A performance of Verdi's opera recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2010. Massimo Zanetti conducts the Teatro Regio di Parma Orchrestra and Chorus, while the performers include Leo Nucci, Fabio Armiliato, Giacomo Prestia and Daniela Dessì.

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.

One of Verdi's lesser known operas, recorded live at the Verdi Festival, Parma in 2008. An all-star cast includes Bruno Ribeiro, Irina Lungu, Luca Salsi and Silvia Dalla Benetta. Carlo Montanaro conducts.

The Teatro Regio Di Parma perform Verdi's opera at the Parma Festival in 2010, with a cast including Giovanni Battis Parodi, Susanna Branchini, Sebastian Catana and Roberto de Biasio. Andrea Battistoni conducts.

Pier Luigi Pizzi's staging of Verdi's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 2010. Donato Renzetti leads the orchestra and chorus, while performers featured include Alessandra Marianelli, Ivan Magri, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Andrea Porta.

Director Werner Herzog and conductor Riccardo Muti combine with the finest of casts in Rossini's rarely-performed masterpiece, set in feudal sixteenth century Scotland and based on Sir Walter Scott's poem.

A controversial new production of Alban Berg's expressionistic masterpiece by Calixto Bieito with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, recorded in January 2006, under the baton of Sebastian Weigle.

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.

Rossini's one-act opera La Scala di Seta ('The Silken Ladder') performed by Tullio Pane, Carmen Lavani, Tiziana Tramonti, Ernesto Palacio, Mario Chiappi and Robert Coviello, accompanied by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Marc Andreae.

Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this production of Mozart's opera, recorded at the 2014 Salzburg Festival. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo performs the title role with the rest of the cast including Anett Fritsch, Tomasz Konieczny and Luca Pisaroni.

Live from the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Martin star in a sumptuous production of Ponchielli's famous four act melodrama. Fillippo Sanjust directs.

Melly Still's production of Janacek's rural opera set in the forest-covered rolling hills of Moravia. Produced for the 2012 Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the opera is performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski and sung in Czech with English supertitles.

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.

Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna star in this 2009 New York Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's work, directed by Nicholas Joel and conducted by Marco Armiliato.

Lluis Pasqual's powerful production of Mozart's Don Giovanni for Madrid's Teatro Royal sets this timeless story of sleaze and seduction into the dark world of 1940s Spain. Carlos Alvarez takes the title role; Victor Pablo Perez conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid.

Riccardo Frizza conducts this stellar 2007 performance of Donizetti's opera directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.

The Haydn di Bolzano Orchestra and the Trento and Prague Chamber Chorus perform Rossini's comic opera 'Il Turco in Italia' at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Italy in August 2007, with Marco Vinco and Alessandra Marianelli in the lead roles.

Three of Verdi's most popular operas, all from the stage of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. Bryn Terfel takes the title role in Graham Vick's riotous production of 'Falstaff', conducted by Bernard Haitink. David McVuicar's hedonistic production of 'Rigoletto' stars Marcello Alvarez, Paolo Gavanello and Christine Schafer under the baton of Sir Edward Downes. Jose Cura and Dmitri Hvorostovsky lead the cast in Elijah Moshinsky's blazingly passionate 'Il Trovatore', conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Guy Joosten's production of Bellini's classic opera, recorded live at the Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam in 2005. The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera are conducted by Julian Reynolds, while performers include Hasmik Papian, Hugh Smith and Irini Tsirakidis.

A rare recording of Pergolesi's second opera, a comic and colourful tale of tangled love in which three girls resist their arranged marriages in pursuit of the same young man.

The internationally renowned Mozart interpreter Sir Colin Davis conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Royal Opera House and a glittering cast in David McVicar's 2003 production of Mozart's last opera recorded, in sumptuous surround sound, live at Covent Garden.