Act 1
Opera Angels — Lakmé, Act 1: Flower Duet 04:28
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev — Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 / Act 1 - 13. Dance Of The Knights 05:22
Jussi Björling/Victoria de los Angeles/Robert Shaw Chorale/Paul Franke/RCA Victor Orchestra/Leonard Warren/Renato Cellini/Robert Merrill — Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, Act 1 Scene 4: "Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio … Vesti la giubba" (Canio) 03:51
Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Sir Thomas Allen, Francisco Araiza, José van Dam, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner — Mozart: Così fan tutte, K.588 / Act 1 - "Di scrivermi ogni giorno" - "Bella vita militar!" - "Dove son?" 04:11
Gioacchino Rossini — The Barber of Seville, Act I, Scene 1: "Largo al factotum" 04:42
Maria Callas feat. Chœurs René Duclos — Bizet: Carmen, Act 1: Habanera. "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Carmen, Chœur) 04:18
Sergei Aleksashkin, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Evgeny Akimov, Nikolai Gassiev, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev — Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride - original version Tsarskaya Nevesta by Lev Mey - Act 1 - Scene 3 "Khozyain! Prikazal by ty" 05:52
Ingvar Wixell, Richard van Allan, Mirella Freni, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis — Mozart: Don Giovanni / Act 1 - "Presto, presto... pria ch'ei venga" - "Tra quest' arbori celata" 04:07
Maria Callas feat. Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano — Bellini: Norma, Act 1: "Casta diva" (Norma, Coro) 05:40
Gavver feat. Khronos Beats — Act One 02:41
Ingvar Wixell, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Richard van Allan, Mirella Freni, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis — Mozart: Don Giovanni / Act 1 - "Giovinette, che fate all'amore" - "Manco male, è partita..." 03:38
Maria Callas feat. Mario Carlin, Nicola Zaccaria, Rolando Panerai — Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: "Cruda, funesta smania" (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo) [Live] 02:19
Montserrat Caballé, Janet Baker, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Nicolai Gedda, Richard van Allan, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis — Mozart: Così fan tutte / Act 1 - "Di scrivermi ogni giorno" - "Bella vita militar!" - "Dove son?" 03:37
Montserrat Caballé/Mady Mesplé/Jocelyne Taillon/Gabriel Bacquier/Nicolai Gedda/Louis Hendrikx/Kolos Kovacs/Gwynne Howell/Charles Burles/Riccardo Cassinelli/Nicolaï Christov/Leslie Fyson/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/La — Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Act 1 Scene 1: No. 1, Choeur, "Quel jour serein le ciel présage !" (Chorus) 04:15
Maria Callas feat. Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Mario Borriello, Nicolai Gedda, Renato Ercolani — Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act 1: "Gran ventura" (Butterfly, Coro, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro) 03:41
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sergei Aleksashkin, Evgeny Akimov, Nikolai Gassiev, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev — Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride - original version Tsarskaya Nevesta by Lev Mey - Act 1 - Scene 2 "Da vot i gosti" 08:15
Carlo Maria Giulini feat. Eberhard Wächter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei, Graziella Sciutti, Joan Sutherland, Luigi Alva, Piero Cappuccilli — Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act 1: Finale. "Ecco il birbo che t'ha offesa" (Don Giovanni, Leporello, Don Ottavio, Donna Elvira, Donna Anna, Zerlina, Masetto) 01:32
Maria Callas, Renato Cioni, Tito Gobbi, Victor Godfrey, Robert Bowman, Dennis Wicks, David Sellar, Eric Garrett, Carlo Felice Cillario, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Edgar Boniface — Puccini: Tosca, Act 1 Scene 5: "Or lasciami al lavoro" (Cavaradossi, Tosca) 01:49
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni feat. Giulietta Simionato, Giuseppe Morresi — Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Act 1: "Su, fatemi largo, saper vo' il mio fato" (Silvano, Ulrica, Riccardo) [Live, Milan 1957] 01:07
Franz Crass, Jess Thomas, Anja Silja, Ramon Vinay, Astrid Varnay, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch — Wagner: Lohengrin / Act 1 - "Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein" 04:32
Antonio Pappano, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, London Symphony Orchestra feat. Alberto Rinaldi, Enrico Fissore, Inva Mula, Monica Bacelli, Patrizia Biccirè, Patrizia Ciofi, Riccardo Simonetti, Toby Spence, William Matteuzzi — Puccini: La rondine, Act 1: "Poeta raffinato" (Rambaldo, Prunier, Lisette, Magda, Ruggero, Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Gobin, Crébillon, Périchaud) 03:08
