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 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.

Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus performs a selection of works by Bach, Mozart, and Schubert on IN RECITAL. Culled from vintage television performances, this release is an invaluable document of Kraus's talents.

The Metropolitan Opera give a live performance of Donizetti's work about Mary, Queen of Scots' final days in the lead up to her execution. Maurizio Benini conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra with Joyce DiDonato portraying the title role and Elza van den Heever as Queen Elizabeth I.

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'.

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'.

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.

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.

Giovanni Bottesini's opera recorded at the Teatro San Domenico in Crema, Italy in 2009. Véronique Mercier and Gian Luca Pasolini take the title roles, while Aldo Salvagno conducts the Orchestra Filarmonica del Piemonte.

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.

A TV production of Mark Adams's opera recorded in Houston, Texas in 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, with performances by Stephanie Novacek, Joyce Di Donato and Chad Shelton.

The world premiere of Michael Daugherty's opera, inspired by episodes from the life of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Features performances by Fiona McAndrew, Nora Sourouzian, Simone Alberghini and Paul Carey Jones. Christopher Franklin conducts.

Marco Guidarini conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in Pier Luigi Pizzi's production of Mozart's opera from 2004. The performers include Kurt Streit, Angeles Blancas Gulin, Iano Tamar and Sonia Ganassi.

Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Lyubov Petrova, Malena Ernman and Hakan Hagegard are the soloists in this performance of Strauss' comic operetta from the Glyndebourne Opera House, with the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke, and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.

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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings Franz Schubert's song cycle in this recording made for the German radio station SFB in 1979. Musical accompaniment is provided by the renowned Austrian pianist, Alfred Brendel.

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

Famous soprano Maria Callas is captured performing live in Hamburg in May 1959 and March 1962. Her programme includes excerpts from Verdi's 'Don Carlo' and 'Macbeth', Rossini's 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' and 'La Cenerentola', plus pieces by Bellini, Massenet and Gounod.

Double bill of operas from the 1980s starring tenor Luciano Pavarotti. In 'Aida' Pavarotti performs the role of Radamès alongside Maria Chiara and Ghena Dimitrova. Lorin Maazel conducts the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus. In 'La Bohème' Pavarotti stars as Rodolfo with Tiziano Severini leading the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus. The rest of the cast includes Mirella Freni, Sandra Pacetti and Gino Quilico.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.