Opera at Eight

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)

Plácido Domingo [Otello] ** Cheryl Studer [Desdemona] ** Sergei Leiferkus [Jago] ** Denyce Graves [Emilia] ** Ramon Vargas [Cassio] ** Michael Schade [Roderigo] ** Ildebrando D'Arcangelo [Lodovico] ** Giacomo Prestia [Montano] ** Philippe Duminy [Un Araldo] ** Chœur de l'Opéra-Bastille [Soldiers & sailors of the Republic of Venice, Venetian nobles, Cypriots, Greek, Dalmatian & Albanian soldiers, children of the island] ** Orchestre de l'Opéra-Bastille ** Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

Maaike Beekman [Ascanio] ** Claudia Patacca [Venere] ** Nicola Wemyss [Silvia] ** Tom Allen [Aceste] ** Claron McFadden [Fauno] ** Musica ad Rhenum ** Jed Wentz (conductor)

Jeanette Scovotti (soprano) [Minerve (Minerva)] ** Märta Schéle (soprano) [Vénus] ** Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) [L'Amour (Cupid)] ** Rolf Leanderson (baritone) [Mars] ** Jeanette Scovotti (soprano) [Télaïre, fille du Soleil (Telaira, daughter of the Sun)] ** Norma Lerer (soprano) [Phébé, princesse de Sparte (Phoebe, Princess of Sparta)] ** Zeger Vandersteene (tenor) [Castor, fils de Tindare (Castor, son of Tyndareus)] ** Gérard Souzay (baritone) [Pollux, fils de Jupiter et de Léda (Pollux, son of Jupiter and Leda)] ** Jacques Villisech (bass-baritone) [Jupiter] ** Sven-Erik Alexandersson (tenor) [Le Gran-Pretre de Jupiter (The high priest of Jupiter) ** Un Athlète] ** Rold Leanderson (baritone) [Un Athlète] ** Helga Reiter (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe)] ** Märta Schéle (soprano) [Une Suivante d'Hébé (A follower of Hebe) ** Une Ombre heureuse (A blessed spirit) ** Une Planète (A planet)] ** Stockholm Kammerkören [Les Arts ** Les Plaisirs (the Pleasures)] ** Stockholm Kammerkören [Athlètes, combattants et Spartiates ** Prêtres de Jupiter (priests of Jupiter) ** Plaisirs célestes ** Démons ** Ombres heureuses (blessed spirits) ** Astres (stars) ** Constellations, Planètes, Satellites ** Les Dieux (gods)] ** Concentus Musicus Wien ** Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

Anna Netrebko [Giulietta] ** Elína Garanca [Romeo] ** Tiziano Bracci [Capellio] ** Joseph Calleja [Tebaldo] ** Robert Gleadow [Lorenzo] ** Vienna Singakademie ** Vienna Symphony Orchestra ** Fabio Luisi (conductor)

Grace Bumbry [Chimene] ** Plácido Domingo (tenor) [Rodrigue] ** Paul Plishka [Don Diegue] ** Clinton Ingram [Don Arias] ** Theodore Hodges [Don Alonzo] ** Arnold Voketaitis [Le Comte de Gormas] ** Eleanor Bergquist [L'Infante] ** Jake Gardner [Le Roi] ** Peter Lightfoot [l'Envoye Maure] ** John Adams [St. Jacques] ** Byrne Camp Chorale ** Opera Orchestra of New York ** Eve Queler (conductor)

José Carreras (tenor) [Eléazar] ** Julia Varady (soprano) [Rachel] ** Dalmacio Gonzales [Léopold] ** June Anderson [La Princesse Eudoxie] ** Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) [Le Cardinal de Brogni] ** René Massis [Ruggiero] ** Renè Schirrer [Albert] ** Ambrosian Opera Chorus ** Philharmonia Orchestra ** Antonio de Almeida (conductor)

Éva Farkas [Atalanta] ** Éva Bártfai-Barta [Meleagro] ** Éva Lax [Irene] ** János Bándi [Aminta] ** József Gregor [Nicandro] ** László Polgár [Mercury] ** Savaria Vocal Ensemble ** Capella Savaria ** Nicholas McGegan (conductor)