Around the World in Music (41)

Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos

Katharina Thoma (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Soile Isokoski (Ariadne)...

Philip Glass's The Perfect American

Dennis Russell Davies (conductor), Phelim McDermott (stage director) – Christopher Purves (Walt Disney), David Pittsinger (Roy Disney)...

Louie's Mulroney, The Opera

A comedy imagined by Dan Redican and Larry Weinstein

Handel's Tamerlano

Paul McCreesh, Graham Vick – Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Jennifer Holloway (Irene), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) – Teatro Real Madrid

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail

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

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)

Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Musto, Beethoven, Liszt, and Mussorgsky

Piano recital

• Carnegie Hall (New York, USA)

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)

Valery Gergiev conducts Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov – With Andrei Ionita

Münchner Philharmoniker

• Philharmonie im Gasteig (Munich, Germany)

Verdi's Aida

Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, José Antonio Gutiérrez – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Lully's Persée (II/II)

Hervé Niquet, Marshall Pynkoski – Cyril Auvity (Perseus), Marie Lenormand (Andromède) – Opera Atelier

• Opera Atelier (Toronto, Canada)

Lully's Persée (I/II)

Hervé Niquet, Marshall Pynkoski – Cyril Auvity (Perseus), Marie Lenormand (Andromède) – Opera Atelier

Wagner's Das Rheingold

Lothar Zagrosek, Joachim Schlömer – Bernhard Schneider (Froh), Wolfgang Probst (Wotan), Robert Künzle (Loge) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Being Alice

Alice's adventures in wonderland

Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust

La Fura dels Baus, Sylvain Cambreling – Vesselina Kasarova (Marguerite), Paul Groves (Faust), Willard White (Méphistophélès)

Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld

Opéra-bouffe Staged by Laurent Pelly – Conducted by Marc Minkowski – With Natalie Dessay and Yann Beuron (Lyon 1998)

• Lyon Opera House (Lyons, France)

A Tango Night From Buenos Aires

Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires

• Avenida 9 de Julio (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Sir Simon Rattle conducts an all-American program – With Thomas Quasthoff and Pauline Malefane

2008 New Year's Eve Concert

Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades

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

Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

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

• Teatro Regio di Torino (Turin, Italy)

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West

Carlo Rizzi, Nikolaus Lehnoff – With Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance) and Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Gianluigi Gelmetti, Emilio Sagi – Juan Diego Flórez (Count Almaviva), María Bayo (Rosina) – Teatro Real de Madrid

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Murray Perahia plays Bach, Beethoven and Chopin

Live in Warsaw

• Warsaw Philharmonic Hall (Warsaw, Poland)

Claudio Abbado and Maxim Vengerov, Gypsy

Silvesterkonzert 1996

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

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)

Britten's The Turn of the Screw

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

Britten's Peter Grimes

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

• Aldeburgh Festival (Aldeburgh, Great Britain)