Top Albums Opera

H.M.S. Pinafore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Iolanthe

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
The Gondoliers

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Ruddigore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Patience

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Written on Skin

Barbara Hannigan, George Benjamin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Bejun Mehta, Christopher Purves, Rebecca Jo Loeb & Allan Clayton
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Recorded Live at The Met - October 1, 2011)

The Metropolitan Opera, Isabel Leonard, Javier Camarena, Peter Mattei, Maurizio Muraro, Paata Burchuladze & Maurizio Benini
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
O Holy Night (with bonus tracks)

Luciano Pavarotti
Faust (Opera In Five Acts)

Léopold Simoneau & Pierette Alarie
Great Opera Duets

Various Artists
Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights

Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan & Vienna Philharmonic
The Mikado (Eno)

English National Opera (Original Cast)
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
Marcella Sembrich (Recorded 1906 - 1912)

Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Emilio De Gogorza & Walter B. Rogers
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
Romantica: The Very Best of Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti
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
Charpentier: Te Deum & Messe de Minuit

Les Musiciens du Louvre & Marc Minkowski
The Very Best of Jussi Björling - Pearl Fisher's Duet

Jussi Björling
Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace

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

Original Cast New Sadler's Wells Opera
The Ultimate Wedding Album

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa & Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Puccini: La bohéme (Recorded Live at The Met - January 16, 1982)

The Metropolitan Opera, Teresa Stratas, José Carreras & James Levine
The Most Famous Opera Arias Vol. 1

Various Artists
La Bohème

Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, The RCA Victor Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham
The Best of Giacomo Puccini

Various Artists
Reader's Digest Music: Anna Moffo Sings Operetta

Anna Moffo
La Bohème

Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

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

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

Phyllis Curtin & Norman Treigle
The World of Puccini

Various Artists
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, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan & Claudio Abbado
Rossini: Guglielmo Tell

Riccardo Chailly, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Sherrill Milnes, National Philharmonic Orchestra & Nicolai Ghiaurov
Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54

Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers & Mahler Chamber Orchestra
The World So Wide

Dawn Upshaw
The Juniper Tree

Philip Glass & Robert Moran
Greatest Irish Tenors

John McCormack and Frank Patterson
Die Zauberflöte

Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (Recorded Live at The Met - February 14, 2009)

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

The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Clemens Krauss
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
Puccini: Tosca (Recorded Live at The Met - January 29, 2011)

The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato
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, Sándor Kónya, Peter Maag, Gabriel Bacquier, Heather Harper, Mady Mesple, Radmila Bakocevic, Noemi Souza & Guy Gallardo
Offenbach: the Tales of Hoffman

The Sadler's Wells Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini

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