VAI

Dalton Baldwin (piano) Orchestre de Radio-Canada, Jean Deslauriers

Eleanor Steber (soprano)

Josef Hofmann (piano)

Anna Russell, David Rae Smith, David Smith, Eleanor Steber, Heinz Rehfuss Clarion Music Society Orchestra, Newell Jenkins

Renata Scotto (soprano) New York St Patrick's Cathedral Choir, New York St Patrick's Cathedral Orchestra, Lorenzo Anselmi

Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

Dorothy Kirsten (soprano), Thomas Tibbett Hayward (tenor), Richard Verreau (tenor), Daniele Barioni (tenor), Rosalind Nadell (mezzo) American Youth Symphony, Richard Pleth, Renato Cellini, ames Martin Guthrie, Mehli Mehta

Walter Gieseking (piano)

Norman Treigle (Markheim), Alan Crofoot (Josiah Crouch), William Diard (Stranger), Audrey Schuh (Tess) New Orleans Opera Orchestra, Knud Andersson

Anna Rosza (Violetta), Alessandro Ziliani (Alfredo), Luigi Borgonovo (Giorgio Germont) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Carlo Sabajno

Dorothy Kirsten (Butterfly), Daniele Barioni (Pinkerton), Richard Torigi (Sharpless), Rosalind Nadell (Suzuki), Thomas Carter (Goro) New Orleans Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Renato Cellini

Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus, Karl Muck

Lily Pons (soprano) Grand Theatre Chorus & Orchestra, Gabriel Cloez

Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Jon Spong (piano)

Nicola Frisardi (piano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Graf

Orfeo Duo: Vita Wallace (violin), Ishmael Wallace (piano)

José Feghali (piano), Philippe Bianconi (piano), Barry Douglas (piano)

Marian Anderson (contralto)

Norman Triegle (baritone), Patrica Newey (soprano) Julius Rudel

Beverly Sills (Cleopatra)

Lotte Lenya, Bertolt Brecht, Otto Klemperer, et al.

Evelyn Lear (soprano), Martin Katz (piano)

Grace Bumbry (Santuzza), Carlo Bergonzi (Turiddu), Piero Mastromei (Alfio), Luisa Bartoletti (Mamma Lucia), Gina Lotufo (Lola), Jon Vickers (Canio), Joan Carlyle (Nedda), Cornell MacNeil (Tonio), Bruno Tomaselli (Silvio), José Nait (Beppe) Buenos Aires Colón Theatre Orchestra, Juan Emilio Martini

Beniamino Gigli (tenor)

Ida Haendel (violin), Valentina Lisitsa (piano)

Mafalda Favero (Adriana), Nicola Filacuridi (Maurizio), Elena Nicolai (La Principessa di Bouillon), Luigi Borgonovo (Michonnet) Orchestra dell'Opera Italiana, Federico del Cupolo

Anna Moffo (Amina) Plino Clabassi (Count Rodolfo), Danilo Vega (Elvino) RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Bruno Bartoletti

New York - Buenos Aires Connection

Orchestra, Chorus, Soloists, Dancers and Actors of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moscow Academic Music Theatre, Felix Korobov, stage direction by Alexander Titel

Monique Louideres

Mirella Freni (soprano), Cesare Siepi (bass) Orchestra della Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, Brune Amaducci

Paul Tortelier (cello) Produced and directed by Peter Ammann

Alberto Reyes (piano)

Geraldine Farrar (Carmen) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Gillian Anderson

Valeria Tsoi (The Chosen One), Vera Timashova (The Dark Spirit), Sergei Vanaev (The Wise Elder), Irek Mukhamedov (Petrushka), Ludmila Semenyaka (The Ballerina), Vyacheslav Elagin (The Moor), Yuri Vetrov (The Charlatan) Moscow Classical Ballet, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Pavel Sorokin

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf

Anna Russell

Florence Foster Jenkins, Donald Collup

Van Cliburn (piano)

Barbara Cook

Dolores Gray

Larissa Zyryanova (Nastasya - 'Kuma'), Vladimir Stepanov (Prince Nikita Kurlyatev), Lyudmila Korzhakova (Princess Yevpraksiya Romanovna), Vadim Valyuta (Prince Yuriy), Alexander Pravilov (Mamirov), A. Perfilova (Nenila), E. Sedov (Ivan Zhuran), Dimitri Sukhanov (Foka), L. Lebedovskaya (Polya), N. Bogutsky (Payisy), A. Burlatsky (Balakin), M. Sanotsky (Potap), Mikhail Larin (Lukash), A. Perfilov (Kichiga) Nizhegorodsky State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Pavel Reznikov

Alfred Drake (Fred Graham/Petruchio), Patricia Morison (Lilli Vanessi/Kate), Julie Wilson (Lois/Bianca), Bill Hayes (Bill Calhoun), Harvey Lembeck and Jack Klugman (Two Gangsters) Franz Allers

Ingrid Fliter (piano)

Tito Schipa (tenor)

Sharon Isbin (guitar)

Anne Jeffreys (Madame Sonia - The Widow), Brian Sutherland (Danilo), Edward Everett Horton (Baron Zetta), Helena Bliss (Valencienne), John Conte (Georges)

Mary Martin (Peter Pan), Cyril Ritchard (Captain Hook), Kathy Nolan (Wendy)

Raina Kabaivanska (Tosca), Flaviano Labò (Cavaradossi), Gian Piero Mastromei (Scarpia), NHK Symphony Orchestra, Oliviero De Fabritiis

Mario Del Monaco (Otello), Gabriella Tucci (Desdemona), Tito Gobbi (Iago), Anna Di Stasio (Emilia), Mariano Caruso (Cassio), Gabriele De Julis (Roderigo), Plinio Clabassi (Lodovico), Takao Okamura (Montano), Giorgio Onesti (Herald) NHK Symphony Orchestra, Alberto Erede

Alexander Pirogov (Boris Godunov), Ivan Kozlovsky (The Simpleton), Georgi Nelepp (Grigori), Maksim Mikhailov (Pimen), Larisa Avdeyevna (Marina) Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Opera, Vassily Nebolsin

Bolshoi Ballet

Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

Alicia Alonso

Anna Moffo (soprano), Richard Tucker (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), George London (baritone), Sándor Kónya (tenor), Gino Bechi (baritone) Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Rome Symphony Orchestra & RAI Chorus, Donald Voorhees, Giuseppe Patanè, Carlo Felice Cillario