Top Albums Opera

O Holy Night (with bonus tracks)

Luciano Pavarotti
Smetana: Dalibor

Various Artists
The Swan Lake

Evgeny Svetlanov & State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov"
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
Римский-Корсаков: Млада

Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Choir of the Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks, Male Section of Bolshoi Theatre Choir, Evgeny Svetlanov, Vladimir Makhov, Tatiana Tugarinova & Alexei Korolyov
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (Live, January 26, 1983)

José Carreras, Patricia Wise, Kurt Rydl, Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu, Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu & Jacques Delacote
Philip Glass: The Perfect American

Dennis Russell Davies & Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid
Faust (Opera In Five Acts)

Léopold Simoneau & Pierette Alarie
The Greatest Tenors, Vol. 2

Various Artists
H.M.S. Pinafore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Tenor Arias: The Definitive Collection

Various Artists
Verdi: Macbeth

Leonard Warren, Leonie Rysanek, Carlo Bergonzi, Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera & Erich Leinsdorf
Cesare Valletti (Live)

Cesare Valletti, Coro di Milano della RAI, Coro di Torino della RAI, Choro Del Teatro Alla Scala, Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Ferruccio Scaglia, Mario Rossi, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Monteux & Max Rudolf
Bellini: Norma (Live, Buenos Aires, 1969)

Dame Joan Sutherland, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ivo Vinco, Charles Craig, Teatro Colón Choir, Teatro Colón Orchestra & Richard Bonynge
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)
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
Puccini: Le villi

Melanie Diener, Aquiles Machado, Ludovic Tézier, Marco Guidarini, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Choeur de Radio France
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 Glory (????) Of the Human Voice

Florence Foster Jenkins & Cosmé McMoon
The Very Best of Jussi Björling - Pearl Fisher's Duet

Jussi Björling
Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace

The Philip Glass Ensemble
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
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
Iolanthe

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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
Verdi: Aída (Live at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, 6/16/1968) [Restauración 2025]

Martina Arroyo, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Orquesta Estable Teatro Colón, Bruno Bartoletti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni & Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón
The World of Puccini

Various Artists
The Gondoliers

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
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
Ruddigore

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
The Juniper Tree

Philip Glass & Robert Moran
Greatest Irish Tenors

John McCormack and Frank Patterson
Die Zauberflöte

Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer