Opera at Eight

Janine Micheau [Leïla] ** Nicolai Gedda [Nadir] ** Ernest Blanc [Zurga] ** Jacques Mars [Nourabad] ** Chours du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique ** Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique ** Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

Montserrat Caballé (soprano) [La Gioconda] ** Alfreda Hodgson [La Cieca] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Enzo Grimaldo] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Alvise Badoero] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Laura] ** Sherill Milnes [Barnaba] ** John Del Carlo [Zuane] ** Regolo Romani [Isepo] ** Neil Jenkins (tenor) [Pilota ** Prima voce dalla laguna] ** Geoffrey Shaw [Seconda voce dalla laguna] ** Stephen Varcoe (baritone) [Cantore] ** Rodney Macann [Barnabotto] ** London Opera Chorus [Barnabotti ** arnsenalotti, gentiluomini e dame, mascere, marinai e mozzi, cantori, popolo] ** National Philharmonic Orchestra ** Bruno Bartoletti (conductor)

Thomas Hampson (baritone) [Hamlet] ** June Anderson [Ophélie] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Claudius, Roi du Danemark] ** Gregory Kunde [Laërte] ** Denyce Graves [La Reine Gertrude] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Le Spectre] ** Gerard Garino [Marcellus] ** François Le Roux [Horatio] ** Michel Trempot [Polonius] ** Thierry Felix [Premier Fossoyeur] ** Jean-Pierre Furlan [Second Fossoyeur] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Philharmonic Orchestra ** Antonio de Almeida (conductor)

Maria Callas [Medea] ** Renata Scotto (soprano) [Glauce] ** Miriam Pirazzini [Neris] ** Mirto Picchi [Giasone] ** Giuseppe Modesti [Creonte] ** Lidia Morimpietri [Prima ancella] ** Elvira Galassi [Seconda ancella] ** Alfredo Giacomotti [Capo delle guardie] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Tullio Serafin (conductor)

Rosemarie Lang [Larina] ** Mirella Freni (soprano) [Tatjana] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Olga] ** Ruthild Engert [Filipjewna] ** Thomas Allen (baritone) [Eugen Onegin] ** Neil Shicoff [Lenski] ** Paata Burchuladze [Fürst Gremin] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Triquet] ** Jürgen Hartfiel [Ein Hauptmann] ** Gunter Emmerlich [Saretzki] ** Rundfunkchor Leipzig ** Staatskapelle Dresden ** James Levine (conductor)

Mirella Freni (soprano) [Manon Lescaut] ** Renato Bruson [Lescaut] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Il Cavaliere Renato Des Grieux] ** Kurt Rydl [Geronte di Ravoir] ** Robert Gambill [Edmondo] ** George Macpherson [L'Oste] ** John Fryatt [Il Maestro di Ballo] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Un Musico] ** Handel Thomas [Sergente degli Arcieri] ** Mark Curtis [Un Lampionaio] ** John Tomlinson [Un Comandante di Marina] ** Paschal Allen [Un Sergente] ** Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

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

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)

José Carreras (tenor) [Giocondo] ** Beverly Wolff (mezzo-soprano) [Marchesina Clarice] ** Elaine Bonazzi [Baronessa Aspasia] ** Anne Elgar [Donna Fulvia] ** John Reardon [Conte Asdrubale] ** Andrew Foldi [Macrobio] ** Justino Diaz [Pacuvio] ** Raymond Murcell [Fabrizio] ** The Clarion Concerts Orchestra and Chorus ** Newell Jenkins (conductor)

Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Lucia] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [Edgardo] ** Sherill Milnes [Enrico] ** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) [Raimondo] ** Ryland Davies [Arturo] ** Huguette Tourangeau [Alisa] ** Pier Francesco Poli [Normanno] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Richard Bonynge (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)

Lenneke Ruiten (soprano) [Armida] ** Florie Valiquette (soprano) [Rinaldo] ** Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano) [Ismene] ** Ashley Riches (baritone) [Ubaldo] ** Les Talens Lyriques ** Christophe Rousset (conductor)