DVD Video, Bizet (composer)

Diana Damrau (Leïla), Matthew Polenzani (Nadir), Mariusz Kwiecien (Zurga), Nicolas Teste (Nourabad The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda, Penny Woolcock (dir.)

Deepa Johnny (Carmen), Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Don José), Nicolas Courjal (Escamillo), Iulia Maria Dan (Micaëla) Orchestre de l'opéra de Rouen Normandie, Chœur Accentus, Chœur d’enfants de la Maîtrise du Conservatoire de Rouen, Ben Glassberg, Romain Gilbert

Adèle Charvet (Carmen), Julien Behr (Don José), Florie Valiquette (Micaëla), Alexandre Duhamel (Escamillo), Gwendoline Blondeel (Frasquita), Ambroisine Bré (Mercédès), Matthieu Walendzik (Le Dancaïre), Attila Varga-Toth (Le Remendado), Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Hervé Niquet

Aigul Akhmetshina (Carmen), Piotr Beczała (Don José), Olga Kulchynska (Micaëla), Kostas Smoriginas (Escamillo), Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonello Manacorda, Damiano Michieletto

Anja Harteros (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato

Ana Laguna, Marc Hwang, Yvan Auzely, Pompea Santoro, George Elkin, Boaz Cohem The Cullberg Ballet, Choreography: Mats Ek

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Louis Langrée, Laurence Equilbey, Raphaël Pichon

Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Jonas Kaufmann (Don Jose), Norah Amsellem (Micaela), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Escamillo), Jacques Imbrailo (Morales), Matthew Rose (Zuniga), Elena Xanthoudakis (Frasquita), Viktoria Vizin (Mercedes), Caroline Lena Olsson (Lillas Pastia), Jean Sebastien Bou (Le Dancaire), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Le Remendado) The Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director)

Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla) Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani

Benazir Hussain, Daryl Brandwood, Errol Pickford & Melissa Aurisch West Australian Ballet & West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Nicolette Fraillon

Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Asher Fisch

Christine Rice (Carmen), Bryan Hymel (Don José), Aris Argiris (Escamillo) & Maija Kovalevska (Micaëla) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Constantinos Carydis (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director)

Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don José), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaëla), Mary Hegarty (Frasquita), Christine Rice (Mercédès), Colin Judson (Remendado), Quentin Hayes (Dancaïre), Hans Voschezang (Moralès), Jonathan Best (Zuniga) The Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Jordan (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

Annick Massis (soprano), Yasu Nakajima (tenor), Luca Grassi (baritone) & Luigi De Donato (bass) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Marcello Viotti (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (director & set and costume designer)

Renata Scotto (soprano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Ervin Lukács

Ekaterina Semenchuk (Carmen), Irina Lungu (Micaëla), Carlo Ventre (Don José), Carlos Álvarez (Escamillo), Francesca Micarelli (Frasquita), Cristina Melis (Mercédès), Federico Longhi (Le Dancaïre), Paolo Antognetti (Le Remendado), Seung Pil Choi (Zuniga) Verona Arena, Henrik Nánási

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Leone Magiera (piano)

Laura Morera, Marianela Nuñez & Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb & Vadim Muntagirov, Marianela Nuñez, Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli & Matthew Golding, Iana Salenko & Steven McRae Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Emmanuel Plasson, Martin Yates

Mario del Monaco (tenor) Melik-Pashaev, Tieskovini

Teresa Berganza (mezzo) Orchestra della Radio Televisione della Svizzera Italiana, Nino Bonavolonta

Renee Fleming (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Miah Persson (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Erwin Schrott (bass-baritone), Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Teodor Illincai (Rodolfo), Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Jose Cura (tenor), Diana Damrau (soprano), Angelika Kirschlager (mezzo), Inna Duka (soprano), Ekaterina Siurina (soprano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Richard Bonynge (piano)

Anna Caterina Antonacci (Carmen), Andrew Richards (Don José), Anne-Catherine Gillet (Micaëla), Nicolas Cavallier (Escamillo) Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Adrian Noble

Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano)

Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Edelmiro Arnaltes (piano)

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier

CARMEN.maquia, Club Havana

With Ildar Abdrazakov, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Anna Netrebko, Yevgeny Nikitin, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Sergei Semishkur (Opera), Olga Esina, Kim Kimin, Anastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexander Sergeyev, Vladimir Shklyarov, Oxana Skorik, Diana Vishneva (Principal Dancers and Soloists of the Mariinsky Ballet), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano) Ballet, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev

Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don José), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaëla), Mary Hegarty (Frasquita), Christine Rice (Mercédès), Colin Judson (Remendado), Quentin Hayes (Dancaïre), Hans Voschezang (Moralès), Jonathan Best (Zuniga) Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Philippe Jordan

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Ashley Wass (piano), Roberto Bolle (Prince Siegfried), Zenaida Yanowsky (Odile), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Adventist Chorale, Band of Her Majesty s Royal Marines, Sir Andrew Davis, Ken Burton

Maria Deller-Takemura, Philip Mosley, Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Darcey Bussell, Zoltán Solymosi, Paata Burchuladze, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leanne Benjamin, Tetsuya Kumakawa, Elizabeth McGorian, Adam Cooper, Iohna Loots, Viviana Durante, Bruce Sansom, Robert Lloyd, Dwayne Croft, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Susan Graham, Leontina Vaduva, Lillian Watson, Verónica Villarroel Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, Edward Downes, Barry Wordsworth, Stephen Barlow

Carlo Colombara (bass) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Bulgarian National Symphony Orchestra & Prague Tchaikovsky Orchestra, György G. Ráth, Vladimir Ghiaurov & Fabrizio Milani

