Opus Arte

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

Marianela Nuñez (Odette/Odile), Thiago Soares (Price Siegfried), Elizabeth McGorian (Siegfried's mother), Christopher Saunders (Von Rothbart/Evil Spirit), Alastair Marriott (Tutor), David Pickering (Benno) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Valeriy Ovsyanikov (conductor) & Anthony Dowell (stage director)

Philip Cumbus (King of Navarre), Trystan Gravelle (Berowne), William Mannering (Longaville), Jack Farthing (Dumaine), Michelle Terry (Princess of France), Thomasin Rand (Rosaline), Jade Anouka (Maria), Siân Robins-Grace (Katharine), Tom Stuart (Boyet), Paul Ready (Don Armado), Seroca Davis (Moth), Christopher Godwin (Holofernes), Patrick Godfrey (Sir Nathanial), Andrew Vincent (Dull), Fergal McElherron (Costard), Rhiannon Oliver (Jaquenetta) & James Lailey (Mercadé) Dominic Dromgoole (director)

Ekaterina Siurina (Adina), Peter Auty (Nemorino), Alfredo Daza (Belcore), Luciano di Pasquale (Dulcamara), Eliana Pretorian (Giannetta) London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Maurizio Benini (conductor) & Annabel Arden (director)

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)

Angelika Kirchschlager (Hänsel), Diana Damrau (Gretel), Elizabeth Connell (Gertrude), Thomas Allen (Peter), Anja Silja (Die Knusperhexe), Pumeza Matshikiza (Sandmännchen), Anita Watson (Taumännchen) Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Children’s Chorus & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Colin Davis (conductor) & Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier (stage directors)

Laura Morera, Samantha Raine, Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb, Rupert Pennefather, Christina Arestis, Francesca Filpi, Ryoichi Hirano, Kenta Kura, Liam Scarlett & Andrej Uspenski, Miyako Yoshida, Ivan Putrov, Edward Watson & Lauren Cuthbertson Paul Murphy, Barry Wordsworth

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 & Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy

Venera Gimadieva (Violetta), Michael Fabiano (Alfredo), Tassis Christoyannis (Germont), Emanuele D’Aguanno (Gastone), Magdalena Molendowska (Annina), Hanna Hipp (Flora), Eddie Wade (Baron Douphol) London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus, Mark Elder (conductor) & Tom Cairns (director)

Naana Agyei-Ampadu (Juliet), Kurt Egyiawan (Angelo), Trevor Fox (Pompey), Mariah Gale (Isabella), Dennis Herdman (Froth / Friar Thomas), Rosie Hilal (Mariana), James Lailey (Abhorson / Friar Peter), Joel MacCormack (Claudio), Petra Massey (Mistress Overdone), Dean Nolan (Elbow / Barnadine), Brendan O’Hea (Lucio), Paul Rider (Escalus) & Dominic Rowan (Duke Vincentio) Dominic Dromgoole (director)

Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle, Massimo Murru, Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello, Mick Zeni, Maria Eichwald, Melissa Hamilton, Lucia Lacarra, Polina Semionova, Alina Somova, Maria Vinogradova, Marlon Dino, Leonid Sarafanov, Ivan Vasiliev Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, David Coleman

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) Royal Shakespeare Company, Gregory Doran (director)

Kate Aldrich (Leonor de Guzman), Yijie Shi (Fernand), Ludovic Tézier (Alphonse XI, King of Castile), Giovanni Furlanetto (Balthazar), Marie-Benedicte Souquet (Ines), Alain Gabriel (Don Gaspar) & Dongjin Ahn (A lord) Choeur du Capitole de Toulouse & Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Antonello Allemandi (conductor) & Vincent Boussard (director)

Clive Wood (Antony), Eve Best (Cleopatra), Jolyon Coy (Octavius Caesar), Phil Daniels (Enobarbus), Daniel Rabin (Agrippa), Sirine Saba (Charmian) & Ignatious Anthony (Maecenas) Jonathan Munby (director)

