Opera at Eight

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)

Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Der Kaiser] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Die Kaiserin] ** Reinhild Runkel [Die Amme] ** Albert Dohmen [Der Geisterbote] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Barak, der Färber] ** Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Baraks Frau] ** Sumi Jo [Die Stimme des Falken] ** Robert Gambill [Die Erscheinung eines Jünglings] ** Alzbieta Ardam [Eine Stimme von oben] ** Eva Lind [Der Hüter der Schwelle] ** Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Der Einäugige] ** Hans Franzen [Der Einarmige] ** Wilfried Gahmlich [Der Bucklige] ** Vienna Boys Choir ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

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

Agnes Baltsa [Cenerentola (Angiolina)] ** Francisco Araiza [Don Ramiro] ** Simone Alaimo [Dandini] ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Don Magnifico] ** Carol Malone [Clorinda] ** Felicity Palmer (soprano) [Tisbe] ** John Del Carlo [Alidoro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ** Sir Neville Marriner (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)

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)

Anthony Michaels-Moore [Alphonse XI] ** Vesselina Kasarova [Léonor de Guzman] ** Abbie Furmansky [Inès] ** Ramon Vargas [Fernand] ** Carlo Colombara [Balthazar] ** Francesco Piccoli [Don Gaspar] ** Lorenz Fehenberger [Un seigneur] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Münchner Rundfunkorchester ** Marcello Viotti (conductor)

Roberto Alagna (tenor) [Roméo] ** Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) [Juliette] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Frère Laurent] ** Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Stéphano] ** Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [Mercutio] ** Alain Fondary [Capulet] ** Claire Larcher [Gertrude] ** Daniel Galvez Vallejo [Tybalt] ** Guy Flechter [Benvolio] ** Didier Henry [Pâris] ** Till Fecnher [Grégorio] ** Alain Vernhes [Le Duc] ** Christophe Fel [Frère Jean] ** Anne Constantin [Manuela] ** Doris Lamprecht [Pepita] ** Yann Beuron [Angelo] ** Chœur et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) [Idomeneo] ** Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) [Idamante] ** Sylvia McNair [Ilia] ** Hillevi Martinpelto [Elettra] ** Nigel Robson [Arbace] ** Glenn Winslade [Gran Sacerdote di Nettuno] ** Cornelius Hauptmann (bass) [La Voce] ** Angela Kazimierczuk [Cretesa 1] ** Jonathan Peter Kenny [Cretesa 2] ** Philip Salmon [Troiane 1] ** Stephen Charlesworth [Troiane 2] ** The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

James Morris (bass) [Amfortas] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Titurel] ** Kurt Moll [Gurnemanz] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Parsifal] ** Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Klingsor] ** Jessye Norman (soprano) [Kundry] ** The Metropolitan Opera Chorus [Knights of the Grail ** Esquires ** Flower Maidens ** Voice from Above ** Youths and Boys] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (conductor)

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)