Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Peter Schneider, Christoph Marthaler – Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Robert Holl (King Marke) – Bayreuther Festspielhaus

• Bayreuther Festspielhaus (Bayreuth, Germany)

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)

Romeo and Juliet by Nureyev, music by Prokofiev

Monique Loudières (Juliet), Manuel Legris (Romeo), Charles Jude (Tybalt), Lionel Delanoë (Mercutio) – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

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

Waldbühne 2010: Night of Love – Berliner Philharmoniker

Swan Lake by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Tchaikovsky

Amandine Albisson, Mathieu Ganio, François Alu – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Massenet's Werther

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

Claudio Abbado, Great Songs of Love and Desire

Silvesterkonzert 1999

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

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

Laëticia Pujol (Giselle), Nicolas Le Riche (Albrecht) – Corps de ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Rhapsody and The Two Pigeons by Frederick Ashton, music by Rachmaninov and Messager

Natalia Osipova, Steven Mcrae, Lauren Cuthbertson, Vadim Muntagirov... – The Royal Ballet

Gounod's Romeo and Juliet

Charles Mackerras, Nicolas Joel – Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Leontina Vaduva (Juliet), François Le Roux (Mercutio) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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

Don Quixote by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Minkus

Dorothée Gilbert (Kitri), Karl Paquette (Basilio)... – Paris Opera Ballet

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...

L'Histoire de Manon by MacMillan, music by Jules Massenet

Tamara Rojo (Manon), Carlos Acosta (Des Grieux) – The Royal Ballet

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

Raymonda by Nureyev after Petipa, music by Glazunov

Marie-Agnès Gillot (Raymonda), José Martinez (Jean de Brienne) – Corps de Ballet of the Opéra national de Paris

The Nutcracker by Vainonen after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Tchaikovsky

Alina Somova (Masha the Princess), Vladimir Shklyarov (The Nutcracker Prince), Alexandra Korshunova (Masha)... – Mariinsky Theater Ballet Company

• Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Puccini's La Bohème

Jesús López Cobos, Giancarlo del Monaco – Inva Mula (Mimi), Laura Giordano (Musetta) – Teatro Real Madrid

• Teatro Real Madrid (Madrid, Spain)

Swan Lake by Nureyev, music by Tchaikovsky

Agnès Letestu (Odette), José Martinez (Siegfried) – 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)

Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen

Dennis Russell Davies, André Engel – Elena Tsallagova (The Vixen), Paul Gay (Harašta)

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Christopher Hogwood, Wayne McGregor – Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sarah Connolly (Dido) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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

Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Robert Wilson – Roberta Invernizzi (Euridice, La Musica, Eco), Georg Nigl (Orfeo), Sara Mingardo (Messaggera, La Speranza) – Teatro a...

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)

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)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

Giulio Chazalettes (stage director), Maurizio Arena (conductor) – With Raina Kabaivanska, Nazzareno Antinori, Lorenzo Saccomani... and the Verona Teatro Ar...

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

La Bayadère by Marius Petipa, new staging by Yuri Grigorovich, music by Léon Minkus

Svetlana Zakharova (Nikiya), Vladislav Lantratov (Solor), Maria Alexandrova (Gamzatti) – Corps de Ballet of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia

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)

The Lady and The Fool by John Cranko, music by Giuseppe Verdi

Peter Wright, Svetlana Beriosova – The Royal Ballet

Beethoven's Fidelio

Bernard Haitink, Katharina Thalbach – Krešimir Stražanac (Don Fernando) Lucio Gallo (Don Pizarro) – Opernhaus Zürich

• Zürich Opera House (Zurich, Switzerland)

Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Alexander Vedernikov, Dmitri Tcherniakov – Opéra national de Paris 2008

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore

Annabel Arden (stage director), Maurizio Benini (conductor) – With Peter Auty (Nemorino), Ekaterina Siurina (Adina)...