VAI

Alfred Drake (Marco Polo) Doretta Morrow (Beggar-Girl)

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Tanaquil Le Clercq & Jacques d’Amboise Corps de ballet of New York City

Bidú Sayão (soprano)

Richard Bonynge (piano)

Emil Gilels (piano)

Emil Gilels

Francesco Libetta (piano)

New York City Ballet

featuring Martyn Green, Alfred Drake, Barbara Cook, Tennessee Ernie Ford

Augustyn Kain

Aaron Rosand (violin) Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Sverre Brulund

Rosita Renard (piano)

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

Barbara Cook and Jo Sullivan

Graziella Sciutti (Susanna), Geraint Evans (Figaro), Hilde Güden (Countess Almaviva), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Count Almaviva), Evelyn Lear (Cherubino), John van Kesteren (Basilio), Peter Lagger (Bartolo), Patricia Johnson (Marcellina), Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Antonio), Barbara Vogel (Barbarina), Martin Vantin (Curzio) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel

Walter Berry (Papageno), Pilar Lorengar (Pamina), Waldemar Kmentt (Tamino), Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night), Walter Kreppel (Sarastro), Paul Schöffler (Speaker), Renate Holm (Papagena), Renato Ercolani (Monostatos) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, István Kertész

Pille Lill (soprano), Merle Silmato (mezzo), Juhan Trall (tenor), Rauno Elp (baritone) Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Soloists and Choirs, Neeme Jarvi

Gulsin Onay (piano) Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Emil Tabakov, Avi Ostrowsky

Alexander Spendaryan State Academy Opera and Ballet Theatre, Hakob Ter-Voskanian

Grigor Gondjian (Tsar Dodon), Ruben Kubelian (Tsarevich Gvidon), Sergey Shushardjian (Tsarevich Afron), Ellada Chakhoyan (Queen of Shemakha), Susanna Martirosian (Golden Cockerel), Haroutun Karadjian (General Polkan), Grand Aivazian (Astrologer) Alexander Spendiaryan State Academic Theatre Orchestra, Aram Katanian

Thomas Hampson (narrator), Twyla Robinson (soprano), Susanne Mentzer (mezzo) Neeme Järvi

Corps de ballet of New York City Ballet

Bill McIver (Amahl), Rosemary Kuhlmann (Mother), Andrew McKinley (King Caspar), David Aiken (King Melchior), Leon Lishner (King Balthazar), Francis Monachino (Servant) & John Butler, Glen Tetley, Carmen Gutierrez (Dancing Shepherds) Members of the Symphony of the Air, Thomas Schippers

Rosalyn Tureck (harpsichord)

Wiener Philharmoniker, George Szell

Brenda Lewis (Lizzie Borden) Ellen Faull (Abbie Borden) Anne Elgar (Margret Borden) Herbert Beattie (Andrew Borden) Richard Fredericks (Captain Jason MacFarlane) Richard Krause (Reverend Harrington) The Cambridge Festival Orchestra, Anton Coppola

Nikita Magaloff (piano) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

Jarvi/Hampson/Groves

Anna Moffo (Violetta), Franco Bonisolli (Alfredo), Gino Bechi (Germont) Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera House, Giuseppe Patane

Rathbone/Damone/Munsel

Valery Kuleshov (piano)

Jon Vickers, Eva Likova, Mary Simmons, Louis Quilico & Robert Savoie Radio Canada Symphony Orchestra

Giuseppe Di Stefano (1963), Renata Tebaldi (1959), Rise Stevens (1959), Robert Merrill & Robert Peters (1962), Anna Moffo & Nicolai Gedda (1962), Leontyne Price (1963), Leontyne Price (1966), Giulietta Simionato & Jon Vickers (1964), Richard Tucker (1965), George London (1965), Régine Crespin & Franco Corelli (1964), Victoria de los Angeles (1960), Régine Crespin (1965), Franco Corelli (1962), Birgit Nilsson (1963), Eileen Farrell (1959), Joan Sutherland (1962) Bell Telephone Orchestra and Chorus, Donald Voorhees

Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Antoine Palloc (piano)

The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Donald Voorhees

Erica Morini (violin) Chicago Symphony Orchestra, George Szell

Léopold Simoneau (tenor), Pierrette Alarie (soprano), Malcolm Frager (piano) Josef Krips

Galina Ulanova (Juliet) & Yuri Zhdanov (Romeo) Bolshoi Ballet, Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya

The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell

Eileen Farrell (soprano), John Newmark (piano) Orchestra of Radio-Canada Opera, Jean Deslauriers

Christian Ferras (violin), Guy Bourasson (piano) Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Alexander Brott

Van Cliburn (piano)

Ivan Moravec (piano)

Giacomo Rimini (Falstaff), Pia Tassinari (Alice), Emilio Ghirardini (Ford), Ines Alfani Tellini (Nanetta), Aurora Buades (Mrs Quickly), Roberto d'Alessio (Fenton), Giuseppe Nessi (Bardolfo) Milan Symphony Orchestra, Lorenzo Molajoli

Renata Tebaldi (soprano) Lamberto Gardelli

Evelyn Lear (narrator), Barbara Weintraub (piano), Carter Brey (cello), James Tocco (piano)

Evelyn Lear (soprano)

Maria Zouves (soprano)

Beverly Sills (Olympia, Antonia, Giulietta), Norman Treigle (Dappertutto, Coppelius, Miracle, Lindorff), André Turp (Hoffmann) New Orleans Opera Orchestra, Knud Andersson

Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Jon Spong (Piano)