Opera at Eight

René Kollo (tenor) [Max] ** Hildegard Behrens (soprano) [Agathe] ** Peter Meven [Kaspar] ** Helen Donath [Ännchen] ** Hermann Sapell [Kilian] ** Raimund Grumbach [Kuno] ** Kurt Moll [Eremit] ** Wolfgang Brendel [Ottokar] ** Rolf Boysen [Samiel] ** Irmgard Lampert [Brautjungfern 1] ** Adelheid Schiller [Brautjungfern 2] ** Erika Rüggeberg [Demoiselle d'honneur 1] ** Renate Freyer [Demoiselle d'honneur 2] ** Theodor Nicolai [Ein Jäger] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

Aage Haugland (bass) [Jeronimus] ** Susanne Resmark [Magdelone] ** Gert-Henning Jensen [Leander] ** Bo Skovhus [Henrik] ** Michael Kristensen [Arv] ** Kurt Ravn [Leonard] ** Henriette Bonde-Hansen [Leonora] ** Marianne Rorholm [Pernille] ** Christian Christiansen (bass) [Tutor] ** Johan Reuter [Nightwatchman] ** Johan Reuter [Master of the Masquerade] ** Bo Anker Hansaen [Doorman] ** The Danish National Radio Choir ** The Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra ** Ulf Schirmer (conductor)

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)

Dénes Gulyás [Count Almaviva] ** Krisztina Laki [Rosina] ** József Gregor [Bartolo] ** István Gáti (baritone) [Figaro] ** Sándor Sólyom-Nagy [Don Basilio] ** Csaba Réta [Laddie] ** Miklós Mersei [Sprightly] ** Gábor Vághelyi [Notary] ** Attila Fülöp [Judge] ** Hungarian State Orchestra ** Adam Fischer (conductor)

Vito Priante [Motezuma] ** Marijana Mijanovic [Mitrena] ** Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) [Teutile] ** Maite Beaumont [Fernando] ** Romina Basso [Ramiro] ** Inga Kalna [Asprano] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)

Constantin Chekerliiksi [Igor Svastoslavich] ** Boris Christoff [Prince Galitsky ** Khan Konchak] ** Todor Todorov [Vladimir] ** Cyril Dulguerov [Eroshka] ** Alexei Milkovsky [Skula] ** Luben Mikhailov [Lovlur] ** Julia Wiener [Yaroslavna] ** Reni Penkova [Konchakovna] ** Radka Gaeva [Nurse] ** Liliana Bareva [Polovtsian Girl] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the National Opera Theatre of Sofia ** Jerzy Semkov (conductor)

James Morris (bass) [Wotan] ** Siegfried Lorenz [Donner] ** Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) ** Siegfried Jerusalem [Loge] ** Ekkehard Wlaschiha [Alberich] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Mime] ** Kurt Moll [Fasolt] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Fafner] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Fricka] ** Mari Anne Häggander [Freia] ** Birgitta Svendén [Erda] ** Hei-Kyung Hong [Woglinde] ** Diane Kesling [Wellgunde] ** Meredith Parsons [Flosshilde] ** The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ** James Levine (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)

Vivica Genaux [Antiope] ** Joyce DiDonato [Ippolita] ** Patrizia Ciofi [Orizia] ** Diana Damrau [Martesia] ** Rolando Villazón [Ercole] ** Romina Basso [Teseo] ** Philippe Jaroussky [Alceste] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Telamone] ** Coro da Camera "Santa Cecilia" di Borgo San Lorenzo ** Europa Galante ** Fabio Biondi (conductor)

Eva Marton [Wally] ** Francesco Ellero d'Artegna [Stromminger] ** Alan Titus [Vincenzo Gellner] ** Francisco Araiza [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Birgit Calm [Afra] ** Julie Kaufmann [Walter] ** Michele Pertusi [Il Pedone] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus ** Münchner Rundfunkorchester ** Pinchas Steinberg (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)

Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Edgar] ** Adriana Damato [Fidelia] ** Marianne Cornetti [Tigrana] ** Juan Pons [Frank] ** Rafal Siwek [Gualtiero] ** Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecila, Roma ** Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ** Alberto Veronesi (conductor)