Antonio Pappano, the music director at London’s Covent Garden says the stories of the company canceling Deborah Voigt because she couldn’t fit into a dress were “rubbish.” “Let me tell you, that was just a bunch of rubbish, all that. That story has been done to death. It had nothing to do with the dress at the time. First of all, the dress is not that small…So that wonderful bit of publicity that happened to come out during the weeks when Deborah had a new album at the time was fantastically engineered and had nothing to do with anything.”