Opus Arte

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)

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

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)

Natalia Osipova (Esmeralda), Roberto Bolle (Quasimodo), Eris Nezha (Phoebus), Mick Zeni (Frollo) Ballet Company & Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Paul Connelly

Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina), Nikolay Borchev (Malatesta), Alek Shrader (Ernesto), Ekaterina Siurina (Adina), Peter Auty (Nemorino), Alfredo Daza (Belcore), Luciano di Pasquale (Dulcamara), Eliana Pretorian (Giannetta) Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Federico Bonelli (Victor), Laura Morera (Elizabeth), Steven McRae (The Creature) Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels, Liam Scarlett (chor.)

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

Joseph Millson (Macbeth), Samantha Spiro (Lady Macbeth), Stuart Bowman (Macduff), Billy Boyd (Banquo), Gawn Grainger (Duncan), Philip Cumbus (Malcolm) & Finty Williams (Lady Macduff) Eve Best (director)

Rudolf Nureyev (Basilio), Robert Helpmann (Don Quixote), Ray Powell (Sancho Panza), Lucette Aldous (Kitri/Dulcinea), Colin Peasley (Gamache), Marilyn Rowe (Street Dancer/Queen of the Dryads), Kelvin Coe (Espada) Rudolf Nureyev (choreographer), John Lanchbery

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

Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer), Eric Owens (General Leslie Groves), Richard Paul Fink (Edward Teller), James Maddalena (Jack Hubbard), Thomas Glenn (Robert R. Wilson), Jay Hunter Morris (Captain James Nolan), Ellen Rabiner (Pasqualita) Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Renes (musical director) & Peter Sellars (stage director)

Tamara Rojo, James Streeter, Jeffrey Cirio, Stina Quagebeur English National Ballet, Gavin Sutherland, Akram Khan (choreographer)

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)

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

Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio San), Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton), Lauri Vasar (Sharpless), Hongni Wu (Suzuki), Ya-Chung Huang (Goro), Jeremy White (The Bonze) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Kevin John Edusei, Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier

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

Meow Meow (Hippolyta/Titania), Zubin Varla (Theseus/Oberon), Ewan Wardrop (Bottom), Lucy Thackeray (Quince), Ncuti Gatwa (Demetrius), Edmund Derrington (Lysander), Tibu Fortes (Fairy), Edith Tankus (Snug), Alex Tregear (Snout), Anjana Vasan (Hermia) Emma Rice

Lauren Cuthbertson (Alice), Federico Bonelli (Jack/The Knave of Hearts), James Hay (Lewis Carroll/The White Rabbit), Laura Morera (Mother/The Queen of Hearts), Christopher Saunders (Father/The King of Hearts), Steven McRae (Magician/The Mad Hatter), Fernando Montano (Rajah/The Caterpillar), Gary Avis (The Duchess), Paul Kay (Vicar/The March Hare), Romany Pajdak (Verger/ The Dormouse) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Christopher Wheeldon, Koen Kessels

Lauren Cuthbertson (Alice), Sergei Polunin (Jack/The Knave of Hearts), Edward Watson (Lewis Carroll/The White Rabbit), Zenaida Yanowsky (Mother/The Queen of Hearts), Steven McRae (Mad Hatter), Anna Tsygankova (Cinderella), Matthew Golding (Prince Guillaume), Larissa Lezhnina (Stepmother Hortensia), Megan Zimny Gray (Stepsister Edwina), Nadia Yanowsky (Stepsister Clementine) The Royal Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon (choreographer), Barry Wordsworth, Ermanno Florio

The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor

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)

John Mark Ainsley, Brigitte Balleys, Michael Chance, David Cordier, Mario Luperi, Russell Smythe Tragicomedia and Concerto Palatino, Stephen Stubbs (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)

John Keyes (Siegmund), Nadine Secunde (Sieglinde), John Bröcheler (Wotan), Jeannine Altmeyer (Brünnhilde), Kurt Rydl (Hunding), Reinhild Runkel (Fricka) De Nederlandse Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen, Pierre Audi

