Arthaus Musik

Angela Denoke (Salome), Kim Begley (Herodes), Doris Soffel (Herodias), Alan Held (Jochanaan) & Marcel Reijans (Narraboth) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director)

Sabine Kupfeberg, Karel Hruska, David Krugel & Gioconda Barbuto Nederlands Dans Theater

Franz Hawlata (bass), Christine Schäfer (soprano), Paul Groves (tenor), Brigitte Fassbander (mezzo), Eva Marton (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Waltraud Meier (mezzo)

Ramón Vargas (Ernani), Ludovic Tézier (Don Carlo), Alexander Vinogradov (Don Ruy Gomez de Silva), Svetla Vassilieva (Elvira), Karine Ohanyan (Giovanna), Maurizio Pace (Don Riccardo) & Gabriele Ribis (Jago) Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Daniele Callegari, Jean-Louis Grinda (dir.)

Micaela Carosi (Adriana), Marcelo Álvarez (Maurizio), Marianne Cornetti (Principessa de Bouillon), Alfonso Antoniozzi (Michonnet) Teatro Regio Torino, Renato Palumbo (conductor) & Lorenzo Mariani (director)

Ildiko Komlosi (Santuzza), Sung Kyu Park (Turiddu), Cinzia De Mola (Lucia), Marco di Felice (Alfio) & Barbara Di Castri (Lola) Teatro di San Carlo, Zhang Jiemin (conductor) & Maurizio Scaparro (stage director)

Roberto Alagna (Roméo), Angela Gheorghiu (Juliette); Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, sung by Kühn’s Mixed Choir, Prague, Anton Guadagno (conductor) & Barbara Willis Sweete (director)

Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Alfred Muff (Don Pizarro) & László Polgár (Rocco) Orchestra and Chorus of The Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Evelyn Hart (Odette / Odile) & Peter Schaufuss (Siegfried) London Festival Ballet & Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Graham Bond

Penguin Cafe Orchestra & Royal Ballet, Simon Jeffes

Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Thomas Allen (baritone) Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Andre Previn

Alan Benson, David Hockney

María José Moreno (Lisinga), Victoria Zaytseva (Demetrio-Siveno), Yijie Shi (Demetrio-Eumene) & Mirco Palazzi (Polibio) Orchestra Sinfonica G. Rossini & Prague Chamber Choir, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Davide Livermore (stage director)

Ketevan Kemoklidze (Rosina), Luca Salsi (Figaro), Dmitry Korchak (Il Conte d’Almaviva), Giovanni Furlanetto (Don Basilio) & Bruno Praticò (Bartolo) Teatro Regio di Parma, Andrea Battistoni (conductor) & Stefano Vizioli (stage director)

Lydia Shernikh (Tatyana) & Alexander Nenadovsky (Onegin) The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev

Deon van der Walt, Ulrike Sonntag, Cornelius Hauptmann, Andrea Frei, Thomas Mohr, Patricia Rozario Chor und Orchester der Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Wolfgang Gönnenwein, stage direction by Axel Manthey

Keith Ikaia-Purdy, Armin Kolarczyk, Tero Hannula & Silvia Hablowetz Badische Staatskapelle, Daniel Carlberg (conductor) & Robert Tannenbaum (director)

Anna Tsygankova (Clara Staalboom), Matthew Golding (Prince), James Stout (Nutcracker) & Alexander Zhembrovskyy (Mouse King) Dutch National Ballet & Holland Symfonia, Ermanno Florio

The Michael Nyman Band (live at Studio Halle)

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Sarah Walker (Elizabeth I), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Essex), Jean Rigby (Lady Essex), Richard van Allan (Raleigh), Elizabeth Vaughan (Lady Rich), Alan Opie (Cecil), Neil Howlett (Mountjoy), Malcolm Donnelly (Henry Cuffe) English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor) & Colin Graham (director)

Bo Skovhus (König Lear), Katja Pieweck (Goneril), Hellen Kwon (Regan), Siobhan Stagg (Cordelia) & Erwin Leder (Narr) Philharmoniker Hamburg & Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor) & Karoline Gruber (stage director)

Hagen Quartett: Lukas Hagen (1st violin), Rainer Schmidt (2nd violin), Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (violoncello), Soloists: Seh Yun Kim, Arsen Mehrabyan, Soloists: Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, Tigran Mikayelyan, Soloists: Yen Han Zürcher Ballett

featuring Karan Armstrong, Götz Friedrich, Josef Greindl, René Kollo, Jesús López Cobos, Christa Ludwig, Barry McDaniel, Hans Neuenfels, Aribert Reimann, Donald Runnicles, Dietmar Schwarz, Júlia Várady and the last interview with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in 2012

Sabine Kupfeberg, Karel Hruska, David Krugel & Gioconda Barbuto Nederlands Dans Theater

Peter Schreier (Tamino), Christian Boesch (Papageno), Edita Gruberova (Queen of the Night), Ileana Cotrubas (Pamina), Martti Talvela (Sarastro), Walter Berry (Sprecher), Horst Hiestermann (Monostatos), Gudrun Sieber (Papagena) Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine

Francoise Joullié (Cendrillon), Dominique Lainé (Stepmother), Jayne Plaisted & Danièle Pater (The Sisters) Ballet and Orchestra of the Lyon National Opera, Yakov Kreisberg

René Kollo (Tannhäuser), Waltraud Meier (Venus), Bernd Weikl (Wolfram), Nadine Secunde (Elisabeth), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Hermann); Bayerische Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta (conductor) & David Alden (director)

