Opus Arte

Enrico Fissore, Valeria Baiano, Antonella Bandelli, Carmen Gonzalez, Roberto Coviello & Paolo Barbacini Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Francis Travis

Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Bruno Praticò (Don Pomponio Storione), Charles Workman (Alberto), Pietro Spagnoli (Filippo), Agata Bienkowska (Madama La Rose), Marisa Martins (Doralice), Simón Orfila (Monsù Traversen), Marc Canturri (Anselmo) Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu & Intermezzo Choir, Maurizio Barbacini (conductor) & Dario Fo (stage director)

Christine Walsh, Kelvin Coe, Elizabeth Toohey & David McAllister The Australian Ballet & The Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra, Noel Smith

Featuring Joan Sutherland, Eva Marton and the artists of Opera Australia, Australian Opera & Ballet Orchestra Opera Australia, Carlo Felice Cillario, Richard Bonynge, Alberto Erede & Jun’ichi Hirokami

Hilary Hahn (violin), Jane Eaglen (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis

Agneta Eichenholz (Lulu), Michael Volle (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Klaus Florian Vogt (Alwa), Jennifer Larmore (Countess Geschwitz), Philip Langridge (Prince/Manservant/Marquis), Heather Shipp (Dresser/Schoolboy/Groom), Will Hartmann (Painter/Policeman/Negro), Jeremy White (Banker/Professor) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Christof Loy (director)

José Cura (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Lado Ataneli (Iago), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio), Ketevan Kemoklidze (Emilia), Vicenç Esteve Madrid (Rodrigo), Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), Francisco Santiago (Montano), Roberto Accurso (Un Araldo) Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Antoni Ros-Marbà (musical director) & Willy Decker (stage director)

Sarah Connolly (Dido), Lucas Meachem (Aeneas), Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sara Fulgoni (Sorceress), Anita Watson (Second Woman), Eri Nakamura (First Witch), Pumeza Matshikiza (Second Witch), Iestyn Davies (Spirit), Ji-Min Park (Sailor) Dancers of The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera Extra Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Christopher Hogwood (conductor) & Wayne McGregor (stage director)

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) London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Choru, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Richard Jones (director)

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo soprano) & Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Edward Watson (Gregor Samsa), Laura Day (Grete Samsa), Nina Goldman (Mrs Samsa), Neil Reynolds (Mr Samsa), Bettina Carpi (Maid/Coffee Lady), Greig Cooke (Dream Figure/Bearded Man Clerk/Dream Figure/Bearded Man) & Amir Giles (Bearded Man/Train Conductor/Dream Figure)

Edward Watson (Gregor Samsa), Laura Day (Grete Samsa), Nina Goldman (Mrs Samsa), Neil Reynolds (Mr Samsa), Bettina Carpi (Maid/Coffee Lady), Greig Cooke (Dream Figure/Bearded Man Clerk/Dream Figure/Bearded Man) & Amir Giles (Bearded Man/Train Conductor/Dream Figure)

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Josette Simon (Cleopatra), Antony Byrne (Mark Antony), Andrew Woodall (Enobarbus), Patrick Drury (Lepidus/Schoolmaster), Ben Allen (Octavius Caesar), David Burnett (Pompey), Amber James (Charmian) Iqbal Khan (director)

Alban Lendorf (Gennaro), Alexandra Lo Sardo (Teresina), Benjamin Buza (Golfo), Lis Jeppesen (Veronica), Alba Nadal (Giovanina), Mette Bodtcher (Flora), Jean-Lucien Massot (Peppo), Fernando Mora (Giacomo), Poul Erik Hesselkilde (Pascarillo), Josephine Berggreen (A Pilgrim) Royal Danish Ballet & Det Kongelige Kapel, Graham Bond

Antony Sher (King Lear), Kelly Williams (Regan), Nia Gwynee (Goneril), Natalie Simpson (Cordelia), Paapa Essiedu (Edmund), Oliver Johnstone (Edgar), David Troughton (Gloucester), James Clyde (Cornwall), Antony Byrne (Kent), Byron Mondahl (Oswald), Clarence Smith (Albany), Graham Turner (Fool) Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)

Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina), Nikolay Borchev (Malatesta), Alek Shrader (Ernesto), James Platt (A Notary), Anna-Marie Sullivan (Servant) Glyndebourne Festival Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Mazzola (conductor) & Mariame Clément (director)

José van Dam (Barbe-Bleue), Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Ariane), Patricia Bardon (Nurse), Gemma Coma-Alabert (Sélysette), Beatriz Jiménez (Ygraine), Elena Copons (Mélisande), Salomé Haller (Bellangère) & Alba Valldaura (Alladine) Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Stéphane Denève (conductor) & Claus Guth (director)

Antony Sher (Falstaff), Alex Hassell (Prince Hal), Jasper Britton (King Henry) Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)

