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Fabulous Figaro as Glyndebourne returns to its roots

Seventh production in 78 years a visual and vocal treat

Covent Garden shows its worst face – and then what it does best

Misguided star-studded Bohème is followed by superlative Troyens

No place for boorish boos at sumptuous new Falstaff

Reaction to Rusalka should have remained a one-off protest

Don Giovanni goes to Heaven

Roles reversed as Mozart gets a gay makeover

Never mind the boos, it’s still worth fighting for a ticket

Musically spellbinding Rusalka as controversial production tends to overshadow Yannick’s debut

Toscanini and Heifetz set the highest of standards

Two more titans of the gramophone for our Hall of Fame

A worthy tribute to Sir Charles Mackerras

...and he wouldn’t have forgotten the Chorus

Domingo brings the house down

But Covent Garden gala celebration is a curate’s egg

What makes the perfect opera singer?

Thoughts provoked by a fun, but flawed, Faust at Covent Garden – and why Gobbi was the greatest

Suor Angelica cements her place at the centre of Il Trittico

Hospital drama in a night of Puccini melodramas at Covent Garden