Kent Nagano leads the Bavarian State Orchestra in this production of Unsuk Chin's opera based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's novel. The performers include Sally Matthews, Piia Komsi, Dietrich Henschel and Gwyneth Jones.

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.

Double bill of bel canto operas. In 'Lucrezia Borgia' (2012) Renée Fleming takes the title role in this production of Donizetti's opera recorded live at the San Francisco Opera. Other cast members include Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong and Vitalij Kowaljow. In 'I Capuleti E I Montecchi' (2014) Riccardo Frizza again conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in this production of Bellini's work based on Shakespeare's tragedy. The opera stars Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell as Romeo and Giulietta with the rest of the cast including Saimir Pirgu, Eric Owens and Ao Li.

A performance of Alban Berg's opera recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2011. The opera, dark and satirical in tone, charts the story of the rise and fall of a femme fatale, from life as a society hostess to prostitution and, eventually, a bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. French soprano Patricia Petibon heads a strong European cast, while German conductor Marc Albrecht leads the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Louis Langrée conducts the Camerata Salzburg in this performance of Mozart's opera recorded at 2008's Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony. Recorded at the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in spring 1990, the performance was the esteemed conductor's last with the orchestra before his death six months later.

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.

Riccardo Frizza conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in this production of Bellini's work based on Shakespeare's tradegy. The opera stars Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell as Romeo and Giulietta with the rest of the cast including Saimir Pirgu, Eric Owens and Ao Li.

Nicola Luisotti conducts the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus for this production of Arrigo Boito's work. The performers include Ildar Abdrazakov, Ramón Vargas, Patricia Racette, Erin Johnson, Chuanyue Wang.

Renée Fleming takes the title role in this production of Donizetti's opera recorded live at the San Francisco Opera in 2012. Other cast members include Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong and Vitalij Kowaljow. The conductor is Riccardo Frizza.

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.

René Jacobs conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in this performance of Haydn's opera recorded at the Berliner Staatsoper in May 2009. Members of the cast include Marlis Petersen, Tom Randle, Pietro Spagnoli and Alexandrina Pendatchanska.

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.

Tomás Netopil conducts the Orchestra and Choir of the Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp in this performance recorded in 2009. Performers include Torsten Kerl, Marianna Tarasova, Nikola Mijailovic and Gijs Van der Linden.

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.