The Metropolitan Opera give a live performance of Wagner's work. Daniele Gatti conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra with Jonas Kaufmann as the eponymous character.

Riccardo Chailly leads the Chor de la Generalitat Valencia and the Orchestra de la Comunitat Valencia in Davide Livermore's energetic production of Puccini's opera, recorded at the Palau De Les Arts Reina Sofia in December 2012. The soloists include Gal James, Aquiles Machado, Carmen Romeu and Massimo Cavalletti.

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.

Placido Domingo stars in Michal Znaniecki's 2009 production of Alfano's opera at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. Patrick Fournillier conducts the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana.

Today's preeminent opera singers gather to perform and explain some of Italian opera's greatest arias. This release features the vocal talents of Ann Murray, Angela Gheorghiu, Eva Marton, Joan Sutherland, and many others.

Between 1917 and 1962, Pablo Picasso was involved in creating the designs for nine ballets including 'Parade', 'Pulcinella' and 'L'Apres-midi d'un Faune', in collaboration with such artists as Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Leonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky. Picasso, a native of Andalusia, also created the sets and costumes for the very Spanish ballet, 'Le Tricorne' ('The Three-Cornered Hat'). This release features the entire ballet along with a documentary which traces the story of Picasso's involvement with designs for ballet.

Marcelo Álvarez and Carlos Álvarez head the cast in this production of Verdi's opera recorded at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2004. Jesus López-Cobos conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Diego Fasolis conducts the Concerto Köln ensemble in this production of Leonardo Vinci's opera, recorded live at the Opéra National De Lorraine in 2012. Performers include Philippe Jaroussky, Franco Fagioli and Yuriy Mynenko.

Renato Palumbo conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in this production of Bellini's opera. Sondra Radvanovsky stars in the title role with the rest of the cast including Gregory Kunde, Raymond Aceto, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ana Puche and Francisco Vas.

Three peformances of Monteverdi's opera 'L'incoronazione di Poppea'. In the first peformance, Ole Anders Tandberg directs his debut production for Norwegian National Opera. Recorded live in 2010, Birgitte Christensen, Jacek Laszczkowski and Tim Mead head an international cast, with Allesandro De Marchi conducting. In the second performance director Michael Hampe provides a modern interpretation of Monteverdi's opera, recorded live at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in 1993. The performers include Patricia Schumann, Richard Croft, Kathleen Kuhlmann and Harry Peeters. René Jacobs conducts the original-sound ensemble, Concerto Köln. The third and final performance is of choreographer Christian Spuck's ballet with film and dialogue, recorded in 2013 at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart under the direction of Nikolai Vialkowitsch. The production is performed by Gauthier Dance and includes music by, among others, Monteverdi, Martin Donner, Robert Schumann, Emiliana Torrini and Cat Power.

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

Live performance of André Tchaikowsky's opera, based on Shakespeare's play and recorded at the 2013 Bregenz Festival. Christopher Ainslie portrays the titular character with Adrian Eröd as the moneylender Shylock and Richard Angas as the Duke of Venice. Erik Nielsen conducts the Wiener Symphoniker and the Prague Philharmonic Choir.

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.

Live performance of André Tchaikowsky's opera, based on Shakespeare's play and recorded at the 2013 Bregenz Festival. Christopher Ainslie portrays the titular character with Adrian Eröd as the moneylender Shylock and Richard Angas as the Duke of Venice. Erik Nielsen conducts the Wiener Symphoniker and the Prague Philharmonic Choir.

Daniele Gatti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in this production of Wagner's opera, recorded at the 2013 Salzburg Festival. The cast includes Michael Volle, Roberto Saccà, Georg Zeppenfeld and Monika Bohinec.

The Gran Teatre del Liceu production of the Mozart opera.

With an ensemble comprising 170 musicians, Ingo Metzmacher leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in this production of Bernd Alois Zimmerman's rarely performed opera, staged at the Salzburg Festival in 2012. The cast of 50 soloists includes Laura Aikin, Alfred Muff, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Tomasz Konieczny.

Peter Seiffert and Petra Maria Schnitzer are the lead singers in Robert Carsen's modern-day adaptation of Wagner's epic opera, performed live at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu in 2008. Sebastian Weigle conducts the orchestra and chorus.

Nina Stemme plays Leonora in this all-star production of Verdi's opera performed at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2008. Other cast members include Salvatore Licitra as Alvaro and Carlos Alvarez as Don Carlo. Zubin Mehta conducts the Staatsoper Orchestra.

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.