Operas

Joan Sutherland (Violetta), Luciano Pavarotti (Alfredo), Matteo Manuguerra (Giorgio Germont), Della Jones (Flora), Marjon Lambriks (Annina), Jonathan Summers (Barone Douphol), John Tomlinson (Marchese d'Obigny) The London Opera Chorus & The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Dalibor Jedlicka (Goryantchikov), Jiri Zahradnicek (Luka Morosoff), Jaroslava Janská (Alyeya), Václav Zitek (Shishkov), Antonin Svorc (Old Prisoner), Ivo Zidek (Skuratov) Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Mackerras

Jon Vickers (Grimes), Heather Harper (Ellen), Jonathan Summers (Balstrode), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Auntie), Forbes Robinson (Swallow), Patricia Payne (Mrs Sedley), Thomas Allen (Ned Keene), Richard Van Allan (Hobson) Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Cecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar) Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Chailly

Josephine Barstow (Elizabeth), Philip Langridge (Essex), Della Jones (Lady Essex), Jonathan Summers (Charles Blount), Alan Opie (Cecil), Yvonne Kenny (Lady Rich), Bryn Terfel (Henry Cuffe), Richard van Allan (Walter Ralegh) Welsh National Opera, Sir Charles Mackerras

José Carreras (Werther), Frederica von Stade (Charlotte), Isobel Buchanan (Sophie), Thomas Allen (Albert), Robert Lloyd (Le Bailli), Malcolm King (Johann), Paul Crook (Schmidt), Donaldson Bell (Brühlmann), Linda Humphries (Kätchen) Orchestra & Children's Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Willard White (Porgy), Leona Mitchell (Bess), McHenry Boatwright (Crown), Florence Quivar (Serena), Barbara Hendricks (Clara), Barbara Conrad (Maria), Arthur Thompson (Jake), François Clemmons (Sporting Life) The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Lorin Maazel

Maria Chiara (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radames), Ghena Dimitrova (Amneris), Leo Nucci (Amonasro), Paata Burchuladze (Ramfis), Luigi Roni (Il Re di Egitto), Madelyn Renée (Una Sacerdotessa), Ernesto Gavazzi (Un Messaggero) Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel

Gary Lakes (Enée), Françoise Pollet (Didon), Gino Quilico (Chorèbe), Deborah Voigt (Cassandre), Michel Philippe (Panthée), Hélène Perraguin (Anna), Jean-Philippe Courtis (Narbale), Catherine Dubosc (Ascagne), John Mark Ainsley (Hylas), René Schirrer (Priam), Claudine Carlson (Hécube), Jean-Luc Maurette (Iopas) Choeur et Orchestre Symphonique du Montreal, Charles Dutoit

Jessye Norman (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Edita Gruberova (Zerbinetta), Julia Varady (Komponist), Paul Frey (Bacchus/Tenor), Olaf Bär (Harlekin), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Musiklehrer) Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur

Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli (Normanno) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge

Gwyneth Jones (Helena), Matti Kastu (Menelaus), Dinah Bryant (Hermione), Barbara Hendricks (Aithra), Willard White (Altair), Birgit Finnilä (Die alles-wissendes Muschel), Curtis Rayam (Da-Ud) Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Teresa Kubiak (Tatyana), Bernd Weikl (Eugene Onegin), Stuart Burrows (Lensky), Julia Hamari (Olga), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Gremin), Enid Hartle (Filipyevna), Anna Reynolds (Larina) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Georg Solti

Kiri te Kanawa (Rosalinde), Edita Gruberova (Adele), Brigitte Fassbaender (Orlofsky), Richard Leech (Alfred), Anton Wendler (Blind), Olaf Bär (Falke), Tom Krause (Frank), Otto Schenk (Frosch), Karin Göttling (Ida) Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, André Previn

Ann Murray (Hänsel), Edita Gruberova (Gretel), Christa Ludwig (Witch), Gwyneth Jones (Gertrud), Barbara Bonney (Sandmännchen), Christiane Oelze (Taumännchen) Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis

Carlos Cossutta (Otello), Margaret Price (Desdemona), Gabriel Bacquier (Iago), Peter Dvorsky (Cassio), Kurt Equiluz (Rodrigo), Kurt Moll (Lodovico), Stafford Dean (Montano), Jane Berbié (Emilia), Hans Helm (Un Araldo) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Georg Solti

Teresa Stratas (Nedda), Plácido Domingo (Canio), Juan Pons (Tonio), Alberto Rinaldi (Silvio), Florindo Andreolli (Beppe), Elena Obraztsova (Santuzza), Plácido Domingo (Turiddu), Renato Bruson (Alfio), Axelle Gall (Lola), Fedora Barbieri (Lucia) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Georges Prêtre

