Opus Arte

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 Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Edward Downes (conductor) & David McVicar (director)

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) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Phyllida Lloyd (stage 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

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)

Choir of King's College, Stephen Cleobury

Yvonne Kenny (Anna Glawari), Bo Skovhus (Danilo), Angelika Kirchschlager (Valencienne), Gregory Turay (Camille) San Francisco Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Erich Kunzel

Dorothée Gilbert (Swanilda), Mathias Heymann (Frantz), José Martinez (Coppélius) & Fabrice Bourgeois (Spalanzani) The Paris Opera Corps de Ballet & Orchestre Colonne

Miah Persson (Poppea), Sarah Connolly (Nerone), Jordi Domènech (Ottone), Franz-Josef Selig (Seneca), Maite Beaumont (Ottavia), Dominique Visse (Nutrice/Arnalta), Ruth Rosique (Drusilla), Guy de Mey (Lucano), William Berger (Valletto), Marisa Martins (La Fortuna/Pallas Athene/Venus), Judith van Wanroij (Damigella/La Virtu) Baroque Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Harry Bicket (conductor) & David Alden (stage director)

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)

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) Gregory Doran (director)

Eva-Maria Westbroek (Santuzza), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Turiddu), Dimitri Platanias (Alfio), Martina Belli (Lola), Elena Zilio (Mamma Lucia), Dimitri Platanias (Tonio), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Canio), Carmen Giannattasio (Nedda), Dionysus Sourbis (Silvio), Benjamin Hulett (Beppe) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Royal Opera Chorus, Antonio Pappano (conductor) & Damiano Michieletto (director)

Charles Edwards (Richard II), Henry Everett (Salisbury), William Gaunt (John of Gaunt), Jonny Glynn (Northumberland), David Sturzaker (Bolingbroke), William Chu (Duke of York), Sasha Waddell (Duchess of Gloucester), Sarah Woodward (Duchess of York) Simon Godwin (director)

Lauren Cuthbertson (The young girl), Vadim Muntagirov (The young man), Fumi Kaneko (A gypsy girl) & Ryoichi Hirano (Her lover), Natalia Osipova & Steven Mcrae Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth

Paapa Essiedu (Hamlet), Natalie Simpson (Ophelia), Cyril Nri (Polonius), Clarence Smith (Claudius), Tanya Moodie (Gertrude), Hiran Abeysekera (Horatio), Marcus Griffiths (Laertes), Ewart James Walters (Ghost, Gravedigger) Simon Godwin

Sam Alexander (Don John), David Horovitch (Leonato), Edward Bennett (Benedick), Michelle Terry (Beatrice), Tunji Kasim (Claudio), Chris Nayak (Borachio), Flora Spencer-Longhurst (Hero) & Nick Haverson (Dogberry) Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon Godwin (director)

Anna Tsygankova (Cinderella), Matthew Golding (Prince Guillaume), Larissa Lezhnina (Stepmother Hortensia), Megan Zimny Gray (Stepsister Edwina), Nadia Yanowsky (Stepsister Clementine), Remi Wörtmeye (Benjamin), Alexander Zhembrovskyy (Cinderella's father) & Erica Horwood (Cinderella's mother) Holland Symfonia, Ermanno Florio (conductor) & Jeff Tudor (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) Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez

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)

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

Kevin R McNally (Lear), Anjana Vasan (Cordelia), Ralph Davis (Edmund), Joshua James (Edgar), Burt Caesar (Gloucester), Saskia Reeves (Kent), Sirine Saba (Regan), Emily Bruni (Goneril), Loren O’Dair (Fool) Nancy Meckler

Marianela Nuñez (Odette/Odile), Vadim Muntagirov (Prince Siegfried), Elizabeth McGorian (The Queen), Bennet Gartside (Von Rothbart), Alexander Campbell (Benno), Akane Takada (Prince Siegfried’s Younger Sister), Francesca Hayward (Prince Siegfried’s Younger Sister) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Koen Kessels, choreography by Liam Scarlett after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov

Marc Antolin (Andrew Aguecheek), Tony Jayawardena (Sir Toby Belch), Joshua Lacey (Orsino), Katy Owen (Malvolio), Annette McLaughlin (Olivia), Anita-Joy Uwajeh (Viola), Le Gateau Chocolat (Feste), Carly Bawden (Maria), Nandi Bhebhe (Fabian), Pieter Lawman (Antonio), Kandaka Moore (Ensemble) Shakespeare's Globe, Emma Rice

Kit Harington, Jude Akuwudike, Seumas Begg (tenor), Claire-Louise Cordwell, Kate Duchêne, Olivier Huband, Melissa Johns, David Judge, Danny Kirrane, Diany Samba-Bandza, Steven Meo, Max Webster

Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Roberto Tagliavini (Leporello), Malin Byström (Donna Anna), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Donna Elvira), Daniel Behle (Don Ottavio), Louise Alder (Zerlina), Petros Magoulas (Il Commendatore), Leon Košavic (Masetto) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hartmut Haenchen, Kasper Holten

