Top Albums Opera

Luciano Pavarotti - The Best

Luciano Pavarotti
O Holy Night (with bonus tracks)

Luciano Pavarotti
Great Opera Duets

Various Artists
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights

Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni & Vienna Philharmonic
The Mikado (Original Cast) (English National Opera)

Gilbert & Sullivan
HMS Pinafore (Original Cast Recording) [New Sadler's Wells Opera]

Gilbert & Sullivan
The Mikado

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
H.M.S. Pinafore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Puccini: Turandot (Highlights)

Dame Joan Sutherland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Ghiaurov & Zubin Mehta
Romantica: The Very Best of Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti
Charpentier: Te Deum & Messe de Minuit

Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski
The Very Best of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro

Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei & Fiorenza Cossotto
The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace

The Philip Glass Ensemble
The Merry Widow (Original Cast) (The New Sadler's Wells Opera)

Franz Lehár
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

Various Artists
The Ultimate Wedding Album

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
The Very Best of Jussi Björling - Pearl Fisher's Duet

Jussi Björling
The Best of Giacomo Puccini

Various Artists
Puccini: La bohéme (Recorded Live at The Met - January 16, 1982)

The Metropolitan Opera, Teresa Stratas, José Carreras & James Levine
Puccini: Tosca (Recorded Live at The Met - January 29, 2011)

The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato
La Bohème

Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, The RCA Victor Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham
40 Essential Soprano Opera Arias, Songs & Duets: Repertoire for High Voice with Quando me'n vo, O mio babbino, Vissi d'arte, Voi che sapete from Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Donizetti, Wagner & More

Various Artists
The Most Famous Opera Arias Vol. 1

Various Artists
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (Recorded Live at The Met - February 14, 2009)

The Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Piotr Beczala & Jiří Bělohlávek
Reader's Digest Music: Anna Moffo Sings Operetta

Anna Moffo
Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54

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

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Marion Harousseau, Mireille Delunsch & Richard Croft
Gilbert and Sullivan: The Gondoliers (Original Cast Recording) [Complete Score Recording of The New D'Oyly Carte Opera Production]

New D'Oyly Carte Opera
Rossini: Gugliemo Tell

Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Riccardo Chailly & Sherrill Milnes
La Bohème

Francesco Molinari Pradelli
The Gondoliers

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Susannah (Opera In Two Acts)

Phyllis Curtin & Norman Treigle
Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

José Van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Daniela Mazzuccato, Stefania Malagu, Mirto Picchi, Paolo Montarsolo, Maria Borgato, Leonardo Monreale, Franco Ricciardi, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan & Claudio Abbado
Trial By Jury

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Greatest Irish Tenors

John McCormack and Frank Patterson
Ruddigore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
The Juniper Tree

Philip Glass & Robert Moran
The World So Wide

Dawn Upshaw
Die Walküre

The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Clemens Krauss
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - December 7, 1991)

The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Lopardo, Richard Cowan, Carlos Feller & Leopold Hager
Verdi: Aida (Recorded Live at The Met - March 3, 1962)

The Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Irene Dalis, Cornell MacNeil & George Schick
You Can't Go Home Again

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

Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
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
Offenbach: Tales of Hoffman

Orchestra of Teatro Colon, Chorus of Teatro Colon, Peter Maag, Sándor Kónya, Gabriel Bacquier, Heather Harper, Mady Mesple, Radmila Bakocevic, Noemi Souza & Guy Gallardo
Prokofiev's Greatest Moments

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Franz Reiner, Fritz Reiner & Rosalinda Elias
Wagner: Highlights from The Ring Cycle, WWV 86

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Hans Knappertsbusch
The Voyage: An Opera In Three Acts

Landestheater Linz & Philip Glass
L'elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love)

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Thomas Schippers
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1979) [Live]

The Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, Gabriel Bacquier & Nicola Rescigno
Puccini: Turandot

Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling, The Rome Opera House Orchestra, The Rome Opera House Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf
Offenbach: the Tales of Hoffman

The Sadler's Wells Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Overtures By Gilbert and Sullivan

Sir Arthur Sullivan & W.S.Gilbert
Verdi: Falstaff

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

Rome Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf
Opera Classics: Rossini's "Tancredi"

Alberto Zedda, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Ewa Podleś, Stanford Olsen & Sumi Jo
Verdi: Nabucco - Highlights

Lamberto Gardelli, Tito Gobbi & Wiener Opernorchester
Orff: Carmina Burana

Bulgarian choir cappella & Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
L'Elisir D'Amore (Live)

Carlo Bergonzi, Carlo Cava, Gaetoano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Taddei, Renata Scotto & Renza Jotti
Cantolopera: Madama Butterfly (Full Vocal Version)

Vincenzo De Angelis, Nunzia Santodirocco, Antonello Gotta & Compagnia d'Opera Italiana
Reader's Digest Classical Collection: Puccini: Suor Angelica

Miriam Gauci, Alexander Rahbari, Brtn Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels & Jaak Gregoor Chorus
The Girl With Orange Lips

Dawn Upshaw
Classic Recitals: Robert Merrill

Robert Merrill, Sir Edward Downes & The New Symphony Orchestra Of London
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Recorded Live at The Met - October 1, 2011)

The Metropolitan Opera, Isabel Leonard, Javier Camarena, National Male Choir Of Estonia, Maurizio Muraro, Paata Burchuladze & Maurizio Benini
In Concert (Live At Sibelius Hall)

Tarja & Harus
Philip Glass: Orphée (The Complete Opera Recording)

Portland Opera, Anne Manson, Philip Cutlip, Lisa Saffer, Ryan MacPherson & Georgia Jarman
Opera's Legendary Performances

Various Artists
Wagner: Parsifal

Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, St Thomas's Boys Choir Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig, René Kollo, Ulrik Cold, Gisela Schröter & Herbert Kegel
Zandonai: Francesca Da Rimini (Recorded Live at The Met - April 7, 1984)

The Metropolitan Opera, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Renata Scotto & James Levine
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 (Recorded Live at The Met - March 18, 1961)

The Metropolitan Opera, Birgit Nilsson, Karl Liebl & Joseph Rosenstock
Die Fledermaus

Hilde Gueden, Waldemar Kmentt, Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan
Dawn Upshaw Sings Vernon Duke

Dawn Upshaw
BIZET: Carmen (Complete)

Victoria de los Ángeles, Nicolai Gedda & Sir Thomas Beecham
Rossini: la Donna del Lago

Monsterrat Caballé; Franco Bonisolli; Julia Hamari
Written on Skin

Barbara Hannigan, Ensemble Modern, Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Bejun Mehta
Haydn: Orfeo Ed Eurydice

Academy of Ancient Music, Cecilia Bartoli, Christopher Hogwood & Uwe Heilmann
Richard Wagner : Der Ring des Nibelungen - Das Rheingold (Scala 1950)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Wilhelm Furtwängler
Rossini: L'italiana In Algeri

Marilyn Horne, Luigi Alva, Paolo Montarsolo, Enzo Dara, Margherita Guglielmi, Laura Zannini, Alberto Rinaldi, La Scala Chorus, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Claudio Abbado
Rossini: the Barber of Seville

Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf
Carlo Bergonzi: Verdi Arias

Carlo Bergonzi
Bellini: I Puritani (Recorded Live at The Met - March 30, 1991)

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

Bernard Haitink
51 Most Loved Opera Arias, Vol. 4

Various Artists
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Recorded Live at The Met - January 1, 1966) [Live]

The Metropolitan Opera, Renata Scotto, John Alexander, Joann Grillo, John Robert Dunlap & George Schick
Gian-Carlo Menotti's the Medium (Complete Soundtrack of the Acclaimed 1950 Film)

Marie Powers & Anna Marie Alberghetti
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Recorded Live at The Met - February 29, 1992)

The Metropolitan Opera, Frederica von Stade, Stanford Olsen, Thomas Hampson, Louis Quilico, Samuel Ramey & Ralf Weikert
Massenet: Manon

Henri Legay, Michel Dens, Victoria de los Ángeles, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Chœurs de l’Opéra de Paris & Pierre Monteux
H.M.S. Pinafore

Ohio Light Opera Orchestra, J. Lynn Thompson & Cast of Ohio Light Opera
Gounod: Faust