Lucia Popp, Doris Soffel, Horst Laubenthal & Kurt Moll, Krisztina Laki, Marga Schiml, Josef Protschka & Jan-Hendrik Rootering Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker & Chor der Bamberger Symmphoniker, Rafael Kubelik, Horst Stein

The Norwegian National Ballet & The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad

Renée Fleming (soprano) & Maciej Pikulski (piano)

Renato Bruson (Macbeth), Mara Zampieri (Lady Macbeth), James Morris (Banco), Dennis O’Neill (Macduff), David Griffith (Malcolm), Sharon Sweet (Dama), Josef Becker (Medico) Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) & Luca Ronconi (director)

Czech Philharmonic, Václav Neumann

With Sabine Kupferberg, Gioconda Barbuto, David Krügel, Karel Hruška and others Nederlands Dans Theater

Juliette Galstian (Iphigenie), Rodney Gilfrey (Oreste), Deon Van Der Walt (Pylades), Anton Scharinger (Thoas) & Martina Janková (Goddess Diana) Orchestra « La Scintilla » of The Zurich Opera House (on historical instruments), William Christie (conductor) & Claus Guth (stage director)

Leo Nucci (Nabucco), Maria Guleghina (Abigaille), Miroslav Dvorský (Ismaele), Giacomo Prestia (Zaccaria), Marina Domashenko (Fenena), Renate Pitscheider (Anna), Walter Pauritsch (Abdallo), Goran Simic (Gran Sacerdote) Wiener Staatsoper, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Günter Krämer (director)

Brigitte Fassbander (mezzo), Eva Marton (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), René Kollo (tenor), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Franz Hawlata (bass), Christine Schäfer (soprano), Paul Groves (tenor)

with Christiane Libor (soprano), Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo-soprano), Katerina Hebelkova (contralto), Roland Pöntinen (piano), Peter Feuchtwanger (piano) & Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger

The Michael Nyman Band

Wang Rong-Yu (The Meditator), Wu Chun-Hsien (The Rice Raker), Lee Ching-Chun (Woman’s Solo), Wang Wei-Ming (Man’s Solo) The Rustavi Choir, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Badri Toidze

Munich Philharmonic, Sergiu Celibidache

Narrated by Max Emanuel Cencic, Philippe Jaroussky, Ernesto Tomasini and others. Also featuring David Daniels, Andreas Scholl, Daniel Behle and many more.

Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), María José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia Gavrilan (Ragonde), Rinnat Moriah (Alice) Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani, Lluís Pasqual

Yijie Shi (Le Comte Ory), María José Moreno (La Comtesse Adèle), Lorenzo Regazzo (Le Gouverneur), Laura Polverelli (Isolier), Roberto de Candia (Raimbaud), Natalia Gavrilan (Ragonde), Rinnat Moriah (Alice) Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Carignani (conductor) & Lluís Pasqual (stage director)

Friedrich Gulda (piano)

Catherine Foster (Isolde), Bryan Register (Tristan), Annika Schlicht (Brangaene), Andreas Japel (Kurwenal), Dimitry Ivashchenko (King Marke) Staatstheater Cottbus, Alexander Merzyn

Gerald Finley (Owen Wingrave), Peter Savidge (Spencer Coyle), Josephine Barstow (Miss Wingrave), Anne Dawson (Mrs Coyle), Elizabeth Gale (Mrs Julien), Charlotte Hellekant (Kate), Martyn Hill (Sir Philip Wingrave); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, Margaret Williams (dir.)

Samuel Ramey (Mefistofele), Gabriela Beòaèková (Margherita), Dennis O’Neill (Faust), Judith Christin (Martha), Emily Manhart (Pantalis), Daniel Harper (Wagner), Douglas Wunsch (Nereo) San Francisco Opera, Maurizio Arena (conductor) & Robert Carsen (director)

The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

Renato Bruson (Macbeth), Mara Zampieri (Lady Macbeth), James Morris (Banco), Dennis O’Neill (Macduff), David Griffith (Malcolm), Sharon Sweet (Dama), Josef Becker (Medico) Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) & Luca Ronconi (director)

Fiorenza Cedolins (Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly)), Francesca Franci (Suzuki), Mina Blum (Kate Pinkerton), Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless) Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Franco Zeffirelli (stage director)

Alan Oke (Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen), David Kempster (Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Charles Rice (Ned Keene); Britten–Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, Tim Albery (dir.)

Plácido Domingo (Goya), Michelle Breedt (Duchess of Alba), Iride Martinez (Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain) & Christian Gerhaher (Martin Zapater) Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Emmanuel Villaume (conductor) & Kasper Bech Holten (stage director)

Lisa Otto (Vater Fadenkreutz), Ivan Sardi (Mutter Fadenkreutz), Manfred Röhrl (Wilhelm), Gerti Zeumer (Auguste), Donald Grobe (Assessor Birkhahn) & Victor Von Halem (Bürgermeister) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Caspar Richter (conductor) & Winfried Bauernfeind (stage director)

Dale Duesing, Kristine Ciesinski, Ronald Hamilton, Dieter Bundschuh & Barry Banks, Stage Direction by Peter Mussbach Choir and Children’s Choir of the Frankfurt Opera & Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Sylvain Cambreling

Ana Laguna, Marc Hwang, Yvan Auzely, Pompea Santoro, George Elkin, Boaz Cohem The Cullberg Ballet, Choreography: Mats Ek

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) & Charles Spencer (piano), Directed by Claus Viller

Nederlands Dans Theater & Het Nationale Ballet