Arthaus Musik

Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Le, Nancy Spero

Mike Kelley, Susan Rothenberg, Josiah McElheny, Hiroshi Sugimoto

Mike Mortimer

Reiner E. Moritz

Peter Kálmán / Katsunori Kono (Papageno), Franziska Rabl / Rebeca Olvera (Papagena), Boguslaw Bidzilski / James Elliott (Tamino), Irini Kyriakidou / Christiane Kohl (Pamina), Sen Guo / Eugenia Enguita (Queen of the Night)Jeffery Krueger (Monostatos), Morgan Moody (Sarastro) Zurich Opera House, Thomas Barthel

Nederlands Dans Theater

Anna Tsygankova (Kitri), Matthew Golding (Basilio), Peter de Jong (Don Quichot) & Karel Rooij (Sancho Panza) Dutch National Ballet & Holland Symfonia, Kevin Rhodes

Anna Tsygankova (Kitri), Matthew Golding (Basilio), Peter de Jong (Don Quichot) & Karel Rooij (Sancho Panza) Dutch National Ballet & Holland Symfonia, Kevin Rhodes

Clairemarie Osta (The Little Dancer), Dorothee Gilbert (The Etoile Dancer), Mathieu Ganio (The Ballet Master) & Jose Martinez (The Subscription Holder) Corps de Ballet de l’Opera national de Paris & Orchestre de l’Opera national de Paris, Koen Kessels

Nadja Saidakova (Mary), Vladimir Malakhov (Le Prince Casse Noisette), Oliver Matz (Drosselmeyer), Beatrice Knop (Reine des Glaces) & Viara Natcheva (Reine des Neiges) Staatsballett Berlin & Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim

Sami Yaffa

Sami Yaffa

Sami Yaffa

Sami Yaffa

London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

Modl:reich:weiss

Johnny Van Hall (Siegfried), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Tomas Möwes (Der Wanderer), Mario Hoff (Alberich), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Heiki Porsten (Forest Bird), Nadine Weissmann (Erda), Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair, Michael Schulz (director)

Hanns Nocker (Hoffman), Melitta Muszely (Stella/Olympia), Rudolf Asmu (Lindorf/Coppelius), Werner Enders (Cochenille/Pitichinaccio), Vladimir Bauer (Spalanzani), Alfred Wroblewski (Crespel), Horst-Dieter Kaschel (Schlemihl), Sylvia Kuziemski (Niklaus/Muse), Uwe Kreyssig (Nathanael), Heinz Kogel (Lutter), Orchestra From the Komischer Oper Berlin, Karl-Fritz Voigtmann, Walter Felsenstein (stage director)

Maria Teresa Leva (Mimi), Ivan Ayon Rivas (Rodolfo), Hasmik Torosyan (Musetta), Massimo Cavaletti (Marcello), Tommaso Barea (Schaunard), Alessio Cacciamani (Colline),Matteo Peirone (Benoit/Alcindoro), Alejandro Escobar (Parpignol), Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino, Daniel Oren

Renata Tebaldi (Desdemona), Hans Beirer (Otello), William Dooley (Jago), Mario Ferrara (Cassio), Sieglinde Wagner (Emilia), Karl-Ernst Mercker (Rodrigo), Ivan Sardi (Lodovico), Pecca Salomaa (Montano) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Patané (conductor) & Hans-Peter Lehmann (stage director)

Komische Oper Berlin, Catherine Larsen-Maguire (conductor) & Jasmina Hadziahmetovic (stage director)

Lloyd Riggins (Gustav von Aschenbach, Master Choreographer), Laura Cazzaniga (His Assistant, his Mother, Tadzio’s Mother), Ivan Urban (His “Friedrich der Große”), Hélène Bouchet (His “La Barbarina") & Elizabeth Cooper (piano) Hamburg Ballett

David Daniels (countertenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Marilyn Horne (mezzo)

Marlis Petersen (Medea), Michaela Selinger (Kreusa), Elisabeth Kulman (Gora), Michael Roider (Kreon) & Adrian Eröd (Jason) Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Michael Boder

