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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (DVD)

Christine Rice (Lucretia), Allan Clayton (Male Chorus), Kate Royal (Female Chorus), Duncan Rock (Tarquinius), Matthew Rose (Collatinus), Michael Sumuel (Junius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca) & Louise Alder (Lucia) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leo Hussain (conductor) & Fiona Shaw (stage director)

Measure For Measure

Naana Agyei-Ampadu (Juliet), Kurt Egyiawan (Angelo), Trevor Fox (Pompey), Mariah Gale (Isabella), Dennis Herdman (Froth / Friar Thomas), Rosie Hilal (Mariana), James Lailey (Abhorson / Friar Peter), Joel MacCormack (Claudio), Petra Massey (Mistress Overdone), Dean Nolan (Elbow / Barnadine), Brendan O’Hea (Lucio), Paul Rider (Escalus) & Dominic Rowan (Duke Vincentio) Dominic Dromgoole (director)

Handel: Saul (DVD)

Christopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor) The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie Kosky (director)

Stella di Napoli: Bel Canto Arias

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Orchestre de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Riccardo Minasi

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3

Hallé, Mark Elder

Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge

Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano)

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'

Philharmonia Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Leoncavallo: Zazà

Ermonela Jaho (Zazà), Stephen Gaertner (Cascart), Riccardo Massi (Milio), Patricia Bardon (Anaide), David Stout (Bussy) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Benini

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

Laura Aikin (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Johannes Chum (tenor) & Ruben Drole (bass) Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Légende

Alison Balsom (trumpet) & Tom Poster (piano)

Heinrich Heine: Lieder

Benjamin Appl (baritone) & James Baillieu (piano)

Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

Elizabeth Watts (Josephine), Toby Spence (Ralph Rackstraw), John Mark Ainsley (Sir Joseph Porter KCB), Andrew Foster-Williams (Captain Corcoran), Hilary Summers (Buttercup), Neal Davies (Dick Deadeye), Gavan Ring (Bill Bobstay), Barnaby Rea (Bob Becket), Kitty Whately (Hebe), Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator) Scottish Opera, Richard Egarr

Sullivan, A: HMS Pinafore

Elizabeth Watts (Josephine), Toby Spence (Ralph Rackstraw), John Mark Ainsley (Sir Joseph Porter KCB), Andrew Foster-Williams (Captain Corcoran), Hilary Summers (Buttercup), Neal Davies (Dick Deadeye), Gavan Ring (Bill Bobstay), Barnaby Rea (Bob Becket), Kitty Whately (Hebe), Tim Brooke-Taylor (narrator) Scottish Opera, Richard Egarr

A Century of Song Vol. 1 (1810-1820)

Malcolm Martineau (piano), Michael Schade (tenor), Sylvia Schwartz (soprano), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Florian Boesch (baritone)

Gershwin in Hollywood

Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford, Louise Dearman & Matthew Ford The John Wilson Orchestra, John Wilson

Gershwin in Hollywood

Louise Dearman, Matthew Ford, Louise Dearman & Matthew Ford The John Wilson Orchestra, John Wilson

Corigliano, J: The Ghosts of Versailles

Victoria Livengood (Woman with Hat), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Louis XVI), Scott Scully (Marquis), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), Patricia Racette (Marie Antoinette), Lucas Meachem (Figaro), Lucy Schaufer (Susanna), Joshua Guerrero (Count Almaviva), Guanqun Yu (Rosina), Renée Rapier (Cherubino), Patti LuPone (Samira) LA Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Conlon

Adès: The Tempest

Simon Keenlyside (Prospero), Kate Royal (Miranda), Toby Spence (Ferdinand), Ian Bostridge (Caliban), Cyndia Sieden (Ariel), Philip Langridge (Alonso), Donald Kaasch (Antonio), Jonathan Summers (Sebastian), David Condier (Trinculo), Stephen Richardson (Stefano), Graeme Danby (Gonzalo) The Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Adès

Virgins, Vixens & Viragos

Susan Graham (mezzo soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)