The Royal Opera – Great Performances
Recorded live 1955-1997
Janet Baker (Alceste), Robert Tear (Admète), John Shirley-Quirk (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Maldwyn Davies (Evandre), Jonathan Summers (Hercule), Phillip Gelling (Un Héraut/Apollon), Matthew Best (La voix de l'Oracle), John Shirley-Quirk (Dieu infernal), Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo),...
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Gluck: Alceste
- 1981
- Janet Baker (Alceste), Robert Tear (Admète), John Shirley-Quirk (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Maldwyn Davies (Evandre), Jonathan Summers (Hercule), Phillip Gelling (Un Héraut/Apollon), Matthew Best (La voix de l'Oracle), John Shirley-Quirk (Dieu infernal)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Charles Mackerras
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
- 1981
- Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard Van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Colin Davis
Strauss, R: Der Rosenkavalier
- 1995
- Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones (Annina)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Andrew Davis
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- 1997
- John Tomlinson (Hans Sachs), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Gosta Winbergh (Walther von Stolzing), Nancy Gustafson (Eva), Herbert Lippert (David), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Magdalena), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Kothner), Michael Druiett (Nachtwächter), Alasdair Elliot (Kunz Vogelgesang), Richard Lloyd-Morgan (Konrad Nachtigall), Paul Crook (Ulrich Eisslinger), Robin Leggate (Balthasar Zorn), John Dobson (Augustin Moser), Grant Dickson (Hermann Ortel), Geoffrey Moses (Hans Schwarz), Simon Wilding (Hans Foltz)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Bernard Haitink
Verdi: Don Carlo
- 1958
- Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Gre Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (La Principessa Eboli), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Carlo Maria Giulini
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
- 1962
- Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Leyla Gencer (Donna Anna), Richard Lewis (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Geraint Evans (Leporello), Robert Savoie (Masetto), Mirella Freni (Zerlina), David Ward (Il Commendatore)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Georg Solti
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
- 1959
- Joan Sutherland (Lucia), João Gibin (Edgardo), John Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Robert Bowman (Normanno)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Tullio Serafin
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
- 1957
- Victoria de los Ángeles (Cio Cio San), John Lanigan (Pinkerton), Geraint Evans (Sharpless), Barbara Howitt (Suzuki), Joyce Livingston (Kate Pinkerton), David Tree (Goro), David Allen (Il principe Yamadori), Michael Langdon (Lo zio Bonzo), Ronald Firmager (Il commissario imperiale), Harry Gawler (L'ufficiale del Registro)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Rudolf Kempe
Verdi: Otello
- 1955
- Ramón Vinay (Otello), Gré Brouwenstijn (Desdemona), Otakar Kraus (Iago), John Lanigan (Cassio), Raymond Nilsson (Rodrigo), Marian Nowakowski (Lodovico), Michael Langdon (Montano), Noreen Berry (Emilia), Forbes Robinson (Un Araldo)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Rafael Kubelik
Wagner: Parsifal
- 1971
- Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Norman Bailey (Amfortas), Amy Shuard (Kundry), Louis Hendrikx (Gurnemanz), Donald McIntyre (Klingsor), Michael Langdon (Titurel)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Reginald Goodall
Puccini: Tosca
- 1957
- Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia), Forbes Robinson (Il Sagristano), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Un pastore), Rhoderick Davies (Un carceriere)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Alexander Gibson
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
- 1962
- Jon Vickers (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Amy Shuard (Amelia), Regina Resnik (Ulrica), Joan Carlyle (Oscar), Victor Godfrey (Silvano), David Kelly (Samuele), Michael Langdon (Tom), John Kollmann (Un Giudice), George Barker (Un servo)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Sir Edward Downes
