Dutch director Frank Scheffer collaborates with Andrew Culver for a series of four short films celebrating the theories and music of avant-garde composer John Cage. In 19 QUESTIONS, Cage answers questions on a variety of subjects. In FOURTEEN, the Ives Ensemble performs Cage's composition of the same name, filmed with multiple cameras using chance operations to determine the position, angle, focus, and aperture settings of each shot. In PAYING ATTENTION, Scheffer and Culver combine separate audio and video portions from an interview with Cage. And in OVERPOPULATION AND ART WITH RYONJI, Scheffer combines the audio of Cage's spoken performance with his musical piece for four voices and percussion.

Handel's timeless opera TAMERLANO, whose model is NIcholas Pradon's Tamerlan ou La Mort de Bajazet, is brought to life in this live recording from the 50th Handel-Festipiele 2001 at the world famous Halle on the Saale. Conducted by Trevor Pinnock and with exquisite direction by Jonathan Miller, Tamerlano stands as one of Handel's masterworks.

Benjamin Britten's opera, composed to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He took as his starting point Lytton Strachey's 'Elizabeth and Essex'. Sarah Walker and Anthony Rolfe Johnson star.

Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera, recorded live in 2011. The cast members include Dimitra Theodossiou, Vladimir Stoyanov, Aquiles Machado, Mariana Pentcheva and Roberto Scandiuzzi.

A visually spectacular interpretation of Wagner's opera, staged by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau de les Arts. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo, Franz-Josef Kapellmann and Catherine Wyn-Rogers.

Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta and Marianela Nunez are the lead dancers in the Royal Ballet's production of Marius Pepita's ballet, recorded live at London's Royal Opera House in January 2009.

Stage director Stephen Langridge brings Harrison Birtwhistle's Greek myth-based opera to Covent Garden's Royal Opera House. Recorded live in spring 2008, the production stars John Tomlinson in the title role. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Royal Opera Chorus.