Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece returns to the Met with Johan Botha in the title role and Renée Fleming playing Desdemona. Semyon Bychkov conducts. The opera was originally filmed as part of the Met Opera Live series, which saw operas beamed live from New York to cinema screens around the world.

Simone Young leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in this production of Pfitzner's opera, directed for the stage by Christian Stuckl. Performers include Christopher Ventris, Peter Rose, Michael Volle and Falk Struckmann.

Andrea Bocelli performs live on a floating stage on Lake Las Vegas. He performs tracks from his album 'Amore', including 'Autumn Leaves', 'Because We Believe', and 'September Morn'.

Leo Nucci leads the cast of this production of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio Di Parma in 2006. Bruno Bartoletti leads the orchestra, and other cast members include Enrico Giuseppe Iori, Sylvie Valayre and Roberto Iulianio.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Ádám Fischer conducts the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Dvorák's opera, recorded in March 2012. Myrtò Papatanasiu performs the title role with the rest of the cast including Pavel Cernoch, Annalena Persson and Willard White.

Christof Loy's 2012 interpretation of Puccini's opera sets the action against the backdrop of a Hollywood Western. Recorded live at the Royal Swedish Opera House, Nina Stemme takes the lead role as Minnie, who falls passionately in love with the most wanted outlaw in the West. Other cast members include John Lundgren, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Niklas Björling Rygert. The conductor is Pier Giorgio Morandi.

Andrea Battistoni leads the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera recorded live in 2012. Cast members include Roberto Aronica, Yu Guanqun, Roberto Frontali and Gabriele Mangione.

Mark Elder conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker for David Pountney's 2009 Bregenzer Festspiele production of Karol Szymanowski's 'King Roger'. Scott Hendricks, Olga Pasichnyk and John Graham-Hall star.

In Staatsoper Stuttgart's fantastical contemporary update of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, director Christof Nel creates characters that universalise the epic story based on Norweigan mythology and German poetry. In this story where gods, giants, dwarves, and humans vie for a special ring, made for the dwarf Alberich (though at the price of decrying all love), Jan-Hendrik Rootering plays an out-of-shape middle-aged Wotan, Renate Behle plays a rather masculine Brunnhilde, and the countless Valkyries take the form of badly-dressed teenagers.

Franz Liszt is generally remembered as the great Hungarian 19th-century piano virtuoso, but he considered himself a composer first. His orchestra scores represent a significant stylistic link between the innovations of Berlioz and Wagner and the late Romantic composers of both Eastern and Western Europe. Written in 1854 and dedicated to Berlioz, Liszt's Eine Faust-Symphonie, which Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians calls "his orchestral masterpiece" but is very rarely performed, was a favorite of Leonard Bernstein, who spoke in his televised lectures about the work's bold harmonic language that anticipates the serialism of the Second Viennese School. In the 1960s Bernstein had to fight recalcitrant Columbia executives for the right to record the symphony with the New York Philharmonic; the resulting LP sold poorly. Nevertheless, Deutsche Grammophon gave him a second chance to sell the public on this work with this live recording of a performance at Symphony Hall, Boston, on July 26, 1976. While Bernstein never did succeed in creating for this symphony the kind of cult following he helped foster for the works of Mahler, critics generally agree that the present performance is superior to the New York version and represents the best way to experience Liszt's unique contribution to the Faust literature.

Martin Yates conducts the Paris Opera Orchestra in this performance of Jules Massenet's ballet, choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan. Aurélie Dupont stars in the title role with Roberto Bolle, Stephane Bullion and Alice Renavand completing the cast.

Director Michael Haneke's accaimed production of Mozart's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real de Madrid in 2013. The featured soloists include Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Kerstin Avemo and Juan Francisco Gatell. Sylvain Cambreling conducts the Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus.

The second volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction. The operas included are: 'Macbeth', 'I Masnadieri', 'Il Corsaro', 'La Battaglia di Legnano', 'Luisa Miller', 'Stiffelio', 'Rigoletto', 'Il Trovatore' and 'La Traviata'.

The third volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction. The operas included are: 'I Vespri Siciliani', 'Simon Boccanegra', 'Un Ballo in Maschera', 'La Forza del Destino', 'Don Carlo', 'Aida', 'Otello' and 'Falstaff'.

John Mark Ainsley heads the cast in this production of Mozart's opera recorded live at the Cuvilliés Theatre, Munich, in June 2008. Other performers include Pavol Breslik, Juliane Banse and Annette Dasch, with Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra and Choir of the Bayerisches Staatsoper.

A visually spectacular interpretation of Berlioz's opera, staged by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau de les Arts. Valery Gergiev conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Daniela Barcellona, Lance Ryan, Elisabete Matos and Giorgio Giuseppini.

Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in this performance of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2009. Performers include Sonia Ganassi, Fiorenza Cedolins and Jose Bros.

Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in this performance of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2009. Performers include Sonia Ganassi, Fiorenza Cedolins and Jose Bros.

This performance of Offenbach's LA GRANDE DUCHESSE DE GEROLSTEIN stars the same cast featured in the audio recording released in October 2005. Filmed in December 2004 at the Parisian venue Theatre du Chatelet, the operetta resembles the original from 1867.

Tomas Hanus conducts this Bayerisches Staatsoper production of Dvorák's fairy tale opera.