Prima Donnas (33)

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, Lieder

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

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier

London Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa: Portrait

A film by Nigel Wattis

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

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

Bellini's La Sonnambula

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

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)...

Renee Fleming and Claudio Abbado perform Berg, Schubert and Mahler

Gala concert of the Lucerne Festival 2005

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

2004 Lucerne Festival Opening Concert

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

Verbier Festival 2015

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)

The Glory of Russia – Sound and Sights of Saint Petersburg

Renée Fleming with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Palaces of the Czars

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

Waldbühne 2010: Night of Love – Berliner Philharmoniker

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)

Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea

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

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)

Anna Netrebko: the woman, the voice

A documentary by Vincent Paterson on the famous soprano

Maestro Dessay

A portrait of the best-known French soprano

Portrait Edita Gruberova

The Art of Belcanto

Jessye Norman sings Carmen

Private recording sessions filmed in Paris

Caballé, Beyond music

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

Maria Callas, Born for Singing

A documentary film by Fabio Calvi

Maria Callas, Life and Art

Including extensive interviews and exclusive footage of La Divina in concert

Malibran rediscovered: A portrait of Maria Malibran by Cecilia Bartoli

A documentary by Michael Sturminger

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)

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)

In the Heart of the Light

The Night of the Prima Donnas