Glyndebourne, initially because he was engaged at Salzburg for eight years, then later because he kept summers clear for holidays with his first wife, Lesley Jones, and their three sons, now adults.
He and Jones divorced in 2013, and in 2019 he married Hannah Stone, former official harpist to Prince Charles, and 22 years Terfel’s junior.
The couple had a daughter, Lily, now three, who started nursery near the family home in Penarth just as Alffi was born, in the pandemic summer of last year.So this summer he is happy to stay in Wales.
And Verdi’s lone comic outing, Falstaff, which Terfel first sang at Sydney Opera House in 1999, is ‘undoubtedly my favourite opera to perform.