I am sitting in a café in Islington, north London, eating my artisanal porridge with Wales’s greatest operatic export since Bryn Terfel. The soprano Natalya Romaniw grew up in a one-parent family in Swansea. She has suffered crises of confidence as well as a potentially career-ending spat with a singer. “It wasn’t too bad apart from that I was barefooted,” Romaniw says, stoically. Yet she recovered her poise for what The Times’s critic described as a “stunningly sung” performance.

Source: The Times October 11, 2019 23:08 UTC