SOME OF MY FAVOURTIE RECORDINGS OF BELOVED OPERAS:

Pelleas et Mélisande (Debussy) Micheau, Maurane, Depraz, Gorr.
Jean Fournet.

Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) Schwarzkopf, Ludwig, Edelmann.
Herbert von Karajan.

I Puritani (Bellini) Caballé, Kraus, Manuguerra, Hamari.
Riccardo Muti.

Die Zauberflöte (Mozart) Wunderlich, Lear, Fischer-Dieskau, Peters, Franz Crass.
Karl Böhm.

L´Orfeo (Monteverdi) Equiluz, van Egmond, Berberian, Rogers, Hansmann.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Price, Kollo, Fassbaender, Fischer-Dieskau.
Carlos Kleiber.

Don Giovanni (Mozart) Ghiaurov, Ludwig, Watson, Gedda, Freni.
Otto Klemperer.

Norma (Bellini) Callas, Filipeschi, Stignani
Tullio Serafin.

La Traviata (Verdi) Caballé, Bergonzi, Milnes.
Georges Pretre.

Elektra (Strauss) Borkh, Madeira, Schech, Fischer-Dieskau.
Karl Böhm.

Castor et Pollux (Rameau) Jeffes, Huttenlocher, Smith.
Charles Farncombe.

Il Tabarro (Puccini) Tebaldi, del Monaco, Merrill.
Lamberto Gardelli.

Giulio Cesare (Händel) Marijana Mijanovic, Magdalena Kozena, Anne Sofie von Otter, Charlotte Hellekant, Bejun Mehta.
Marc Minkowksi.

Der Freischütz (Weber) Janowitz, Schreier, Mathis.
Carlos Kleiber

Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) Nikolai Putilin, Olga Trifonova, Zlata Bulycheva, Viktor Lutsuk, Nikolai Ohotnikov, Konstantin Pluzhnikov, Vassily Gerello.
Valery Gergiev.

Madama Butterfly (Puccini) Freni, Carreras, Pons, Berganza.
Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau) Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, Veronique Gens, Bernarda Fink, Laurent Naouri, Annick Massis.
Marc Minkowski.

Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Nan Merriman, Lisa Otto, Léopold Simoneau, Rolando Panerai, Sesto Bruscantini
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan.

Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Lisa della Casa, Hilde Gueden, Suzanne Danco, Alfred Poell, Cesare Siepi
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Erich Kleiber.







And these are some recommendations:



Manon (Massenet) De los Ángeles, Gay, Borthayre—
Monteux EMI 1956

Les Troyens (Berlioz) Ferrer, Giraudeau, Cambon—
Beecham BBC Live 1947

Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss) Reining, Güden, Novotná, Prohaska—
Szell Salzburg Live 1949

Yevgyenyi Onyegin (Tchaikovsky) Tomova-Sintow, Gedda, Mazurok, Ghiuselev—
Tchakarov Sony 1988

Pikovaya Dama (Tchaikovsky) Evstatieva, Ochman, Mazurok—
Tchakarov Sony 1990

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Sutherland, Pavarotti, Milnes, Ghiaurov—
Bonynge Decca 1974

Roberto Devereux (Donizetti) Leyla Gencer, Cappuccilli—
Gavazzeni La Fenice Live 1964

Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) Gall, Affre, Boyer, Journet—
Ruhlmann Pathé 1912

Le roi Arthus (Chausson) Teresa Zylis-Gara, Gino Quilico, Gösta Winbergh, René Massis, Gilles Cachemaille —Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœurs de Radio France:
Armin Jordan.
Erato 1987

Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Paul Dukas) Katherine Ciesinski, Gabriel Bacquier, Anne-Marie Blanzat—
Armin Jordan.
Erato 1991

Padmâvatî (Albert Roussel) Marylin Horne, Jane Berbié Nicolai Gedda, Charles Burles, José Van Dam—
Michel Plasson
EMI 1993

Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (Arthur Honegger) Gabriel Bacquier, Brigitte Fournier, Bernadette Antoine, Rachel Yakar, Michel Sénéchal—Mario Venzago
Musiques Suisses 1993

Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Françoise Pollet, Ghyslaine Raphanel, Danielle Borst, Gilles Cachemaille, Boris Martinovic, Nicola Ghiuselev—Cyril Diedrich
Erato 1991

Les Troyens (Berlioz) Françoise Pollet, Deborah Voigt, Gary Lakes, Gino Quilico, Jean-Phillipe Courtis, Jean-Luc Maurette, Hélène Perraguin, René Schirrer, Marc Belleau, Catherine Dubosc, Michel Philippe—
Charles Dutoit
Decca 1993

Thaïs (Massenet) Fleming, Hampson—
Yves Abel
Decca 1997

Hérodiade (Massenet) Studer, Denize, Heppner, Hampson, Van Dam—
Plasson
EMI 2000

Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Nilsson, Ludwig, Windgassen, Talvela
DGG Bayreuth Live 1966
Karl Böhm.

La Gioconda (Ponchielli) Cerquetti, Simionato, Del Monaco, Bastianini, Siepi—
Gavazzeni Decca 1957

Faust (Gounod) Dame Joan Sutherland, Franco Corelli, Nicolai Ghiaurov.
Richard Bonynge.

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Zaccaria
Berlin Radio Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan.


Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Sathaus, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Royal Opera House Covent Garden Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra,
Wilhelm Furtwängler.