DVD Video, Britten (composer)

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)

Mark Padmore (Prologue/Quint), Lisa Milne (Governess), Catrin Wyn Davies (Miss Jessel), Diana Montague (Mrs Grose), Nicholas Kirby Johnson (Miles), Caroline Wise (Flora) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox

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

Robert Murray (Quint), Rhian Lois (The Governess), Leo Jemison (Miles), Alys Mereld Roberts (Flora), Gweneth Ann Rand (Mrs Grose), Francesca Chiejina (Miss Jessel), Sinfonia of London, John Wilson

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)

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); Ivor Bolton, Deborah Warner Teatro Real Madrid, Ivor Bolton, Deborah Warner

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)

Gerald Finley (Owen Wingrave), Peter Savidge (Spencer Coyle), Josephine Barstow (Miss Wingrave), Anne Dawson (Mrs Coyle), Elizabeth Gale (Mrs Julien), Charlotte Hellekant (Kate), Martyn Hill (Sir Philip Wingrave); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, Margaret Williams (dir.)

James Bowman (Oberon), Ileana Cotrubas (Tytania), Felicity Lott (Helena), Cynthia Buchan (Hermia), Ryland Davies (Lysander), Dale Duesing (Demetrius), Curt Applegren (Bottom) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall

John Graham-Hall (Peter Grimes), Susan Gritton (Ellen Orford), Christopher Purves (Balstrode), Felicity Palmer (Auntie), Ida Falk Winland (First Niece), Simona Mihai (Second Niece), Peter Hoare (Bob Boles), Daniel Okulitch (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs. Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace Adams), George Von Bergen (Ned Keene) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Richard Jones (director)

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

Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Nicholas Di Virgilio (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

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 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)

Jean Rigby (Lucretia), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Male Chorus), Kathryn Harries (Female Chorus), Russell Smythe (Tarquinius), Richard van Allan (Collatinus), Alan Opie (Junius), Anne-Marie Owens (Bianca), Cathryn Pope (Lucia) English National Opera Orchestra, Lionel Friend, stage direction by Graham Vick

Jamie Walton (cello)

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

Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Peter Pears (tenor) English Chamber Orchestra, The Aldeburgh Fesitval Singers, Benjamin Britten

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

Russell Oberlin (countertenor)

Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Philip Langridge (Grimes), Janice Cairns (Ellen), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ann Howard (Auntie), Andrew Greenan (Swallow), Susan Gorton (Mrs Sedley) Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, David Atherton

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, Mark Elder, Colin Graham

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

Peter Pears (tenor) CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten

Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion) The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey

Peter Pears (tenor) English Chamber Orchestra

Jon Vickers (tenor), with Irène Lensky Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra and Choir, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Franz-Paul Decker

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

John Graham-Hall (Albert), Patricia Johnson (Lady Billows), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pike), Alan Opie (Sid), Jean Rigby (Nancy) Soloists of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ivor Bolton, Peter Hall

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

Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

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