Opera at Eight

Jessye Norman (soprano) [Pénélope] ** Jocelyne Taillon [Euryclée] ** Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Alkandre] ** Christine Barbaux (soprano) [Phylo] ** Danielle Borst [Lydie] ** Michelle Command [Mélantho] ** Norma Lerer [Cléone] ** Alain Vanzo [Ulysse] ** Jean Dupouy [Antinoüs] ** Paul Guigue [Ctésippe] ** Gérard Friedmann [Léodès] ** Philippe Huttenlocher [Eurymaque] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Eumée] ** François Le Roux [Pisandre] ** Ensemble Vocal Jean LaForge ** Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Il Duca di Mantova] ** Vladimir Chernov [Rigoletto] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Gilda] ** Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass) [Sparafucile] ** Denyce Graves [Maddalena] ** Jane Shaulis [Giovanna] ** Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Il Conte di Monterone] ** Dwayne Croft [Marullo] ** Paul Groves [Borsa Matteo] ** Yannis Yannissis [Il Conte di Ceprano] ** Heidi Grant Murphy [La Contessa di Ceprano] ** Robert Maher [Usciere di corte] ** Elyssa Lindner [Paggio della Duchessa] ** The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Cavalieri,Dame, Paggi, Alabardieri] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)

Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Werther] ** Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Charlotte] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Albert] ** Patricia Petibon (soprano) [Sophie] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Bailli] ** Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Schmidt] ** Jean-Marie Fremeau [Johann Faust] ** Pierre Dupont [Brühlmann] ** Sophie Boulanger [Kätchen] ** James Savage-Hanford [Hans] ** Kirsty Gifford [Gretel] ** Christopher Waine [Karl] ** Sally Cannon [Clara] ** Joel Gunger [Max] ** Sarah Baillie [Fritz] ** Tiffin Children's Choir [Les Enfants] ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Antonio Pappano (conductor)

Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor) [Siegfried] ** Birgit Nilsson (soprano) [Brünnhilde] ** Hans Hotter (baritone) [Der Wanderer] ** Gerhard Stolze [Mime] ** Gustav Neidlinger [Alberich] ** Kurt Böhme [Fafner] ** Marga Höffgen [Erda] ** Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Der Waldvogel] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Leonore] ** Peter Hofmann (tenor) [Florestan] ** Hans Sotin [Rocco] ** Theo Adam (bass) [Don Pizarro] ** Sona Ghazarian [Marzelline] ** David Kuebler [Jaquino] ** Gwynne Howell [Don Fernando] ** Robert Johnson [Erster Gefangener] ** Philip Kraus [Zweiter Gefangener] ** Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

Judith Malafronte [Serse (Xerxes)] ** Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Romilda] ** Lisa Milne (soprano) [Atalanta] ** Susan Bickley [Amastre] ** Brian Asawa [Arsamene] ** David Thomas [Elviro] ** Dean Ely [Ariodate] ** Hanover Band and Chorus ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)

Mirella Freni (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] ** Robert Kerns (baritone) [Sharpless] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Goro] ** Marius Rintzler [Il Bonzo] ** Elke Schary [Kate Pinkerton] ** Giorgio Stendoro [Il principe Yamadori] ** Hans Helm [Il commissario imperiale] ** Wolfgang Scheider [Lo zio Yakusidè] ** Siegfried Rudolf Frese [L'ufficiale del registro] ** Evamaria Hurdes [La madre di Cio-cio-san] ** Erna Maria Mühlberger [La zia di Cio-cio-san] ** Martha Heigl [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus [Parenti ed amiche di Cio-cio-san ** Marinai] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Maria-Cristina Kiehr [Dorilla] ** John Elwes [Elmiro] ** Philippe Cantor [Admeto] ** Jean Nirouët [Nomio] ** Consuelo Carulli [Eudamia] ** Laure Florentin [Filindo] ** Chorus of Opera Nice ** Ensemble Baroque de Nice ** Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)

Maria Callas [Imogene] ** Constantino Ego [Ernesto] ** Pier Miranda Ferraro [Gualtiero] ** Glade Peterson [Itulbo] ** Chester Watson [Goffredo (Solitario)] ** Regina Sarfaty [Adele] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the American Opera Society ** Nicola Rescigno (conductor)

Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salomé] ** Nadine Denize (mezzo-soprano) [Hérodiade] ** Martine Olmeda [Une jeune Babylonienne] ** Ben Heppner (tenor) [Jean] ** Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hérode] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Phanuel] ** Marcel Vanaud [Vitellius] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Grand Prêtre] ** Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Une voix dans le temple] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)

Véronique Gens [Aricie] ** Jean-Paul Fouchécourt [Hippolyte] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) [Phèdre] ** Russell Smythe [Thésée] ** Thérèse Feighan [Diane] ** Annick Massis [L'Amour] ** Laurent Naouri [Pluton/Neptune/Jupiter] ** Florence Katz [Onone] ** Jean-Lous Georgel [Mercure/Arcas] ** Luc Coadou [Tisiphone] ** Jean-Louis Meunier [Parque] ** Jacques-François Loiseleur des Longchamps [Parque] ** Jérôme Varnier [Parque] ** Monique Simon [La Grande-Prêtresse] ** Stephan Van Dyck [Un Suivant de l'Amour] ** Kiyoko Okada [Une Prêtresse] ** Meredith Hall [Une Chasseresse] ** Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius [Nymphes de Diane, habitants de la forêt, suivants de l'Amour, prêtresses de Diane, divinités infernales, Trézéniens, matelots, chasseurs et chasseresses, bergers et bergères] ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Edita Gruberova [Violetta Valéry] ** Patricia Spence [Flora Bervoix] ** Monica Bacelli [Annina] ** Neil Shicoff [Alfredo Germont] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Giorgio Germont] ** Kim Begley [Gastone, Visconte de Létorières] ** Peter Sidhom [Barone Douphol] ** David Barrell [Marchese d'Obigny] ** Alastaire Miles [Dottore Grenvil] ** Peter Bronder [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Fabrizio Visentin [Domestico di Flora] ** Nicholas Folwell [Commissionario] ** Ambrosian Singers [Signori e signore ** Amici di Violetta e Flora ** Mattadore ** Piccadori e zingare ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Carlo Rizzi (conductor)