George Hall

Her Madam Butterfly for ENO was interrupted in March, but the award-winning, Swansea-born soprano Natalya Romaniw is poised to continue her ascension when venues reopen. She tells The Stage why she’s not wasting any time in lockdown

Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House in London, has been at the top of the opera profession for almost two decades. The ‘singer’s conductor’ talks to George Hall about how Daniel Barenboim brought him to Bayreuth, his disastrous debut at Covent Garden and how the company is responding to the coronavirus crisis