Juliane Banse and Shawn Mathey take the lead roles in this performance of Robert Schumann's only opera, featuring the opera and chorus of the Zurich Opera House, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

A live recording from the opening night of the Rossini Opera Festival in 2008, featuring the Italian mezzo-soprano Sonia Ganassi in the title role, with Claudio Abbado's son Danielle directing the production.

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

Conductor Valerio Galli leads the orchestra and chorus of the Festival Puccini, in this version of the Italian composer's popular opera.

In this celebrated 1976 production of Verdi’s SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Piero Cappuccilli sings the title role alongside Katia Ricciarelli and Giorgio Merighi, with Japan’s NHK Symphony Orchestra.

One of the very few contemporary operas being staged in Italy, Mosca's work incorporates Shakespearean tragedies and comedies set in the Veneto, namely 'Othello', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Two Gentlemen of Verona'. Shakespeare himself appears as a character in the opera, along with characters from Goldini's plays and Mozart's Despina. This recording, commissioned by the Teatro La Fenice, celebrates the 300th anniversary of Venetian playwright and librettist Carlo Goldini. Pierluigi Melega's libretto is written in English, a language which offers greater opportunity for plays on words and whose rhythmic nature better suits Mosca's music.

A performance of Donizetti's opera 'Don Gregorio' at the Bergamo Music Festival in November 2007. Director Roberto Recchia sets the performance in the 1920s, a time which mirrors in many ways the political and social conditions prevailing when the piece was originally written. Spoken dialogues in the Neapolitan dialect are used in place of the recitatives, but Donizetti's music remains unchanged. The characters in this comic opera are inspired by the Italian Commedia dell'Arte.

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.

The first filmed recording of Verdi's rarely performed two-act opera, recorded live at the Alto Adige Festival, Italy in 2012. Junko Saito and Enrico Facini lead the cast, with Gustav Kuhn conducting the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento.

A premiere recording of Verdi's opera, staged at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 2012. Performers include Giacomo Prestia, Aquiles Machado and Artur Rucinski. The conductor is Nicola Luisotti.

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.

Antonello Allemandi 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 2005. Staged by Pier' Alli, an all-star cast includes Marco Berti, Carlo Guelfi, Giacomo Prestia and Susan Neves.

The internationally acclaimed and celebrated violin virtuoso Ida Haendal is filmed here in her home video debut. THE ART OF IDA HAENDAL is a wonderful showcase of her artistry, a wonderful film in which she performs Brahms' Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra and Sarasate's CARMEN Fantasy. Backed by the Orchestra of Radio-Canada, Haendal is truly spectacular.

Rescued from the CBC television archives, this comic take on opera features the irrepressible Anna Russell delivering laughs along with horrible renditions of her favorite arias. Here, she is featured in three live performances and three interviews on which she puts her distinctive satirical spin.

The third volume of this series showcases more of the best performances of opera great over a span of ten years. During live performances of the Bell Telephone Hour, stars such as Victoria De Los Angeles, Brian Sullivan, Phyllis Curtin, Regine Crespin, Jan Peerce, Brigit Nilsson, Charles Anthony, Richard Tucker, and Anna Moffo lend their vocals to masterworks like RIGOLETTO, HANDEL'S MESSIAH, LA BOHEME, TOSCA, and FAUST along with the Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra and Chorus.

Eileen Farrell had a number of dimensions as a singer. Unlike most opera singers, Farrell often sang pop songs and in concert freely mixed Gershwin in with Puccini. Here, in a concert with the Orchestra of Radio-Canada, she does the same, torching "But Not for Me" after a concert of arias.