Opera at Eight

Michele Pertusi [Selim] ** Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) [Donna Fiorilla] ** Alessandro Corbelli [Don Geronio] ** Ramon Vargas [Don Narciso] ** Roberto de Candia (baritone) [Poeta] ** Laura Polverelli [Zaida] ** Francesco Piccoli [Albazar] ** Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

Mirella Freni (soprano) [Cio-cio-san] ** Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [B. F. Pinkerton] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Suzuki] ** Robert Kerns (baritone) [Sharpless] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Goro] ** Marius Rintzler [Il Bonzo] ** Elke Schary [Kate Pinkerton] ** Giorgio Stendoro [Il principe Yamadori] ** Hans Helm [Il commissario imperiale] ** Wolfgang Scheider [Lo zio Yakusidè] ** Siegfried Rudolf Frese [L'ufficiale del registro] ** Evamaria Hurdes [La madre di Cio-cio-san] ** Erna Maria Mühlberger [La zia di Cio-cio-san] ** Martha Heigl [La cugina di Cio-cio-san] ** Vienna State Opera Chorus [Parenti ed amiche di Cio-cio-san ** Marinai] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Peter Hofmann [Parsifal] ** Kurt Moll [Gurnemanz] ** José van Dam [Amfortas] ** Dunja Vejzovic [Kundry] ** Siegmund Nimsgern [Klingsor] ** Victor von Halem [Titurel] ** Claes H. Ahnsjö [Knight of the Grail I] ** Kurt Rydl [Knight of the Grail II] ** Marjon Lambriks [Squire I] ** Anne Gjevang [Squire II] ** Heiner Hopfner [Squire III] ** Georg Tichy [Squire IV] ** Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin ** Berlin Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Maria Callas [Imogene] ** Constantino Ego [Ernesto] ** Pier Miranda Ferraro [Gualtiero] ** Glade Peterson [Itulbo] ** Chester Watson [Goffredo (Solitario)] ** Regina Sarfaty [Adele] ** Chorus and Orchestra of the American Opera Society ** Nicola Rescigno (conductor)

Renée Fleming (soprano) [Alcina] ** Susan Graham [Ruggiero] ** Natalie Dessay (soprano) [Morgana] ** Kathleen Kuhlmann [Bradamante] ** Timothy Robsinson [Oronte] ** Laurent Naouri [Melisso] ** Juanita Lascarro [Oberto] ** Les Arts Florissants ** William Christie (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)

Fernando Corena [The King of Egypt] ** Giulietta Simionato [Amneris] ** Renata Tebaldi [Aida] ** Carlo Bergonzi [Radamés] ** Arnold van Mill [Ramfis] ** Cornell MacNeil [Amonasro] ** Piero de Palma [A Messenger] ** Eugenia Ratti [A Priestess] ** Vienna Singverein [Priests, priestesses, ministers, soldiers, captains, Ethiopian slaves & prisoners, Egyptian people, etc.] ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Barbara Schlick (soprano) [Giulia] ** Gotthold Schwarz [Arminio] ** Gerd Türk (tenor) [Nerone] ** Xenia Meijer [Segesta] ** Gerd Kenda [Tiberio] ** Bernhard Landauer [Calligola] ** Markus Forster [Vitellio] ** Hermann Oswald [Germanico] ** Otto Ratsbichler [Erchino] ** Irena Troupova [Claudia] ** Regina Schwarzer [Climmia] ** Florian Mehltretter [Seiano] ** Salzburger Hofmusik ** Wolfgang Brunner (conductor)

Zdenek Kroupa [Savel P. Dikoi] ** Beno Blachut [Boris Grigorievich] ** Ludmila Komancova [Marpha I. Kabanova] ** Bohumir Vich [Tikhon I. Kabanov] ** Drahomira Tikalova [Katya Kabanova] ** Viktor Koci [Vania Kudriash] ** Ivana Mixova [Varvara] ** Rudolf Zedlicka [Kuligin] ** Eva Hlobilova [Glasha] ** Marcela Lemariova [Feklusha] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre [Town-dwellers] ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Jaroslav Krombholc (conductor)

John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [Dardanus] ** Véronique Gens [Iphise] ** Laurent Naouri [Anténor] ** Mireille Delunsch [Vénus] ** Jean-Philippe Courtis [Isménor] ** Russell Smythe [Teucer] ** Magdalena Kozená [Une Bergère] ** Françoise Masset [L'Amour] ** Jean-Louis Bindi [Un Phrygien] ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Songe] ** Alain Lombard (conductor) [Seconde Songe] ** Marcos Pujol [Troisième Songe] ** Magdalena Kozená [Première Phrygienne] ** Françoise Masset [Seconde Phrygienne] ** Chour des Musiciens du Louvre ** Les musiciens du Louvre ** Marc Minkowski (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)

Paolo Lopez [Teuzzone] ** Raffaella Milanesi [Zidiana] ** Delphine Galou [Zelinda] ** Roberta Mameli [Cino] ** Furio Zanasi [Sivenio] ** Antonio Giovannini [Egaro] ** Makoto Sakurada [Troncone ** Argonte] ** Le Concert des Nations ** Jordi Savall (conductor)