Scandals from classical music history (10)

Strauss' Salome

Peter Hall (stage director), Edward Downes (music director) – With Maria Ewing (Salome), Michael Devlin (John the Baptist) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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

Bernstein conducts Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Sibelius's Symphony No. 5

London Symphony Orchestra. 1966

• Fairfield Hall (Croydon, London, Great Britain)

Parsifal, The Search for the Grail

With Plácido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Anna Netrebko...

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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)

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 works from the French repertoire – With the Labèque sisters

Waldbühne 2005 – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 3

Berliner Philharmoniker

• Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy)

Les Sylphides by Mikhail Fokine, music by Frédéric Chopin

Svetlana Beriosova, Violetta Elvin, Alicia Markova, John Field...

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Martin Kušej (stage director), Mariss Jansons (music director) – With Eva-Maria Westbroek (Katerina Lvovna Ismailova), Ludovít Ludha (Zinovy Borisovich Ism...

• Dutch National Opera & Ballet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Giselle, Les Sylphides, and Coppélia, three of the greatest ballets

With Rudolf Nureyev, Nadia Nerina and Margot Fonteyn