Blu-Ray Video, Britten (composer)

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)

Anna Caterina Antonacci (Queen Elizabeth) , Leonardo Capalbo (Devereux), Paula Murrihy (Frances), Duncan Rock (Mountjoy), Sophie Bevan (Penelope), Leigh Melrose (Cecil), David Soar (Raleigh), Benedict Nelson (Henry Cuffe), Teatro Real Chorus & Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, David McVicar

Sarah Connolly (Lucretia), Christopher Maltman (Tarquinius), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Bianca), Mary Nelson (Lucia), Leigh Melrose (Junius), Clive Bayley (Collatinus), Orla Boylan (Female Chorus) & John Mark Ainsley (Male Chorus) English National Opera, Paul Daniel (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

John Mark Ainsley (Captain Vere), Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Phillip Ens (Claggart), Iain Paterson (Mr Redburn), Matthew Rose (Mr Flint), Darren Jeffery (Lieutenant Ratcliffe), Alasdair Elliott (Red Whiskers), John Moore (Donald), Jeremy White (Dansker), Ben Johnson (Novice), Colin Judson (Squeak) & Richard Mosley-Evans (Bosun) The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor) & Michael Grandage (director)

Itzhak Perlman (violin) San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas

Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), Toby Spence (Vere), Brindley Sherratt (Claggart), Thomas Oliemans (Redburn), David Soar (Flint), Torben Jürgens (Ratcliffe), Clive Bayley (Dansker), Duncan Rock (Donald), Francisco Vas (Squeak), Sam Furness (Novice); Ivor Bolton, Deborah Warner

John Graham-Hall (Gustav von Aschenbach), Andrew Shore (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Gondolier/Barber/ Hotel Manager Player/Dionysus), Tim Mead (Apollo), Sam Zaldivar (Tadzio), Laura Caldow (The Polish Mother), Mia Angelina Mather/Xhuliana Shehu (Her Two Daughters), Joyce Henderson (The Governess), Marcio Teixeira (Jaschiu, Tadzio’s friend) Orchestra and Chorus of the English National Opera, Edward Gardner (conductor) & Deborah Warner (director)

Alan Oke (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen), David Kempster (Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Charles Rice (Ned Keene); Britten–Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Tim Albery (dir.)

Philippe Jaroussky, Sir Bryn Terfel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Pavol Breslik, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Ensemble Praetorius, NDR Choir, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Hengelbrock

Sarah Walker (Elizabeth I), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Essex), Jean Rigby (Lady Essex), Richard van Allan (Raleigh), Elizabeth Vaughan (Lady Rich), Alan Opie (Cecil), Neil Howlett (Mountjoy), Malcolm Donnelly (Henry Cuffe) English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor) & Colin Graham (director)

John Daszak (Aschenbach), Anthony Roth Costanzo (Apollo), Leigh Melrose (Traveller), Duncan Rock (English Clerk/Guide), Tomasz Borczyk (Tadzio) Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra, Alejo Pérez, Willy Decker

Britten-Pears Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor/narrator)

Erin Wall (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Hanno Müller-Brachmann (baritone) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus & CBSO Youth Chorus, Andris Nelsons

Marlin Miller (Gustav von Aschenbach), R.-François Bitar (Voice of Apollo), Scott Hendricks (Traveller and other roles), Alessandro Riga (Tadzio), Danilo Palmieri (Jaschiu) Teatro La Fenice, Bruno Bartoletti, Pier Luigi Pizzi

Susan Bullock (Queen Elizabeth I), Toby Spence (Earl of Essex), Patricia Bardon (Countess of Essex), Mark Stone (Lord Mountjoy), Kate Royal (Lady Rich), Jeremy Carpenter (Sir Robert Cecil), Clive Bayley (Sir Walter Raleigh) & Brindley Sherratt (Ballad Singer) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Paul Daniel (conductor) & Richard Jones (director)

The Royal Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company)