It might have been embarrassing that the Royal Opera House fired Deborah Voigt from its production of Ariadne for being too large. But Voigt says it’s brought her a lot of positive publicity. “The timing of this couldn’t be much better, quite frankly. You can’t really buy this kind of publicity, and good, bad or indifferent. There’s the old adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I’ve sort of been asking myself, would you have admitted this or brought attention to it had you realised that you would become international news? And I’m not really sure what the answer to that is yet.”