The tenor thanked well-wishers for the flood of supportive messages

Queen’s groundsman badly injured

There are the haves and the have-yachts - and then there are those who can afford £21 million yachts.

Dustin Hoffman DVD/Blu-ray (98mins)

Bluestone 42 actor Gary Carr has been cast as Downton Abbey’s first black character. He will appear in series four of Julian Fellowes’ ITV1 period drama as jazz singer Jack Ross.

Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo is in the UK today to receive the ceremonial Freedom of the City of London.

Do you have to be a diva to take on Tosca?

Another incredible discovery for the world famous scientist?

Every show has a back-story, but this is more convoluted than most. With its Gothic effects – including a saucy ballet for ghostly nuns - and with its massive orchestral, vocal, and choreographic forces, Meyerbeer’s ‘Robert le diable’ quickly became the most popular opera in Europe after its 1831 premiere, yet this is its first London production since 1890.

In The Red

The opera-house setting of Donna Leon's first novel, Death at La Fenice, was no accident. She has always been a serious student of music and this new work, a departure from her crime-fiction, features a splendid mystery surrounding the inheritance of an obscure baroque composer. His papers are locked in two trunks fought over by greedy rival descendants who decide to employ a scholar to investigate the contents.

Less than a year into the job the Wales manager faces mounting criticism as side goes into reverse

Now that Keith Warner’s "Ring" has been re-launched in its entirety, we can judge it afresh. Like the first two "days" (reviewed last week) the second two contain much to enjoy, if also some disappointments, plus some technical hitches which should have been sorted out in dress rehearsal - notably the stuffed stag with its antlers caught on the overhanging 'sky', thus sabotaging Siegfried’s loveliest aria.