Les Ballets de Monte Carlo

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

Kiri Te Kanawa (Marschallin), Anne Howells (Octavian), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Aage Haugland (Baron Ochs), Jonathan Summers (Faninal), Robert Tear (Valzacchi), Cynthia Buchan (Annina), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Georg Solti, John Schlesinger

Shakespeare's Globe, Barrie Rutter

Northern Ballet

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), Marcello Walton (Flavius/Lepidus), Dharmesh Patel (Decius/Messala) Angus Jackson (director)

The Royal Ballet (ballet company)

Luis Lima (Don Carlo), Ileana Cotrubas (Elisabetta), Robert Lloyd (Filippo II), Giorgio Zancanaro (Rodrigo), Bruna Baglioni (Eboli), Joseph Rouleau (Il Grande Inquisitore), Patricia Parker (Tebaldo), Matthew Best (Un Frate) Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bernard Haitink

Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambé, Matthew Ball, Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko, Ryoichi Hirano, Hetty Snell, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Andrea Molino, Barry Wordsworth

Sophie Martin, Christopher Harrison, Bruno Micchiardi, Javier Andreu, Roseanna Leney, Nicholas Shoesmith, Aisling Brangan, Grace Horler, Grace Paulley, Scottish Ballet Orchestra, Jean-Claude Picard

Francesca Hayward, Marcelino Sambe, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Christopher Wheeldon, Alondra de La Parra

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

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)

Bryn Terfel (Don Pasquale), Markus Werba (Malatesta), Olga Peretyatko (Norina), Ioan Hotea (Ernesto), Bryan Secombe (Carlino) Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Evelino Pidò

Torsten Kerl (Rienzi), Marika Schönberg (Irene), Daniela Sindram (Adriano), Richard Wiegold (Colonna), Stefan Heidemann (Orsini), Robert Bork (Cardinal Orvieto), Marc Heller (Baroncelli), Leonardo Neiva (Cecco del Vecchio) & Jennifer O’Loughlin (Peace Messenger) Orchestre national du Capitole, Choeur du Capitole, Choeur de l’Accademia & Teatro alla Scala de Milan, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor) & Jorge Lavelli (director)

Nadine Sierra (Adina), Liparit Avetisyan (Nemorino), Bryn Terfel (Dulcamara), Boris Pinkhasovich (Belcore), Sarah Dufresne (Giannetta) Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sesto Quatrini

Marianela Nuñez, Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli & Matthew Golding, Sarah Lamb & Vadim Muntagirov, Laura Morera, Marianela Nuñez & Ryoichi Hirano, Iana Salenko & Steven McRae Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Martin Yates, Emmanuel Plasson

Andrew French, Kemi-Bo Jacobs, Joseph Kloska, Georgia Landers, Anne Odeke, Assad Zaman, Colm Gormley, Amanda Hadingue, Zoe Lambert, Ben Caplan, Erica Whyman

Edward Watson, Mara Galeazzi, Iohna Loots, William Tuckett, Cindy Jourdain, Sarah Lamb & Elizabeth McGorian Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Barry Wordsworth

Lianna Haroutounian (Leonora), Gregory Kunde (Manrico), Anita Rachvelishvili (Azucena), Vitaliy Bilyy (Luna), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Ferrando) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Richard Farnes, David Bösch

Anna Tsygankova (Cinderella), Matthew Golding (Prince Guillaume), Larissa Lezhnina (Stepmother Hortensia), Megan Zimny Gray (Stepsister Edwina), Nadia Yanowsky (Stepsister Clementine), Remi Wörtmeye (Benjamin), Alexander Zhembrovskyy (Cinderella's father) & Erica Horwood (Cinderella's mother) Holland Symfonia, Ermanno Florio (conductor) & Jeff Tudor (director)

Cynthia Haymon (Poppea), Brigitte Balleys (Nerone), Michael Chance (Ottone), Harry van der Kamp (Seneca), Ning Liang (Ottavia), Heidi Grant Murphy (Drusilla), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (Arnalta), Dominique Visse (Nutrice), Claron McFadden (Valletto) Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, stage direction by Pierre Audi

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

Lesley Garrett (soprano), José Cura (tenor), Guy Barker (trumpet), Sibongile Khumalo (voice)

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

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Anthony Dowell, Alina Cojocaru, Ivan Putrov, Miyako Yoshida The Royal Ballet

David Wilson-Johnson (Merlin), Stuart Skelton (Arthur), Eva Marton (Morgan Le Fey), Carol Vaness (Nivian) Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Choir, José de Eusebio

Adriana Mortelliti, Sabrina Camera, Julia Wirth, Davide Cauli, Jochen Heckmann, Nunzio Verdenero, Antonella Calducci, Ruben Amoretti & Furio Zanasi Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Movers Ballet, Muhai Tang

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

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)

Vladimir Ognovenko, Vladimir Galouzine, Robert Brubaker, Nikolai Putilin, Vladimir Vaneev & Elena Zaremba, Stage Director: Stein Winge Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Michael Boder

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

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

June Anderson (Elena), Martine Dupuy (Malcolm), Rockwell Blake (Giacomo/'Uberto'), Giorgio Surjan (Douglas d'Angus), Chris Merritt (Rodrigo di Dhu) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti