VAI

Grace Bumbry, John Newmark (piano) Orchestra of Radio-Canada, Montréal, Jacques Beaudry

Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Brian Sullivan (tenor) McGill Chamber Orchestra, Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Alexander Brott, Donald Voorhees

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

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

Steven de Groote (piano), Alexander Toradze (piano), Jeffrey Swann (piano)

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

Ida Haendel (violin), Ilya Itin (piano)

Rudolf Firkušný, Gustav Rivinius Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek, Václav Neumann

Bolshoi Ballet

Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev State D. Shostakovich Leningrad Orchestra, Stanislav Gorkovenko

Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev Bolshoi Ballet

Ruth Slenczynska (piano)

Van Cliburn (piano) Moscow Philharmonic, Kyrill Kondrashin

Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev

Moiseyev Dance Company, Igor Moiseyev

Fiorenza Cossotto (Leonora), Alfredo Kraus (Fernando), Sesto Bruscantini (Alfonso XI), Ruggero Raimondi (Baldassarre), Augusto Pedroni (Don Gasparo), Marisa Zotti (Ines) NHK Symphony Orchestra, NHK Italian Opera Chorus, Members of the Japan Chorus Union, Tokyo City Ballet Troupe, Oliviero De Fabritiis

Larisa Tuisova (Gayne), Alexander Rumyantsev (Giko), Gennady Gorbanev (Armen), Maris Korystin (Machak) Latvian Opera and Ballet Company, Alexander Viljumanis

Renata Scotto (soprano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Ervin Lukács

Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano), Twyla Robinson (soprano) Musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Choral Artists, Riverside Chorale, Neeme Järvi

Violette Verdy

Ilya Itin (piano)

Eleanor Steber (Madame Warblewell), Jacquelynne Moody (Madame Heartmelt), Phyllis Curtin (Fiordiligi), Jane Hobson (Dorabella), David Lloyd (Ferrando), Mac Morgan (Guglielmo), Kenneth Smith (Don Alfonso) Arnold Gamson, Wolfgang Schauzer

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Anna Russell

Paul Groves (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi

Nicholas Magallanes, Violette Verdy, Francisco Moncion, Roy Tobias, Judith Green, Diana Adams, Patricia Wilde, Yvonne Mounsey, Jacques d’Amboise, Herbert Bliss Corps de ballet of New York City Ballet

Sharon Isbin (guitar)

Ann Sothern, James Daly, Luella Gear, Paul McGrath

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

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

Dailey/Sherwood/Gallagher

Fonteyn/Alonso/Ananiashvili

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Claudio Arrau (piano)

Gabriela Benacková (soprano), Anne Gjevang (mezzo), Günther Neumann (tenor), Arthur Korn (bass) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann

Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Gianni Poggi (Cavaradossi), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Scarpia), Silvano Pagliuca (Angelotti), Antonio Pirino (Spoletta), Giorgio Onesti (Sacristan), Arturo La Porta (Sciarrone/Jailor), Takako Kurimoto (Shepherd) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Basle

Van Cliburn (piano) Moscow Philharmonic, Kyrill Kondrashin

Carlo Bergonzi (Gustavo), Antonietta Stella (Amelia), Mario Zanasi (Renato), Margherita Guglielmi (Oscar) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis