The Teatro Regio Di Parma perform Verdi's opera at the Parma Festival in 2010, with a cast including Giovanni Battis Parodi, Susanna Branchini, Sebastian Catana and Roberto de Biasio. Andrea Battistoni conducts.

Donato Renzetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this live performance of Verdi's opera, recorded at the Parma Festival in 2009. Staged by Joseph Franconi Lee, the cast includes Leo Nucci, Roberto de Biasio, Tatiana Serjan and Roberto Tagliavini.

A premiere recording of Rossini's opera, performed live at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro in 2011. Transposing the tale of 'Moses in Egypt' to modern times, the production features vocalists Alex Esposito as Faraone, Sonia Ganassi as Elcia, and Dmitry Korchak as the Pharaoh's son, while bass Riccardo Zanellato makes his Rossini Festival debut as Moses. The Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Comunale di Bologna are conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Daniele Abbado's staging of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2009. Michelle Mariotti leads the orchestra and chorus, while performers featured include Leo Nucci, Bruno Ribeiro, Riccardo Zanellato and Dimitra Theodossiou.

Daniele Abbado's staging of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2009. Michelle Mariotti leads the orchestra and chorus, while performers featured include Leo Nucci, Bruno Ribeiro, Riccardo Zanellato and Dimitra Theodossiou.

Oliviero De Fabritiis conducts the NHK Symphony Orchestra in this performance of Puccini's opera from 1973. Set in Rome at the beginning of the 19th century, the opera finds former consul Cesare Angelotti (Carlo Mericiani) seeking refuge with the painter, Cavaradossi (Flaviano Labò), in the Attavanti chapel. However, danger lurks in the form of Cavaradossi's lover, Tosca (Raina Kabaivanska), whose jealous paranoia leads her to consider betraying the pair.

German soprano Diana Damrau is Konstanze, with Olga Peretyatko as Blonde and Franz Josef Selig as Osmin, in Christophe Loy's production of Mozart's opera Singspiel, performed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu in 2011. Ivor Bolton conducts.

Live performance of Frédéric Chopin's piano works, recorded in February 2010 in Warsaw, the composer's birthplace. Pianists Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner and Janusz Olejniczak perform with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, conducted by Frans Brüggen. The footage also features interviews with the soloists and orchestra leader Marc Destrubé.

Kent Nagano leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Mussorgsky's opera, recorded live at the Nationaltheater, Munich in 2007. Doris Soffel stars as Marfa, with Anatoly Kotscherga as the religious leader Dosifei, Klaus Florian Vogt as Andrey, and Paata Burchuladze as the charismatic Prince Ivan Khovansky.

Johann Strauss II's three-act operetta is performed by the Mörbich Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Manfred Mayrhof, with Lucian Krasznec and Evelin Novak in the lead roles.

Ulf Schirmer conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in this production of Giordano's opera staged at the Bregenz Festival in 2011. Chénier is a French revolutionary poet who pines for the beautiful Maddalena. However, he has a jealous rival in the form of servant-turned-revolutionary Gérard, who sets about plotting Chénier's downfall. Performers include Héctor Sandoval, Norma Fantini, Scott Hendricks and Tania Kross.

Renowned pianist Sviatoslav Richter plays a selection of pieces by Medtner, including the Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, accompanied by violinist Oleg Kanaga and soprano Galina Pisarenko.

Alban Berg's dark, satirical opera charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventually bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Franz Welser-Most leads the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House in this production from 2002, with Laura Aiken in the lead role.

Rene Fleming makes her debut in the role of Grafin in this production of Strauss's opera recorded live at the Opera National De Paris in 2004. Ulf Schirmer conducts, and there are performances from Anne Sophie Von Otter, Dietrich Henschel, Rainer Trost, Gerard Finley and Franz Hawlata.