Opera at Eight

Cecilia Gasdia [Cesare] ** Marilyn Schmiege [Marzia] ** Susanna Rigacci [Arbace] ** Margarita Zimmermann [Emilia] ** Lucrezia Lendi [Fulvio] ** Ernesto Palacio [Catone] ** I Solist Veneti ** Claudio Scimione (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)

Colonna] ** John Janssen [Adriano] ** Bodo Brinkmann [Paolo Orsini] ** Hans Helms [Kardinal Orvieto] ** Norbert Orth [Baroncelli] ** Kieth Engen [Cecco del Vecchio] ** Carmen Anhorn [Ein Friedensbote] ** Raimund Grumbach [Der Gesandte Mailands] ** Hans Wilbrink [Der Gesandte der lombardischen Städte] ** Friedrich Lenz [Der Gesandte Neapels] ** Alfred Kuhn [Der Gesandte Bayerns] ** Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper ** Bayerisches Staatsorchester ** Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

The Monteverdi Choir ** The English Baroque Soloists ** John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

José Carreras (tenor) [Andrea Chénier] ** Eva Marton [Maddalena di Coigny] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Carlo Gerard] ** Tamara Takács [La Contessa di Coigny] ** Tullio Pane [L'Incredibile] ** Franco Federici [Jean-Antoine Roucher] ** Gábor Vághelyi [Pietro Fleville] ** Klára Takács [Bersi] ** Istvan Rozsos [L'Abate] ** József Gregor [Mathieu] ** Éva Farkas [La Vecchia] ** Kázmér Sárkány [Dumas] ** Tamás Bátor [Antoine Fouquier-Tinville] ** János Tóth [Schmidt] ** József Moldvai [Maestro di Casa] ** Chorus of the Hungarian State Radio and Television ** Children's Choir of the Hungarian State Opera ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Giuseppe Patanè (conductor)

Nathalie Stutzmann [Amadigi di Gaula] ** Jennifer Smith (soprano) [Oriana] ** Eiddwen Harrhy [Melissa] ** Bernarda Fink (alto) [Dardano] ** Bertin Pascal [Orgando] ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (conductor)

Mady Mesplé [Manon Lescaut] ** Peter-Christoph Runge [Le Marquis d'Hérigny] ** Jean-Claude Orliac [Le Chevalier Des Grieux] ** Yves Bisson [Lescaut] ** Emmy Greger [Marguerite] ** Gérard Friedmann [Gervais] ** Ghislaine Victorius [Zabi] ** Alain Duverry (baritone) ** Bernard Fabre-Garrus [Durozeau] ** Nicole Chaudeau [Madame Bancelin] ** Jean Bussard [Un Domestique] ** Chœurs de Radio France ** Orchestre Lyrique de Radio-France ** Jean-Pierre Marty (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)

Jon Vickers [Enée] ** Josephine Veasey [Didon] ** Berit Lindholm (soprano) [Cassandre] ** Peter Glossop [Chorèbe] ** Heather Begg [Anna] ** Roger Soyer [Narbal] ** Anthony Raffell [Panthée] ** Anne Howells [Ascagne] ** Ian Partridge [Poète tyrien] ** Pierre Thau [Priamus] ** Elizabeth Bainbridge [Hécube] ** Maldwyn Davies (tenor) [Hylas] ** Raimund Herincx [Sentinelle] ** Denis Wicks [Sentinelle] ** David Lennox [Hélénus] ** Wandsworth Boys' Choir ** Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano) [La belle Dulcinée] ** José van Dam (baritone) [Don Quichotte] ** Alain Fondary [Sancho Pança] ** Isabelle Vernet [Pedro] ** Marie-Ange Todorovitch [Garcias] ** Christian Papis [Rodriguez] ** Nicolas Rivenq (bass) [Juan] ** Jean-Claude Barbier [Le chef des bandits] ** Chour et Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse ** Michel Plasson (conductor)

Leontyne Price (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] ** Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] ** Richard Tucker (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] ** Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Kate Pinkerton] ** Philip Maero (baritone) [Sharpless] ** Piero de Palma (tenor) [Goro] ** Robert Kerns (baritone) [Il principe Yamadori] ** Virgilio Carbonari (bass) [Il Bonzo] ** Arturo La Porta (baritone) [Il commissario imperiale] ** Mario Rinaudo (bass) [L'ufficiale del registro] ** Leo Pudis (bass) [Lo zio Yakusidè] ** Fernanda Cadoni (mezzo-soprano) [La madre di Cio-cio-san] ** Gianna Lollini (soprano) [La zia di Cio-cio-san] ** Silvia Bertona (soprano) [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] ** Orchestra e coro RCA Italiana ** Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

Alexander Vedernikov [Boris Godunov] ** Glafira Koroleva [Feodor] ** Elena Shkolnikova [Xenia] ** Nina Grigorieva [Nurse] ** Andrei Sokolov [Shuisky] ** Alexander Voroshilo [Shchelkalov] ** Vladimir Matorin (bass) [Pimen] ** Vladisolav Piavko [Grigory/Dmitri] ** Irina Arkhipova [Marina Mnishek] ** Yuri Masurok [Rangoni] ** Artur Eisen [Varlaam] ** Anatoli Mishutin [Missail] ** Ludmila Simonova [Hostess] ** Janis Sporgis [Simpleton] ** Vladimir Filippov [Nikitich] ** Nikolaï Nizinenko [Mitiukha] ** Yuri Elnikov [Boyar/Khrushchov/Lavitsky] ** Vladimir Silaev [Chernikovsky] ** USSR TV and Radio Large Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Vladimir Fedoseyev (conductor)