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Opera's Legendary Performances

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Recitals: an Evening With Jessye Norman (Live)

Jessye Norman
Great Opera Duets

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Smetana: Die verkaufte Braut (Remastered)

Fritz Wunderlich, Gottlob Frick, Rudolf Kempe & Pilar Lorengar
The Best of Giacomo Puccini

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Bellini: Norma

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Verdi: Falstaff

Herbert Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tito Gobbi, Tomaso Spataro, Rolando Panerai, Renato Ercolani, Nicola Zaccaria, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Fedora Barbieri, Nan Merriman, Luigi Alva, Roberto Benaglio & Philharmonia Chorus
Die 50 ergreifensten Arien - La Boheme - Don Giovanni- Carmen - Rigoletto - Fidelio

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Strauss II, J: Die Fledermaus

Anneliese Rothenberger, Willi Boskovsky & Wiener Symphoniker
Rhino Hi-Five: The Ten Tenors - EP

The Ten Tenors
Wagner: Tannhäuser

Bernard Haitink
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588

Otto Klemperer
Offenbach: Orpheus in der Unterwelt

NDR Symphonie Orchester, Paul Burkhard, Heinz Hoppe & Anneliese Rothenberger
Verdi: Don Carlos

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gabriele Santini, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Norberto Mola
Christoph Willibald Gluck : Orpheus und Eurydike (Wien 1953)

Grosses Wiener Rundfunkorchester, Michael Gielen, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Hilde Rossel-Majdan & Emmy Loose
Beethoven : Symphonie No. 9, en ré mineur, Op. 125

Orchestre Philarmonique de Vienne, Erich Kleiber, Hilde Gueden, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota & Ludwig Weber
Nabucco

Vittorio Gui & Maria Callas
The Three Tenors Christmas

Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti & José Carreras
Essential Wagner: His Very Best Opera & Orchestral Music, Including Ride of the Valkyries, Wedding March, the Tristan Prelude, Die Meistersinger & Excerpts from the Ring Cycle

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The Very Best Of

Kathleen Ferrier
Il Trovatore (Special Bonus Disc: Domingo in New Orleans)

Plácido Domingo, Monserrat Caballe & Knud Andersson
Strauss: Daphne

Bernard Haitink
The Very Best of Jussi Björling - Pearl Fisher's Duet

Jussi Björling
Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini

Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
Lincke: Frau Luna

Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, Wilhelm Stephan, Kurt Wehofschitz & Ursula Schirrmacher
In Concert (Live At Sibelius Hall)

Tarja & Harus
I Pagliacci - Der Bajazzo

Orquestra Sinfonica e Coro do Teatro La Scala & Franco Ghione
Opera Classics

Richard Tauber
Rossini: la Donna del Lago

Monsterrat Caballé; Franco Bonisolli; Julia Hamari
Bellini: I Puritani (Recorded Live at The Met - March 30, 1991)

The Metropolitan Opera, Edita Gruberová, Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli, Paul Plishka & Richard Bonynge
Donizetti: Der Liebestrank

Berliner Symphoniker, Ernst Märzendorfer, Stina Britta Melander & Rudolf Schock
Frisch Gestrichen

Quin Tête-à-Tête
Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54

Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers & Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Les contes d'Hoffmann

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus & Pierre Monteux
Ernst Arnold zum 100. Geburtstag

Ernst Arnold
Händel: Alcina

Anja Harteros, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton & Vesselina Kasarova
Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace

The Philip Glass Ensemble
Telemann: Pimpinone (Comic Opera in Three Acts)

Baroque Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Ostendorf, Julianne Baird & Rudolph Palmer
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 (Recorded Live at The Met - December 14, 1985)

The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Allen, Ruggero Raimondi & James Levine
Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent

Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Kurt Schröder, Else Tegetthoff & Betina Brucker
Wagner: Rienzi

Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Lovro von Matačić, Wolfgang Windgassen & Paula Brivkalne
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Bernard Haitink & Staatskapelle Dresden
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel Und Gretel

Philharmonia Orchestra & Herbert von Karajan
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Wien 1955)

Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch & Sena Jurinac
Puccini: Turandot

Gina Cigna, Orchestra sinfonica e Coro di Torino della RAI & Franco Ghione
Giovanni Paisiello : Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Brescia 1959)

I Virtuosi Di Roma, Collegium Musicum Italicum & Renato Fasano
Jussi Björling - Svenska Favoriter

Jussi Björling
Opera Classics: Rossini's "Tancredi"

Alberto Zedda, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Ewa Podleś, Stanford Olsen & Sumi Jo
Carlo Bergonzi: Verdi Arias

Carlo Bergonzi
Kálmán: Die Zirkusprinzessin

Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Franz Marszalek, Franz Fehringer & Gretl Frohlich
Kurt Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Three Penny Opera)

Chor des Sender Freies Berlin, Orchester des Sender Freies Berlin, Lotte Lenya, Wolfgang Neuss, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Trude Hesterberg, Erich Schellow, Johanna von Koczian, Wolfgang Grunert & Inge Wolffberg
Christian Kolonovits: Antonia und der Reißteufel

