Opus Arte

Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio), Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto), Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina) Antonio Pappano, David McVicar, Nicola Luisotti, Kasper Holten, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger

Simon Keenlyside (Macbeth), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Lady Macbeth), Raymond Aceto (Banquo), Dmitri Pittas (Macduff), Nigel Cliffe (Servant), Steven Ebel (Malcolm), Elisabeth Meister (Lady-in-Waiting) & Lukas Jakobski (Doctor), 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), 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) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Phyllida Lloyd (stage director), Antoni Ros-Marbà (musical director) & Willy Decker (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Richard Jones (director)

Laurence Olivier (actor), Harry Andrews (actor), Michael Blakemore (actor), Kenneth Gilbert (actor), Peter Woodthorpe (actor), Paul Hardwick (actor), Donald Sinden (actor), Peggy Ashcroft (actress), John Corvin (actor), Paul Scofield (actor), Brian Murray (actor), John Laurie (actor), David Warner (actor), Tony Church (actor), Alton Kumalo (actor), Jeffery Dench (actor), Patrick Stewart (actor), John Wood (actor), Janet Suzman (actress), Joseph Charles (actor), Rosemary McHale (actress), Sidney Livingstone (actor), Jeremy Barlow (flute), Gordon Kempler (harp), Charles Fullbrook (percussion), Tony McVey (percussion, timpani), Peter Washtell (percussion), Robin Weatherall (percussion), Richard Pasco (actor), Sebastian Shaw (actor), Ian Richardson (actor), Clement McCallum (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Francesca Annis (actress), Marie Kean (actress), Emrys James (actor), Alan MacKenzie Howard (actor), Oliver Ford Davies (actor), Edwin Richfield (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Michael Williams (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Mark Rylance (actor), Antony Sher (actor), Penny Downie (actress), Joseph O'Conor (actor), Alexander Wilson (actor), Alan Rickman (actor), Hilton McRae (actor), Andrew Yeats (actor), Janet Dale (actress), Lindsay Duncan (actress), Christopher Lacey (flute), Victor Slaymark (clarinet), Steve Pierce (clarinet), Peter Whittaker (bassoon), Roderick Teale (trumpet), Brian Newman (horn, instruments), Duncan Hollowood (horn, instruments), David Hissey (trombone), Peter Chapman (double bass), Benjamin Grove (guitar), Tim Higgs (keyboards), Brian Cox (actor), Donald Sumpter (actor), Jeremy Gilley (actor), Robert Stephens (actor), Michael Maloney (actor), Bernard Shaw (timpani), David Oyelowo (actor), Dame Judi Dench (actress), Arthur Kohn (actor), Claudie Blakley (actress), Jill Heartfield (cello), Bruce O'Neil (keyboards), Ian Holm (actor), Paul Robeson (actor), Mary Ure (actress), Hugh Emrys Griffith (actor), Clive Swift (actor), Patience Collier (actress), Barrie Ingham (actor), Elizabeth Spriggs (actress), Nicholas Selby (actor), Ben Kingsley (actor), Frances J. de Lautour (actress), John Kane (actor), Ian William Richardson (actor), John Darrell (actor), William Armstrong (actor), David Suchet (actor), David Waller (actor), Juliet Stevenson (actress), Daniel Massey (actor), John Nolan (actor), Jonathan Pryce (actor), Sinéad Moira Cusack (actress), Roger Allam (actor), Susan Fleetwood (actress), Ciaran Hinds (actor), Paterson Joseph (actor), Simon Russell Beale (actor), Richard Moore (actor), Robert Whitelock (actor), Barry Aird (actor), Paul Jesson (actor), Jane Lapotaire (actress), Ian Hogg (actor), Darrell D'Silva (actor), David Hobbs (actor), Michael Pennington (actor), Richard McCabe (actor), Guy Henry (actor), Trevor Cooper (actor), Alison Fiske (actress), Kananu Kirimi (actress), Ray Fearon (actor), Roger Frost (actor), Tom Beard (actor), Ian Gelder (actor), Jasper Britton (actor), Alexandra Gilbreath (actress), Emma Fielding (actress), Esther Ruth Elliott (actress), Anton Lesser (actor), Nick Court (actor), Harriet Walter (actress), Ken Bones (actor), Rob Carroll (actor), Jonathan Hyde (actor), Ben Meyjes (actor), Julian Harries (actor), Richard Goulding (actor), Ben Addis (actor), Geoffrey Streatfeild (actor), Alexia Healy (actress), Hannah Barrie (actress), David Tennant (actor), Sam Alexander (actor), Tom Davey (actor)

