Operalia, what have they become? (20)

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mendelssohn, Bach and Beethoven – With Christian Tetzlaff, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser, Dimitry Ivashchenko

Waldbühne 2013 – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Handel's Hercules

William Christie, Luc Bondy – With William Shimell (Hercules) and Joyce DiDonato (Dejanira)

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts R. Strauss, Berlioz, and Schumann – With Joyce DiDonato

Verbier Festival 2015

Joyce DiDonato sings In War and Peace: Harmony through Music

With Il Pomo d'oro, under the direction of Maxim Emelyanychev

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Adams' Doctor Atomic

Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nationale Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Handel's Serse

Christophe Rousset, Philip Behrens – Sandrine Piau (Atalanta), Marcello Lippi (Ariodate) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea

William Christie (conductor), Jan Lauwers (stage director) – Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsey, Stéphanie d'Oustrac...

Bizet's Carmen

Martin Kušej (stage director), Daniel Barenboim (conductor) – With Rolando Villazón (Don José), Marina Domashenko (Carmen)... and the Staatskapelle Berlin

• Staatsoper Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades

Michael Boder, Gilbert Deflo – With Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Liza) and Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

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

Strauss' Salome

Philippe Jordan, David McVicar – Nadja Michael (Salome), Thomas Moser (Herod), Joseph Kaiser (Narraboth) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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

Gounod's Mireille

Nicolas Joel (stage director), Marc Minkowski (conductor) – With Inva Mula (Mireille), Charles Castronovo (Vincent), Franck Ferrari (Ourrias)...

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)

John Nelson conducts Bach's Mass in B minor at Notre-Dame de Paris

Ensemble orchestral de Paris, featuring Ruth Ziesak, Joyce DiDonato, Paul Agnew and Dietrich Henschel

• Notre Dame de Paris (Paris, France)

Massenet's Werther

Michel Plasson, Benoît Jacquot – Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)

Verdi's Otello

Antoni Ros-Marbà, Willy Decker – Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), José Cura (Otello), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Puccini's La Bohème

Jesús López Cobos (music director), Giancarlo del Monaco (stage director) – With Inva Mula, Laura Giordano...

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

Philippe Jordan, Robert Wilson – Stéphane Degout (Pelléas), Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande), Anne Sofie von Otter (Geneviève), Vincent le Texier (Golaud)

Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

Alain Guingal, Giancarlo del Monaco – Aquiles Machado (Hoffman), Milagros Poblador (Olympia) – Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao

• Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)

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)