Around the World in Music (40)

Britten's Peter Grimes

Margaret Williams (stage director), Steuart Bedford (conductor) – With Alan Oke (Peter Grimes) and Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford) – Aldeburgh Festival

• Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, Great Britain)

Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Jonathan Kent (stage director), Jakub Hruša (conductor) – With Miah Persson (The Governess), Toby Spence (Prologue/Peter Quint)...

La Sylphide by August Bournonville, music by Herman Løvenskiold

Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet

• Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Murray Perahia plays Bach, Beethoven and Chopin

Live in Warsaw

• Warsaw Philharmonic Hall (Warsaw, Poland)

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Emilio Sagi (stage director), Gianluigi Gelmetti (conductor) – With Juan Diego Flórez (Count Almaviva), María Bayo (Rosina)...

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Jean-Christophe Maillot's Romeo and Juliet, music by Prokofiev

Bernice Coppieters (Juliet), Chris Roelandt (Romeo), Paola Cantalupo (Lady Capulet)... – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer

Jan Philipp Gloger (stage director), Christian Thielemann (conductor) – With Ricarda Merbeth (Senta) and Franz-Josef Selig (Daland) – Bayreuth Festival

Walt Disney Concert Hall celebrates Gershwin – With Gustavo Dudamel and Herbie Hancock

Los Angeles Philharmonic

• Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, USA)

Claudio Abbado and Maxim Vengerov, Gypsy

Silvesterkonzert 1996

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Picasso and Dance

The origins of Le Tricorne and Le Train Bleu

Joan at the Stake – Featuring Marion Cotillard

Oratorio by Arthur Honegger, text by Paul Claudel

• Sala Pau Casals, L’Auditori (Barcelona, Spain)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Tchaikovsky and Brahms

Waldbühne 2014: A Midsummer Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

Janáček's The Makropulos Case

Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director), Andrew Davis (conductor) – With Anja Silja (Emilia Marty), Kim Begley (Albert Gregor)...

Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Katharina Wagner (stage director), Sebastian Weigle (music director) – With Charles Reid (Kunz Vogelgesang), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing) – Ba...

The Charm Of Impossibilities

The genesis of the Quartet for the End of Time, by Olivier Messiaen

Franz Welser-Möst conducts Mozart and Strauss – With Leif Ove Andsnes and Dorothea Röschmann

Opening concert of the 2006–2007 season at Carnegie Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra

• Carnegie Hall (New York, USA)

Boito's Mefistofele

Robert Carsen (stage director), Maurizio Arena (conductor) – With Samuel Ramey (Mefistofele), Gabriela Benackova (Margherita and Elena) – San Francisco Opera

• San Francisco Opera (San Francisco, California, USA)

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bernstein's Wonderful Town – With the Berliner Philharmoniker

2002 New Year’s Eve Concert

São Paulo Samba

Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, John Neschling (conductor)

• Sala São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

Nikolaus Lehnoff (stage director), Carlo Rizzi (conductor) – With Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance) and Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson...

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

Andrei Konchalovsky (stage director), Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) – With Orlin Anastassov (Boris Godunov) – Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra de...

• Teatro Regio di Torino (Turin, Italy)

Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades

Hans Neuenfels (stage director), Mariss Jansons (conductor) – With Brandon Jovanovich, Evgenia Muraveva, Vladislav Sulimsky...

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Giulio Chazalettes (stage director), Maurizio Arena (conductor) – With Raina Kabaivanska, Nazzareno Antinori, Lorenzo Saccomani... and the Verona Teatro Ar...

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Zhu Shaoyu's You And Me

Zhang Yimou (stage director) – National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

• National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) (Beijing, China)

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

David McVicar (stage director), Robin Ticciati (conductor) – With Edgaras Montvidas (Belmonte), Sally Matthews (Kostanze)...

Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Robert Carsen (stage director), Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor) – With Danielle de Niese (Poppea), Alice Coote (Nerone), Iestyn Davies (Ottone)...

Handel's Tamerlano

Graham Vick (stage director), Paul McCreesh (music director) – With Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Jennifer Holloway (Irene), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) – Teatr...

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Louie's Mulroney, The Opera

A comedy imagined by Dan Redican and Larry Weinstein