Volksoper Wien & Christian Kolonovits
Giordano: Andrea Chénier

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Gabriele Santini & Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Legenden der Operette: Rudolf Schock

Rudolf Schock
Divas de la Opera

Didactica Clasica De Conservatorio New Mozart, Montserrat Caballé, María Calas & Renata Scotto
Richard Wagner : Lohengrin (Bayreuth 1958)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & André Cluytens
Glanzvolle Operette: Robert Stolz dirigiert Robert Stolz

Robert Stolz & Wiener Symphoniker
Verdi: un Ballo In Maschera

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé & Renato Bruson
HMS Pinafore (Original Cast Recording) [New Sadler's Wells Opera]

Gilbert & Sullivan
The Voyage: An Opera In Three Acts

Landestheater Linz & Philip Glass
Scene! (Concert Arias)

Christiane Karg, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen
Verdi: Otello

Kon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Tito Gobbi, Orchestra dell'opera di Roma, Coro Dell'Opera Di Roma & Tullio Serafin
Trojahn: Orest

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Marc Albrecht, Dietrich Henschel, Sarah Castle & Romy Petrick
Verdi: Opern-Highlights, deutsch gesungen

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Lehár: Der Zarewitsch

Nicolai Gedda, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Harry Friedauer, Willy Mattes, Ursula Reichart, Rita Streich & Symphonie-Orchester Graunke
200 anni di Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, Nabucco

Orchestra Dell' Arena Di Verona & Coro dell' Arena di Verona
Richard Wagner : Parsifal (Bayreuth 1959)

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Hans Knappertsbuch
Richard Wagner : Der Ring des Nibelungen - Das Rheingold (Scala 1950)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Wilhelm Furtwängler
Der Zigeunerbaron

The Vienna Operetten Orchestra & The Vienna Operetten Choir
Massenet: Werther

Alfredo Kraus, Elena Obratsova, Alberto Rinaldi, Daniela Mazzuccato, Nicola Zaccaria, Walter Gullino, Giorgio Lormi, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, La Scala Chorus & Georges Prêtre
10 Pfennig Oper

Heinz Erhardt
The Mikado (Original Cast) (English National Opera)

Gilbert & Sullivan
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1990)

The Metropolitan Opera, Marilyn Mims, Tatiana Troyanos, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jerry Hadley, Thomas Hampson, Richard Van Allan & James Levine
Rigoletto

Ettore Bastianini, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Strauss: Salome

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, Set Svanholm & Ljuba Welitsch
Bayreuth Festspiele 1952 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele, Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele, Herbert von Karajan, Marta Mödl & Ramon Vinay
Pasta Classics - Kochen Mit (Cooking With Rossini)

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Gluck: Orpheus und Eurydike

Michael Gielen, Grosses Wiener Rundfunkorchester, Hilde Rossel-Majdan, Emmy Loose & Sena Jurinac
Massenet: Werther

Jan Behr, Orchestre del Metropolitan Opera House & Coro del Metropolitan Opera House
Bizet: Carmen

Coros y Orquesta de la Ópera del Estado de Viena, Carlos Kleiber & Various Artists
Berühmte Tenorarien

Vasile Moldoveanu
Telesio

Franco Battiato
Giuseppe Verdi : Messa da Requiem

Herva Nelli, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano & Cesare Siepi
Opera Classics

Mario del Monaco
Tannhauser

Ramon Vinay, Gre Brouwenstijn, Josef Greindl, Herta Wilfert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Orchestra E Coro Del Festival Di Bayreuth & Joseph Keilberth
Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (Opera In Three Acts)

Leonard Warren
The Juniper Tree

Philip Glass & Robert Moran
Verdi: Otello (Digital Only)

Victoria de los Ángeles, Mario del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Choir of the New York Metropolitan Theatre, Fausto Cleva & Orchestra of the New York Metropolitan Theatre
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Recorded Live at The Met - March 31, 1962)

The Metropolitan Opera, Eileen Farrell, Franco Corelli, Robert Merrill, Nell Rankin, Giorgio Tozzi & Fausto Cleva
La Bohéme - Giacomo Puccini

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Coro Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Carlos Kleiber & Various Artists
Fall: Die Rose von Stambul

Sinfonie-Orchester des WDR, Franz Marszalek, Gretel Hartung & Fritz Wunderlich
Benatzky: Meine Schwester und ich

Das Kölner Tanz- und Unterhaltungsorchester, Franz Marszalek, Gretl Schörg & Peter Rene Körner
Straus: Ein Walzertraum

Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Franz Marszalek, Kurt Grosskurth & Käthe Graus
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Alberto Erede, Raoul Jobin & Janine Micheau
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Mono Version)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan, Maria Callas & Nicolai Gedda
W.A. Mozart: Betulia liberata

