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These are the so far all time most popular posts on opera, innit?:

• ROH 2017/19 more rumours
• ROH 2016/17 rumours ahoy
• Deh, se piacer mi vuoi explained
• Monteverdi’s Ulisse goes to Bucharest with Ian Bostridge and AAM (18 September 2015)
• Everybody wants Franco (Fagioli) – Wigmore Hall recital debut on 21 September 2014
• Earring-happy Moscow Alcina (16 January 2015 livestreaming)
• The curiously popular Vò disperato a morte (aka, the proto Deh, per questo instante solo)
• How to buy online tickets for Glyndebourne
• Kasarova swings a giant sword in Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe Handel Fest, 2 March 2015)
• Idomeneo returns and baffles ROH after 25 years on 3 November 2014
• Akhnaten arrives at ENO (8 March 2016)

Also of note:

• When will Adriana Lecouvreur return to ROH? (it did!)
• Guth’s thoughtful Tito at Glyndebourne 2017 (31 July 2017)
• The Amenaidest Tancredi (Salzburg, 1992)
• No hope Alcina (Geneve, 2016)
• How feminist is your fave opera?
• In praise of Mozart duets
• More Wigmore Fagioli (13 November 2015)
• Other (older) ROH rumours
• Polinesso sexmagic (Ariodante at Theater an der Wien, 2017)
• Mezzo and contralto fest with Juditha triumphans at the Barbican