Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Prologue

Lucrezia Borgia - Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro - Alain Vanzo
Maffio Orsini - Jane Berbie
Don Alfonso - Kostas Paskalis
Jacopo Liveretto - Jerold Siena
Don Apostolo Gazella - Vern Shinall
Ascanio Petrucci - William Wiederanders
Oloferno Vitellozzo - L.D. Clements
Gubetta - Adib Fazah
Rustighello - Mauro Lampi
Astolfo - Arnold Voketatis
American Opera Society, New York; Jonel Perlea.
April 20, 1965.

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 3

Tristan - Spas Wenkoff
Isolde - Catarina Ligendza
Brangaene - Yvonne Minton
Marke - Karl Ridderbusch
Kurwenal - Donald McIntyre
Melot - Heribert Steinbach
Steuermann - Heinz Feldhoff
Hirte - Heinz Zednik
Carlos Kleiber; Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976.

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 2

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 1

Edipo Re (Leoncavallo)

Creon - Keith Lewis
Oedipus - Alan Titus
Jocasta - Yvonne Naef
Messenger - Roland Bracht
Shepherd - Johannes Chum
Teiresias - Cheyne Davidson.

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Dennis Russell Davies. 1998.

Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Part 2

Corinna: Cecilia Gasdia;
Marchesa Melibea: Lucia Valentini-Terrani;
Contessa di Folleville: Lella Cuberli;
Madama Cortese: Montserrat Caballe;
Cavalier Belfiore: Frank Lopardo;
Conte di Libenskof: Chris Merritt;
Lord Sidney: Ferruccio Furlanetto;
Don Profondo: Ruggero Raimondi;
Barone di Trombonok: Enzo Dara;
Don Alvaro: Lucio Gallo;
Don Prudenzio: Goran Simic;
Don Luigino: Paolo Pellegrini;
Maddalena: Gabriele Sima;
Modestina: Barbara Frittoli;
Antonio: Marzio Giossi;
Gelsomino: Ezio Pirovano.
Vienna State Opera, 20 January 1988.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Part 1

Faust (Gounod) Acts 4 and 5

Faust: Neil Shicoff;
Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller.

Faust (Gounod) Act 3

Faust: Neil Shicoff;
Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller.

Faust (Gounod) Acts 1 and 2

Faust: Neil Shicoff;
Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller.

Macbeth (Verdi) Act 4

Macbeth (Verdi) Acts 2 and 3

Macbeth - Piero Cappuccilli;
Lady Macbeth - Shirley Verrett;
Banco - Nicolai Ghiaurov;
Macduff - Franco Tagliavini;
Malcolm - Nicola Martinucci.
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
December 7 1975.
Special feature: Miss Tallulah Bankhead joins the Apocryphal Opera Anecdote Theater of the Air for scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth.