The Best of Italian Operas (48)

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)

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Fabio Luisi – Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, 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)

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...

Verdi's La Traviata

Yutaka Sado, Peter Mussbach – Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Rossini's La Cenerentola

Paolo Arrivabeni, Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek – Marianna Pizzolato (Cenerentola), Bruno de Simone (Don Magnifico)...

Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda

Marcello Viotti, Daniel Schmid – Edita Gruberova (Beatrice di Tenda), Michael Volle (Filippo Maria Visconti) – Zurich Opera House

• Zürich Opera House (Zurich, Switzerland)

Donizetti's Lucie de 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)

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 Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Verdi's Luisa Miller

Massimo Zanetti and Jean-Claude Fall – With Patrizia Ciofi (Luisa), Gregory Kunde (Rodolfo)...

Bellini's I Puritani

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

• Het Muziektheater Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Frank Beermann, Ansgar Weigner – Die Theater Chemnitz

• Die Theater Chemnitz (Chemnitz, Germany)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

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

Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini

Nello Santi, Grischa Asagaroff – Vesselina Kasarova (Rosina) – Opernhaus Zürich

Claudio Abbado conducts Tchaikovsky and Verdi

Europakonzert 1998, Stockholm

Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers

Paolo Carignani (conductor), Christof Loy (stage director) – With Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Burkhard Fritz (Henri) and Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de M...

• Het Muziektheater Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Riccardo Muti and Violeta Urmana perform Verdi, Martucci and Schubert

Europakonzert 2009, Napoli

• Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli, Italy)

La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi

The Most Beautiful operas of all time (VI/X)

Tito Gobbi sings Verdi and Puccini

Extracts from Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi and Tosca – 1965

Giacomo Puccini, The End of the Voice

Chamber Music Collection

La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini

The Most Beautiful operas of all time (V/X)

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

The Most Beautiful operas of all time (VIII/X)

Rossini's La Gazzetta

Jan Schultsz, Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera – Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Enrico Marabelli (Don Pomponino)...

Puccini's Turandot

Donald Runnicles, Peter McClintock – Eva Marton (Turandot), Michael Sylvester (Calaf) – San Francisco Opera

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

Verdi's Falstaff

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

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

Riccardo Muti, Liliana Cavani – Salvatore Licitra (Riccardo), Maria Guleghina (Amelia) – Teatro alla Scala

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)

Verdi's Rigoletto

Robert Carsen, Gianandrea Noseda – George Gagnidze (Rigoletto), Irina Lungu (Gilda), Arturo Chacon Cruz (Il Duca di Mantova)...

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

The Most Beautiful operas of all time (X/X)

Rossini's La Pietra del paragone

Alberto Zedda, Pier Luigi Pizzi – Marco Vinco (Il Conte Asdrubale), Raúl Giménez (Il Cavalier Giocondo) – Teatro Real Madrid

• Teatro Real Madrid (Madrid, Spain)