Un Ballo in Maschera

Salome

Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

1997

Don Giovanni

Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.

2000

Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

2003

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess o

2015

William Tell

“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid) This is the

1987

Massenet: Thaïs

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to

2008

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

1981

Eugene Onegin

Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.

2008

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Komische Oper Berlin)

Live performance from the Komische Oper Berlin, February 15 2016.

2016

Eugene Onegin

Live performance for Garsington Opera, June-July, 2016.

2016

Gounod: Faust

Tenor Jonas Kaufmann is riveting as the title character of Gounod’s popular opera, seen in this Live in HD presentation of Des McAnuff’s thrilling 201

2011

Beatrice di Tenda

Live performance from the Zurich Opera House, January 2002.

2002

The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov

Stephen Wadsworth’s production of Mussorgsky’s epic masterpiece brilliantly captures the suffering and ambition of the Russian people at a critical ti

2010

Francesca Da Rimini

LIve performance of Rachmaninoff's opera from the Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy, 15 February 2015.

2015

Adriana Lecouvreur

In the present stylised production by Lorenzo Mariani the 'violet-perfumed murderess' is taken by mezzo-soprano Marianne Cornetti, one of the most in-

2009

Prince Igor

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince

2014

The Metropolitan Opera: Così Fan Tutte

Met Music director James Levine conducts a cast of youthful stars in Mozart’s sophisticated comedy about testing the ties of love. Susanna Phillips an

2014

Così fan tutte

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 27 February, 1996.

1996

Die Fledermaus

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 31 December 1986.

1986

Don Pasquale

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met a

1979