Olga Savova (Madame Larina), Krassimira Stoyanova (Tatjana), Elena Maximova (Olga), Nina Romanova (Filipjevna), Bo Skovhus (Jevgeni Onjegin), Andrej Dunaev (Vladimir Ljenski), Mikhail Petrenko (Vorst Gremin), Peter Arink (Petrovitsj), Roger Smeets (Zaretski), Guy de Mey (Monsieur Triquet) & Richard Prada (Zapevalo) The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor) & Stefan Herheim (stage director)

Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida), Luca Pisaroni (Argante) & William Towers (A Christian Magician) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robert Carsen (Stage Director) & Ottavio Dantone (Conductor)

Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras (Raimbaut) & Dušica Bijelic (Lady-in-waiting to Isabelle) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (director)

Ewa Podles (Ciro), Jessica Pratt (Amira), Michael Spyres (Baldassare), Mirco Palazzi (Zambri), Carmen Romeu (Argene), Robert McPherson (Arbace), Raffaele Costantini (Daniello) Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Will Crutchfield (conductor) & Davide Livermore (director)

Marianela Nuñez (Giselle) & Vadim Muntagirov (Count Albrecht) Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth

Christopher Benjamin (Sir John Falstaff), Philip Bird (Dr Caius), Sue Wallace (Mistress Quickly), Gregory Gudgeon (Nym), Michael Garner (George Page), Serena Evans (Meg Page), Ceri-Lyn Cissone (Anne Page), Sarah Woodward (Alice Ford), Nathan Amzi (Simple), Peter Gale (Shallow), Andrew Havill (Ford), Jonty Stephens (Host), Paul Woodson (Pistol), Barnaby Edwards (Rugby), William Belchambers (Slender), Gerard McCarthy (Fenton) Christopher Luscombe (director)

Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Lívia Ághová (Ninetta), Burkhard Fritz (Henri), Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de Montfort), Balint Szabo (Jean Procida), Hubert Francis (Thibault), Fabrice Farina (Danieli), Rudi de Vries (Mainfroid), Roger Smeets (Robert), Jeremy White (Le Sire de Béthune) & Christophe Fel (Le Comte de Vaudemont) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra & Koor van De Nederlandse Opera, Paolo Carignani (conductor) & Christof Loy (director)

Sarah Lamb (Manon) & Vadim Muntagirov (Des Grieux) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Martin Yates, Kenneth MacMillan

Jackie Clune (Julius Caesar), Harriet Walter (Brutus), Jane Anouka (Mark Antony), Shiloh Coke (Cinna the Poet), Karen Dunbar (Casca), Clare Dunne (Portia / Octavius Caesar), Leah Harvey (Soothsayer), Zainab Hasan (Calpurnia / Metellus Cimber), Jennifer Joseph (Trebonius), Martina Laird (Cassius), Carolina Valdés (Dog/Cinna) Phyllida Lloyd

Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran

Maria Bengtsson (Fiordiligi), Jurgita Adamonyte (Dorabella), Pavol Breslik (Ferrando), Stéphane Degout (Guglielmo), Rebecca Evans (Despina), Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jonathan Miller

Royal Shakespeare Company, Fiona Laird (director)

Laurent Naouri (Mamma Agata), Patrizia Ciofi (Daria), Charles Rice (Procolo), Clara Meloni (Luigia), Enea Scala (Guglielmo), Pietro Di Bianco (Biscroma Strappaviscere), Enric Marinez-Castignani (Cesare Salsapariglia), Piotr Micinski (L'Impressario), Katherine Aitken (Pippetto), Dominique Beneforti (Le Directeur Du Theatre), Opera de Lyon, Lorenzo Viotti

Scottish Ballet

Eric Cutler (Idomeneo), David Portillo (Idamante), Annett Fritsch (Ilia), Eleonora Buratto (Elettra), Benjamin Hulett (Arbace), Oliver Johnston (High Priest), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Voice of Neptune), Teatro Real Chorus & Orchestra, Ivor Bolton

Natalia Osipova, Jonathan Goddard

Stéphane Degout (baritone), Gyula Orendt (baritone), Peter Hoare (tenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger), Peter Hoare (Mortimer), Samuel Boden (Boy/Young King), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone), Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Christopher Purves (Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès), Bejun Mehta (First Angel/Boy), Victoria Simmonds (Second Angel/Marie) & Allan Clayton (Third Angel/John), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, George Benjamin, Katie Mitchell

Sonya Yoncheva (Mimì), Charles Castronovo (Rodolfo), Andrzej Filończyk (Marcello), Simona Mihai (Musetta), Gyula Nagy (Schaunard), Peter Kellner (Colline) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Jones, Emmanuel Villaume

Georg Nigl (Orfeo), Roberta Invernizzi (Euridice), Sara Mingardo (Messaggera), Sara Mingardo (Speranza), Luigi De Donato (Caronte), Raffaella Milanesi (Proserpina), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Plutone), Roberta Invernezzi (Eco), Furio Zanasi (Apollo) & Nicola Strada (Solo Dancer) Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala & Concerto Italiano (Basso continuo), Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor) & Robert Wilson (director)

Alexandre Castonguay (cello), Simon Claude (violin), Njo Kong Kie (piano & musical direction) & Nadine Medawar (vocalist) La La La Human Steps