[b]Titus Andronicus[/b]: David Troughton (Titus), Nia Gwynne (Tamora), Stefan Adegbola (Aaron), Hannah Morrish (Lavinia), Patrick Drury (Marcus Andronicus), Martin Hutson (Saturninus), Dharmesh Patel (Bassianus), Tom McCall (Lucius), Luke MacGregor (Chiron), Sean Hart (Demetrius), Jon Tarcy (Alarbus) [b]Coriolanus[/b]: Sope Dirisu (Coriolanus), James Corrigan (Aufidius), Paul Jesson (Menenius), Haydn Gwynne (Volumnia), Charles Aitken (Cominius), Ben Hall (Titus Lartius), Martina Laird (Junius Brutus), Hannah Morrish (Virgilia), Katherine Toy (Valeria) [b]Julius Caesar[/b]Andrew Woodall (Julius Caesar), James Corrigan (Mark Antony), Martin Hutson (Cassius), Jon Tarcy (Octavius), Alex Waldmann (Brutus), Patrick Drury (Publius/Cinna the Poet), Hannah Morrish (Portia), Kristin Atherton (Calpurnia), Anthony Ofoegbu (Cicero/Ligarius), David Burnett (Murullus/Trebonius/Pindarus) [b]Antony & Cleopatra[/b] Josette Simon (Cleopatra), Antony Byrne (Mark Antony), Andrew Woodall (Enobarbus), Patrick Drury (Lepidus/Schoolmaster), Ben Allen (Octavius Caesar), David Burnett (Pompey), Amber James (Charmian)

The Sleeping Beauty marianela Nuñez (princess Aurora), Vadim Muntagirov (prince Florimund), Kristen McNally (carabosse), Claire Calvert (lilac Fairy), Christopher Saunders (king Florestan Xxiv), Elizabeth McGorian (the Queen), Alastair Marriott (cattalabutte), Marius Petipa (director) manon sarah Lamb (manon), Vadim Muntagirov (des Grieux), Ryoichi Hirano (lescaut), Itziar Mendizabal (lescaut's Mistress), Gary Avis (monsieur G.m), Kristen McNally (madame), Thomas Whitehead (the Gaoler), James Hay (beggar Chief), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Kenneth Macmillan (director) coppélia marianela Nuñez (swanilda), Vadim Muntagirov (franz), Gary Avis (doctor Coppélius), Christopher Saunders (the Burgomaster), Erico Montes (the Innkeeper), Mayara Magri (peasant Girl), Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød (the Duke), Claire Calvert (aurora), Annette Buvoli (prayer), Ashley Dean (coppélia), Mica Bradbury, Isabe, Koen Kessels, Martin Yates

Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Sergei Polunin (The Wolf), Will Kemp (Grandfather), Kilian Smith (Peter), Charlotte Edmonds (Duck), Laurine Muccioli (Bird) & Chisato Katsura (Cat), 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 Macrae (Mad Hatter), Victoria Hewitt (Mrs Tittlemouse), Ricardo Cervera (Johnny Town-Mouse), Jonathan Howells (Mrs Tiggy-Winkle), Gemma Sykes (Jemima Puddle-Duck), Gary Avis (The Fox), Bennet Gartside (Pigling Bland), Laura Morera (Pig-Wig), David Pickering (Aunt Pettitoes), Zachary Faruque (Mr Jeremy Fisher), Giacomo Ciriaci (Tom Thumb), Iohna Loots (Hunca Munca), Joshua Tuifua (Peter Rabbit) & Steven McRae (Squirrel Nutkin) The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor) & Peter Wright (director), Paul Murphy, Barry Wordsworth