Roger Allam (Sir John Falstaff), Jamie Parker (Prince Hal), Oliver Cotton (King Henry IV), Barbara Marten (Lady Northumberland), William Gaunt (Shallow), Paul Rider (Bardolph) & Jason Baughan (Westmoreland) Dominic Dromgoole (director)

Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Alina Cojocaru, Marianela Nunez, Darcey Bussell, Johan Kobborg, Leanne Benjamin, Roberto Bolle, Thiago Soare, Luke Heydon, Miyako Yoshida, Christopher Saunders Orchestra of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden

Simon Keenlyside (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), Eric Halfvarson (Commendatore), Marina Poplavskaya (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Ramón Vargas (Don Ottavio), Miah Persson (Zerlina), Robert Gleadow (Masetto) The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director)

Marianela Nuñez, Thiago Soares, Elizabeth McGorian, Christopher Saunders, Alastair Marriott & David Pickering Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Valeriy Ovsyanikov (conductor) & Anthony Dowell (stage director)

Joaquín Achúcarro (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis

Yvonne Kenny (Anna Glawari), Bo Skovhus (Danilo), Angelika Kirchschlager (Valencienne), Gregory Turay (Camille) San Francisco Opera Orchestra & San Francisco Opera Chorus and Ballet, Erich Kunzel (conductor) & Lotfi Mansouri (stage director)

Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Lisa), Lado Ataneli (Count Tomsky), Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky), Elena Zaremba (Polina), Ewa Podles (Countess), Mikhaïl Vekua (Chaplitsky), Francisco Vas (Chekalinsky) & Claudia Schneider (Masha) Symphony Orchestra and chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Michael Boder (conductor) & Gilbert Deflo (director)

Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara) The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels (conductor) & Peter Wright (director)

Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara) The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels (conductor) & Peter Wright (director)

Christopher Purves (Walt Disney), David Pittsinger (Roy), Donald Kaasch (Dantine), Janis Kelly (Hazel George), Marie McLaughlin (Lillian Disney), Sarah Tynan (Sharon), Nazan Fikret (Diane) & Rosie Lomas (Lucy / Josh) The Improbable Skills Ensemble & Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) & Phelim McDermott (director)

Christopher Purves (Walt Disney), David Pittsinger (Roy), Donald Kaasch (Dantine), Janis Kelly (Hazel George), Marie McLaughlin (Lillian Disney), Sarah Tynan (Sharon), Nazan Fikret (Diane) & Rosie Lomas (Lucy / Josh) The Improbable Skills Ensemble & Orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Real, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) & Phelim McDermott (director)

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)

Marianela Nuñez (Kitri), Carlos Acosta (Basilio), Christopher Saunders (Don Quixote), Philip Mosley (Sancho Panza), Gary Avis (Lorenzo), Bennet Gartside (Gamache), Ryoichi Hirano (Espada), Laura Morera (Mercedes) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Martin Yates (conductor) & Carlos Acosta (director)

Eva-Maria Westbroek (Anna Nicole), Alan Oke (Old Man Marshall), Gerald Finley (The Lawyer Stern), Susan Bickley (Virgie), Jeremy White (Daddy Hogan), Loré Lixenberg (Cousin Shelley), Peter Hoare (Larry King) Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Richard Jones

Renée Fleming (soprano), Wiener Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

Richard Croft (Tito), Anna Stéphany (Sesto), Alice Coote (Vitellia), Michèle Losier (Annio), Joélle Harvey (Servilia), Clive Bayley (Publio); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Robin Ticciati, Claus Guth

Plácido Domingo (Chevalier), Thomas Allen (Lescaut), Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut), Royal Opera House, Giuseppe Sinopoli

Plácido Domingo (Dick Johnson), Mara Zampieri (Minnie), Juan Pons (Jack Rance) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Lorin Maazel

