A soprano who sang in one of the last show at the Royal Opera House before lockdown has claimed that she and most of the cast caught coronavirus but “powered through” on stage.
Amanda Forsythe, who specialises in baroque music and the works of Rossini, rehearsed and performed despite taking a week off to recover from flu-like symptoms after flying to London from north Italy. Weeks later, antibody tests proved she had been infected with coronavirus.
Forsythe, 44, arrived in Britain in January to prepare for her role in Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera. She was with her two sons and her ex-husband, Edwin Elwyn Jones, a conductor who was working in the city.
“It was bizarre,” she told the music news website Leonore Overture.
