Opera at Eight

Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) [Marguerite] ** Francisco Araiza [Faust] ** Evgeny Nesterenko [Méphistophélès] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Valentin] ** Pamela Coburn [Siébel] ** Marjana Lipovsek (alto) [Marthe] ** Gilles Cachemaille (bass) [Wagner] ** Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ** Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Hoffmann] ** Edita Gruberova [Olympia/Antonia/Giulietta] ** Claudia Eder [Nicklausse/La Muse] ** Andreas Schmidt (baritone) [Lindorf] ** Gabriel Bacquier [Coppélius] ** James Morris (bass) [Miracle] ** Justino Diaz [Dapertutto] ** Robert Gambill [Andrès] ** Paul Crook [Cochenille/Pitichinaccio] ** Michel Sénéchal (bass) [Frantz] ** Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) [La voix de la mère d'Antonia] ** Robin Leggate [Nathanaël] ** Gérard Friedmann [Spalanzani] ** Urban Malmberg (bass) [Hermann] ** Richard Van Allan [Schlémil] ** Kurt Rydl [Luther] ** Harald Stamm [Crespel] ** Chœurs de Radio France [Esprits invisibles, étudiants, garçons de taverne, invités de Spalanzani, laquais, invitétes de Giulietta] ** Orchestre National de France ** Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf [Die Feldmarschallin] ** Otto Edelmann [Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau] ** Christa Ludwig [Octavian] ** Eberhard Wächter [Herr von Faninal] ** Teresa Stich-Randall [Sophie] ** Ljuba Welitsch [Marianne] ** Paul Kuen [Valzacchi] ** Kerstin Meyer [Annina] ** Nicolai Gedda [Ein Sänger] ** Philharmonia Chorus ** Loughton High School for Girls & Bancroft's School ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Sophie Danemann [Rodelinda] ** Daniel Taylor [Bertarido] ** Adrian Thompson [Grimoaldo] ** Catherine Robbin [Eduige] ** Robin Blaze [Unulfo] ** Christopher Purves [Garibaldo] ** Raglan Baroque Players ** Nicholas Kraemer

van Kusnher [Vladislav] ** Leo Marian Vodicka [Dalibor] ** Vratislav Kriz [Budivoj] ** Jiri Kalendovsky [Benes] ** Miroslav Kopp [Vítek] ** Eva Urbanová [Milada] ** Jirina Markova [Jitka] ** Bohuslav Marsik [Judge] ** Chorus of the Prague National Theatre ** Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre ** Zdenek Kosler (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)

Ruggero Raimondi (baritone) [Mustafà] ** Patrizia Pace [Elvira] ** Anna Gonda [Zulma] ** Alessandro Corbelli [Haly] ** Frank Lopardo (tenor) [Lindoro] ** Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano) [Isabella] ** Enzo Dara [Taddeo] ** Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus ** Vienna Philharmonic ** Claudio Abbado (conductor)

Mirella Freni (soprano) [Manon Lescaut] ** Renato Bruson [Lescaut] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Il Cavaliere Renato Des Grieux] ** Kurt Rydl [Geronte di Ravoir] ** Robert Gambill [Edmondo] ** George Macpherson [L'Oste] ** John Fryatt [Il Maestro di Ballo] ** Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) [Un Musico] ** Handel Thomas [Sergente degli Arcieri] ** Mark Curtis [Un Lampionaio] ** John Tomlinson [Un Comandante di Marina] ** Paschal Allen [Un Sergente] ** Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

René Kollo (tenor) [Lohengrin] ** Anna Tomowa-Sintow [Elsa von Brabant] ** Siegmund Nimsgern [Friedrich von Telramund] ** Dunja Vejzovic [Ortrud] ** Karl Ridderbusch [Heinrich der Vogler (Henry the Fowler)] ** Robert Kerns (baritone) [The King's Herald] ** Klaus Lang [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Peter Maus [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Martin Vantin [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Josef Becker [Nobleman of Brabant] ** Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin [Saxons, Thuringians, Brabantians] ** Berlin Philharmonic ** Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

Joyce DiDonato [Ariodante] ** Matthew Brook [King of Scotland] ** Karina Gauvin [Ginevra] ** Topi Lehtipuu [Lurcanio] ** Marie-Nicole Lemieux [Polinesso] ** Sabina Puértolas [Dalinda] ** Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani [Odoardo] ** Il Complesso Barocco ** Alan Curtis (conductor)

Horst Hiestermann [Herodes] ** Leonie Rysanek [Herodias] ** Cheryl Studer (soprano) [Salome] ** Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) [Jochanaan] ** Clemens Bieber [Narraboth] ** Marianne Rorholm [Der Page der Herodias] ** Uwe Peper [Erster Jude] ** Karl-Ernst Mercker [Zweiter Jude] ** Peter Maus [Dritter Jude] ** Warren Mok [Vierter Jude] ** Manfred Röhrl [Fünfter Jude] ** Friedrich Molsberger [Erster Nazarener] ** Ralf Lukas [Zweiter Nazarener] ** William Murray [Erster Soldat] ** Bengt Rundgren [Zweiter Soldat] ** Klaus Lang [Ein Kappadozier] ** Aimée Willis [Ein Sklave] ** Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin ** Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Beverly Sills (soprano) [Norina] ** Donald Gramm [Don Pasquale] ** Alan Titus [Dottor Malatesta] ** Alfredo Kraus [Ernesto] ** Henry Newman [Un Notaro] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** London Symphony Orchestra ** Sarah Caldwell (conductor)