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Wilfred Pelletier & Various Artists
L'Elisir D'Amore (The Elixir Of Love)

Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Verdi: Macbeth

Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Erich Leinsdorf & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House
Patience

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
51 Most Loved Opera Arias, Vol. 1

Various Artists
Hollie

Hollie Steel
Verdi: Macbeth

Piero Cappuccilli, Shirley Verrett, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Franco Tagliavini, Stefania Malagu, Nicola Martinucci, Carlo Zardo, Alfredo Mariotti, Antonio Zerbini, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, La Scala Chorus & Claudio Abbado
Menotti: Amelia Al Ballo

Margherita Carosio, Rolando Panerai, Giacinto Prandelli, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Nino Sanzogno
Tom Cipullo: Glory Denied

Fort Worth Opera Festival
Pagliacci

Mario del Monaco, Chorus of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia & Alberto Erede

Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti

Various Artists

Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni & Vienna Philharmonic

Gilbert & Sullivan

Gilbert & Sullivan

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Dame Joan Sutherland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Ghiaurov & Zubin Mehta

Luciano Pavarotti

Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski

Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei & Fiorenza Cossotto

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Franz Lehár

Various Artists

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Jussi Björling

Various Artists

The Metropolitan Opera, Teresa Stratas, José Carreras & James Levine

The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato

Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, The RCA Victor Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham

Various Artists

Various Artists

The Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Piotr Beczala & Jiří Bělohlávek

Anna Moffo

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

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Marion Harousseau, Mireille Delunsch & Richard Croft

New D'Oyly Carte Opera

Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Riccardo Chailly & Sherrill Milnes

Francesco Molinari Pradelli

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Phyllis Curtin & Norman Treigle

José Van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Daniela Mazzuccato, Stefania Malagu, Mirto Picchi, Paolo Montarsolo, Maria Borgato, Leonardo Monreale, Franco Ricciardi, Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan & Claudio Abbado

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

John McCormack and Frank Patterson

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Philip Glass & Robert Moran

Dawn Upshaw

The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Clemens Krauss

The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Lopardo, Richard Cowan, Carlos Feller & Leopold Hager

The Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Irene Dalis, Cornell MacNeil & George Schick

Chet Baker

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

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

Orchestra of Teatro Colon, Chorus of Teatro Colon, Peter Maag, Sándor Kónya, Gabriel Bacquier, Heather Harper, Mady Mesple, Radmila Bakocevic, Noemi Souza & Guy Gallardo

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Franz Reiner, Fritz Reiner & Rosalinda Elias

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Hans Knappertsbusch

Landestheater Linz & Philip Glass

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Thomas Schippers

The Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, Gabriel Bacquier & Nicola Rescigno

Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling, The Rome Opera House Orchestra, The Rome Opera House Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf

The Sadler's Wells Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Sir Arthur Sullivan & W.S.Gilbert

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

Rome Opera House Orchestra & Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf

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

Lamberto Gardelli, Tito Gobbi & Wiener Opernorchester

Bulgarian choir cappella & Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra

Carlo Bergonzi, Carlo Cava, Gaetoano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Taddei, Renata Scotto & Renza Jotti

Vincenzo De Angelis, Nunzia Santodirocco, Antonello Gotta & Compagnia d'Opera Italiana

Miriam Gauci, Alexander Rahbari, Brtn Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels & Jaak Gregoor Chorus

Dawn Upshaw

Robert Merrill, Sir Edward Downes & The New Symphony Orchestra Of London

The Metropolitan Opera, Isabel Leonard, Javier Camarena, National Male Choir Of Estonia, Maurizio Muraro, Paata Burchuladze & Maurizio Benini

Tarja & Harus

Portland Opera, Anne Manson, Philip Cutlip, Lisa Saffer, Ryan MacPherson & Georgia Jarman

Various Artists

Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Rundfunkchor Berlin, St Thomas's Boys Choir Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonie Orchester Leipzig, René Kollo, Ulrik Cold, Gisela Schröter & Herbert Kegel

The Metropolitan Opera, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Renata Scotto & James Levine

The Metropolitan Opera, Birgit Nilsson, Karl Liebl & Joseph Rosenstock

Hilde Gueden, Waldemar Kmentt, Vienna Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan

Dawn Upshaw