VAI

Frances Alda (soprano)

Rose Bampton (Daphne), Set Svanholm (Apollo), Anton Dermota (Leukippos), Ludwig Weber (Peneios), Lydia Kindermann (Gaea), Angelo Mattiello (First Shepherd), Umberto di Toto (Second Shepherd) Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Colon, Erich Kleiber

Kemal Gekic (piano)

Maria Callas (soprano) Nicola Rescigno

Phyllis Curtin (soprano), Ryan Edwards (piano)

Jussi Bjoerling (tenor), Donald Dickson, Eleanor Steber (Leonora) General Motors Symphony Orchestra, Ford Motor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Voice of Firestone Orchestra, Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Band of the Royal Svea Life Guards, Donald Vorhees

Evelyn Lear (soprano), Thomas Stewart (baritone)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Orchestra and Chorus of the Danish Radio, Renato Cellini, Gaetano Merola, Johann Hye-Knudsen

Ilya Itin (piano)

Gregory Kunde (tenor) Prague Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Marco Zambelli

Catherine Malfitano (soprano)

Nicholas Angelich (piano), Adam Neiman (piano), Ilya Itin (piano), Pietro De Maria (piano), Denis Burstein (piano), Francesco Libetta (piano)

Patricia Neway (Magda Sorel), Chester Ludgin (John Sorel), Regina Sarfaty (Secretary of the Consulate), Evelyn Sachs (Mother), Maria Marlo (Foreign Woman), Leon Lishner (Secret Police Agent), Maria di Gerlando (Anna Gomez), Ruth Kobart (Vera Boronel), Arnold Voketaitis (Mr. Kofner)

Ida Haendel (violin)

Marc Moskowitz (cello), Debra Ayers (piano), with Polly Cornelius Butler (soprano), with Lawrence Stomberg (cello), with Anthony Arnone (cello)

Sharon Isbin (guitar)

Francesco Libetta (piano)

Beverly Sills (Queen Elizabeth), John Alexander (Roberto Devereux), Susanne Marsee (Sara, Duchess of Nottingham), Richard Fredricks (Duke of Nottingham), John Lankston (Lord Cecil), David Rae Smith (Sir Walter Raleigh) Filene Cenre Orchestra & Wolf Trap Company Chorus, Julius Rudel

Ingeborg Hallstein (Konstanze), Luigi Alva (Belmonte), Reri Grist (Blonde), Gerhard Unger (Pedrillo), Fernando Corena (Osmin) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Zubin Mehta

Alexei Maslennikov (Mozart), Artur Eizen (Salieri), L. Novikov (Violinist), Vladimir Atlantov (Don Juan), Tamara Milashkina (Donna Anna), Alexander Vedernikov (Leporello), Tamara Sinyavskaya (Laura), Vladimir Valaitis (Don Carlos), Vladimir Filippov (A Monk/Statue of the Commander), Andrei Sokolov, Petr Glubokiy (Laura's Guests) Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Ruben Vartanian

Gale Sherwood (Margot), Nelson Eddy (Pierre/Red Shadow), Otto Kruger (General Birabeau), John Conte (Paul), Salvatore Baccaloni (Ali Ben Ali), Viola Essen (Azuri), Earl William (Hassi)

Mary Martin (Annie Oakley), John Raitt (Frank Butler), Reta Shaw (Dolly Tate), William O’Neal (Buffalo Bill Cody), Donald Burr (Charlie Davenport), Luke Halpin (Little Jake Oakley)

Thomas Hampson (baritone), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Mary Martin and Ethel Merman

Anna Russell

Anna Russell

Vera Galupe-Borszkh (soprano) La Gran Scena Opera Company

Maya Plisetskaya

Piero Cappuccilli (Simon Boccanegra), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Giorgio Merighi (Gabriele Adorno), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Fiesco), Lorenzo Saccomani (Paolo), Paolo Mazzotta (Pietro), Scilly Fortunato (Un'ancella), Pietro di Vietri (Un capitano dei balestrieri) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritis

Veronica Tennant, Rudolf Nureyev, Karen Kain, Frank Augustyn, Maya Plisetskaya, Alexander Bogatirev, Irina Kolpakova, Sergei Berezhnoi, Cynthia Gregory, Fernando Bujones, Ekaterina Maximova, Marat Daukayev, Nadezhda Pavlova, Vyacheslav Gordeev, Ludmila Vasilieva, Vladimir Malakhov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Tanaquil LeClercq, Jacques d’Amboise

David Oistrakh (violin), Vsevolod Petrushansky (piano), Pavel Kogan, Leonid Kogan, Igor Oistrakh, David Oistrakh (violins) Chamber Orchestra of Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Terian

Emil Gilels (piano) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund

Dailey/Sherwood/Gallagher

Fonteyn/Alonso/Ananiashvili

Thomas Hampson (baritone), Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Leontyne Price (soprano) Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

Jussi Björling (tenor), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Howard Barlow, Wilfrid Pelletier, Harry John Brown

Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, Bruno Amaducci

Josef Hofmann (piano)

Ruth Slenczynska (piano)

Phyllis Curtin (Susannah), Norman Treigle (Olin Blitch), Richard Cassilly (Sam) New Orleans Opera Orchestra, Knud Andersson

Emil Gilels (piano) USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Verbitsky

Montserrat Caballé (Manon), John Alexander (Des Grieux), Louis Quilico (Lescaut) New Orleans Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Knud Andersson

Janet Blair, Russell Nype, Laurel Shelby, George Gaynes

Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Jussi Björling (Rodolfo), Eugene Tobin (Cavaradossi), George London (Scarpia), Sung by Louis Quilico, Louis Quilico (Michele), Ermanno Mauro, Lillian Sukis (Young Lovers), Louis Quilico (Scarpia) CBC Festival Orchestra, Ernesto Barbini

Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit

Beverly Sills (Violetta), Henry Price (Alfredo), Richard Fredricks (Germont) Filene Centra Orchestra & Chorus, Julius Rudel

Ossip Gabrilowitsch (piano), Harold Bauer (piano), Flonzaley String Quartet

Eduard Akimov (Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov), Alexander Lomonosov (The Nose), Valery Belykh (Ivan Yakovlevich, a barber), Nina Sasulova (Praskovia Osipovna, the barber's wife), Boris Tarkhov (Local Policeman), Boris Druzhinin (Ivan, Kovalyov's footman), Ashot Sarkisov (Doctor) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow Chamber Opera Theatre, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Carole Farley Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jose Serebrier

Anna Moffo, Plinio Clabassi, Anna Maria Anelli, Danilo Vega, Gianna Galli, Guido Mazzini, Giuseppe Nessi Orchestra e Coro di Milano della Televisione Italiana, Bruno Bartoletti

Montserrat Caballé (Adriana), Fiorenza Cossotto (La Principessa de Bouillon), José Carreras (Maurizio) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Gianfranco Masini

Antonietta Stella (Minnie), Gastone Limarilli (Dick Johnson), Anselmo Colzani (Jack Rance) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oliviero De Fabritiis

Van Cliburn (piano) Moscow Philharmonic, Kyrill Kondrashin

Galina Kalinina (Iolanta), Artur Eisen (King René), Lev Kuznetsov (Vaudémont), Igor Morozov (Robert), Vladimir Malchenko (Ibn-Hakia), Nina Grigorieva (Martha), Nina Larionova (Brigitta), Galina Koroleva (Laura), Valery Jaroslavtsev (Bertrand), Oleg Biktimirov (Alméric) The Bolshoi Opera, Ruben Vardanian

Eugene Ugorski (violin), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)