Opera at Eight

William Shimmel [Don Giovanni] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Leporello] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Donna Anna] ** Carol Vaness [Donna Elvira] ** Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Don Ottavio] ** Susanne Mentzer [Zerlina] ** Natale de Carolis [Masetto] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Commendatore/La Statua] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)

Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) [Nabucco] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Ismaele] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Zaccaria] ** Ghena Dimitrova [Abigaille] ** Lucia Valentini Terrani [Fenena] ** Kurt Rydl [Il Gran Sacerdote di Belo] ** Volker Horn [Abdallo] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Joan Sutherland [Turandot] ** Luciano Pavarotti [Calaf] ** Montserrat Caballé [Liù] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov [Timur] ** Peter Pears [L'Imperatore Altoum] ** Tom Krause [Ping] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Pang ** Il Principe di Persia] ** Piero de Palma [Pong] ** Sabin Markov [Un Mandarino] ** John Alldis Choir ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Zubin Mehta (conductor)

Renata Scotto (soprano) [Adriana Lecouvreur] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Maurizio] ** Sherill Milnes [Michonnet] ** Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano) [La Principessa di Bouillon] ** Giancarlo Luccardi [Il Principe di Bouillon] ** Florindo Andreoli [L'Abate di Chazeuil] ** Lillian Watson [Mlle. Jouvenot] ** Anne Murray (mezzo-soprano) [Mlle. Dangeville] ** Paul Crook [Poisson] ** Paul Hudson [Quinault] ** Paul Crook [Un Maggiordomo] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)

Renée Fleming (soprano) [Daphne] ** Kwangchul Youn [Peneios] ** Lisa Larsson (soprano) [Gaea] ** Michael Schade [Leukippos] ** Johan Botha [Apollo] ** Eike Wilm Schulte [Shepherd] ** Cosmin Ifrim [Shepherd] ** Gregory Reinhart [Shepherd] ** Carsten Wittmoser [Shepherd] ** Julia Kleiter [Maid] ** Twyla Robinson [Maid] ** Herren des WDR Rundfunkchors Köln ** WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln ** Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] ** Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] ** Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] ** Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] ** Henry Newman [Un Notaro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Sarah Caldwell (conductor)

Anthony Michaels-Moore [Licinius] ** J. Patrick Raftery [Cinna] ** Dimitri Kavrakos [Le Souveraine Pontife] ** Aldo Bramante [Le chef des aruspices] ** Silvestro Sammaritano [Un consul] ** Karen Huffstodt [Julia] ** Denyce Graves [La Grande Vestale] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)

Christine Goerke (soprano) [Iphigénie] ** Rodney Gilfry [Oreste] ** Vinson Cole [Pylade] ** Stephen Salters [Thoas] ** Sharon Baker [First Priestess ** Greek Woman] ** Jayne West [Second Priestess ** Mark Andrew Cleveland [A Scythian] ** Mark Risinger [Minister of Thoas] ** Boston Baroque Chorus [Priestesses, Scythians, Eumenides, and Greeks] ** Boston Baroque Orchestra ** Martin Pearlman (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)

Reri Grist [Aminta] ** Lucia Popp [Elisa] ** Arlene Saunders [Tamiri] ** Nicola Monti [Agenore] ** Luigi Alva [Alessandro] ** Orchestra of Naples ** Denis Vaughan (conductor)

Renée Fleming [Rusalka] ** Ben Heppner [The Prince] ** Franz Hawlata [The Water goblin (Vodník)] ** Dolora Zajick [Ježibaba] ** Eva Urbanová [The foreign princess (Cizí knezna)] ** Ivan Kusnher [The Gamekeeper (Hajný) ** A Huntsman (Lovec] ** Zdena Kloubová [The Turnspit (Kuchtík)] ** Lívia Aghová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** Dana Buresová [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** Hana Minutillo [Wood Nymph (Lesní žínky)] ** The Kühn Mixed Choir [The Prince's entourage, Guests, Water nymphs] ** Czech Philharmonic Orchestra ** Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor)