Jose Carreras performs a Christmas selection in the winter wonderland of Oberndorf, Austria. Songs include 'Ave Maria' and 'Silent Night'.

Peter Mussbach's highly-stylised production of Berg's opera, recorded live at the Oper Frankfurt in 1996. Dale Duesing takes the lead role, with Kristine Ciesinski as Marie, Dieter Bundschuh as the Captain and Frode Olsen as the Doctor. The conductor is Sylvain Cambreling.

Rossini's opera 'La Scala Di Seta' is performed at the annual Schwetzingen Festival by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Gianluigi Gelmetti conducts.

A specially-staged studio recording of the English National Opera's highly acclaimed production of Benjamin Britten's chamber opera. Jean Rigby plays Lucretia. Russell Smythe plays the Prince of Rome.

The renowned German conductor Wolfgang Katschner was lauded by the classical music press for his work on the 2004 production of Handel's gorgeous opera TESEO. Staged at the majestic Schlosstheater Potsdam, the production features a cast who possess tongue-twisting names and awe-inspiring voices. These include the formidable Jacek Laszczkowski and the lovely Sharon Rostorf-Zamir. Alex Kohler directed the eye-pleasing spectacle.

This was Mozart's last work, commissioned by a mysterious stranger whose identity remains unrevealed to this day. This 1984 performance at the Herkulessaal in Munich, features the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, led by Sir Colin Davis. The soloists include Peter Schreier, Edith Mathis and Gwynne Howell.

Orchestral performance from the Opéra National De Lyon of a composition written when Mozart was just 14 years old, featuring a performance from soprano Yvonne Kenny and tenor Rockwell Blake.

A visually spectacular interpretation of Wagner's opera, staged by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau de les Arts. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Juha Uusitalo, Anna Larsson, Franz-Josef Kapelmann, and John Daszak.

Marcelo Alvarez and Elina Garanca head the cast in this production of Massenet's opera recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2005 and conducted by Philippe Jordan.

Marcelo Alvarez and Elina Garanca head the cast in this production of Massenet's opera recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2005 and conducted by Philippe Jordan.

Gerard Korsten conducts the Teatro Lirico Orchestra and chorus and Patrizia Carmine directs the performers Eva Mei, Alessandro Corbelli and Roberto de Candia. Old Don Pasquale wishes to marry and produce an heir, thus disinheriting his nephew Ernesto, who loves the merry widow Norina. Pasquale's physician Malatesta pretends that Norina is his sister 'Sofronia', and arranges a mock wedding to Pasquale. 'Sofronia' then proceeds to make Pasquale's life a misery.

American soprano Renée Fleming performs a selection of songs by Richard Strauss live at the Salzburg Festival in 2011. As well as featuring scenes from one of her finest roles, Arabella, Fleming is accompanied throughout by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Christian Thielemann.

Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic take on the lurid life of former Playboy model and octogenarian billionaire's wife, Anna Nicole Smith. Eva-Maria Westbroeck takes the lead role in this production filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in February 2011, with Antonio Pappano conducting.

English soprano Amanda Roocroft takes the lead role in this production of Janacek's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real in October, 2009. Ivor Bolton conducts, and other leading performances come from Miroslav Dvorsky, Deborah Polaski, Mette Ejsing and Nikolai Schukoff.

Sting and his wife Trudie Styler, along with an ensemble of actors, singers and musicians, bring to life the tragic love between the composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck. Reflecting the separation that came to be such a central theme of their lives, the performers are divided into male and female groups. Sting reads the letters of Robert Schumann, with his songs sung by Iain Burnside, while Trudie Styler reads Clara's letters, with her songs being sung by Rebecca Evans.

Recorded live at the Teatro Royal in Madrid in July 2006, this production by Emilio Sagi of Moreno Torroba's enduring 'zarzuela' stars Placido Domingo and Nancy Herrera and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Royal conducted by Jesus Lopez Cobos.