langham Close, Ringmer