Laura Aikin (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Kurt Rydl (Osmin), Mojca Erdmann (Blonde), Michael Smallwood (Pedrillo), Steven Van Watermeulen (Bassa Selim) The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Constantinos Carydis (musical director) & Johan Simons (stage director)

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

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

Tobias Batley (Winston), Martha Leebolt (Julia), Javier Torres (O'Brien), Hironao Takahasi (Charrington), Giuliano Contadini (Parsons), Kevin Poeung (Ampleforth), Ashley Dixon (Martin), Victoria Sibson (Lead Prole) Northern Ballet, John Pryce-Jones, Jonathan Watkins

Tobias Batley (Winston), Martha Leebolt (Julia), Javier Torres (O'Brien), Hironao Takahasi (Charrington), Giuliano Contadini (Parsons), Kevin Poeung (Ampleforth), Ashley Dixon (Martin), Victoria Sibson (Lead Prole) Northern Ballet, John Pryce-Jones, Jonathan Watkins

Opera Australia Chorus

Wojtek Drabowicz (Don Giovanni), Kwanchul Youn (Leporello), Regina Schörg (Donna Anna), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio), Marisa Martins (Zerlina), Felipe Bou (Masetto), Anatoly Kocherga (Commendatore) Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana, Bertrand de Billy, stage direction by Calixto Bieito

Susan Narucki, Claron McFadden, Tomoko Makuuchi, James Ottaway, Harry van der Kamp, Johan Leysen Asko Ensemble, Schönberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Adnyamathanha Women’s Choir & Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Robin Stapleton

Falk Struckmann (Wotan), Graham Clark (Loge), Günter von Kannen (Alberich), Lioba Braun (Fricka), Kwanchul Youn (Fasolt), Matthias Hölle (Fafner), Elisabete Matos (Freia), Andrea Bönig (Erda), Cristina Obregon (Woglinde), Ana Ibarra (Wellgunde), Francisca Beaumont (Flosshilde), Wolfgang Rauch (Donner), Jeffrey Dowd (Froh) Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Bertrand de Billy, produced by Harry Kupfer

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

Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Sergiu Celibidache

Marie-Agnès Gillotr, Eleonora Abbagnator, Wilfried Romoli, Constance Nicolasor & Carl Van Gotdsenhoven Ensemble Court-Circuit & Opéra national de Paris Ballet, Pierre-André Valade

Violeta Urmana (Santuzza), Vincenzo La Scola (Turiddu), Dragana Jugovic (Lola), Viorica Cortez (Mamma Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio), Vladimir Galouzine (Canio), María Bayo (Nedda), Carlo Guelfi (Tonio), Antonio Gandía (Beppe), Ángel Ódena (Silvio) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Jesús López Cobos

Laura Brioli, Marie-Ange Todorovich, Raúl Giménez, Marco Vinco, Paolo Bordogna & Pietro Spagnoli Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Alberto Zedda

Sergei Polunin (The Wolf), Will Kemp (Grandfather), Kilian Smith (Peter), Charlotte Edmonds (Duck), Laurine Muccioli (Bird) & Chisato Katsura (Cat) The Royal Ballet School & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy

Linda Watson (Elektra), Jane Henschel (Klytämnestra), Manuela Uhl (Chrysothemis), René Kollo (Aegisth), Albert Dohmen (Orest), Andreas Hörl (Orest’s tutor), Jörg Schneider (A young servant), Carsten Sabrowski (An old servant) & Irmgard Vilsmaier (An overseer) Vienna Philharmonic Choir & Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Herbert Wernicke (stage director)

Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance), Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson), Roman Sadnik (Nick), Diogenes Randes (Ashby), Stephen Gadd (Sonora), Tijl Faveyts (Billy Jackrabbit), Ellen Rabiner (Wowkle), André Morsch (Jake Wallace) & Roger Smeets (José Castro) Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (director)