Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Frederick Ashton, Beryl Grey; Sadler's Wells Ballet (Royal Ballet). Choreography by Petipa. Music by Tchaikovsky. Conducted by Robert Irving from a TV Broadcast of December 14, 1955. Black & white.

George Szell conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from a December 1961 TV broadcast.

Two of the most important dancers of the 20th Century, featured here in this compilation of TV performances.

Vladimir Vasiliev, Ekaterina Maximova, Maris Liepa, Nina Timofeyeva perform in this live 1970 Bolshoi Theatre production of the Khachaturian ballet conducted by Algis Zhuraitis and choreographed by Yuri Grigorovich. B&W, mono.

Live 1974 performance from the Wolfe Trap Festival starring Beverly Sills in her first complete operatic telecast. Directed by Lotfi Mansouri, with sets designed by Beni Montresor.

Directed by Max Liebman. Starring Arnold Moss, Doretta Morrow, Alfred Drake.

Franco Corelli, Lucille Udovich, Renata Mattioli, Plinio Clabassi star in this production with RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Fernando Previtali conducting.

Included in these 1960, 1965, and 1972 B&W mono performances are works by Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, and Debussy.

Rosemary Kuhlmann and Bill McIver star in this Menotti opera conducted by Thomas Schippers, broadcast December 25, 2005.

BALANCHINE: NEW YORK CITY BALLET IN MONTREAL 1

Legendary Opera stars from the Golden Age of Television. Many performances released for the first time. All newly remastered from Voice of Firestone telecasts, 1949-1963, and issued for the first time with English subtitles. Arias from Aida, Semiramide, Faust, Don Pasquale, Barber of Seville, etc., sung by Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Jussi Bjoerling, Richard Tucker, Hilde Gueden, Cesare Siepi, Leonard Warren, Jan Peerce, Rise Stevens, Jean Madeira, Eugene Conley, Patrice Munsel, Anna Moffo, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Eleanor Steber, Bidu Sayao, and Mildred Miller. Black & White, Mono, NTSC (Playable all regions), 4:3, 94 minutes.

ITALIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING

SCANDINAVIANS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF SINGING

MONTSERRAT CABALLE IN RECITAL

The master pianist performs material by Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Legendary Opera stars from the Golden Age of Television. Many performances released for the first time. All newly remastered from Voice of Firestone telecasts, 1950-1963, and issued for the first time with English subtitles. Arias and duets from La Boh�me, La Gioconda, Die Walk�re, The Merry Widow, Romeo and Juliet, Mignon, Faust, Carmen, Ernani, Andrea Chenier, etc., sung by Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Lauritz Melchior, Hilde Gueden, Roberta Peters, Mimi Benzell, Robert Rounseville, Gladys Swarthout, Cesare Siepi, George London, Elena Nikolaidi, Eleanor Steber, Gabrielli Tucci, and more. Black & White, Mono, NTSC (Playable all regions), 4:3, 94 minutes.

Conductor Neeme J�rvi is one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Gustav Mahler. This unique interpretation of Mahler's First Symphony bears the personal stamp of an artist who finds "the deepest inspiration in this incredibly innovative masterpiece." With the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and featuring the beautiful acoustics of the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn. Stereo, 53 minutes. MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 1 / NEEME JARVI