Opera at Eight

Richard Leech (tenor) [Faust] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Méphistophélès] ** Françoise Pollet [Marguerite] ** Michel Philippe [Brander] ** Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal ** Orchestre symphonique de Montréal ** Charles Dutoit (conductor)

Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Primadonna/Ariadne] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [The Composer] ** Kathleen Battle (soprano) [Zerbinetta] ** Gary Lakes [The Tenor/Bacchus] ** Hermann Prey (baritone) [A Music Master] ** Otto Schenk [The Major-domo] ** Ewald Aichberger [An Officer] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [A Dancing Master] ** Günter von Kannen [A Wig-Maker] ** Alfred Sramek [A Footman] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Harlequin] ** Josef Protschka (tenor) [Scaramouche] ** Kurt Rydl [Truffaldino] ** Hans Sojer [Brighella] ** Barbara Bonney (soprano) [Naiad] ** Helga Müller Molinari [Dryad] ** Dawn Upshaw (soprano) [Echo] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** James Levine (conductor)

Magdalena Kozená [Paride] ** Susan Gritton (soprano) [Elena] ** Carolyn Sampson [Amore] ** Gillian Webster [Pallade] ** Gabrieli Consort and Players ** Paul McCreesh (conductor)

Thomas Allen (baritone) [Figaro] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Rosina] ** Francisco Araiza [Il Conte d'Almaviva] ** Domenico Trimarchi [Bartolo] ** Robert Lloyd (bass) [Basilio] ** Sally Burgess [Berta] ** Matthew Best [Fiorello] ** John Noble [Ufficiale] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ** Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

Samuel Ramey (bass) [Mefistofele] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Faust] ** Eva Marton [Margherite ** Sergio Tedesco [Wagner] ** Tamara Takács [Marta] ** Éva Farkas [Pantalis] ** Antal Pataki [Nereo] ** Hungaroton Opera Chorus [Celestial host ** Mystic Chorus ** Cherubim ** Penitents ** Promenaders ** Crossbow Shooters ** Huntsmen ** Students ** Countrymen ** Townsfolk ** Burghers ** Witches ** Warlocks ** Corytides ** Sirens ** Dorids ** Coryphaie ** Warriors ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Nyiregyházi Boys' Choir ** Giuseppe Patanè (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)

Nicolai Gedda [Tamino] ** Gundula Janowitz [Pamina] ** Walter Berry [Papageno] ** Lucia Popp [Königin der Nacht] ** Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Sarastro] ** Franz Crass [Sprecher ** Zweiter Geharnischter ** Zweiter Priester] ** Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Erste Dame] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Zweite Dame] ** Marga Höffgen [Dritte Dame] ** Ruth-Margret Pütz [Papagena] ** Gerhard Unger [Monostatos ** Erster Priester] ** Karl Liebl [Erster Geharnischter] ** Agnes Giebel [Erster Knabe] ** Anna Reynolds [Zweiter Knabe] ** Josephine Veasey [Dritter Knabe] ** Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra ** Otto Klemperer (conductor)

Nicolai Ohotnikov [Prince Yury Vsevolodich] ** Yuri Marusin [Prince Vsevolod] ** Galina Gorchakova [Fevroniya] ** Vladimir Galuzin [Grishka Kuter'ma] ** Nikolai Putilin [Feodor Poyarok] ** Olga Korzhenskaya [Page] ** Evgeny Boitsov [Well-off Person] ** Evgeny Fedorov [Well-off Person] ** Mikhail Kit [Gusli Player] ** Nikolai Gassiev [Bear Leader] ** Grigory Karasev [Singing Beggar] ** Bulat Minjilkiev [Bedyay] ** Vladimir Ognovienko (bass) [Burunday] ** Tatiana Kravtsova [Sirin] ** Larissa Diadkova [Alkonost] ** Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, St. Petersburg ** Valery Gergiev

Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra] ** Edita Gruberova [Maria Stuarda, Regina di Scozia] ** Iris Vermillion (mezzo-soprano) [Anna Kennedy] ** Francisco Araiza [Roberto, Conte di Leicester] ** Simone Alaimo [Lord Guglielmo Cecil] ** Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Giorgio Talbot, Conte di Shrewsbury] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Munich Radio Orchestra ** Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)

Nicolas Testé [Roland] ** Anna-Maria Panzarella [Ang!lique] ** Olivier Dumait [Médor] ** Monique Zanetti [Témire] ** Robert Getchell [Astolfe] ** Saomé Haller [La fée principale, Logistille] ** Evgueniy Alexiev [Ziliante ** Demogorgon ** Un suivant d'Angélique] ** Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro [Un insulaire ** Tersandre] ** Anders. J. Dahlin [Un insulaire ** Un suivant d'Angélique ** Coridon, un pâtre]] ** Marie-Hélène Essade [Un amante contente ** Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une postourelle] ** Delphine Gillot [Une suivante d'Angélique ** Une amante contente, La Gloire] ** Les Talens Lyriques ** Christophe Rousset (conductor)

Colette Alliot-Lugaz [Mélisande] ** Didier Henry [Pelléas] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Golaud] ** Pierre Thau [Arkel] ** Claudine Carlson [Geneviève] ** Françoise Golfier [Yniold] ** Phillip Ens [Un berger ** Un médecin] ** Chours de l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal [Marins en coulisse, servantes mendiants] ** Orchestre symphonique de Montréal ** Charles Dutoit (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)