Last week Olga Borodina was to have made her debut at the Vienna State Opera. “Instead, just as the performance was about to begin, a State Opera representative gave a statement from chief executive Ioan Holender that ‘an atmosphere has developed which required the Staatsoper to distance itself from this commitment [to Borodina],’ that Agnes Baltsa was replacing Borodina at short notice despite an injured leg, and that the company would not be working with Borodina in the future.”