Are you a Verdian or a Wagnerian? (20)

Wagner's Rienzi

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

• Théâtre du Capitole (Toulouse, France)

Verdi's Falstaff

Richard Jones (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Hollo...

Verdi's Macbeth

Luca Ronconi, Giuseppe Sinopoli – With Renato Bruson (Macbeth) and Mara Zampieri (Lady Macbeth) – Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1987

• Deutsche Oper (Berlin, Germany)

Verdi's La Traviata

Yutaka Sado, Peter Mussbach – Mireille Delunsch (Violetta), Matthew Polenzani (Alfredo Germont)

Verdi's Otello

Willy Decker (stage director), Antoni Ros-Marbà (conductor) – With Giorgio Giuseppini (Lodovico), José Cura (Otello), Vittorio Grigolo (Cassio) – Gran Teat...

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

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)

Tito Gobbi sings Verdi and Puccini

Extracts from Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi and Tosca – 1965

Verdi's Aida

Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, José Antonio Gutiérrez – Daniela Dessì (Aïda), Fabio Armiliato (Radamès) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

Liliana Cavani (stage director), Riccardo Muti (conductor) – With Salvatore Licitra (Riccardo), Maria Guleghina (Amelia) – Teatro alla Scala

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)

Verdi's Rigoletto

Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Fabio Luisi – Juan Diego Flórez (Il Duca di Mantova), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Diana Damrau (Gilda) – Semperoper Dresden

• Semperoper Dresden (Dresden, Germany)

Verdi's The Sicilian Vespers

Paolo Carignani (conductor), Christof Loy (stage director) – With Barbara Haveman (Hélène), Burkhard Fritz (Henri) and Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester (Guy de M...

• The Amsterdam Music Theatre (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer

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

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Christoph Marthaler (stage director), Peter Schneider (conductor) – With Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Robert Holl (King Marke)...

Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Sebastian Weigle, Katharina Wagner – Charles Reid (Kunz Vogelgesang), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther von Stolzing) – Bayreuther Festspielhaus

Wagner's Lohengrin

Kent Nagano, Nikolaus Lehnhoff – Tom Fox (Friedrich von Telramund), Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin) – Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

• Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, Germany)

Wagner's Das Rheingold

Lothar Zagrosek, Joachim Schlömer – Bernhard Schneider (Froh), Wolfgang Probst (Wotan), Robert Künzle (Loge) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Wagner's Götterdämmerung

Lothar Zagrosek, Peter Konwitschny – Albert Bonnema (Siegfried), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Gutrune) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Wagner's Die Walküre

Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Wagner's Siegfried

Lothar Zagrosek, Jossi Wieler – Jon Fredric West (Siegfried), Wolfgang Schöne (The wanderer), Gabriela Herrera (A woodbird) – Staatsoper Stuttgart

• Staatsoper Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany)

Verdi's Il Trovatore

Hugo de Ana (stage director), Riccardo Muti (conductor) – Barbara Frittoli (Leonora), Violeta Urmana (Azucena), Salvatore Licitra (Manrico) – Teatro alla S...

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)