Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, and Alexander Tsimbaliuk

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.

Svetla Vassileva and Fabio Sartori take the lead roles in Puccini's opera, recorded live at the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, in 2007. The conductor is Alberto Veronesi.

Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez star in this Royal Opera production of Gaetano Donizetti's two-act comic opera LA FILLE DU REGIMENT. The cast is joined by Italian conductor Bruno Campanella and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House.

Renato Palumbo conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in this production of Bellini's opera. Sondra Radvanovsky stars in the title role with the rest of the cast including Gregory Kunde, Raymond Aceto, Ekaterina Gubanova, Ana Puche and Francisco Vas.

Live performance of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi conducted by Mark Elder. Recorded at Glyndebourne Manor House in East Sussex the cast includes Venera Gimadieva, Michael Fabiano and Tassis Christoyannis.

Enrique Mazzola conducts this live performance of Gaetano Donizetti's opera at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2013. The performers include Danielle de Niese and Alessandro Corbelli.

Director Guy Cassiers sets his Ring cycle firmly in the present, in this production premiered at La Scala in May 2010. With Daniel Barenboim at the podium, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson lead an all-star cast.

Director Guy Cassiers sets his Ring cycle firmly in the present, in this production premiered at La Scala in May 2010. With Daniel Barenboim at the podium, René Pape, Stephan Rügamer, Johannes Martin Kränzle and Anna Larsson lead an all-star cast.

Gianluigi Gelmetti conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Massimo Gasparon's production of Verdi's opera from 2011. Francesco Meli leads a cast including Vladimir Stoyanov, Kristin Lewis and Elisabetta Fiorillo.

Fabrizio Ventura conducts the Coro Lirico Amadeus and the Orchestra Regionale Emilia Romagna in this production of Verdi's 'Don Carlo' recorded at the Teatro Comunale de Modena in 2012. The production includes performances by Giacomo Prestia, Mario Malagnini, Simone Piazzola and Luciano Montanaro.

A recording of David McVicar's 2011 production of Richard Wagner's opera, performed for the first time at Glyndebourne, with Vladimir Jurowski leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra. An all-star cast features Gerald Finley, Marco Jentzsch, Anna Gabler, Michaela Selinger, and Topi Lehtipuu.