Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Documentary which takes a behind the scenes look at the Teatro alla Scala productions of the 1981/1982 season featuring rehearsal footage and interviews by journalist Enzo Biagi with conductors, directors and singers.

A collection of operas recorded live at the Vienna State Opera. Riccardo Muti is the conductor for a 1999 performance of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni', with a cast including Franz-Joseph Selig, Michael Schade, Adrianne Pieczonka, Carlos Álvarez, Angelika Kirchschlager, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Lorenzo Regazzo. Thomas Hampson, Christina Gallardo-Domas and Ferruccio Furlanetto head the cast of Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra', recorded in 2002 with Daniele Gatti conducting. Finally, Philippe Jordan is the conductor for a 2005 performance of Massenet's opera 'Werther', featuring Marcelo Álvarez, Elina Garanca, Adrian Eröd and Ileana Tonca.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this performance of Mozart's opera recorded at the 1983 Salzburg Festival. Performers include Margaret Marshall, Ann Murray, Francisco Araiza and James Morris.

Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala for this performance of Verdi's opera featuring Cheryl Studer, Chris Merritt, Enzo Capuano and Giorgio Zancanaro. The rarely-seen third act ballet is included complete, with the internationally acclaimed dancers Carla Fracci and Wayne Eagling.

Officers Ferrando and Guglielmo are certain that their lovers Dorabella and Fiordiligi are faithful to them, but the cynical Don Alfonso challenges them to a bet that the women will be unfaithful given the chance. The officers thus pretend to go off to war, and return in disguise as Albanian strangers, to woo Dorabella and Fiordiligi incognito. The ladies are initially frosty, but soon warm to their new suitors, spurred on by their maid Despina. Performed at the La Scala Theatre in Milan.

Riccardo Muti conducts a cast led by Giorgio Zancanaro in Rossini's last opera.

Riccardo Muti conducts the La Scala Orchestra in this production of Verdi's ninth opera. The story tells of the heroic battle between Roman general Ezio, performed by Giorgio Zancanaro, and Nordic invader Attila, portrayed by Samuel Ramey.

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 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.