Opera Encore

Susanne Mentzer [Costanza] ** Ying Huang [Silvia] ** John Aler [Gernando] ** Christopher Schaldenbrand [Enrico] ** Padova Chamber Orchestra ** David Golub (conductor)

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

Victoria de los Angeles [Carmen] ** Nicolai Gedda [Don José] ** Janine Micheau [Micaëla] ** Ernest Blanc [Escamillo] ** Denise Monteil [Frasquita] ** Marcelle Croisier [Mercédès] ** Monique Linval [Mercédès] ** Jean-Christophe Benoit [Le Dancaïr] ** Michel Hamel [Le Remendado] ** Bernard Plantey [Moralès] ** Xavier Depraz [Zuniga] ** Chours de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française ** Petits Chanteurs de Versailles ** Sir Thomas Beecham (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)

Giorgio Zancanaro [Il Conte di Luna] ** Rosalind Plowright [Leonora] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Azucena] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Manrico (Il trovatore)] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Ferrando] ** Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano) [Ines] ** Walter Gullino [Ruiz] ** Alfredo Giacomotti [Un vecchio zingaro] ** Aldo Verrecchia [Un messo] ** Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Seguaci] ** Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ** Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

Joan Sutherland (soprano) [Anna Bolena] ** Samuel Ramey (bass) [Enrico VIII] ** Jerry Hadley (tenor) [Lord Riccardo Percy] ** Susanne Mentzer [Giovanna Seymour] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Smeton] ** Giorgio Surian [Lord Rochefort] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Sir Hervey] ** Chorus of the Welsh National Opera [Cortigiani, dame, paggi, scudieri, cacciatori, sceriffi, guardie] ** Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera ** Richard Bonynge (conductor)

Nicolai Gedda [Tamino] ** Gundula Janowitz [Pamina] ** Walter Berry [Papageno] ** Lucia Popp [Königin der Nacht] ** Gottlieb Frick (bass) [Sarastro] ** Franz Crass [Sprecher ** Zweiter Geharnischter ** Zweiter Priester] ** Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Erste Dame] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [Zweite Dame] ** Marga Höffgen [Dritte Dame] ** Ruth-Margret Pütz [Papagena] ** Gerhard Unger [Monostatos ** Erster Priester] ** Karl Liebl [Erster Geharnischter] ** Agnes Giebel [Erster Knabe] ** Anna Reynolds [Zweiter Knabe] ** Josephine Veasey [Dritter Knabe] ** Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra ** Otto Klemperer (conductor)

Roman Trekel [Croesus] ** Johannes Mannov [Cyrus] ** Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) [Elmira] ** Werner Güra (tenor) [Atis] ** Klaus Häger [Orsanes] ** Markus Schäfer [Eliates] ** Salomé Haller [Clerida] ** Kwangchul Youn [Solon] ** Graham Pushee [Halimacus] ** Brigitte Eisenfeld [Trigesta] ** Kurt Azesberger [Elcius] ** Jörg Gottschick [Hauptmann] ** Johanna Stojkovic [Nerillus] ** RIAS Chamber Chorus ** Knabenchor Hannover ** Berlin Academy for Old Music ** René Jacobs (alto)

Katia Ricciarelli (soprano) [Floria Tosca] ** José Carreras (tenor) [Mario Cavaradossi] ** Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Il barone Vitellio Scarpia] ** Gottfried Hornik (bass) [Cesare Angelotti] ** Heinz Zednik (tenor) [Spoletta] ** Fernando Corena [Un sagrestano] ** Victor von Halem (baritone) [Sciarrone] ** Victor von Halem (baritone) [Un carceriere] ** Wolfgang Bünten (tenor) [Un pastore] ** Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin ** Schöneberger Sängerknaben ** Berlin Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

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)

Renée Fleming (soprano) [Daphne] ** Kwangchul Youn [Peneios] ** Lisa Larsson (soprano) [Gaea] ** Michael Schade [Leukippos] ** Johan Botha [Apollo] ** Eike Wilm Schulte [Shepherd] ** Cosmin Ifrim [Shepherd] ** Gregory Reinhart [Shepherd] ** Carsten Wittmoser [Shepherd] ** Julia Kleiter [Maid] ** Twyla Robinson [Maid] ** Herren des WDR Rundfunkchors Köln ** WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln ** Semyon Bychkov (conductor)

Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Orfeo] ** Margaret Marshall (soprano) [Euridice] ** Edita Gruberova [Amore] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)