Vadim Muntagirov (dancer), Marianela Nunez (dancer), Kristen McNally, Christopher Saunders (dancer), Alastair Marriott, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Marius Petipa (director), Sarah Lamb (dancer), Ryoichi Hirano, Gary Avis (dancer), Thomas Whitehead, James Hay, Erico Montes, Mayara Magri, Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrød, Claire Calvert, Annette Buvoli, Ashley Dean, Mica Bradbury, Isabella Gasparini, Hannah Grennell, Meaghan Grace Hinkis, Romany Pajdak, Leticia Stock, Ninette de Valois (director), Itziar Mendizabal, Bennet Gartside, Johannes Stepanek, Elizabeth McGorian (dancer), Christina Arestis, Eric Underwood, Olivia Cowley, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Yuhui Choe, Alexander Campbell, Francesca Hayward, Luca Acri, Yasmine Naghdi, Marcelino Sambé, Koen Kessels, Martin Yates, Barry Wordsworth

Dame Harriet Walter (Prospero/Henry IV/Julius Caesar)

Lauren Cuthbertson, Sergei Polunin, Edward Watson, Zenaida Yanowsky, Steven Macrae, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Federico Bonelli, Alexander Campbell, Bennet Gartside, Valeri Hristov, Christopher Saunders, Francesca Hayward, Gary Avis, Marcelino Sambé, Matthew Ball, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko, Ryoichi Hirano, Hetty Snell, Barry Wordsworth, Boris Gruzin, Andrea Molino

Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Sergei Polunin (The Wolf), Will Kemp (Grandfather), Kilian Smith (Peter), Charlotte Edmonds (Duck), Laurine Muccioli (Bird) & Chisato Katsura (Cat), auren Cuthbertson (Alice), Sergei Polunin (Jack/ The Knave of Hearts), Edward Watson (Lewis Carroll/ The White Rabbit), Zenaida Yanowsky (Mother/ The Queen of Hearts), Steven Macrae (Mad Hatter), Victoria Hewitt (Mrs Tittlemouse), Ricardo Cervera (Johnny Town-Mouse), Jonathan Howells (Mrs Tiggy-Winkle), Gemma Sykes (Jemima Puddle-Duck), Gary Avis (The Fox), Bennet Gartside (Pigling Bland), Laura Morera (Pig-Wig), David Pickering (Aunt Pettitoes), Zachary Faruque (Mr Jeremy Fisher), Giacomo Ciriaci (Tom Thumb), Iohna Loots (Hunca Munca), Joshua Tuifua (Peter Rabbit) & Steven McRae (Squirrel Nutkin) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor) & Peter Wright (director), Paul Murphy, Barry Wordsworth

Sally Matthews (Fiordiligi), Maite Beaumont (Dorabella), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Norman Shankle (Ferrando), Danielle de Niese (Despina), Garry Magee (Don Alfonso), Danielle de Niese (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Garry Magee (Il Conte), Cellia Costea (La Contessa), Maite Beaumont (Cherubino), Charlotte Margiono (Marcellina), Mario Luperi (Bartolo), Marcel Reijans (Basilio), Norman Shankle (Curzio), Roberto Accurso (Antonio), Channah Malkin (Barbarina), Pietro Spagnoli (Don Giovanni), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Anna), Marcel Reijans (Don Ottavio), Charlotte Margiono (Donna Elvira), José Fardilha (Leporello), Roberto Accurso (Masetto), Cora Burggraaf (Zerlina), Mario Luperi (Il Commendatore) Netherlands Chamber Orchestra - Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Ingo Metzmacher (Musical Director)

Lauren Cuthbertson, Sergei Polunin, Edward Watson, Zenaida Yanowsky, Steven Macrae, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Federico Bonelli, Alexander Campbell, Bennet Gartside, Valeri Hristov, Christopher Saunders, Francesca Hayward, Gary Avis, Marcelino Sambé, Matthew Ball, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko, Ryoichi Hirano, Hetty Snell, Barry Wordsworth, Boris Gruzin, Andrea Molino

Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno), Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch (Almirena), Brenda Rae (Armida), Luca Pisaroni (Argante) & William Towers (A Christian Magician), Christopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor) The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, William Christie (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director), Ottavio Dantone (conductor) & Robert Carsen (stage director), Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie Kosky (director)

Marianela Nunez

Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Basilio), Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni), Alex Esposito (Leporello), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Commendatore), Véronique Gens (Donna Elvira), Antonio Poli (Don Ottavio), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Elizabeth Watts (Zerlina) & Dawid Kimberg (Masetto), Corinne Winters (Fiordiligi), Angela Brower (Dorabella), Daniel Behle (Ferrando), Alessio Arduini (Guglielmo), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Don Alfonso), Sabina Puertolas (Despina) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Antonio Pappano, David McVicar, Nicola Luisotti, Kasper Holten, Semyon Bychkov, Jan Philipp Gloger

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), Antony Sher (Falstaff), Alex Hassell (Prince Hal), Jasper Britton (King Henry), Paola Dionisotti (Mistress Quickly), Trevor White (Hotspur), Antony Nyrne ((Earl of Worcester), Sean Chapman (Earl of Northumberland/Earl of Douglas), Jennifer Kirby (Lady Percy), Sam Marks (Ned Poins), Jim Hooper (Sir Richard Vernon), Joshua Richards (Bardolph/Owen Glendower), Robert Gilbert (Lord Edmund Mortimer/Carrier), Jonny Glynn (Rakehell), Nicolas Gerard-Martin (Carrier/Sir Michael), Simon Thorp (Sir Walter Blunt/Lord Chief Justice), Keith Osborn (Archbishop of York), Youseff Kerkour (Earl of Westmoreland/Ostler), Simon Yadoo (Chamberlain/Vintner), Lee Quinn (Traveller), Antony Byrne (Rumour/Porter/Pistol), Sean Chapman (Earl of Northumberland), Paola Denisotti (Mistress Quickly), Nia Gwynne (Doll Tearsheet/Lady Northumberland), Old Ford Davies (Jusitce Shallow), Robert Gilbert (Travers/Sir John Coleville), Jonny Glynn (Morton/Earl of Warwick/Shadow), Nicholas Gerard-Martin (Lord Hastings/Feeble/Davy), Jim Hooper (Justice Silence/Gower), Jinnfier Kirby (Lady Percy), Youssef Kerkour (Earl of Westmoreland/Fang/Bullcalf), Leigh Quinn (Wart/Duke of Gloucester), Joshua Richards (Bardolph), Luca Saraceni-Gunner (Falstaff's Page), Alex Hassell (King Henry V), Jane Lapotaire (Queen Isobel), Sarah Parks (Mistress Quickly), Leigh Quinn (Alice), Joshua Richards (Bardolph/Fluellen), Simon Thorp (King of France), Anthony Byrne (Pistol), Sean Chapman (Exeter), Oliver Ford Davies (Chorus) & Robert Gilbert (Dauphin) Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)

The Royal Ballet & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Natalia Osipova, Royal Ballet

Will Hartmann (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Diana Damrau (Königin der Nacht), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Thomas Allen (Sprecher), Gillian Webster, Christine Rice, Yvonne Howard (Drei Damen), Alan Oke, Graeme Broadbent (Zwei Geharnischten), Matthew Beale, Richard Van Allan (Zwei Preisten), Zico Shaker, Tom Chapman, John Holland-Avery (Drei Knaben, Simon Keenlyside (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), Eric Halfvarson (Il Commendatore), Marina Poplavskaya (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Ramón Vargas (Don Ottavio), Miah Persson (Zerlina), Robert Gleadow (Masetto), Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Bartolo), Jeremy White (Antonio), Ana James (Barbarina), Francis Egerton (Curzio) The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director), Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director), Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