Theo Adam (Wotan), Gerd Nienstedt (Donner), Hermin Esser (Froh), Wolfgang Windgassen (Loge), Gustav Neidlinger (Alberich), Erwin Wohlfahrt (Mime), Martti Talvela (Fasolt) Kurt Böhme (Fafner), Annelies Burmeister (Fricka), Anja Silja (Freia), Vera Soukupova (Erda), Dorothea Siebert (Woglinde), Helga Dernesch (Wellgunde), Ruth Hesse (Flosshilde) Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Karl Böhm

Philip Langridge (Prologue), Helen Donath (Governess), Heather Harper (Miss Jessel), Robert Tear (Quint), Ava June (Mrs Grose), Michael Ginn (Miles), Lillian Watson (Flora) Members of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis

Leo Nucci (Macbeth), Shirley Verrett (Lady Macbeth), Samuel Ramey (Banco), Veriano Luchetti (Macduff), Antonio Barasorda (Malcolm), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Dama), Sergio Fontana (Medico) Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly

Didier Henry (Pelléas), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (Mélisande), Claudine Carlson, Pierre Thau (Arkel), Gilles Cachemaille (Golaud), Françoise Golfier (Yniold), Francoise Golfier (Geneviève), Phillip Ens (Doctor/Shepherd) Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Charles Dutoit

Catherine Malfitano (Salome), Bryn Terfel (Jokanaan), Kenneth Riegel (Herodes), Hanna Schwarz (Herodias), Kim Begley (Narraboth), Randi Stene (Ein Page) Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi

Mario Del Monaco (Loris Ipanoff), Magda Olivero (Fedora), Tito Gobbi (De Siriex), Leonardo Monreale (Lorek/Nicola), Lucia Cappellino (Olga Sokarev), Piero De Palma (Il Barone Rouvel), Kiri Te Kanawa (Dmitri), Riccardo Cassinelli (Désiré), Magda Olivero (Francesca), Virgilio Carbonari (Giovanni lo Sciancato/Gianciotto/Keeper of the Tower), Mario Del Monaco (Paolo il Bello), Annamaria Gasparini (Biancofiore), Athos Cesarini (Il balestriere) Choeur et Orchestre de L`Opera de Monte-Carlo, Lamberto Gardelli, Nicola Rescigno

Cristina Deutekom (Giselda), Placido Domingo (Oronte), Ruggero Raimondi (Pagano), Jerome Lo Monaco (Arvino), Desdemona Malvisi (Viclinda), Stafford Dean (Pirro), Clifford Grant (Acciano), Montserrat Aparici (Sofia), Keith Erwen (Priore della città di Milano) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Singers, Lamberto Gardelli

Jessye Norman (Leonore), Reiner Goldberg (Florestan), Kurt Moll (Rocco), Pamela Coburn (Marzelline), Hans Peter Blochwitz (Jaquino), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Pizarro), Andreas Schmidt (Don Fernando), Wolfgang Millgramm (First Prisoner), Egbert Junghanns (Second Prisoner) Chor der Staatsoper Dresden & Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink

Hildegard Behrens (Elektra), Christa Ludwig (Clytemnestra), Nadine Secunde (Chrysothemis), Ragnar Ulfung (Aegisth), Jorma Hynninen (Orest) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Edita Gruberova (Konstanze), Kathleen Battle (Blonde), Gösta Winbergh (Belmonte), Heinz Zednik (Pedrillo), Martti Talvela (Osmin), Will Quadflieg (Bassa Selim) Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti

Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori) Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Tullio Serafin

Kurt Streit (Tamino), Gilles Cachemaille (Papageno), Sumi Jo (Königin der Nacht), Barbara Bonney (Pamina), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Sarastro), Martin Petzold (Monostatos), Håkan Hagegård (Sprecher), Lillian Watson (Papagena), Robert Wörle, Petteri Salomaa (Zwei Geharnischter) Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra & Chorus, Arnold Östman

Krister St. Hill (Jonny), Heinz Kruse (Max), Alessandra Marc (Anita), Marita Posselt (Yvonne) Leipzig Opernchor & Gewandhausorchester, Lothar Zagrosek

Robert Hale (Der Holländer), Hildegard Behrens (Senta), Josef Protschka (Erik), Kurt Rydl (Daland), Iris Vermillion (Mary) Konzertvereiningung der Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Christoph von Dohnanyi

Robert Hale (Wotan), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Peter Schreier (Mime), Nancy Gustafson (Freia), Kim Begley (Loge), Thomas Sunnegardh (Froh), Eike Wilm Schulte (Donner), Elena Zaremba (Erda), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt), Walter Fink (Fafner), Gabriele Fontana (Woglinde), Ildiko Komlósy (Wellgunde), Margaretha Hintermeier (Flosshilde) The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnanyi

