A world premiere recording of Wolfgang Rihm's opera, staged at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin in 1987. Baritone Andreas Schmidt heads a cast including William Pell, William Dooley and Lenus Carlson. Christof Prick conducts.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra in this production of Mozart's classic opera, recorded live at the Zurich Opera House in 2006.

A live performance of Verdi's seldom seen opera, recorded at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in 2012. Performers include Enrico Giuseppe Iori, Leonardo López Linares, Dimitra Theodossiou and Andrew Richards. Boris Brott is the conductor.

Collection of Giuseppe Verdi's 26 operas, in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each opera features a ten minute introduction, and the set also includes Verdi's 'Requiem' and the documentary 'Verdi's Backyard'.

A production of Debussy's opera featuring the orchestra and chorus of the Zurich Opera House, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. Recorded in 2004, performers include Rodney Gilfry, Isabel Rey, Michael Volle and László Polgár.

Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus takes the lead role in this performance of Cavalli's opera, recorded live at Le Théâtre De Caen in 2011. The first opera staged by comic actor Clément Hervieu-Léger, the production also features William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants.

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.

A 2011 production from the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, featuring performances by Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott, Marina Poplavskaya and Béatrice Uria-Monzon. Stage direction is by Calixto Bieito, with Marc Piollet conducting the Orchestra and Chorus.

Tchhaikovsky's opera performed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu, with Michael Boder conducting. Includes performances by Misha Didyk, Emily Magee, Lado Ataneli and Elena Zaremba.

Ruggero Raimondi takes the lead role in this performance of Verdi's comic opera recorded at the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege, Belgium in 2009. Paolo Arrivabeni conducts.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Wien in this production of Josef Haydn's opera 'Il Mondo Della Luna' recorded at the Theatre an der Wien in 2009. Performers include Dietrich Henschel, Bernard Richter and Vivica Genaux.

William Christie conducts Les Arts Florissants in this production of Monteverdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid in April 2009. Performers include Kobie van Rensburg, Christine Rice and Cyril Auvity.

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 Lance Ryan, Ralf Lukas, Franz-Josef Kapellmann and Matti Salminen.

The Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus's visually captivating interpretation of Wagner's opera, performed at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in June 2009. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Jennifer Wilson, Juha Uusitalo, Peter Seiffert and Matti Salminen.

The first recording of Leo's rediscovered comic opera, with Francesca Russo Ermolli, M. Grazia Schiavo, and the Orchestra Barocca Cappella conducted by Antonio Florio.

With backing from the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, opera stars Ana María Martínez and Placido Domingo perform zarzuelas by Federico Moreno Torroba, Manuel Panella, Jose Serrano, and many others.

Ernst Märzendorfer conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra in this performance of Verdi's classic opera, recorded live at the open-air St. Margarethen Festival in July, 2008. Kristiane Kaiser and Jean-Francois Borras take the lead roles of Violetta and Alfredo.

A recording of Bellini's opera from the Teatro Massimo Bellini in 2005, with performances by Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre and Nidia Palacios.

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.

Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, based on the Mongol army's entry into Kitezha and its subsequent unexpected survival, is here performed live at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari under the guidance of Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov.

Italian operatic bass Carlo Colombara performs a selection of his most famous roles including Escamillo from Bizet's 'Carmen', Philippe II from Verdi's 'Don Carlos' and Don Basilio from Rossini's 'Barber of Seville'.

Mascagni's two act opera recieves a rare outing, with Anna Malavasi, Pierre Luigi Dilengite, and the Orchestre Internazionale D'Italia conducted by Manlio Benzi.

Stravinsky's masterwork, created for La Fenice in Venice in 1951, is based on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by a series of 18th century prints by William Hogarth. This 2007 production from La Monnaie-De Munt 'jazzifies' the setting by replacing Hogarth's sin city, London, with 1950s Las Vegas, turning it into a glittering, cinematic gallery of tableaux vivants inspired by the early days of television. The conductor is Kazushi Ono while the stage direction comes from the celebrated Robert Lepage.