Opera at Eight

Marilyn Horne [Tancredi] ** Lella Cuberli [Amenaide] ** Ernesto Palacio [Argirio] ** Nicola Zaccaria [Orbazzano] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Isaura] ** Patricia Schuman [Roggiero] ** Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice ** Ralf Weikert (conductor)

Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] ** Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] ** Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] ** Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Hagen] ** Claire Watson [Gutrune] ** Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Gunther] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Waltraute] ** Lucia Popp [Woglinde] ** Della Jones [Wellgunde] ** Maureen Guy [Flosshilde] ** Helen Watts (alto) [Erste Norn] ** Grace Hoffman [Zweite Norn] ** Anita Välkki [Dritte Norn] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Amina] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Elvino] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Rodolfo] ** Isobel Buchanan [Lisa] ** John Tomlinson [Alessio] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Notaro] ** Della Jones [Teresa] ** London Opera Chorus ** National Philharmonic Orchestra ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)

Aage Haugland (bass) [Jeronimus] ** Susanne Resmark [Magdelone] ** Gert-Henning Jensen [Leander] ** Bo Skovhus [Henrik] ** Michael Kristensen [Arv] ** Kurt Ravn [Leonard] ** Henriette Bonde-Hansen [Leonora] ** Marianne Rorholm [Pernille] ** Christian Christiansen (bass) [Tutor] ** Johan Reuter [Nightwatchman] ** Johan Reuter [Master of the Masquerade] ** Bo Anker Hansaen [Doorman] ** The Danish National Radio Choir ** The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Ulf Schirmer (conductor)

Artur Eisen [King Dodon] ** Arkadiy Mishenkin [Prince Gvidon] ** Vladimir Redkin (baritone) [Prince Afron] ** Nikolaï Nizinenko [Commander Voyevoda Polkan] ** Nina Gaponova [Housekeeper Amelfa] ** Oleg Biktimirov [The Astrologer] ** Elena Brileva [Queen of Shemakha] ** Irena Udalova [The Golden Cockerel] ** Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow [Boyars, Soldiers, Warriors, Crowd, Slaves, Guards] ** Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Moscow ** Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

Vivica Genaux [Antiope] ** Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] ** Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] ** Diana Damrau [Martesia] ** Rolando Villazón [Ercole] ** Romina Basso [Teseo] ** Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] ** Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo ** Europa Galante ** Fabio Biondi (conductor)

Jon Vickers [Enée] ** Josephine Veasey [Didon] ** Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] ** Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] ** Heather Begg [Anna] ** Roger Soyer [Narbal] ** Anthony Raffell [Panthée] ** Anne Howells [Ascagne] ** Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] ** Pierre Thau [Priamus] ** Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] ** Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] ** Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] ** Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] ** David Lennox [Hélénus] ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] ** Edita Gruberova [Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta] ** Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] ** Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] ** James Morris (bass) [Miracle] ** Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] ** Robert Gambill [Andrès] ** Paul Crook [Cochenille/Pitichinaccio] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Frantz] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] ** Robin Leggate [Nathanaël] ** Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Hermann] ** Richard Van Allan [Schlémil] ** Kurt Rydl [Luther] ** Harald Stamm [Crespel] ** Chœurs de Radio France [Esprits invisibles, étudiants, garçons de taverne, invités de Spalanzani, laquais, invitétes de Giulietta] ** Orchestre National de France ** Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Dalila] ** José Carreras (tenor) [Samson] ** Jonathan Summers [Le Grand Prêtre] ** Simon Estes [Abimelech] ** Paata Burchuladze [Un Vieillard Hébreu] ** Robert Swensen [Un Messager Philistin] ** Donald George Smith [Premier Philistin] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Deuxième Philistin] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [King of Egypt] ** Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [Amneris] ** Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Aida] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Radamès] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Ramfis] ** Leo Nucci (baritone) [Amonasro] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Messenger] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] ** Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky ** Khan Konchak] ** Todor Todorov [Vladimir] ** Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] ** Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] ** Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] ** Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] ** Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] ** Radka Gaeva [Nurse] ** Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia ** Jerzy Semkov (conductor)

Denis Sedov [Il Re di Scozia] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Ariodante] ** Lynne Dawson (soprano) [Ginevra] ** Richard Croft [Lurcanio] ** Ewa Podles [Polinesso] ** Verónica Cangemi [Dalinda] ** Luc Coadou [Odoardo] ** Chour des Musiciens du Louvre ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)