Opera actor, 82, furious with critic for saying she looked a fright on first night

The fright" look is all naturally mine,' riposted Rose Knox-Peebles after FT reviewer assumed she had makeup on in Das Rheingold

Rose Knox-Peebles was on a high after the opening night of Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera House earlier this week.

It was the first time the 82-year-old model, who plays Erda, the weary, gnarled earth mother who has seen it all, who knows what has been, what is and will be, had performed in an opera. In quite the baptism of all sorts of fire, director Barrie Kosky decided to keep her character on stage, naked, for the entire two and a half hour performance - with no interval.