Franz Crass, Jess Thomas, Bayreuther Festspielchor, Bayreuther Festspielorchester, Wolfgang Sawallisch — Wagner: Lohengrin / Act 1 - "Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!" 03:39
James King, Karl Ridderbusch, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Heinz Mende, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelík — Wagner: Lohengrin / Act 1 - "Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!" 03:49
The Three Tenors feat. Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus — Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (Live) 03:20
Riccardo Muti/Montserrat Caballé/Alfredo Kraus/Matteo Manuguerra/Agostino Ferrin/Dennis O'Neill/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/John McCarthy — Bellini: I puritani, Act 1, Scene 1: O di Cromvel guerrieri (Bruno/Elvira/Arturo/Riccardo/Giorgio/Coro) 03:29
Norbert Balatsch, Giulietta Simionato, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan, Frauenstimmen des Chores der Wiener Staatsoper — Verdi: Don Carlo / Act 1 - Nei giardin del bello 02:39
Sergei Aleksashkin, Olga Borodina, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev — Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride - original version Tsarskaya Nevesta by Lev Mey - Act 1 - Scene 4 "Zdorovo, krestnitsa" 08:36
Nicolai Gedda/Jean-Christophe Benoit/Nicola Ghiuselev/André Mallabrera/Jacques Pruvost/Jean-Pierre Laffage/Choeurs René Duclos/Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire/André Cluytens feat. André Mallabrera, Choeurs René Duclos, Jacques Pruvost, Jean-Christophe Benoît, Jean-Pierre Laffage, Nicola Ghiuselev, Nicolai Gedda, Walter Ruhlmann — Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act 1: "Je vous dis, moi, qu'un malheur me menace" (Hoffmann, Lindorf, Nathanaël, Hermann, Chorus, Nicklausse, Luther) 05:27
Tancredi Pasero, Maria Huder, Coro del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma, Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma & Sir John Barbirolli, Tullio Serafin — Verdi: Aïda, Act 1 Scene 2: "Immenso Fthà … Mortal, diletto ai Numi" (Sacerdotesse, Sacerdoti, Ramfis) 03:04
Bernard Haitink feat. Reiner Goldberg — Wagner: Die Walküre, Act 1, Scene 3: "Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond" (Siegmund) 03:03
Ingvar Wixell, Martina Arroyo, Stuart Burrows, Kiri Te Kanawa, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Richard van Allan, Mirella Freni, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis — Mozart: Don Giovanni / Act 1 - "Venite pur avanti" - "Da bravi, via, ballate" 03:56
Kirsten Flagstad — Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Song. "Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment" (Dido) 03:28
Maria Callas feat. Alceo Galliera, Philharmonia Orchestra — Rossini- Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - Act 1- Che Cosa Accadde 03:39
Gerd Nienstedt, Karl Ridderbusch, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Heinz Mende, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Rafael Kubelík — Wagner: Lohengrin / Act 1 - "Hört, Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!" 04:42
René Kollo/Cheryl Studer/Hanna Schwarz/Andreas Schmidt/Cyndia Sieden/Paul Frey/Julie Kaufmann/Marjana Lipovsek/Alfred Muff/Ute Vinzing/Jan-Hendrik Rootering/Kurt Rydl/Kenneth Garrison/Birgit Calm/Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Symphonieorch — Die Frau ohne Schatten Op. 65, ERSTER AUFZUG/ACT 1/PREMIER ACTE: Fort mit euch! (Amme Kaiserin) 04:09
Riccardo Muti/Montserrat Caballé/Alfredo Kraus/Agostino Ferrin/Stefan Elenkov/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/John McCarthy — Bellini: I puritani, Act 1, Scene 3: A te, o cara, amor talora (Arturo/Elvira/Giorgio/Gualtiero/Coro) 06:31
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Luciano Pavarotti, Paul Groves, Vladimir Chernov, Dwayne Croft, Yanni Yannissis, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine — Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 1 - Ch'io gli parli (Monterone, Duca, Borsa, Rigoletto, Marullo, Ceprano, Coro) 04:29
Carol Vaness/Delores Ziegler/Lillian Watson/John Aler/Dale Duesing/Claudio Desderi/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Bernard Haitink — Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588, Act 1 Scene 11: No. 13, Sestetto, "Alla bella Despinetta" (Don Alfonso, Ferrando, Guglielmo, Despina, Fiordiligi, Dorabella) 04:33
Marjana Lipovsek, Joanna Borowska, Vladimir Atlantov, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Claudio Abbado, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Helmut Froschauer, Karl Kamper — Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Act I - Tak, tak, knjaze! 03:39
Janet Baker, Angela Hickey, Robert Tear, Sylvia Rhys-Thomas, The St. Anthony Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis, Thurston Dart — Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie / Act 1 - "Princesse, ce grand jour par des noeuds éternels" 05:27