Ruslan and Lyudmila from the Bolshoi

Courtesy of Arte TV, here's the renovated Bolshoi's opening production, Dmitri Tcherniakov's take on Ruslan and Lyudmila.

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There are no subtitles, so you might want to check out Wikipedia first.

The cast includes Albina Shagimuratova (Ludmila), Mikhail Petrenko (Ruslan), Almas Svilpa (Farlaf), Yuri Minenko (Ratmir), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (Gorislava), Charles Workman (Finn/ Bayan), Elena Zaremba (Naina) andVladimir Ognovenko (Svetozar),  and the Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

If Glinka doesn't do it for you, try the latest production from La Monnaie,  George Enescu's Oedipe.