Carlos Acosta and Tamara Rojo star as doomed young lovers Romeo and Juliet in Kenneth Macmillan's lavish Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev's classic ballet. Boris Gruzin conducts the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in this performance of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2009. Performers include Sonia Ganassi, Fiorenza Cedolins and Jose Bros.

Fabrizio Maria Carminati conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice in this performance of Donizetti's opera recorded live in 2009. Performers include Sonia Ganassi, Fiorenza Cedolins and Jose Bros.

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.

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

The second volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction. The operas included are: 'Macbeth', 'I Masnadieri', 'Il Corsaro', 'La Battaglia di Legnano', 'Luisa Miller', 'Stiffelio', 'Rigoletto', 'Il Trovatore' and 'La Traviata'.

Hungarian pianist Lili Kraus performs a selection of works by Bach, Mozart, and Schubert on IN RECITAL. Culled from vintage television performances, this release is an invaluable document of Kraus's talents.

The third volume of a three-part set featuring all of Giuseppe Verdi's operas in celebration of the composer's bicentenary in 2013. Each performance features its own ten minute introduction. The operas included are: 'I Vespri Siciliani', 'Simon Boccanegra', 'Un Ballo in Maschera', 'La Forza del Destino', 'Don Carlo', 'Aida', 'Otello' and 'Falstaff'.

Live performance of Charles Gounod's opera based on the classic play by William Shakespeare. Nino Machaidze portrays Juliette and Stefano Secco plays Roméo with Ketevan Kemoklidze, Jean-Francois Borras and Giorgio Giuseppini also among the cast. Fabio Mastrangelo conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Arena di Verona.

Ole Anders Tandberg's visually striking 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.

Giovanni Bottesini's opera recorded at the Teatro San Domenico in Crema, Italy in 2009. Véronique Mercier and Gian Luca Pasolini take the title roles, while Aldo Salvagno conducts the Orchestra Filarmonica del Piemonte.

A TV production of Mark Adams's opera recorded in Houston, Texas in 2000. Patrick Summers conducts the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, with performances by Stephanie Novacek, Joyce Di Donato and Chad Shelton.

Marco Guidarini conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli in Pier Luigi Pizzi's production of Mozart's opera from 2004. The performers include Kurt Streit, Angeles Blancas Gulin, Iano Tamar and Sonia Ganassi.

Pamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Lyubov Petrova, Malena Ernman and Hakan Hagegard are the soloists in this performance of Strauss' comic operetta from the Glyndebourne Opera House, with the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke, and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.

The Keeping Score: Revolutions in Music series centers on music that changed the face of the arts. In this release, Michael Tilson Thomas explores what went into Beethoven's EROICA, including elements of the composer's personal history. This masterful symphony was a highly personal work that challenged listeners in a way that music had not done in the past.

Roberto Paternostro leads the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in an edited version of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Staged in one day, the production was directed by Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'. The cast members include Linda Watson, Jukka Rasilainen, Leonid Zakhozhaev and Andrew Shore. The set also includes the documentary 'The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires'.

Hans Christophe von Bock's documentary follows the attempts to stage an edited, one day version of Wagner's epic opera cycle at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Arriving in Buenos Aires to prepare the groundwork for the production, Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner, who now runs the Bayreuth Festival, discovers that the rehearsal conditions are not what she expected. At short notice, she decides to entrust the staging of the production to Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'.

Hans Christophe von Bock's documentary follows the attempts to stage an edited, one day version of Wagner's epic opera cycle at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Arriving in Buenos Aires to prepare the groundwork for the production, Wagner's great-granddaughter, Katharina Wagner, who now runs the Bayreuth Festival, discovers that the rehearsal conditions are not what she expected. At short notice, she decides to entrust the staging of the production to Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'.

Roberto Paternostro leads the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in an edited version of Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Staged in one day, the production was directed by Valentina Carrasco, who has previously worked with the Catalan theatrical group 'La Fura dels Baus'. The cast members include Linda Watson, Jukka Rasilainen, Leonid Zakhozhaev and Andrew Shore. The set also includes the documentary 'The Colón Ring - Wagner in Buenos Aires'.

Performance of Mariusz Trelinski's production of Tchaikovsky's opera, recorded live at the Paleau de les Arts, Valencia, in 2011. Kristine Opolais and Artur Rucinski lead the cast, with Omer Meir Wellber conducting the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

Andrea Battistoni leads the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera recorded live in 2012. Cast members include Roberto Aronica, Yu Guanqun, Roberto Frontali and Gabriele Mangione.

Daniele Abbado's staging of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2009. Michelle Mariotti leads the orchestra and chorus, while performers featured include Leo Nucci, Bruno Ribeiro, Riccardo Zanellato and Dimitra Theodossiou.

A visually spectacular interpretation of Berlioz's opera, staged by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau de les Arts. Valery Gergiev conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Daniela Barcellona, Lance Ryan, Elisabete Matos and Giorgio Giuseppini.

Nicholas McGegan conducts the Festspieleorchester Gottingen in this production of Handel's opera, recorded live at the Internationale Handel-Festspiele Gottingen, with performances from Tim Mead, Marie Arnet and Kirsten Blaise.