One of Rossini's masterpieces; a frothy little farce on the surface with an underlying sharp social critique.

A sample of today's finest jazz artists, providing an overview of the variety, internationality and fascination of today's world of jazz.

Recorded in the Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin in 1992.

In Michael Hampe's much-praised staging, Don Giovanni appears "as the embodiment of absolute, irresistible tempestuous life force.." and "as rebel against human order, against law and morality".

Monteverdi is generally regarded as the father of European opera. His "Poppea" is a blood and thunder melodrama, set in Nero's Rome and loaded with passion, jealousy, murder and savage ambition.

A fabulous tale of amourous intrigue based on Shakespeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor". Here in a delightfully humorous production, recorded at the Schwetzinger Palace Theatre.

Based on Henry James' novel of the same name, this gripping drama explores an encounter with the super-natural.

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat major "Gran Partita", K. 361 Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388 Serenade No. 13 in G major

Trevor Nunn's highly acclaimed staging at Glyndebourne of Gershwin's famous opera, is considered by the Gershwin family to be the best production ever made. Now Primetime has made the firstever television production of "Porgy and Bess".

Franz von Suppé: Overture "Light Cavalry"; Franz Schubert/Franz Liszt: Wanderer Fantasy; George Enescu: Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1; Bedrich Smetana: Overture from "The Bartered Bride"; Richard Strauss: Waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier"; Johann Strauss…