Le Nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart, from Opéra National de Paris, 2006. Directed by Christoph Marthaler, conductor Sylvain Cambreling, starring Peter Mattei, Christine Schäfer, Heidi Grant Murphy, Lorenzo Regazzo and Christine Oelze. Performed in Italian.

L'Italiana in Algeri by G. Rossini, from Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2006. Directed by Toni Servillo, conductor Riccardo Frizza, starring Maxim Mironov, Christianne Stotijn, Giorgio Caoduro, Marco Vinco, Ruben Drole, Sabina Willeit and Elisaveta Martirosyan. Performed in Italian.

L'elisir d'amore by G. Donizetti, from Paris Opera, 2006. Directed by Laurent Pelly, conductor Edward Gardner, starring Laurent Naouri, Ambrogio Maestri, Paul Groves, Heidi Grant Murphy and Aleksandra Zamojska. Performed in Italian.

L'Orfeo by C. Monteverdi, from Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, performed at Théâtre Municipal Raymond Devos, 2004. Directed by Jacky Lautem, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire, starring Philippe Jaroussky, Kobie van Rensburg, Cyrille Gerstenhaber, Estelle Käique, Renaud Delaigue, Delphine Gillot, Berna...

Ercole su'l Termodonte by A.Vivaldi, from Spoleto Festival, performed at Teatro Caio Melisso, 2006. Directed by John Pascoe, conductor Alan Curtis, starring Filippo Mineccia, Diana, Maria Bartoli, Randall Scotting, Zachary Stains, Laura Cherici, Mary-Elen Nesi and Luca Dordolo. Performed in Itali...

Chérubin by J. Massenet, from Teatro Lirico di Caligari, performed at Teatro Lirico, Caligari, 2006. Directed by Paul Curran, conductor Emmanuel Villaume, starring Patrizia Ciofi, Carmela Remigio, Michelle Breedt, Teresa di Bari, Alessandra Palomba, Giorgio Surian. Performed in French and Subtitl...

Didone by Cavalli, from Venezia Teatro La Fenice, performed at La Fenice, 2006. Directed by Francesca Cabrini and Davide Ortelli, conductor Fabio Biondi, starring Isabel Álvarez, Antonio Lozano, Claron McFadden, Manuela Custer, Jordi Domènech, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Marina De Liso, Magnus Stavelan...

L'italiana in Algeri by G. Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, 2006. Directed by Dario Fo, conductor Donato Renzetti, starring Alex Esposito, Maxim Mironov, Marianna Pizzolato, Bruno De Simone, Jose Maria Lo Monaco, Marco Vinco, Barbara Bargnesi. Perform...

Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti, from Festival Donizetti Bergamo, performed at Teatro G.Donizetti, Bergamo, 2006. Directed by Francesco Esposito, conductor Antonino Fogliani, starring Luca Grassi, Désirée Rancatore, Roberto de Biasio, Matteo Barca, Tiziana Falco, Enrico Giuseppe Iori, Vincenz...

Luisa Miller by G. Verdi, from Venezia Teatro La Fenice, performed at La Fenice, 2006. Directed by Arnaud Bernard, conductor Maurizio Benini, starring Alexander Vinogradov, Darina Takova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Damiano Salerno, Arutjun Kotchinian, Elisabetta Martorana, Luca Favaron. Performed in Ita...

Torvaldo e Dorliska by G. Rossini, from ROF Rossini Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, 2006. Directed by Mario Martone, conductor Victor Pablo Pérez, starring Francesco Meli, Michele Pertusi, Jeannette Fischer, Darina Takova, Bruno Praticò, Simone Alberghini. Performed in Italia...

Die Zauberflöte (for Children) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from St. Margarethen Römersteinbruch, 2006. Performed in German.

Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck, from Semperoper Dresden, 2006. Directed by Andreas Morell, conductor Michael Hofstetter. Starring Iris Vermillon, Irmgard Vilsmaier, Antigone Papoulkas, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen. Performed in German.

"A superlative staging of Puccini’s Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! The popular tragedy is sung by a dream team cast of excellent singer-actors and conducted by long-...

Ariadne auf Naxos is one of many beautifully crafted operas created by Richard Strauss and his librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the compelling production from the Zurich Opera, recorded on this DVD, Christoph von Dohnányi leads a particularly strong cast of singer-actors in a thrilling interp...

“…Riccardo Muti conducts Don Pasquale in Ravenna - a great celebration for everyone.” This press quote from the Italian music magazine Il giornale della musica hit the mark exactly. Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the 21 year old Andrea da Rosa and listening to a ...

"“Procure me the unconditional fulfilment of my every wish for the rest of my life, let me embrace the world – the East and the South, which call out to me –, let me understand completely man’s actions and extend them in unheard-of ways; give me genius, and give me also his suffering, so that I m...

"George Frideric Handel‘s ‚Admeto‘ is considered one of the most successful operas produced in the first half of the 18th century. Along with ‚Radamisto‘, ‚Giulio Cesare‘, ‚Tamerlano‘, ‚Rodelinda‘ and ‚Alessandro‘, which were also written in this period, ‚Admeto‘ belongs to Handel‘s so-called ‚Lo...

Exactly 20 years separate Jiří Kylián’s solo Silent Cries and his black-and-white film, Car Men, made in 2006 in collaboration with the Dutch filmmaker, Boris Paval Cone. What unites the two works is the sheer expressiveness of the dance on the one hand, and the distinctive facial gestures and bo...

Roberto Devereux by G. Donizetti from Donizetti Opera Festival, performed at Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2006. Directed by Francesco Bellotto, conductor Marcello Rota. Starring Dimitra Theodossiou (Elizabeth, Queen of England), Andrew Schroeder (The Duke of Nottingham), Federica Bragaglia (Sara, D...

La forza del destino by G. Verdi from Teatro Comunale di Modena, performed at Teatro Comunale, Modena, 2006. Directed by Pier Francesco Maestrini, conductor Lukas Karytinos. Starring Susanna Branchini (Leonora), Renzo Zulian (Don Alvaro), Marco di Felice (Don Carlo), Paolo Battaglia (Padre Guardi...

Il trovatore by Verdi from Bregenz Festival, performed at Bregenz Festival, 2006. Directed by Robert Carsen, conductor Thomas Rösner. Starring Carl Tanner (Manrico), Iano Tamar (Leonora), Željko Lučić (Il Conte di Luna) and Marianne Cornetti (Azucena). Subtitled in German, Spanish, French, Italia...