The most beautiful operas in HD (21)

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Mariame Clément (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina)...

Puccini's Tosca

Nicolas Joel (stage director), Daniel Oren (conductor) – With Svetla Vassileva (Tosca), Gustavo Porta (Cavaradossi), Sergey Murzaev (Scarpia)...

• The Opera Festival (Masada, Israel)

Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer

Christian Thielemann, Jan Philipp Gloger – With Ricarda Merbeth (Senta) and Franz-Josef Selig (Daland) – Bayreuth Festival

• Bayreuther Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, Germany)

Wagner's Rienzi

Pinchas Steinberg, Jorge Lavelli – With Torsten Kerl (Rienzi) and Marika Schönberg (Irène) – Théâtre du Capitole

• Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse, France)

Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos

Katharina Thoma (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Soile Isokoski (Ariadne)...

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)

Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Jonathan Kent (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Ed Lyon (Hippolytus), Christiane Karg (Aricia), Sarah Connolly (Phaedre)...

Puccini's Turandot

Giuliano Carella, Franco Zeffirelli – Maria Guleghina (Princess Turandot), Salvatore Licitra (Calaf), Tamar Iveri (Liù) – Arena di Verona

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Handel's Alcina

Adrian Noble, Marc Minkowski – Anja Harteros (Alcina), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero)... – Wiener Staatsoper

• Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna)

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...

World premiere of Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain

Tribute: work commissioned by Gérard Mortier (1943-2014)

Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Krzysztof Warlikowski, Emmanuelle Haïm – With Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno)...

Verdi's Luisa Miller

Massimo Zanetti and Jean-Claude Fall – With Patrizia Ciofi (Luisa), Gregory Kunde (Rodolfo)...

Beethoven's Fidelio

Mario Martone, Paolo Arrivabeni – Jennifer Wilson (Leonore), Zoran Todorovich (Florestan)...

Lully's Atys

Jean-Marie Villégier (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Bernard Richter (Atys), Emmanuelle de Negri (Sangaride), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Som...

• Opéra-comique (Paris, France)

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Deborah Warner (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Malena Ernman (Dido), Christopher Maltman (Aeneas)...

• Opéra-comique (Paris, France)

Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

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

American premiere of Alma Deutscher's Cinderella, the composer's new full-length opera

Brad Dalton (stage director), Jane Glover (conductor) – With Vanessa Becerra (Cinderella), Jonas Hacker (Prince), Nathan Stark (King)...

• California Theatre, Opera San José (San Jose, California, USA)

Rossi's Orfeo

Raphaël Pichon, Jetske Mijnssen – Judith Van Wanroij (Orfeo), Francesca Aspromonte (Euridice)...

• Opéra national de Lorraine (Nancy, France)

Mozart's Don Giovanni

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

Otto Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor

David Hermann (stage director), Christian Zacharias (conductor) – Avec Anneke Luyten (Frau Fluth), Sabina Willeit (Frau Reich), Franz Hawlata (Sir John Fal...