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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Richard Bonynge conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus in this 1980 production of Donizetti's dark opera based on the novel by Victor Hugo.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio Torino in this performance of Verdi's tragic opera.

Paolo Carignani conducts the Wiener Symphoniker in this production of Puccini's opera, recorded at the 2015 Bregenz Festival. Mlada Khudoley stars in the lead role with the rest of the cast including Manuel von Senden, Michail Ryssov, Riccardo Massi and Guanqun Yu.

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.

Lotha Zagrosek conducts Wagner's opera performed at the Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2002. Performers include Lani Poulson and Albert Bonnema.

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.

Lorin Maazel conducts the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, in this production of Cimarosa's opera recorded in 1967. The featured performers include Josef Greindl, Erika Köth, Lisa Otto and Patricia Johnson.

Director Nikolaus Lenhoff's acclaimed production of Richard Strauss's opera, staged at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden in 2011. Angela Denoke performs the title role alongside Kim Begley, Doris Soffel, Alan Held and Marcel Reijans. Stefan Soltesz leads the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester.

Performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The opera follows the exchanges of a husband and wife when they return from a party and reflect on their flirtations with various guests and the light this casts on the frustrations in their own relationship. Star performers include Georg Nigl, Brigitte Geller and Sonia Visentin.

Michael Schmidtsdorff conducts the Paris Opera Ballet and the Orchestra of The Opera National de Paris in this performance of Chopin's classic opera recorded live at the Paris Garnier in 2008.

The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.