Operalia, what have they become? (20)

Gounod's Mireille

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

Strauss' Salome

David McVicar (stage director), Philippe Jordan (music director) – With Nadja Michael (Salome), Thomas Moser (Herod), Joseph Kaiser (Narraboth) – Royal Ope...

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

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

Luc Bondy (stage director), William Christie (music director) – 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's Doctor Atomic

Peter Sellars (stage director), Lawrence Renes (music director) – With Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera ...

• Dutch National Opera & Ballet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Handel's Serse

Michael Hampe (stage director), Christophe Rousset (conductor) – With Sandrine Piau (Atalanta), Marcello Lippi (Ariodate) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea

Jan Lauwers (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With 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

Gilbert Deflo (stage director), Michael Boder (conductor) – With Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Liza) and Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky) – Gran Teat...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

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

Verdi's Don Carlo

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)

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

Benoît Jacquot (stage director), Michel Plasson (conductor) — With Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)

Verdi's Otello

Willy Decker (stage director), Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor) – With Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), José Cura (Otello), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio) – Gran Teat...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Puccini's La Bohème

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

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

Robert Wilson (stage director), Philippe Jordan (music director) – With Stéphane Degout (Pelléas), Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande), Anne Sofie von Otter (Gene...

Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann

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

• Palacio Euskalduna de Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain)

Handel's Tamerlano

Graham Vick (stage director), Paul McCreesh (music director) – With Plácido Domingo (Bajazet), Jennifer Holloway (Irene), Sara Mingardo (Andronico) – Teatr...

• Teatro Real de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)