Roberto Alagna (Rodolfo), Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Elisabetta Scano (Musetta), Simon Keenlyside (Marcello), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Colline), Roberto de Candia (Schaunard), Alfredo Mariotti (Benoit/Alcindoro) Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly

Angela Gheorghiu (Adina), Roberto Alagna (Nemorino), Simone Alaimo (Dulcamara), Roberto Scaltriti (Belcore), Elena Dan (Giannetta) Orchestra & Chorus of l'Opéra National de Lyon, Evelino Pidò

Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Ronaldo Panerai (Ford), Francisco Araiza (Fenton), Piero De Palma (Dr Caius), Heinz Zednik (Bardolfo), Federico Davià (Pistola), Raina Kabaivanska (Alice Ford), Janet Perry (Nannetta), Trudeliese Schmidt (Meg Page), Christa Ludwig (Mistress Quickly) Wiener Philharmoniker & Wiener Staatsopernchor, Herbert von Karajan

Cecilia Bartoli (Cenerentola), William Matteuzzi (Ramiro), Enzo Dara (Don Magnifico), Alessandro Corbelli (Dandini), Fernanda Costa (Clorinda), Gloria Banditelli (Tisbe), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro) Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly

Kiri Te Kanawa (Countess), Hakan Hagegård (Count), Uwe Heilmann (Flamand), Olaf Bär (Olivier), Viktor von Halem (La Roche), Brigitte Fassbaender (Clairon), Werner Hollweg (Taupe), Anna Rita Taliento (Italian Soprano), Roberto Saccà (Italian Tenor), Gottfried Hornik (Majordomo), Hans Hotter (Servant) Wiener Philharmoniker, Ulf Schirmer

Samuel Ramey (Oberto), Maria Guleghina (Leonora), Sara Fulgoni (Imelda), Violeta Urmana (Cuniza), Stuart Neill (Riccardo) Academy of st. Martin in the Fields & London Voices, Neville Marriner

José Carreras (Corrado), Clifford Grant (Giovanni), Jessye Norman (Medora), Montserrat Caballé (Gulnara), Giampietro Mastromei (Seid), John Noble (Selimo), Alexander Oliver (Eunuco) New Philharmonia Orchestra & Ambrosian Singers, Lamberto Gardelli

Jessye Norman (Carmen), Neil Shicoff (Don José), Mirella Freni (Micaela), Simon Estes (Escamillo), Ghylaine Raphanel (Frasquita), Jean Rigby (Mercédès), Francois Le Roux (Dancairo), Gerard Garino (Remendado), Nicolas Rivenq (Morales), Jean-Philippe Courtis (Zuniga) Choeurs de Radio France & Orchestre National De France, Seiji Ozawa

Derek Lee Ragin (Orfeo), Sylvia McNair (Euridice), Cyndia Sieden (Amor) English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

José Carreras (Riccardo), Montserrat Caballé (Amelia), Ingvar Wixell (Renato), Patricia Payne (Ulrica), Sona Ghazarian (Oscar), Jonathan Summers (Silvano), Robert Lloyd (Samuele), Gwynne Howell (Tom), Robin Leggate (Un Giudice) Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis

Steve Davislim (Oberon), Frances Bourne (Puck), Hillevi Martinpelto (Reiza), Jonas Kaufmann (Huon), William Dazely (Sherasmin), Marina Comparato (Fatima), Katharine Fuge (First mermaid), Charlotte Mobbs (Second mermaid) Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Leo Nucci (Rigoletto), June Anderson (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti (Il Duca di Mantova), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Sparafucile), Shirley Verrett (Maddalena), Natale de Carolis (Monterone), Roberto Scaltriti (Marullo), Piero De Palma (Borsa) Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly

Luciano Pavarotti (Manrico), Shirley Verrett (Azucena), Antonella Banaudi (Leonora), Leo Nucci (Il Conte di Luna), Francesco Ellero d'Artegna (Ferrando), Barbara Frittoli (Ines), Piero de Palma (Ruiz), Roberto Scaltriti (Un vecchio zingaro), Enrico Facini (Un messo) Orchestra e Coro di Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta

Ruggero Raimondi (Attila), Sherrill Milnes (Ezio), Cristina Deutekom (Odabella), Carlo Bergonzi (Foresto), Ricardo Cassinelli (Uldino), Jules Bastin (Leone) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Ambrosian Singers, Lamberto Gardelli