Sally Matthews (Konstanze), Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Tobias Kehrer (Osmin), Mari Eriksmoen (Blonde), Brenden Gunnell (Pedrillo) & Franck Saurel (Pasha Selim), Miah Persson (Fiordiligi), Anke Vondung (Dorabella), Ainhoa Garmendia (Despina), Topi Lehtipuu (Ferrando), Luca Pisaroni (Guglielmo), Nicolas Rivenq (Don Alfonso), Sally Matthews (Countess Almaviva), Vito Priante (Figaro), Audun Iversen (Count Almaviva), Lydia Teuscher (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Andrew Shore (Bartolo), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Alan Oke (Don Basilio), Nicholas Folwell (Antonio), Colin Judson (Don Curzio), Sarah Shafer (Barbarina The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati (conductor) & David McVicar (director), Iván Fischer (conductor) & Nicholas Hytner (stage director), Robin Ticciati (conductor), Michael Grandage (director) Robin Ticciati (conductor) & Michael Grandage (director)

Will Hartmann (Tamino), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Diana Damrau (Königin der Nacht), Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro), Simon Keenlyside (Papageno), Ailish Tynan (Papagena), Adrian Thompson (Monostatos), Thomas Allen (Sprecher), Gillian Webster, Christine Rice, Yvonne Howard (Drei Damen), Alan Oke, Graeme Broadbent (Zwei Geharnischten), Matthew Beale, Richard Van Allan (Zwei Preisten), Zico Shaker, Tom Chapman, John Holland-Avery (Drei Knaben), Simon Keenlyside (Don Giovanni), Kyle Ketelsen (Leporello), Eric Halfvarson (Il Commendatore), Marina Poplavskaya (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Ramón Vargas (Don Ottavio), Miah Persson (Zerlina), Robert Gleadow (Masetto), Erwin Schrott (Figaro), Miah Persson (Susanna), Gerald Finley (Count Almaviva), Dorothea Röschmann (Countess Almaviva), Rinat Shaham (Cherubino), Graciela Araya (Marcellina), Jonathan Veira (Bartolo), Philip Langridge (Bartolo), Jeremy White (Antonio), Ana James (Barbarina), Francis Egerton (Curzio) The Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director), Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director), Antonio Pappano (conductor) & David McVicar (stage director)

Daniela Dessì (Aida), Elisabetta Fiorillo (Amneris), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Ramfis), Stefano Palatchi (Il Re), Josep Fadó (Messaggiero), Ana Nebot (Sacerdotessa), Norah Amsellem, José Bros, Renato Bruson, Itxaro Mentxaka, Maria Espada, Emilio Sánchez, David Rubiera & Marco Moncloa, Paolo Gavanelli (Rigoletto), Marcelo Alvarez (Il Duca), Christine Schäfer (Gilda), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Graciela Araya (Maddalena), Elizabeth Sikora (Giovanna), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Monterone), Quentin Hayes (Marullo), Peter Auty (Borsa) Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real, Madrid, Orchestra & Chorus of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Jesús López Cobos, Edward Downes (conductor) & David McVicar (director)

Angelika Kirchschlager (Hänsel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrude), Thomas Allen (Peter), Anja Silja (Die Knusperhexe), Pumeza Matshikiza (Sandmännchen), Anita Watson (Taumännchen), Lucy Crowe (Vixen), Emma Bell (Fox), Sergei Leiferkus (Forester), William Dazeley (Harasta), Mischa Schelomianski (Badger/Parson), Jean Rigby (Forester's Wife/Owl), Adrian Thompson (Schoolmaster/Mosquito), Colin Judson (Pásek, Innkeeper), Sarah Pring (Innkeeper’s Wife), Victoria Simmonds (Pinocchio), Jonathan Summers (Geppetto), Mary Plazas (Blue Fairy), Rebecca Bottone (Cricket/Parrot), Graeme Broadbent (Puppeteer/Ape-Judge/Ringmaster), Allan Clayton (Lampwick), Mark Wilde (Cat), James Laing (Fox/Coachman), Carole Wilson (Pigeon/Snail) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Opera North, Colin Davis (conductor) & Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier (stage directors), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) & Melly Still (director), David Parry (conductor) & Martin Duncan (stage director)

The Australian Ballet

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)

Iain Burnside (piano), Lawrence Brownlee (piano), Francesco Meli (tenor), Ailyn Pérez (soprano)

Inva Mula (Mimi), Aquiles Machado (Rodolfo), Laura Giordano (Musetta), Fabio Maria Capitanucci (Marcello), David Menéndez (Schaunard), Felipe Bou (Colline), Gonzalo Fernández de Terán (Parpignol), Juan Tomás Martínez (Alcindoro), Alfredo Mariotti (Benoit), Daniela Dessì (Tosca), Fabio Armiliato (Cavaradossi), Ruggero Raimondi (Scarpia), Cheryl Barker (Madama Butterfly), Martin Thompson (B.F. Pinkerton), Catherine Keen (Suzuki), Richard Stilwell (Sharpless), Anneleen Bijnen, Peter Blanchet Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus), Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Madrid, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Jesús López Cobos (conductor) & Giancarlo del Monaco (stage director), Maurizio Benini (conductor) & Nuria Espert (director), Edo de Waart (conductor) & Robert Wilson (stage director)

Cheryl Studer (Aida), Dennis O’Neill (Radames), Luciana d’Intino (Amneris), Alexandru Agache (Amonasro), Robert Lloyd (Ramfis), Mark Beesley (King), Yvonne Barclay (High Priestess), John Marsden (Messager), Plácido Domingo (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Robin Leggate (Cassio), Ramon Remedios (Rodrigo), Mark Beesley (Lodovico), Roderick Earle (Montano), Claire Powell (Emilia), José Carreras (Stiffelio), Catherine Malfitano (Lina), Gwynne Howell & Gregory Yurisich (Stankar), Maria Ewing (Salome), Michael Devlin (Jokanaan), Kenneth Riegel (Herod), Gillian Knight (Herodias), Robin Leggate (Narraboth), Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliette), Sarah Walker (Gertrude), Robert Lloyd (Frère Laurence), Peter Sidhom (Capulet), Paul Charles Clarke (Tybalt), David Wilson-Johnson (Le Prince), Jeremy White (Gregorio), François Le Roux (Mercutio), Anne Maria Panzarella (Stéphano), Richard Halton (Pâris), Bruce Ford (Mitridate), Jochen Kowalski (Farnace), Ann Murray (Sifare), Luba Orgonasova (Aspasia), Lillian Watson (Ismene) The Royal Opera Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Edward Downes (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (stage director), Sir Georg Solti (conductor) & Elijah Moshinsky (stage director), Edward Downes (conductor) & Peter Hall (director), Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Nicolas Joël (director), Paul Daniel (conductor) & Graham Vick (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), Markus Eiche (Fritz Kothner), Friedemann Röhlig (Ein Nachtwächter), Charles Reid (Kunz Vogelgesang), Rainer Zaun (Konrad Nachtigall), Edward Randall (Balthasar Zorn), Hans-Jürgen Lazar (Ulrich Eisslinger), Stefan Heibach (Augustin Moser), Martin Snell (Hermann Ortel), Andreas Macco (Hans Schwarz), Iógenes Randes (Hans Foltzd), Endrik Wottrich (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Sonja Mühleck (Gerhilde), Anna Gabler (Ortlinde), Edith Haller (Helmwige), Martina Dike (Waltraute), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Siegrune), Annette Küttenbaum (Grimgerde), Manuela Bress (Rossweise), Simone Schröder (Schwertleite), Samuel Youn (Der Holländer), Franz-Josef Selig (Daland), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Tomislav Muzek (Erik), Christa Mayer (Mary), Benjamin Bruns (Der Steuermann), 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), Torsten Kerl (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Michelle Breedt (Venus), Markus Eiche (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Kwangchul Youn (Landgraf Hermann), Lothar Odinius (Walther von der Vogelweide), Thomas Jesatko (Biterolf), Stefan Heibach (Heinrich der Schreiber), Rainer Zaun (Reinmar von Zweter), Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Irene Theorin (Isolde), Robert Holl (König Marke), Jukka Rasilainen (Kurwenal), Ralf Lukas (Melot), Michelle Breedt (Brangäne), Clemens Bieber (Junger Seemann), Arnold Bezuyen (Hirt) & Martin Snell (Steuermann) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Sebastian Weigle (conductor) & Katharina Wagner (stage director), Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Tankred Dorst (director), Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Jan Philipp Gloger (director), Andris Nelsons (conductor) & Hans Neuenfels (director), Axel Kober (conductor) & Sebastian Baumgarten (stage director), Peter Schneider (conductor) & Christoph Marthaler (stage director)

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

Jeannine Altmeyer, Nadine Secunde, Kurt Rydl, John Brocheler, Graham Clark, Chris Merritt De Nederlandse Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (Götterdämmerung & Die Walküre), The Hague Philharmonic (Das Rheingold), Hartmut Haenchen (conductor) & Pierre Audi (director)

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

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), Markus Eiche (Fritz Kothner), Friedemann Röhlig (Ein Nachtwächter), Charles Reid (Kunz Vogelgesang), Rainer Zaun (Konrad Nachtigall), Edward Randall (Balthasar Zorn), Hans-Jürgen Lazar (Ulrich Eisslinger), Stefan Heibach (Augustin Moser), Martin Snell (Hermann Ortel), Andreas Macco (Hans Schwarz), Iógenes Randes (Hans Foltzd), Johan Botha (Siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Albert Dohmen (Wotan), Linda Watson (Brünnhilde), Kwangchul Youn (Hunding), Michelle Breedt (Fricka), Sonja Mühleck (Gerhilde), Anna Gabler (Ortlinde), Edith Haller (Helmwige), Martina Dike (Waltraute), Wilke te Brummelstroete (Siegrune), Annette Küttenbaum (Grimgerde), Manuela Bress (Rossweise), Simone Schröder (Schwertleite), Samuel Youn (Der Holländer), Franz-Josef Selig (Daland), Ricarda Merbeth (Senta), Tomislav Muzek (Erik), Christa Mayer (Mary), Benjamin Bruns (Der Steuermann), 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), Torsten Kerl (Tannhäuser), Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth), Michelle Breedt (Venus), Markus Eiche (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Kwangchul Youn (Landgraf Hermann), Lothar Odinius (Walther von der Vogelweide), Thomas Jesatko (Biterolf), Stefan Heibach (Heinrich der Schreiber), Rainer Zaun (Reinmar von Zweter), Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Irene Theorin (Isolde), Robert Holl (König Marke), Jukka Rasilainen (Kurwenal), Ralf Lukas (Melot), Michelle Breedt (Brangäne), Clemens Bieber (Junger Seemann), Arnold Bezuyen (Hirt) & Martin Snell (Steuermann) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Sebastian Weigle (conductor) & Katharina Wagner (stage director), Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Tankred Dorst (director), Christian Thielemann (conductor) & Jan Philipp Gloger (director), Andris Nelsons (conductor) & Hans Neuenfels (director), Axel Kober (conductor) & Sebastian Baumgarten (stage director), Peter Schneider (conductor) & Christoph Marthaler (stage director)