Justine Summers & Steven Heathcote Adelaide Symphony Orchestra & The Australian Ballet, Noel Smith, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan

Judith Howarth (soprano) St. John’s, Clare and Gonville & Caius Choirs, BBC Philharmonic, Christopher Robinson

Aquiles Machado, Milagros Poblador, María Bayo, Valentina Kutzarova, Konstantin Gorny & Katharine Goeldner Chorus of Ópera de Bilbao & Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Alain Guingal (conductor) & Giancarlo Del Monaco (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) Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Philippe Jordan

Carlos Acosta (Solar), Marianela Nuñez (Gamzatti), Tamara Rojo (Nikiya), Gary Avis (The High Brahmin), Christopher Saunders (Rajah), Kenta Kura (Magdaveya) & Valeri Hristov (Solor’s Friend) The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Valeriy Ovsyanikov

Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Lorenzo Regazzo (Leporello), María Bayo (Donna Anna), José Bros (Don Ottavio), Sonia Ganassi (Donna Elvira), José Antonio López (Masetto), María José Moreno (Zerlina), Alfred Reiter (Commendatore) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Chorus), Víctor Pablo Pérez (conductor) & Lluis Pasqual (stage director)

Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg, Marianela Nuñez & Martin Harvey The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Boris Gruzin (conductor) & Marius Petipa (choreographer)

George Irving (Julius Caesar), Catherine Bailey (Portia), Sam Cox (Marullus/Caius Ligarius), Anthony Howell (Cassius), Joe Jameson (Octavius Caesar), Luke Thompson (Mark Antony), Tom McKay (Brutus) & Christopher Logan (Casca) Dominic Dromgoole (director)

Orlin Anastassov (Boris), Alessandra Marianelli (Xenia), Pavel Zubov (Fyodor), Ian Storey (Grigory), Vladimir Vaneev (Pimen), Peter Bronder (Prince Shuisky), Vasily Ladjuk (Andrey Shchelkalov), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam) Teatro Regio, Torino, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrei Konchalovsky

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

David Tennant (Richard), Nigel Lindsay (Bolingbroke), Oliver Ford Davies (Duke of York), Michael Pennington (John of Gaunt), Emma Hamilton (The Queen), Jane Lapotaire (Duchess of Gloucester), Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Groom), Antony Byrne (Mowbray), Sean Chapman (Northumberland), Marty Cruickshank (Duchess of York), Gracy Goldman (Lady in Waiting), Marcus Griffiths (Greene), Jim Hooper (Bishop of Carlisle), Youssef Kerkour (Willoughby), Jake Mann (Bagot), Sam Marks (Bushy), Miranda Nolan (Lady in Waiting), Keith Osborn (Scroop), Joshua Richards (Ross/Lord Marshall), Oliver Rix (Aumerle), Simon Thorp (Salisbury) and Edmund Wiseman (Harry Percy) Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)

Claire Benedict, Benjamin Westerby, Rosie Sheehy, Jamie Wilkes, Will Edgerton, Sophie Cartman, Joeravar Sangha, Ewan Orton, Blanche McIntyre, Robert Innes Hopkins, Richard Howell

Anders J Dahlin (Zoroastre), Evgueniy Alexiev (Abramane), Sine Bundgaard (Amélite), Anna Maria Panzarella (Erinice), Lars Arvidson (Zopire/La Vengeance), Marcus Schwartz (Narbanor), Gerard Théruel (Oromasès/Ariman), Ditte Andersen (Céphie) The Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra and Chorus & Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (musical director) & Pierre Audi (stage director)

Federico Bonelli (Romeo), Lauren Cuthbertson (Juliet), Alexander Campbell (Mercutio), Bennet Gartside (Tybalt), Dawid Trzensimiech (Benvolio), Vale Rihristov (Paris), Christopher Saunders (Lord Capulet), Christina Arestis (Lady Capulet) & Gary Avis (Escalus Prince of Verona) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth

David Portillo (Tamino), Sofia Fomina (Pamina), Björn Bürger (Papageno), Brindley Sherratt (Sarastro), Caroline Wettergreen (Queen of the Night) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Chorus, Ryan Wigglesworth

Manuela Uhl (Isabella), Christopher Maltman (Friedrich), Peter Lodahl (Lucio), Ilker Arcayürek (Claudio), Ante Jerkunica (Brighella) Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real, Madrid, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Kasper Holten (director)

Franz Hawlata (Hans Sachs), Michael Volle (Sixtus Beckmesser), Michaela Kaune (Eva), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther Von Stolzing), Norbert Ernst (David), Carola Guber (Magdalene), Artur Korn (Veit Pogner) Bayreuther Festspiele, Sebastian Weigle, Katharina Wagner

Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa Von Brabant), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Jukka Rasilainen (Friedrich Von Telramund), Georg Zeppenfeld (König Heinrich), Samuel Youn (Der Heerrufer Des Königs) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Andris Nelsons (conductor) & Hans Neuenfels (director)