Opera

Renee Fleming plays a femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power that reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. Fleming, 'America's most-loved and most-lauded opera singer' (The Times, London) plays...

Les Pecheurs De Perles Blu-Ray

Angelic' is a word often used to describe Philippe Jaroussky's voice. The ethereal quality of his countertenor is intrinsic to his roles as both an angel and as a ghost in Only the Sound Remains, a double bill of operas by the distinguished Finnish...

Pl?cido Domingo, as Vasco da Gama, and Shirley Verrett, as the African queen whom he has enslaved, star in Meyerbeer's spectacular grand opera, in a colourfully exotic production by Lotfi Mansouri, under the sensitive musical direction of Maurizio Arena.

La Travita Blu-Ray

Maria Stuarda (The Metropolitan Opera) Blu-Ray

Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni's incomparable partnership as Rodolfo and Mimi, the tragic lovers in Puccini's much-loved bittersweet opera, is captured for posterity in this live recording from the San Francisco Opera. Francesca Zambello's production

It's a wolf-eats-duck world. But it's a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage and - with a little help from a crazy bird and a dreamy duck (and none whatsoever from a fat, lethargic cat and two hooligan hunters) - can catch the wolf.

From the innovative and gorgeous "Tutto Verdi" project comes a chance to catch all the high points! The "Tutto Verdi" highlights DVD and Blu-ray discs include arias from 20 Verdi operas. The selections hail from the best-known and loved productions like...

Juha Uusitalo, John Daszak, Franz-Josef Kapellmann, Matti Salminen, Stephen Milling, Anna Larsson, Christa Mayer, Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Jennifer Wilson, Lance Ryan, Gerhard Siegel, and Catherine Wyn-Rogers star.

Nicholas Hytner's enchanting production, sung in the original Czech, is conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras, a master of the best Jan?'ek style. Through myriad shifts of scene, the episodic story is presented in brightly-coloured sets and costumes of bliss

Arguably Mussorgsky, Modest's greatest work, Khovanshchina was incomplete at the time of his death and so this glorious production, from the Vienna State Opera, employs Shostakovich's scoring with the addition of the final chorus composed by Stravinsky in