Music director Glen Roven has issued the trailer for The Hillary Tapes starring a host of opera A-listers.

The Piano Guys, it seems, are the latest of the handful of singers and musicians to be roundly criticised for signing up for Donald Trump’s inauguration. Others perhaps more wisely have decided to give it a wide berth. With a disastrous press conference, unsubstantiated rumours of dirty doings going on in hotel rooms, attacks on civil-rights icons and a stream of controversial tweets, it seems that most news surrounding the President-Elect right now is bad news.

On the other hand, Glen Roven, the New York musical director who came up with the idea for The Hillary Speeches – a setting of the words of unsuccessful Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton – appears to be going down a little better. The impressive line-up of opera stars to have signed up to sing their bit for tolerance and hope includes Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Lawrence Brownlee, Matthew Polenzani, Patricia Racette and Australian bass Daniel Sumegi.

Over the last few weeks, Roven and director Camille Zamora have edited the individual contributions for The Hillary Speeches into a film, which will premiere at exactly the moment Donald...