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.

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.