L'Orfeo Barockorchester & Michi Gaigg
Das Operettenalbum

Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Kölner Rundfunkchor, Curt Cremer, Julia Migenes, Manfred Schmidt & Elisabeth Glauser
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Ivor Bolton, Ann Murray, Susan Gritton, Christopher Robson, Patricia Bardon, Katarina Karnéus & Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Verdi Historical Opera Edition, Vol. 3: Giovanna d'Arco, Attila & La Battaglia di Legnano

Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Alfredo Simonetto, Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra della RAI di Roma & Fernando Previtali
Ultimate Opera Hits

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Jessye Norman

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Fritz Wunderlich, Gottlob Frick, Rudolf Kempe & Pilar Lorengar

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Herbert Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tito Gobbi, Tomaso Spataro, Rolando Panerai, Renato Ercolani, Nicola Zaccaria, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Fedora Barbieri, Nan Merriman, Luigi Alva, Roberto Benaglio & Philharmonia Chorus

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Anneliese Rothenberger, Willi Boskovsky & Wiener Symphoniker

The Ten Tenors

Bernard Haitink

Otto Klemperer

NDR Symphonie Orchester, Paul Burkhard, Heinz Hoppe & Anneliese Rothenberger

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gabriele Santini, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Norberto Mola

Grosses Wiener Rundfunkorchester, Michael Gielen, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Hilde Rossel-Majdan & Emmy Loose

Orchestre Philarmonique de Vienne, Erich Kleiber, Hilde Gueden, Sieglinde Wagner, Anton Dermota & Ludwig Weber

Vittorio Gui & Maria Callas

Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti & José Carreras

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Kathleen Ferrier

Plácido Domingo, Monserrat Caballe & Knud Andersson

Bernard Haitink

Jussi Björling

Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini

Hamburger Rundfunkorchester, Wilhelm Stephan, Kurt Wehofschitz & Ursula Schirrmacher

Tarja & Harus

Orquestra Sinfonica e Coro do Teatro La Scala & Franco Ghione

Richard Tauber

Monsterrat Caballé; Franco Bonisolli; Julia Hamari

The Metropolitan Opera, Edita Gruberová, Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli, Paul Plishka & Richard Bonynge

Berliner Symphoniker, Ernst Märzendorfer, Stina Britta Melander & Rudolf Schock

Quin Tête-à-Tête

Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers & Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus & Pierre Monteux

Ernst Arnold

Anja Harteros, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Ivor Bolton & Vesselina Kasarova

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Baroque Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Ostendorf, Julianne Baird & Rudolph Palmer

The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Allen, Ruggero Raimondi & James Levine

Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Kurt Schröder, Else Tegetthoff & Betina Brucker

Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Lovro von Matačić, Wolfgang Windgassen & Paula Brivkalne

Bernard Haitink & Staatskapelle Dresden

Philharmonia Orchestra & Herbert von Karajan

Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch & Sena Jurinac

Gina Cigna, Orchestra sinfonica e Coro di Torino della RAI & Franco Ghione

I Virtuosi Di Roma, Collegium Musicum Italicum & Renato Fasano

Jussi Björling

Alberto Zedda, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Ewa Podleś, Stanford Olsen & Sumi Jo

Carlo Bergonzi

Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Franz Marszalek, Franz Fehringer & Gretl Frohlich

Chor des Sender Freies Berlin, Orchester des Sender Freies Berlin, Lotte Lenya, Wolfgang Neuss, Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Trude Hesterberg, Erich Schellow, Johanna von Koczian, Wolfgang Grunert & Inge Wolffberg

Volksoper Wien & Christian Kolonovits

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Gabriele Santini & Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Rudolf Schock

Didactica Clasica De Conservatorio New Mozart, Montserrat Caballé, María Calas & Renata Scotto

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & André Cluytens

Robert Stolz & Wiener Symphoniker

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé & Renato Bruson

Gilbert & Sullivan

Landestheater Linz & Philip Glass

Christiane Karg, Arcangelo & Jonathan Cohen

Kon Vickers, Leonie Rysanek, Tito Gobbi, Orchestra dell'opera di Roma, Coro Dell'Opera Di Roma & Tullio Serafin

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera, Marc Albrecht, Dietrich Henschel, Sarah Castle & Romy Petrick

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Nicolai Gedda, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Harry Friedauer, Willy Mattes, Ursula Reichart, Rita Streich & Symphonie-Orchester Graunke

Orchestra Dell' Arena Di Verona & Coro dell' Arena di Verona

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Hans Knappertsbuch

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Wilhelm Furtwängler

The Vienna Operetten Orchestra & The Vienna Operetten Choir

Alfredo Kraus, Elena Obratsova, Alberto Rinaldi, Daniela Mazzuccato, Nicola Zaccaria, Walter Gullino, Giorgio Lormi, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, La Scala Chorus & Georges Prêtre

Heinz Erhardt

Gilbert & Sullivan

The Metropolitan Opera, Marilyn Mims, Tatiana Troyanos, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jerry Hadley, Thomas Hampson, Richard Van Allan & James Levine

Ettore Bastianini, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Gianandrea Gavazzeni