Nino Surguladze (Carmen), Irina Lungu (Micaëla), Alexandra Zabala (Frasquita), Paola Gardina (Mercédès), Philippe Do (Don José), Simone Alberghini (Escamillo), Francis Dudziak (Le Dancaïre), E. D’Aguanno (Le Remendado), Nicolas Courjal (Zuniga), Gezim Mischketa (Moralès) & First soloist ballerina: Anbeta Toromani Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche & Coro Lirico Marchigiano "V. Bellini", Carlo Montanaro (conductor) & Dante Ferretti (director)

New York City Ballet, Orchestre Prométhée, Daniel Capps

Birgit Nilsson (1963), George London (1962), Franco Corelli & Lisa Della Casa (1962), Renata Tebaldi (1961), Giuseppe Di Stefano & Teresa Stratas (1963), Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill (1965), Nicolai Gedda & Giorgio Tozzi (1959), Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda & Theodor Uppman, Teresa Berganza, Anna Moffo & George London (1962), Anna Moffo (1962), Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill (1965), Leontyne Price (1963) Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus, Donald Voorhees

Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Carmen), Roberto Alagna (Don José), Erwin Schrott (Escamillo), Marina Poplavskaya (Micaëla) Symphony Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Marc Piollet

Tamara Rojo, Carlos Acosta, Alina Cojocaru, Leanne Benjamin, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Luke Heydon & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Steven McRae, Marianela Nunez, Thiago Soares, Christopher Saunders, William Tuckett, Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Miah Persson, Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Teodor Ilincai, Hibla Gerzmava, Sarah Connolly, Simon Keenlyside, José Cura, Diana Damrau, Angelika Kirchschlager, Inna Duka, Ekaterina Siurina, Ailish Tynan, Bryn Terfel Royal Opera Chorus, Antonio Pappano, Andris Nelsons, Christopher Hogwood, Charles Mackerras, Carlo Rizzi, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink

Patrizia Ciofi (Leila), Dmitry Korchak (Nadir), Dario Solari (Zurga), Roberto Tagliavini (Nourabad) Orchestra, Coro e Corpo di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo, Gabriele Ferro

Geraldine Farrar (Carmen) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gillian Anderson

Martha Argerich (piano), Nicholas Angelich (piano) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano & conductor), Christophe Henry (organ) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Claude Eichenberger (Carmen), Xavier Moreno (Don Jose), Elissa Huber (Micaela), Jordan Shanahan (Escamiollo), Winston R. Arnon (Joker), Young Kwon (Zuniga), Lilian Farahani (Frasquita), Eleonora Vacchi (Mercedes), Andries Cloete (Remendado), Carl Rumstdt (Morales), Nazariy Sadidivskyy (Dancairo), Berner Symphonieorchester, Mario Venzago

Maria Callas (soprano)

Tatiana Serjan (Aida), Rubens Pelizzari (Radames), Iain Paterson (Amonasro), Iano Tamar (Amneris), Kevin Short (Re), Tigran Martirossian (Ramfis), Ronald Samm (Messaggero), Elisabetta Martorana (Sacerdotessa), Gaëlle Arquez (Carmen), Daniel Johansson (Don José), Scott Hendricks (Escamillo), Elena Tsallagova (Micaëla), Hector Sandoval (Andréa Chénier), Norma Fantini (Maddalena di Coigny), Scott Hendricks (Carlo Gérard), Tania Kross (Bersi), Rosalind Plowright (Madelon), Alfred Reiter (Sarastro), Norman Reinhardt (Tamino), Ana Durlovski (Konigin der Nacht), Bernarda Bobro (Pamina), Daniel Schmutzhard (Papageno), Denise Beck (Papagena), Mlada Khudoley (Turandot), Manuel von Senden (Altoum), Michael Ryssov (Timur), Riccardo Massi (Calaf), Guanqun Yu (Liu) Wiener Symphoniker, The Katowice City Singers’ Ensemble, Camerata Silesia, Bregenz Festival Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Carlo Rizzi, Graham Vick, Paolo Carignani, Kasper Holten, Ulf Schirmer, Keith Warner, Patrick Summers, David Pountney, Marco Arturo Marelli

Alessandro Corbelli (Schicchi), Massimo Giordano (Rinuccio), Sally Matthews (Lauretta), Felicity Palmer (Zita), Marie McLaughlin (La Ciesca), Ekaterina Siurina (Adina), Peter Auty (Nemorino), Alfredo Daza (Belcore), Luciano di Pasquale (Dulcamara), Eliana Pretorian (Giannetta), Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Tassis Christoyannis (Ford), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Dina Kuznetsova (Alice Ford), Jennifer Holloway (Meg Page), Adriana Kucerova (Nanetta), Bulent Bezduz (Fenton), Peter Hall (Dr Caius), Alasdair Elliott (Bardolpho), Paolo Battaglia (Pistol), Anne Sofie von Otter (Carmen), Marcus Haddock (Don José), Laurent Naouri (Escamillo), Lisa Milne (Micaela), Sergei Leiferkus (The Baron), Richard Berkeley-Steele (Albert), Viacheslav Voynarovskiy (Moneylender), Albert Schagidullin (The Duke), Maxim Mikhailov (The Servant), Matilda Leyser ("Aerialist") London Philharmonic Orchestra, with The Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director), Maurizio Benini (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Richard Jones (director), Philippe Jordan (conductor) & David McVicar (director)

Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons

Royal Opera House, Teatro Real, Paris Opera, Glyndebourne and The Netherlands Opera

Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keelyside, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Dorothea Röschmann, Mariusz Kwiecien, Erwin Schrott, Miah Persson Antonio Pappano, Andris Nelsons, Colin Davis, George Benjamin, Philippe Jordan

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