Legendary sopranos (32)

Maria Callas sings two recitals in Paris

In 1965 and 1958

• Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris, France)
• Palais Garnier (Paris, France)

Bellini's La Sonnambula

Evelino Pidò, Marco Arturo Marelli – Natalie Dessay (Amina), Javier Camarena (Elvino) – Opéra Bastille

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...

George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence

George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) – With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger)...

Claudio Abbado conducts R. Strauss and Wagner – With Renée Fleming, Violeta Urmana, René Pape...

2004 Lucerne Festival Opening Concert

Anna Netrebko and Daniel Barenboim perform Russian Songs

Songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

The Glory of Russia – Sound and Sights of Saint Petersburg

Renée Fleming with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Palaces of the Czars

Renee Fleming and Claudio Abbado perform Berg, Schubert and Mahler

Gala concert of the Lucerne Festival 2005

Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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

Tito Gobbi and Maria Callas sing Puccini's Tosca

Orchestra and choirs of the Opéra de Paris, Georges Sébastian (conductor)

Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven – With Mikhail Pletnev, Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser,...

Europakonzert 2000, Berlin

Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg and Tchaikovsky – With Anna Prohaska

Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela – Lucerne Festival at Easter 2010

The finest Russian musicians gathered around Yuri Temirkanov and Anna Netrebko

2003 St. Petersburg Gala, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the city

• Grand Hall of the Saint. Petersburg Philharmonia (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Götz Friedrich (stage director), Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) – With Plácido Domingo (Chevalier des Grieux), Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut)...

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...

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Mariame Clément (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina)...

Handel's Giulio Cesare

David McVicar (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra)...

Maria Callas, Life and Art

Including extensive interviews and exclusive footage of La Divina in concert

Mirella Freni, A Life Devoted to Opera

A portrait for the soprano's 75th birthday

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier

London Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Plácido Domingo conducts Spanish music – With Ana Maria Martinez and Sarah Chang

Waldbühne 2001: A Spanish Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart and Verdi's greatest songs of love and desire

With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo Raúl Àlvarez, and Simon Keenlyside

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Lieder

Gerald Moore (piano) - Geoffroy Parsons (piano) - Orchestre national de l'ORTF, Berislav Klobucar (conductor)

Ion Marin conducts Mussorgsky, Dvořák, Khachaturian, Strauss, Wagner... – With Renée Fleming

Waldbühne 2010: Night of Love – Berliner Philharmoniker

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)

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)

Puccini's La Bohème

Tiziano Severini, Francesca Zambello – Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo) – San Francisco Opera

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

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Paolo Arrivabeni, Jean-Louis Grinda – With Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni), Patrizia Ciofi (Donna Anna), Sonya Yoncheva (Donna Elvira)...

Portrait Edita Gruberova

The Art of Belcanto