I am currently listening to last night's radio broadcast of Le Nozze di Figaro live from Covent Garden. Contrary to the email many of us received, it will not be shown on BBC2 on 25 February - Winter Olympics getting in the way - but apparently in April instead.
Meanwhile that evening, 25 February, S4C (available outside Wales on satellite) will be showing Wagner's Flying Dutchman live from Cardiff, starring Bryn Terfel. Reports from the Dress Rehearsal are that the production is utterly and unremittingly dreadful. But it has Bryn in it. And Gidon Saks. It starts just as Scotland v England finishes.
