Prima Donnas (34)

Maria Callas sings two recitals in Paris

In 1965 and 1958

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

Anna Netrebko and Daniel Barenboim perform Russian Songs

Songs by Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Cecilia Bartoli: The Barcelona Concert

Palau de la Música Catalana

• Palau de la Música Catalana (Barcelona, Spain)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier

London Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Lieder

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

Bellini's La Sonnambula

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

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

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

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: Portrait

A film by Nigel Wattis

Claudio Abbado conducts Richard Strauss and Wagner — With Renée Fleming, Violeta Urmana, René Pape...

2004 Lucerne Festival Opening Concert

Claudio Abbado conducts Berg, Schubert, and Mahler – With Renée Fleming

Gala concert of the Lucerne Festival 2005

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)...

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

Verbier Festival 2015

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)

Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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

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

Waldbühne 2010: Night of Love – Berliner Philharmoniker

The Glory of Russia – Sound and Sights of Saint Petersburg

Renée Fleming with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Palaces of the Czars

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)

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)

In the Heart of the Light

The Night of the Prima Donnas

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)

Malibran rediscovered: A portrait of Maria Malibran by Cecilia Bartoli

A documentary by Michael Sturminger

Maria Callas, Life and Art

Including extensive interviews and exclusive footage of La Divina in concert

Maria Callas, Born for Singing

A documentary film by Fabio Calvi

Caballé, Beyond music

A complex and passionate portrait of a woman who can only be described as a myth

Jessye Norman sings Carmen

Private recording sessions filmed in Paris