Arthaus Musik

Simone Alaimo (Selim), Myrtò Papatanasiu (Fiorilla), Bruno de Simone (Don Geronio), Antonino Siragusa (Don Narciso), Vincenzo Taormina (Prosdocimo), Antonella Nappa (Zaida), Federico Lepre (Albazar) Teatro Carlo Felice, Jonathan Webb (conductor) & Egisto Marcucci (director)

James Johnson (Adam), Bonaventura Bottone (Licht) & Steven Humes (Walter), Rodrick Dixon (The Dwarf), Mary Dunleavy (Donna Clara) & Susan B. Anthony (Ghita) Los Angeles Opera, James Conlon (conductor) & Darko Tresnjak (director)

James Johnson (Adam), Bonaventura Bottone (Licht) & Steven Humes (Walter), Rodrick Dixon (The Dwarf), Mary Dunleavy (Donna Clara) & Susan B. Anthony (Ghita) Los Angeles Opera, James Conlon (conductor) & Darko Tresnjak (director)

The Vienna Boys’ Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben)

Erin Caves (Siegmund), Kirsten Blanck (Sieglinde), Hidekazu Tsumaya (Hunding), Catherine Foster (Brünnhilde), Renatus Mészár (Wotan), Christine Hansmann (Fricka); Staatskapelle Weimar, Carl St. Clair (conductor) & Michael Schulz (director)

José Cura, Paoletta Marrocu & Liliana Nikiteanu, Fiorenza Cedolins & Carlo Guelfi Zurich Opera House, Stefano Ranzani (conductor) & Grischa Asagaroff (director)

Maya Plisetskaya & Alexander Bogatyrev Ballet and Orchestra of The Bolshoi Theatre, Alexander Lazarev

Vesselina Kasarova (Pénélope), Dietrich Henschel (L’humanita Fragilita/ Ulisse), Malin Hartelius (Melanto), Jonas Kaufmann (Telemaco), Rudolf Schasching (Iro), Isabel Rey (Minerva/ Amorei) & Martina Jankovà (Fortuna/ Giunone); Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Klaus-Michael Grüber (dir.)

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Featuring Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Pierre Boulez, Sergiu Celibidache, Francis Poulenc, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Welser-Möst

Renée Fleming (Die Gräfin), Anne Sofie Von Otter (Clairon), Dietrich Henschel (Der Graf), Rainer Trost (Flamand), Gerald Finley (Olivier) & Franz Hawlata (La Roche) Orchestre de L’Opéra National de Paris, ULF SCHIRMER (conductor) & ROBERT CARSEN (director)

Richard Decker, Marek Wojciechowski, Iordanka Derilova, Ulf Paulsen, Kostadin Arguirov, Alexandra Petersamer, Jörg Brückner & Nico Wouterse Dessau Philharmonic, Golo Berg (conductor) & Johannes Felsenstein (director)

Quentin Hayes (Eddy), Fiona Kimm (Wife, Doreen, Waitress 1, Sphinx 2), Helen Charnock (Mum, Waitress 2, Sphinx 1), Richard Suart (Dad, Café Manager, Chief of Police) The Almeida Ensemble, conducted by Steven Berkoff. Directed by Peter Maniura and Jonathan Moore. Play written by Steven Berkoff.

José Carreras & Martin Katz (piano)

Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), Elena Mosuc (Gilda), Piotr Beczala (Il Duca di Mantova), László Polgár (Sparafucile), Katharina Peetz (Maddalena), Kismara Pessatti (Giovanna), Rolf Haunstein (Monterone); Zurich Opera House, Nello Santi

Ermonela Jaho (Violetta Valéry), Francesco Demuro (Alfredo Germont) & Vladimir Stoyanov (Giorgio Germont) Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of the Arena di Verona, Julian Kovatchev (conductor) & Hugo de Ana (stage director)

Giovanni Antonini (flute), Enrico Onofri, Marco Bianchi (violins), Paolo Beschi (violoncello), Luca Pianca (lute) & Luca Guglielmi (harpsichord) Il Giardino Armonico

