Dvorak’s enchanting fairytale of the water nymph Rusalka stars Renée Fleming in a rôle she has made uniquely her own.

Please note: This differs from the Metropolitan Opera production initially scheduled.

Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, inspired by the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, stars the wonderful Joyce DiDonato and has costumes designed by Christian Lacroix.

This production of Verdi’s much-loved spectacle stars Nina Stemme, better known as a great Wagnerian singer, as Aïda. She gives a beautiful and touching performance, to rival her interpretation of The Girl of the Golden West, seen last year.

La Scala's staging of the ever-delightful Marriage of Figaro stars Diana Damrau as Susanna and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo as Figaro in a traditional, yet fresh, production.

This month we screen a little known opera by the master of song, Franz Schubert. It is filled with gorgeous music and a romantic story set in the Middle Ages. Not to be missed!

Based on a famous novel by Dostoyevsky, Prokofiev’s opera The Gambler is conducted by Daniel Barenboim. All of the characters are obsessed with status, money, pride, and each other; none is immune to the seductive charms of chance.

We present a lesser known Verdi opera that's about fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, family and duty, love and betrayal, freedom and suppression and love challenged by class distinctions. All this is set to Verdi’s glorious music.

Here is one of the Donizetti’s most beguiling scores, recorded live in February 2014, in its original French form. It tells a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th century French grand opera.

Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites is one of the most frequently performed and best loved operas written since the Second World War. Here sung by some of the best French singers of our time, faith, fear and sacrifice are among the issues it addresses with music – sometimes austere, sometimes sensuous.

Jerome Kern’s evergreen Show Boat features such songbook classics as 'Ol Man River', and 'Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man'. The San Francisco Opera gives us a stylish, exuberant production that will be a joyful way to end our year.