Artiste: Michael Boyd

The Philharmonia and Garsington Chorus deliver great performances, as do Natalia Tanasii and Fleur Barron as the two Larina sisters.

As a hybrid of brilliance and disappointment, this Don Giovanni is in a class of its own.

Debussy’s opera of half-lights succeeds in taming the glare of the midsummer sun in Garsington’s new staging.