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.

Gerrit Priessnitz conducts the Hamburg Philharmonic in this production of Offenbach's opera, recorded in 2014. The cast includes Jennifer Larmore, Jun-Sang Han, Peter Galliard, Viktor Rud and Rebecca Jo Loeb.

Collection of the best arias from Verdi's operas 'Aida', 'La Traviata', 'Il Trovatore' and 'Otello'. The performances feature singers such as Nino Machaidze, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez and Francesco Meli.

Ambrogio Maestri leads the cast in Stephen Medcalf's 2011 production of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma. Other cast members include Luca Salsi, Antonio Gandia, Barbara Bargnesi and Romina Tomasoni. The conductor is Andrea Battistoni.

A live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera from the Teatro Regio Di Parma. Yuri Temirkanov conducts the orchestra and chorus, with performances from Marcelo Álvarez, Teresa Romano, Claudio Sgura and Mzia Nioradze.

Svetla Vassileva leads the cast in this 2007 production of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio Di Parma. The supporting cast includes Massimo Giordano, Vladimir Stoyanov, Daniela Pini and Gianluca Floris. Yuri Temirkanov conducts.

The Teatro Regio di Parma perform Verdi's opera at the Parma Festival in 2008, with Bruno Bartoletti conducting. The cast includes Evan Bowers, Renato Bruson, Svetla Vassileva and Luigi Petroni.

Daniele Callegari 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 Lamberto Puggelli, the cast includes Roberto de Biasio, Michelle Pertusi, Cristina Giannelli and Dimitra Theodossiou.

A collection featuring aria highlights from all 26 of Verdi's operas, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma. An all-star cast list includes Daniela Dessì, Marcelo Álvarez, Leo Nucci, Nino Machaidze, Fiorenza Cedolins and Norma Fantini.

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.

Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House in this performance of Verdi's final opera, based on the character created by William Shakespeare. When the lecherous Henry Falstaff (Ambrogio Maestri) sends identical letters of love to two wives of Windsor, Alice Ford (Barbara Frittoli) and Meg Page (Judith Schmid), the women decide to teach him a lesson, and send Mistress Quickly (Yvonne Naef) to arrange a rendezvous.

Pier' Alli's staging of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2007. Antonello Allemandi leads the orchestra and chorus, while performers featured include Mariana Pentcheva, Fabio Sartori, Giovanni Battista Parodi and Francesca Sassu.

A spectacular production of Aida filmed at Bregenz Festival's lakeside stage in 2009, with Carlo Rizzi conducting the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and the Polish Radio Choir.

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.

Donald Runnicles conducts the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Leos Janácek's opera, recorded in 2014. Michaela Kaune stars in the title role with Jennifer Larmore as Kostelnicka Buryjovka, Will Hartmann as Laca Klemen, Ladislav Elgr as Steva Buryja and Hanna Schwarz as Grandmother Buryjovka.

Wolfgang Katschner conducts the Lautten Compagney in this production of Handel's opera performed with puppets by the Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla e Figli. Antonio Giovannini sings the title role with the rest of the cast including Gesche Geier, Marie Friederike Schöder, Florian Götz, Yosemeh Adjei, Owen Willetts and Cornelius Uhle.

Anthony Bramall conducts the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Ennio Porrino's opera, recorded in September 2013. The cast includes Manrico Signorini, Angelo Villari, Gianpiero Ruggeri and Domenico Balzani with a special appearance by Elena Ledda.

Live performance of Strauss's second opera, recorded at Palermo's Teatro Massimo in 2014. Gabriele Ferro conducts the Orchestra, Chorus and Youth Chorus of the Teatro Massimo. The cast includes Nicola Beller Carbone, Dietrich Henschel, Alex Wawiloff and Rubén Amoretti.

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in this production of Schubert's opera, recorded at the 2014 Salzburg Festival. The cast includes Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Georg Zeppenfeld and Julia Kleiter.

Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor in this production of Schubert's opera, recorded at the 2014 Salzburg Festival. The cast includes Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade, Georg Zeppenfeld and Julia Kleiter.