Andreas Schmidt (Oedipus), William Pell (Kreon), William Dooley (Tiresias), Lenus Carlson (Bote, messenger), William Murray (Hirte, herdsman) & Emily Golden (Jokasta) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Christof Prick (conductor) & Götz Friedrich (stage director)

Edith Mathis, Arlene Saunders, Raymond Wolansky, William Workman, Kurt Marschner, Ursula Boese, Franz Grundheber & Noel Mangin Members of the Corps de ballet of the Hamburg State Opera and two children’s choirs, Gian-Carlo Menotti, directed for TV by Joachim Hess, artistic direction by Rolf Liebermann

José Cura (Samson), Julia Gertseva (Dalila) & Stefan Stoll (The High Priest of Dagon) Orchestra and Choir of The Badisches Staatstheater, Jochem Hochstenbach (conductor) & José Cura (stage director)

The King’s Singers & Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

Yelena Prochina, Irina Bogachova, Alexander Gergalov, Nicolai Okhotnikov, Gegam Grigorian, Olga Borodina Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Graham Vick (director)

William Kentridge / Doris Sal

Alonzo King Lines Ballet

Alfred Muff (Peter), Gabriele Lechner (Gertrud), Liliana Nikiteanu (Hänsel), Marlin Hartelius (Gretel) & Volker Vogel (The Witch) Zurich Opera House, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor) & Frank Corsaro (director)

Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), Ludovit Ludha (tenor) & Peter Mikuláš (bass) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, with Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

Mario Hoff (Wotan), Erin Caves (Loge), Tomas Möwes (Alberich), Christine Hansmann (Fricka), Renatus Mészár (Fasolt), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Fafner), Marietta Zumbült (Freia), Frieder Aurich (Mime), Nadine Weissmann (Erda); Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St.Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director)

The King’s Singers & Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley

Thomas Hampson (SImon Boccanegra), Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Amelia/Maria), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Fiesco), Miroslav Dvorský (Gabriele Adorno), Boaz Daniel (Paolo), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Pietro) Chorus and Orchestra of The Vienna State Opera, Daniele Gatti (conductor) & Peter Stein (director)

Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Olga Borodina, Plácido Domingo, Alexei Markov, Yevgeny Nikitin, Ildar Abdrazakov, René Pape, Mikhail Petrenko, Sergei Semishkur (Opera), Olga Esina, Kim Kimin, Anastasia Kolegova, Yekaterina Kondaurova, Ulyana Lopatkina, Alexander Sergeyev, Vladimir Shklyarov, Oxana Skorik, Diana Vishneva (Principal Dancers and Soloists of the Mariinsky Ballet), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Denis Matsuev (piano) Ballet, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev

Ann Murray (Ariodante), Joan Rodgers (Ginevra), Lesley Garrett (Dalinda), Gwynne Howell (The King of Scotland), Christopher Robson (Polinesso), Paul Nilon (Lurcanio), Mark Le Brocq (Odoardo) English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & David Alden (stage director)

Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), László Polgár (Rocco), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino) Alfred Muff (Pizarro), Elizabeth Rae Magnuson (Marzelline), Günther Groissböck (Fernando), Boguslaw Bidzinski (First Prisoner) & Gabriel Bermúdez (Second Prisoner), Juliane Banse (Genoveva), Shawn Mathey (Golo), Martin Gantner (Siegfried), Cornelia Kallisch (Margaretha), Alfred Muff (Drago), Ruben Drole (Hidulfus), Tomasz Slawinski (Balthasar), Matthew Leigh (Caspar), Peter Seiffert, Inga Nielsen, Malin Hartelius, Matti Salminen Chorus & Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Jürgen Flimm (director), Martin Kušej (director), Ruth Berghaus (director)

Nederlands Dans Theater & Het Nationale Ballet

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

Staffan Scheja (Edvard Grieg) & Claudia Zöhner (Nina Hagerup) Thomas Olofsson (director)

Otto Edelmann (Sir John Falstaff), Elisabeth Höngen (Mrs. Quickly), Melitta Muszely (Mrs. Alice Ford), Graziella Sciutti (Nannetta), Hans Günter Grimm (Ford) & Richard Von Vrooman (Fenton) Wiener Symphoniker, Nello Santi (conductor) & Hellmuth Matiasek (director)

Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Peter Mikuláŝ (bass), Josef Protschka (tenor), Eva Urbanová (soprano), Katerina Kachlíková (mezzo-soprano), ŝtefan Margita (tenor), Lívia Ághová (soprano) & Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Ivan Zenaty (violin) Prague Symphony Orchestra & Prague Symphonic Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jiri Belohlávek, Petr Altrichter, Libor Peŝek

Bill Viola

Ricarda Merbeth (soprano), Daniela Sindram (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith (tenor) & Gunther Groissbock (bass) Choeurs de l’Opera National de Paris & Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris, Philippe Jordan

Isabel Rey (Susanna), Carlos Chausson (Figaro), Eva Mei (Countess), Rodney Gilfry (Count), Liliana Nikiteanu (Cherubino), Elisabeth von Magnus (Marcellina), Robert Holl (Dr Bartolo), Volker Vogel (Basilio), Martin Zysset (Don Curzio), Werner Groschel (Antonio), Lisa Larsson (Barbarina), Rodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Isabel Rey (Donna Anna), Roberto Saccà (Don Ottavio), Cecilia Bartoli (Donna Elvira), László Polgár (Leporello), Matti Salminen (Il Commendatore), Oliver Widmer (Masetto), Cecilia Bartoli (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Despina), Liliana Nikiteanu (Dorabella), Roberto Sacca (Ferrando), Oliver Widmer (Guglielmo), Carlos Chausson (Don Alfonso) Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Mischa Maisky (cello), Igor Ardašev (piano), Ivan Zenaty (violin) Prague Symphony Orchestra, Petr Altrichter, Jiří Bělohlávek, Libor Pešek

Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Gino Quilico (Marcello), Stephen Dickson (Schaunard), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Sandra Pacetti (Musetta), Italo Tajo (Benoit/Alcindoro), Maria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Juan Pons (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (The King of Egypt), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Ramphis), Francesca Garbi (Priestess) & Ernesto Gavazzi (Messenger) San Francisco Opera House, Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Alla Scala, Tiziano Severini (conductor) & Francesca Zambello (stage director), Lorin Maazel (conductor) & Luca Ronconi (stage director)

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Adrianne Pieczonka (Donna Anna), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Donna Elvira), Angelika Kirchschlager (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Don Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello), Franz-Josef Selig (Il Commendatore), Lorenzo Regazzo (Masetto), Thomas Hampson (SImon Boccanegra), Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Amelia/Maria), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Fiesco), Miroslav Dvorský (Gabriele Adorno), Boaz Daniel (Paolo), Dan Paul Dumitrescu (Pietro), Marcelo Álvarez (Werther), Elina Garanca (Charlotte), Ileana Tonca (Sophie), Adrian Eröd (Albert), Alfred Sramek (Le Bailli), Peter Jelosits (Schmidt), Marcus Pelz (Johann), Clemens Unterreiner (Brühlmann) & Maria Gusenleitner (Käthchen) Chorus and Orchestra of The Vienna State Opera, Riccardo Muti (conductor) & Roberto De Simone (director), Daniele Gatti (conductor) & Peter Stein (director), Philippe Jordan (conductor) & Andrei Serban (director)

Paris Opera Orchestra, Philippe Jordan

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle

Elly Ney (piano), Wilhelm Stross (violin), Ingo Sinnhoffer (viola), Ludwig Hoelscher (cello), Heinz Endres (violin)

Christiane Karg (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (alto), Michael Schade (tenor) & Michael Volle (bass) Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

Claude Eichenberger (Carmen), Xavier Moreno (Don Jose), Elissa Huber (Micaela), Jordan Shanahan (Escamiollo), Winston R. Arnon (Joker), Young Kwon (Zuniga), Lilian Farahani (Frasquita), Eleonora Vacchi (Mercedes), Andries Cloete (Remendado), Carl Rumstdt (Morales), Nazariy Sadidivskyy (Dancairo), Berner Symphonieorchester, Mario Venzago