Sam Alexander (King of Navarre), Peter Basham (Gamekeeper), William Belchambers (Longaville), Edward Bennett (Berowne), Nick Haverson (Costard), Emma Manton (Jaquenetta), John Hodgkinson (Don Armado), Tunji Kasim (Dumaine) Royal Shakespeare Company, Christopher Luscombe (director)

Sam Alexander (King of Navarre), Peter Basham (Gamekeeper), William Belchambers (Longaville), Edward Bennett (Berowne), Nick Haverson (Costard), Emma Manton (Jaquenetta), John Hodgkinson (Don Armado), Tunji Kasim (Dumaine) Royal Shakespeare Company, Christopher Luscombe (director)

Chester Hayes (Billy), Tobias Batley (Jud), Kristen McNally (Mum), Dom Czapski (Mr Farthing), Phil Snowden (Mr Sugden), Anro Skrzypiciel (Mr Gryce), Laura Careless (Kes Puppetry / Woman in WMC), Barnaby Meredith (Bookshop Owner) Jonathan Watkins (choreography and direction), Alex Baranowski (composer)

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

Emmanuel Plasson

Marianela Nuñez (Princess Aurora), Vadim Muntagirov (Prince Florimund), Kristen Mcnally (Carabosse) & Claire Calvert (Lilac Fairy) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels

Joseph Arkley (Katherine), Claire Price (Petruchia), Amanda Harris (Baptista), Sophie Stanton (Gremia), James Cooney (Bianco), Laura Elsworthy (Trania), Emily Johnstone (Lucentia), Amelia Donkor (Hortensia) Royal Shakespeare Company, Justin Audibert (director)

Kenneth MacMillan

The Royal Ballet (ballet company)

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)

Harriet Walter (Prospero), Jade Anouka (Ariel), Sheila Atim (Ferdinand), Jackie Clune (Stefano), Leah Harvey (Miranda), Sophie Stanton (Caliban), Carolina Valdés (Antonio)

Steven MacRae (Crown Prince Rudolf), Sarah Lamb (Baroness Mary Vestsera) Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels

Hugh Quarshie (Othello), Lucian Msamati (Iago), Joanna Vanderham (Desdemona) & Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (Cassio) Iqbal Khan (director)

Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov, Natalia Osipova; The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House; Boris Gruzin, Natalia Makarova

William Houston (Titus Andronicus), Indira Varma (Tamora), Obi Abili (Aaron), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Lavinia), Ian Gelder (Marcus Andronicus), Matthew Needham (Saturninus), Stefan Donnelly (Bassianus/Clown), Dyfan Dwyfor (Lucius) Lucy Bailey (director)

Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

Alina Cojocaru (Medora), Vadim Muntagirov (Conrad), Erina Takahashi (Gulnare), Dimitri Gruzdyev (Lankendem), Junor Souza (Ali), Yonah Acosta (Birbanto), Michael Coleman (Pasha), Juan Rodriguez (Pasha Assistant) & Nancy Osbaldeston (Lead Villager) English National Ballet & Orchestra of English National Ballet

Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann) Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)

Marcelo Álvarez (Riccardo), Violeta Urmana (Amelia), Marco Vratogna (Renato), Elena Zaremba (Ulrica), Alessandra Marianelli (Oscar), Borja Quiza (Silvano), Miguel Sola (Samuel), Scott Wilde (Tom), Orlando Niz (Judge), César San Martín (Amelia's servant) Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Chorus), Jesús López Cobos (conductor) & Mario Martone (stage director)

Pamela Armstrong (Rosalinde), Thomas Allen (Eisenstein), Lyubov Petrova (Adele), Pär Linskog (Alfred), Malena Ernman (Orlofsky), Håkan Hagegård (Falke), Ragnar Ulfung (Blind), Artur Korn (Frank), Udo Samel (Frosch), Renée Schüttengruber (Ida) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski

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), Stage Director: Willy Decker Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Antoni Ros-Marbà

Dominic Rowan (Henry VIII), Ian McNeice (Cardinal Wolsey), Kate Duchêne (Queen Katherine), Miranda Raison (Anne Boleyn) & Anthony Howell (Duke of Buckingham) Mark Rosenblatt (director)

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, singers from the European Opera Centre, Kent Nagano

Susan Graham (Sesto), Christoph Prégardien (Tito), Hannah Ester Minutillo (Annio), Roland Bracht (Publio), Catherine Naglestad (Vitellia), Ekaterina Siurina (Servilia) Choir and Orchestra of L’Opéra de Paris, Sylvain Cambreling, stage direction by Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann

Marianela Nuñez, Yuhui Choe & Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb, Valeri Hristov & Steven McRae, Carlos Acosta, Leanne Benjamin & Edward Watson The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Dominic Grier, Robert Clark, Barry Wordsworth

Vox Animae, Evelyn Tubb, Michael Fields

Kimberley Sykes (director)

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)

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

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, David Atherton

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

Alina Cojocaru, Federico Bonelli, Christopher Saunders, Elizabeth McGorian, Alastair Marriott, Genesia Rosato & Marianela Nuñez The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Valeriy Ovsyanikov

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) Bayreuther Festspiele Chorus & Bayreuther Festspiele Orchestra, Peter Schneider (conductor) & Christoph Marthaler (stage director)

Renée Fleming (Violetta), Joseph Calleja (Alfredo Germont), Thomas Hampson (Giorgio Germont), Sarah Pring (Annina), Monika-Evelin Liiv (Flora), Haoyin Xue (Gastone), Kostas Smoriginas (Marquis d'Obigny), Eddie Wade (Baron Douphol) & Richard Wiegold (Doctor Grenvil) The Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Richard Eyre (director)

Antony Bunsee, Guy Lewis, Jonathan Broadbent, Rowan Polonski, Greg Haiste, Hedydd Dylan, Avita Jay, Sarah Seggari, Zoe Lambert, Nicholas Prasad, Riad Richie, William Grint, Phillip Breen

Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Thiago Soares, Martin Harvey & Mara Galeazzi The Royal Ballet & The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Graham Bond

Daniel Borowski (Lord Gualtiero Valton), Mariola Cantarero (Elvira), Riccardo Zanellato (Sir Giorgio), John Osborn (Lord Arturo Talbot), Scott Hendricks (Sir Riccardo Forth), Gregorio Gonzalez (Sir Bruno Roberton), Fredrika Brillembourg (Enrichetta di Francia) Chorus of the Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Giuliano Carella (conductor) & Francisco Negrin (director)

Francesca Hayward, William Bracewell, James Hay, Lauren Cuthbertson (dancer), Bennet Gartside, Steven McRae, Nicol Edmonds, Gary Avis (dancer), Koen Kessels

Alex Esposito (Faraone), Olga Senderskaya (Amaltea), Dmitry Korchak (Osiride), Sonia Ganassi (Elcia), Enea Scala (Mambre), Riccardo Zanellato (Moses), Yijie Shi (Aronne) & Chiara Amarù (Amenofi) Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna & Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado (conductor) & Graham Vick (director)

Aurélie Dupont, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Agnès Letestu, Clairemarie Osta, Laëtitia Pujol, Jean-Guillaume Bart, Kader Belarbi & Mathieu Ganio Ballet de L’Opéra national de Paris & Orchestre de L’Opéra national de Paris, Paul Connelly (musical director), George Balanchine (choreographer)

Juha Uusitalo (Der Hollander), Robert Lloyd (Daland), Catherine Naglestad (Senta), Marco Jentzsch (Erik), Marina Prudenskaja (Mary), Oliver Ringelhahn (Der Steuermann) Chorus of The Netherlands Opera & Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Harmut Haenchen (conductor) & Martin Kušej (director)

Natalia Osipova (dancer), Reece Clarke, Alexander Campbell, Mayara Magri, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Koen Kessels

Pär Lindskog (Alfred), Lyubov Petrova (Adele), Pamela Armstrong (Rosalinde), Thomas Allen (Eisenstein), Ragnar Ulfung (Blind), Håkan Hagegård (Falke), Artur Korn (Frank), Malena Ernman (Orlofsky), Udo Samel (Frosch), Renée Schüttengruber (Ida) The Glyndebourne Chorus & The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski