Readers respond to a piece by Martin Kettle in which he addresses the heckling of 12-year-old soprano Malakai M Bayoh
I am surprised and disappointed that Martin Kettle should be proud to declare that he has occasionally booed at the opera, implying that this is a justifiable response when warranted (I’ve booed at the opera before. But what happened to a young soprano this week was plain cruel, 10 November).
It is not, it is yobbish. Just because it is done in some opera houses doesn’t make it right, and I think it entirely appropriate that the perpetrator in this instance has been banned by the Royal Opera House, rather like a football hooligan being banned from the terraces.
