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.

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.

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.

Franz Liszt is generally remembered as the great Hungarian 19th-century piano virtuoso, but he considered himself a composer first. His orchestra scores represent a significant stylistic link between the innovations of Berlioz and Wagner and the late Romantic composers of both Eastern and Western Europe. Written in 1854 and dedicated to Berlioz, Liszt's Eine Faust-Symphonie, which Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians calls "his orchestral masterpiece" but is very rarely performed, was a favorite of Leonard Bernstein, who spoke in his televised lectures about the work's bold harmonic language that anticipates the serialism of the Second Viennese School. In the 1960s Bernstein had to fight recalcitrant Columbia executives for the right to record the symphony with the New York Philharmonic; the resulting LP sold poorly. Nevertheless, Deutsche Grammophon gave him a second chance to sell the public on this work with this live recording of a performance at Symphony Hall, Boston, on July 26, 1976. While Bernstein never did succeed in creating for this symphony the kind of cult following he helped foster for the works of Mahler, critics generally agree that the present performance is superior to the New York version and represents the best way to experience Liszt's unique contribution to the Faust literature.

Gypsy Carmen inflames Spanish officer Don Jose and the toreador Escamillo in this version of the opera.

Set in Dresden's open-air Theatre Square, GREAT STARS OF OPERA assembles some of the world's greatest opera singers for one amazing night filled with vocal talent. Performing to a crowd of over 15,000 people, singers such as Neil Shicoff, Cincenzo La Scola, Agnes Baltsa, and Anna Tomowa-Sintow present classic scenes from operas including La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, and Carmen.

A mixture of modern music combining rock, blues, jazz and modern composition music, created by Anders Nordentoft and brought to life on stage by Martin Tulinius using video, computer graphics, sound and light.

Handel's timeless opera TAMERLANO, whose model is NIcholas Pradon's Tamerlan ou La Mort de Bajazet, is brought to life in this live recording from the 50th Handel-Festipiele 2001 at the world famous Halle on the Saale. Conducted by Trevor Pinnock and with exquisite direction by Jonathan Miller, Tamerlano stands as one of Handel's masterworks.

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.

Gianluigi Gelmetti leads the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma in this performance of Verdi's opera, recorded live in 2011. The cast members include Dimitra Theodossiou, Vladimir Stoyanov, Aquiles Machado, Mariana Pentcheva and Roberto Scandiuzzi.

Rolando Villazón and Anna Netrebko bring their vocal talents to Gaetano Donizetti's L'ELISIR D'AMORE. This performance of the comedic opera was recorded at the Vienna State Opera in 2005.

Benjamin Britten's opera, composed to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. He took as his starting point Lytton Strachey's 'Elizabeth and Essex'. Sarah Walker and Anthony Rolfe Johnson star.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.

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