Interview with Alice Coote

Alice Coote: Against all odds

The mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is determined to make it to the Proms, even though she is standing on sticks after being injured in a fall. It's not her first setback...

...As for the more physical pain of those two slipped discs, she says: "I've just been singing Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier in Los Angeles. The company's general director, Placido Domingo, made a very flattering speech after the opening night and asked me to step forward. I misjudged the edge of the stage and tripped, falling face first into his trousers. Not long after that my back went."