Janet Baker (Alceste), Robert Tear (Admète), John Shirley-Quirk (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Maldwyn Davies (Evandre), Jonathan Summers (Hercule), Phillip Gelling (Un Héraut/Apollon), Matthew Best (La voix de l'Oracle), John Shirley-Quirk (Dieu infernal), Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard Van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina), Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones (Annina), John Tomlinson (Hans Sachs), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Gosta Winbergh (Walther von Stolzing), Nancy Gustafson (Eva), Herbert Lippert (David), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Magdalena), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Kothner), Michael Druiett (Nachtwächter), Alasdair Elliot (Kunz Vogelgesang), Richard Lloyd-Morgan (Konrad Nachtigall), Paul Crook (Ulrich Eisslinger), Robin Leggate (Balthasar Zorn), John Dobson (Augustin Moser), Grant Dickson (Hermann Ortel), Geoffrey Moses (Hans Schwarz), Simon Wilding (Hans Foltz), Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Gre Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (La Principessa Eboli), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Leyla Gencer (Donna Anna), Richard Lewis (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Geraint Evans (Leporello), Robert Savoie (Masetto), Mirella Freni (Zerlina), David Ward (Il Commendatore), Joan Sutherland (Lucia), João Gibin (Edgardo), John Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Robert Bowman (Normanno), Victoria de los Ángeles (Cio Cio San), John Lanigan (Pinkerton), Geraint Evans (Sharpless), Barbara Howitt (Suzuki), Joyce Livingston (Kate Pinkerton), David Tree (Goro), David Allen (Il principe Yamadori), Michael Langdon (Lo zio Bonzo), Ronald Firmager (Il commissario imperiale), Harry Gawler (L'ufficiale del Registro), Ramón Vinay (Otello), Gré Brouwenstijn (Desdemona), Otakar Kraus (Iago), John Lanigan (Cassio), Raymond Nilsson (Rodrigo), Marian Nowakowski (Lodovico), Michael Langdon (Montano), Noreen Berry (Emilia), Forbes Robinson (Un Araldo), Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Norman Bailey (Amfortas), Amy Shuard (Kundry), Louis Hendrikx (Gurnemanz), Donald McIntyre (Klingsor), Michael Langdon (Titurel), Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia), Forbes Robinson (Il Sagristano), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Un pastore), Rhoderick Davies (Un carceriere), Jon Vickers (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Amy Shuard (Amelia), Regina Resnik (Ulrica), Joan Carlyle (Oscar), Victor Godfrey (Silvano), David Kelly (Samuele), Michael Langdon (Tom), John Kollmann (Un Giudice), George Barker (Un servo) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Charles Mackerras, Colin Davis, Andrew Davis, Bernard Haitink, Carlo Maria Giulini, Georg Solti, Tullio Serafin, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Reginald Goodall, Alexander Gibson, Edward Downes

Franz-Josef Selig (daland), Ricarda Merbeth (senta), Tomislav Mužek (erik), Christa Meyer (mary), Benjamin Bruns (steersman), Samuel Youn (the dutchman), Bayreuth Festival (opera company), Kwangchul Youn (hermann), Torsten Kerl (tannhäuser), Markus Eiche (wolfram von eschenbach), Lothar Odinius (walther), Camilla Nylund (elisabeth), Michelle Breedt (venus, brangane), Georg Zeppenfeld (konig heinrich), Klaus Florian Vogt (lohengrin, walther von stolzing), Annette Dasch (elsa), Jukka Rasilainen (friedrich, kurwenal), Petra Lang (ortrud), Linda Watson (brunnhilde), Stephen Gould (siegfried), Albert Dohmen (wotan), Endrik Wottrich (siegmund), Eva-Maria Westbroek (sieglinde), Andrew Shore (alberich), Robert Dean Smith (tristan), Iréne Theorin (isolde), Robert Holl (king marke), Ralf Lukas (melot), Franz Hawlata (hans sach), Artur Korn (veit pogner), Michael Volle (sixtus beckmesser), Norbert Ernst (david), Michaela Kaune (eva), Carola Guber (magdalena), Christian Thielemann, Axel Kober, Andris Nelsons, Peter Schneider, Sebastian Weigle

Thomas Allen, Placido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Daniela Dessì, Alessandro Corbelli, Giorgio Zancanaro, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer and Sara Mingardo Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Lorin Maazel and Stefano Ranzani

The Royal Ballet (ballet company)

The Royal Ballet (ballet company)

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

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