Jacopo Foroni's rare 1849 historical melodrama.

Peter Mattei in an unexpected title role, Britten's Billy Budd.

Saluting Rosalind Elias with what—at first glance—might be mistaken for a Met La Gioconda.

Inge Borkh, Hildegard Hillebrecht, Regina Resnik, Donald McIntyre and James King, conducted by Georg Solti.

Mozart's late opera seria in a Paris "pirate" featuring the high-voltage diva-duo of Anna Caterina Antonacci and Elina Garanca.

Broadcast from the Teatro Colon with Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Piero Cappuccilli and, of course, Ivo Vinco.

Featuring Amy Shuard as Brunnhilde, a heroic but lesser-known Wagnerian of the 60s and early 70s.

Conducted by Georg Solti with Christiane Eda-Pierre, Lucia Popp, Barbara Hendricks, Jan DeGaetani, Helen Watts, Kenneth Riegel, William Walker, and Donald Gramm.

Antonio Salieri's 1799 Falstaff with Alex Penda, Annett Fritsch, Maxim Mironov and Christoph Pohl, conducted by Rene Jacobs.

Renee Fleming.