Renowned mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly may have been dropped from the Met’s Ring production, but today she has announced she has invented an entirely new role for herself in the work: Schwätzhilde, a Valkyrie who never actually witnesses any of the dramatic action, but gossips about it anyway.

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