Opera at Eight

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)

Nicola Ghiuselev [Ivan Susanin] ** Elena Stoyanova [Antonida] ** Hristina Angelakova [Vanja] ** Roumen Doikov [Bogdan Sobinin] ** Nikolai Stoilov [Russian Soldier] ** Angel Petkov [Polish Messenger] ** Dimiter Stanchev [Sigizmund the Third] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Mixed Choir [Peasants, Russian volunteers, ladies-in-waiting, Polish knights, soldiers, etc.] ** Bulgarian Television and Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Ivan Marinov (conductor)

Sonia Prina [Ottone] ** Julia Lezhneva [Caio Silio] ** Verónica Cangemi [Cleonilla] ** Roberta Invernizzi [Tullia] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Decio] ** Il Giardino Armonico ** Giovanni Antonini (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)

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)

Franco Corelli [Don Carlo] ** Leonie Rysanek [Elisabeth of Valois] ** Irene Dalis [Princess Eboli] ** Giorgio Tozzi [Philip II] ** Hermann Uhde [Grand Inquisitor] ** Nicolae Herlea [Rodrigo] ** Marcia Baldwin [Tebaldo] ** Justino Diaz [A Friar] ** Robert Nagy [Herald] ** Junetta Jones [Celestial Voice] ** Gabor Carelli [Count of Lerma] ** Metropolitan Opera ** Kurt Adler (conductor)

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] ** Francisco Araiza [Faust] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] ** Pamela Coburn [Siébel] ** Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** 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)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] ** Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] ** Christa Ludwig [Octavian] ** Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] ** Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] ** Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] ** Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] ** Kerstin Meyer [Annina] ** Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] ** Philharmonia Chorus ** Loughton High School for Girls & Bancroft's School ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Sophie Danemann [Rodelinda] ** Daniel Taylor [Bertarido] ** Adrian Thompson [Grimoaldo] ** Catherine Robbin [Eduige] ** Robin Blaze [Unulfo] ** Christopher Purves [Garibaldo] ** Raglan Baroque Players ** Nicholas Kraemer

van Kusnher [Vladislav] ** Leo Marian Vodicka [Dalibor] ** Vratislav Kriz [Budivoj] ** Jiri Kalendovsky [Benes] ** Miroslav Kopp [Vítek] ** Eva Urbanová [Milada] ** Jirina Markova [Jitka] ** Bohuslav Marsik [Judge] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Zdenek Kosler (conductor)

Howard Crook [Thésée] ** Laura Pudwell [Medée] ** Ellen Hargis [Æglé] ** Harry van der Kamp [Ægée] ** Suzie LeBlanc [Cleone] ** Mireille Lebel [Dorine ** Venus ** Une autre Bergere] ** Amanda Forsythe [La Grande Prestresse de Minerve ** Minerve ** Olivier Laquerre [Arcas] ** Marc Molomot [Bachus ** Un Vieillard ** Un Berger] ** Marek Rzepka [Mars ** Un Combattant] ** Aaron Engebreth [Un Plaisir] ** Un Jeux] ** Aaron Sheehan [Un autre Plaisir] ** Un Jeux ** Un Vieillard] ** Yulia Van Doren [Cerés ** Une Bergere] ** Teresa Wakim [Cerés ** Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus ** Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs (Musical Directors)