Mirella Freni (Manon Lescaut), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Dwayne Croft (Lescaut), Giuseppe Taddei (Geronte), Ramon Vargas (Edmondo), Cecilia Bartoli (Una voce sola) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine

Mirella Freni (Tosca), Luciano Pavarotti (Cavaradossi), Sherrill Milnes (Scarpia), Italo Tajo (Sagristano), Richard Van Allan (Angelotti), Michel Sénéchal (Spoletta), Paul Hudson (Sciarrone), Walter Baratti (Un pastore), John Tomlinson (Un carceriere) National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno

Kiri Te Kanawa (Arabella), Franz Grundheber (Mandryka), Gabriele Fontana (Zdenka), Peter Seiffert (Matteo), Ernst Gutstein (Waldner), Alexandru Ionita (Elemer), Helga Dernesch (Adelaide), Gilles Cachemaille (Dominik), Gwendolyn Bradley (Fiakermilli), Kurt Rydl (Lamoral), Reinhild Runkel (Kartenaufschlägerin) Orchestra & Chorus of Covent Garden, Jeffrey Tate

Jess Thomas (Lohengrin), Anja Silja (Elsa), Astrid Varney (Ortrud), Telramund (Ramón Vinay), Franz Crass (König Heinrich), Tom Krause (Der Heerrufer des Königs) Chor und orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Sawallisch

Anna Netrebko (Ludmilla), Vladimir Ognovienko (Ruslan), Larissa Diadkova (Ratmir), Gennadi Bezzubenkov (Farlaf), Galina Gorchakova (Gorislava), Konstantin Pluzhnikov (Finn), Irina Bogachova (Naina), Yuri Marusin (Bayan) Orchestra & Chorus of the Kirov Opera, Valery Gergiev

Joan Sutherland (Norma), Luciano Pavarotti (Pollione), Montserrat Caballé (Adalgisa), Samuel Ramey (Oroveso) Orchestra & Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge

Bryn Terfel (Don Giovanni), Renee Fleming (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Michele Pertusi (Leporello), Herbert Lippert (Don Ottavio), Monica Groop (Zerlina), Roberto Scaltriti (Masetto) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti

Francisco Araiza (Hoffmann), Samuel Ramey (Dapertutto/Miracle/Coppélius), Anne Sofie von Otter (Nicklaus), Jessye Norman (Antonia), Eva Lind (Olympia), Cheryl Studer (Giulietta), Riccardo Cassinelli (Spalanzani), Boris Martinovitch (Crespil), Jean-Luc Craignaud (Schlemil), Georges Gautier (Cochenille), Felicity Palmer (La Mère d'Antonia) Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Staatskapelle Dresden, Jeffrey Tate

Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Heliane), René Pape (Porter), Nicolai Gedda (Blind Judge), Martin Petzold (Young Man), Hartmut Welker (Ruler), John de Haan (Stranger) Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, John Mauceri

Kiri te Kanawa (Marguerite), Francisco Araiza (Faust), Evgeny Nesterenko (Méphistophélès), Andreas Schmidt (Valentin), Pamela Coburn (Siébel), Marjana Lipovsek (Marthe), Gilles Cachemaille (Wagner) Symphonie-Orchester und chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Colin Davis

Heinz Kruse (Salviago), Elizabeth Connell (Carlotta) and Monte Pederson (Tamare) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek

Askar Abdrazakov (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Galina Gorchakova (Leonora di Vargas), Nikolai Putilin (Don Carlo), Gegam Grigorian (Don Alvaro), Olga Borodina (Preziosilla), Georgy Zastavny (Fra Melitone), Lia Shevtzova (Curra), Mikail Kit (Padre Guardiano), Nikolai Gassiev (Mastro Trabuco), Yuri Laptev (Un Chirurgo), Gennadi Bezzubenkov (Un Alcalde) Orchestra & Chorus of the Kirov Theatre, Valery Gergiev

Marcello Giordani (Gaston), Philippe Rouillon (Le comte de Toulouse), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Roger), Daniel Borowski (Ademar), Simon Edwards (Raymond), Marina Mescheriakova (Hélène), Hélène Le Corre (Isaure), Wolfgang Barta (Un soldat), Slobodan Stankovic (Un Héraut/L'Émir de Ramla), Jovo Reljin (Un officier de l'Émir) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Le Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Fabio Luisi

Ileana Cotrubas (Susanna), José van Dam (Figaro), Tom Krause (Il Conte), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (La Contessa), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Jane Berbié (Marcellina), Jules Bastin (Bartolo), Heinz Zednik (Basilio), Kurt Equiluz (Curzio), Zoltán Kéléman (Antonio), Janet Perry (Barbarina) Wiener Staatsopernorchester und-Chor, Herbert von Karajan