Opera Encore

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)

René Kollo (tenor) [Rienzi] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Irene] ** Jan-Hendrik Rootering [Steffano 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)

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)

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)

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)

Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Elena] ** Chris Merritt [Arrigo] ** Giorgio Zancanaro [Monforte] ** Ferruccio Furlanetto [Procida] ** Gloria Banditelli [Ninetta] ** Ernesto Gavazzi [Danieli] ** Enzo Capuano [Bethune] ** Francesco Musinu [Vaudemont] ** Paolo Barbacini [Tebaldo] ** Marco Chingari [Roberto] ** Ferrero Poggi [Manfredo] ** Coro del Teatro alla Scala [Sicilian men and women, French soldiers] ** Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ** Riccardo Muti (conductor)

Magdalena Kozená [Paride] ** Susan Gritton (soprano) [Elena] ** Carolyn Sampson [Amore] ** Gillian Webster [Pallade] ** Gabrieli Consort and Players ** Paul McCreesh (conductor)

Marilyn Horne [Tancredi] ** Lella Cuberli [Amenaide] ** Ernesto Palacio [Argirio] ** Nicola Zaccaria [Orbazzano] ** Bernadette Manca di Nissa [Isaura] ** Patricia Schuman [Roggiero] ** Orchestra e coro del Teatro la Fenice ** Ralf Weikert (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)

Anna Netrebko (soprano) [Violetta Valéry] ** Rolando Villazón [Alfredo Germont] ** Thomas
Hampson (baritone) [Giorgio Germont] ** Helene Schneiderman [Flora Bervoix] ** Diane Pilcher
[Annina] ** Paul Gay [Barone Douphol] ** Herman Wallén [Marchese d'Obigny] ** Luigi Roni [Dottore
Grenvil] ** Dritan Luca [Giuseppe, servo di Violetta] ** Wolfram Igor Derntl [Domestico di Flora] **
Friedrich Springer [Commissionario] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic
** Carlo Rizzi (conductor)