Riccardo Chailly leads the Chor de la Generalitat Valencia and the Orchestra de la Comunitat Valencia in Davide Livermore's energetic production of Puccini's opera, recorded at the Palau De Les Arts Reina Sofia in December 2012. The soloists include Gal James, Aquiles Machado, Carmen Romeu and Massimo Cavalletti.

Renée Fleming takes the title role in this production of Donizetti's opera recorded live at the San Francisco Opera in 2012. Other cast members include Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong and Vitalij Kowaljow. The conductor is Riccardo Frizza.

Seiji Ozawa leads the orchestra and chorus in Laurent Pelly's production of Janácek's fantasy opera, recorded live at Florence's Teatro Comunale in 2009. Armenian/Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the lead role as the vixen, with American Quinn Kelsey as the gamekeeper.

The first 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: 'Oberto', 'Un Giorno di Regno', 'Nabucco', 'I Lombardi', 'Ernani', 'I due Foscari', 'Giovanni d'Arco', 'Alzira' and 'Attila'.

Seiji Ozawa leads the orchestra and chorus in Laurent Pelly's production of Janácek's fantasy opera, recorded live at Florence's Teatro Comunale in 2009. Armenian/Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the lead role as the vixen, with American Quinn Kelsey as the gamekeeper.

Christof Loy's 2012 interpretation of Puccini's opera sets the action against the backdrop of a Hollywood Western. Recorded live at the Royal Swedish Opera House, Nina Stemme takes the lead role as Minnie, who falls passionately in love with the most wanted outlaw in the West. Other cast members include John Lundgren, Aleksandrs Antonenko and Niklas Björling Rygert. The conductor is Pier Giorgio Morandi.

Mojca Erdmann, Elin Rombo and Virpi Raisänen lead the cast in this world premiere performance of Wolfgang Rihm's operatic fantasy, recorded live at the 2010 Salzburg Festival. Based on Nietzsche's late cycle of poems 'Dionysus-Dithyrambs', the performance features distinctive staging by Jonathan Meese. Ingo Metzmacher conducts the Deutsches Symphonieorchester.

Alessandro Sangiorgi conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Sofia National Opera in this production of Verdi's opera, recorded at the medieval stronghold of the Tsaverets Fortress in Veliko Tamovo, Bulgaria in 2011. The soloists featured include Orlin Anastasov, Ventsalav Anastasov and Radostina Nikolaeva.

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.

A night at the opera featuring singers including Juliane Banse, Grace Bumbry, Vesselina Kasarova and Angelika Kirchschlager, performing a mixture of arias from famous operas such as 'Le Nozze di Figaro', 'Don Giovanni', 'Tosca', 'Turandot' and 'Fledermaus' under the baton of Kent Nagano.

Harry Bicket conducts in this production of Martin y Soler's opera recorded at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, in 2009. Performers include Laura Alkin, Michael Maniaci, Ainhoa Gramendia, and Marisa Martins.

The great tenor Pavarotti takes to the concert stage in the beautiful city of Barcelona for this live musical recording. Includes 'O Solo Mia', 'Pourquoi me reveiller' and 'Donna non vidi mai'. Also features interviews and behind-the-scene footage.

Simone Young leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in this production of Pfitzner's opera, directed for the stage by Christian Stuckl. Performers include Christopher Ventris, Peter Rose, Michael Volle and Falk Struckmann.

Kent Nagano leads the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Dmitri Tcherniakov's production of Mussorgsky's opera, recorded live at the Nationaltheater, Munich in 2007. Doris Soffel stars as Marfa, with Anatoly Kotscherga as the religious leader Dosifei, Klaus Florian Vogt as Andrey, and Paata Burchuladze as the charismatic Prince Ivan Khovansky.

Carl St. Clair conducts the Staatskapelle Weimar in this performance from Wagner's ring cycle. With set design from Dirk Becker, the performance features Johnny Van Hall, Frieder Aurich, Tomas Mowes and Mario Hoff.

Mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig, along with pianist Charles Spencer, performs pieces by Schubert, Mahler, Strauss, Hugo Wolf, and Leonard Bernstein in this remarkable concert recital.