Nederlands Dance Theater

Michaela Kaune (Jenufa), Jennifer Larmore (Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Will Hartmann (Laca Klemen), Ladislav Elgr (Števa Buryja) & Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka) Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)

Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Gino Quilico (Marcello), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Colline), Sandra Pacetti (Musetta), Stephen Dickson (Schaunard), Italo Tajo (Alcindoro/Benoit), Daniel Harper (Parpignol) Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera, Tiziano Severini

Valery Gergiev, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez & Alexander Toradze

Dawn Upshaw (soprano) The London Sinfonietta, David Zinman

John Meehan (Count Danilo), Karen Kain (Widow Hanna Glawari), Raymond Smith (Camille), Yoko Ichino (Valencienne) The National Ballet of Canada, The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Ermanno Florio

Friedrich Gulda (piano) featuring Limpe Fuchs

Christof Fischesser (Sarastro), Julia Novikova (Königin der Nacht), Malin Hartelius (Pamina), Michael Schade (Tamino), Thomas Tatzl (Papageno) & Regula Mühlemann (Papagena); Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Ivor Bolton, Alexandra Liedtke (dir.)

René Pape (Wotan), Stephan Rügamer (Loge), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Alberich), Doris Soffel (Fricka), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Timo Riihonen (Fafner), Anna Samuil (Freia), Anna Larsson (Erda), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime) Teatro alla Scala, Dancers of the Eastman Ballet Company Antwerp, Daniel Barenboim, Guy Cassiers (stage director)

Nederlands Dans Theater

Thomas Allen (The Forester), Eva Jenis (The Vixen), Hannah Minutillo (The Fox), Libuše Márová (The Forester’s Wife/The Owl) & Ivan Kusnjer (Harašta, the Poacher) Choeur du Chatelet & Orchestre de Paris, Charles Mackerras (conductor) & Nicholas Hytner (stage director)

Marilyn Horne (Orlando), Susan Patterson (Angelica), Kathleen Kuhlmann (Alcina), Sandra Walker (Bradamante), Jeffrey Gall (Ruggiero), William Matteuzzi, Kevin Langan Orchestra and Chorus of the San Francisco Opera, Randall Behr (conductor) & Pier Luigi Pizzi (stage director)

Soile Isokoski, Sophie Koch & Johan Botha Orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann, Sven-Eric Bechtolf

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

Joan Sutherland (soprano), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), Eva Marton (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo), Gegam Grigorian (baritone), Galina Gorchakova (soprano), Nikolai Putilin (baritone), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Paoletta Marrocu (soprano) Richard Bonynge, Evelino Pido, Peter Robinson, Adam Fischer, Alberto Erede, Riccardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, Franz Welser-Most

Jiri Kylian / Matthew Hart

London Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Claudio Abbado (conductor), Jose Carreras, Margaret Price, Jessye Norman, Ruggero Raimondi, Humphrey Burton

Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House, Marcello Viotti (conductor), Edita Gruberova, Michael Volle, Stefania Kaluza, Raul Hernandez, Daniel Schmid

Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Arnold Schonberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern John Carewe, Daniel Harding, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Amanda Roocroft, Barrie Gav

Vienna Philharmonic / Orchest

Robert Adams / Mark Dion / Ini

Roberto Guerra / Eila Hershon

Roni Horn / Matthew Ritchie /

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestr

Rudi Bergmann (director)

Vija Celmins / Tim Hawkinson /

Kim Evans, Marc Chagall

Mark Kidel

Gillian Greenwood

Jan Schmidt-Garre

John Baldessari, Kurt Equiluz, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Robert Holl, Franz Kabelka, Kimsooja, Allan McCollum, Julie Mehretu, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ortrun Wenkel, Rachel Yakar

John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell

David Thompson, Ann Turner

Didier Baussy-Oulianoff

Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner E. Moritz

Reiner E. Moritz