The Irresistible Playlist (15)

Puccini's La Bohème

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

Swan Lake by Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky

Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Massenet's Werther

Michel Plasson, Benoît Jacquot – Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

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

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)

Puccini's La Bohème

Tiziano Severini, Francesca Zambello – Mirella Freni (Mimi), Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo) – San Francisco Opera

• San Francisco Opera (San Francisco, California, USA)

Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Cojocaru (Princess Aurora), Federico Bonelli (Prince Florimund), Christopher Saunders (King Florestan XXIV) – The Royal Ballet

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

Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah

Tomáš Netopil, Omri Nitzan, Amir Nizar Zuabi – Torsten Kerl (Samson) Marianna Tarasova (Dalila) – Opéra de Flandre

• Flanders Opera (Andwerp, Belgium)

Giselle by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, music by Adolphe Adam

Nadia Nerina (Giselle), Nikolai Fadeyetchev (Albrecht) – The Royal Ballet

James Levine conducts Strauss, Wagner, and Lincke – With Ben Heppner

Waldbühne 1999: A Romantic Opera Night – Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Waldbühne (Berlin, Germany)

The finest Russian musicians gathered around Yuri Temirkanov and Anna Netrebko

2003 St. Petersburg Gala, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the city

• Grand Hall of the Saint. Petersburg Philharmonia (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Cinderella by Rudolf Nureyev, music by Sergei Prokofiev

Agnès Letestu (Cinderella), José Martinez (The movie star) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Verdi's Otello

Antoni Ros-Marbà, Willy Decker – Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), José Cura (Otello), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Strauss' Salome

Philippe Jordan, David McVicar – Nadja Michael (Salome), Thomas Moser (Herod), Joseph Kaiser (Narraboth) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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

Tchaikovsky's Women (Part I)

A film by Christopher Nupen