The Best of Italian Operas

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Michael Hampe (stage director), Gabriele Ferro (conductor) — With David Kuebler (Count Almaviva), Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina)...

Schwetzingen Festpiele (Schwetzingen, Germany)

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Opéra national de Paris

Puccini's La Bohème

Claus Guth (stage director), Gustavo Dudamel (music direction) – With Nicole Car (Mimì), Aida Garifullina (Musetta), Atalla Ayan (Rodolfo)...

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Puccini's Tosca

Nicolas Joel (stage director), Daniel Oren (conductor) – With Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Gustavo Porta (Cavaradossi), Sergey Murzaev (Scarpia)...

The Opera Festival (Masada, Israel)

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Rossini's Armida

Mariame Clément (stage director), Alberto Zedda (musical direction) – With Carmen Romeu (Armida), Enea Scala (Rinaldo)...

Flanders Opera (Antwerp, Belgium)

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Verdi's Attila

Arturo Gama (stage director), Valery Gergiev (musical direction) – With Ildar Abdrazakov (Attila), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ezio), Anna Markarova (Odabella)...

Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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Verdi's Nabucco

Arnaud Bernard (stage director), Daniel Oren (direction) – With George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele)...

Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

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Berliner Philharmoniker

Claudio Abbado conducts Italian opera arias – With Bryn Terfel, Sergei Larin, and Angela Gheorghiu

Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

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Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director), Fabio Luisi (conductor) – With Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) –...

Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

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Verdi's Aida

José Antonio Gutiérrez (stage director), Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (music director) – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del L...

Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

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Glyndebourne

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Annabel Arden (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Danielle de Niese (Rosina), Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo), Taylor Stayton (Count Alma...

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Teatro Regio

Puccini's Turandot

Stefano Poda (stage director), Gianandrea Noseda (conductor) – With Rebeka Lokar (Princess Turandot), Jorge de León (Prince Calaf), Erika Grimaldi (Liù)...

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Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Verdi's La Traviata

Peter Mussbach (stage director), Yutaka Sado (music director) – Avec Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

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Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda

Daniel Schmid (stage director), Marcello Viotti (conductor) – With Edita Gruberova (Beatrice di Tenda), Michael Volle (Filippo Maria Visconti) – Zurich Ope...

Zürich Opera House (Zurich, Switzerland)

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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser (stage directors), Evelino Pidò (music director) – With Natalie Dessay (Lucie) and Ludovic Tézier (Henri Asthon)

Lyon Opera House (Lyons, France)

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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)

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Bellini's I Puritani

Francisco Negrín (stage director), Giuliano Carella (conductor) – With Mariola Cantarero (Elvira) and John Osborn (Lord Arturo Talbo)... – Het Muziektheater

The Amsterdam Music Theatre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Ansgar Weigner (stage director), Frank Beermann (music director) – Die Theater Chemnitz

Die Theater Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)

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Verdi's Don Carlos

Nicholas Hytner (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (music director) – With Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rod...

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

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Glyndebourne

Verdi's Falstaff

Richard Jones (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Hollo...