Best Opera Moments

Ivan Petrov A Life for the Tsar [Ivan Susanin] full opera (1960)

Cavalleria Rusticana (exc.) - Plácido Domingo (NY debut), Irene Dalis - 1966 live

Inge Borkh and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni in Macbeth by Ernest Bloch (1968 live)

Nicola Ghiuselev Alexandrina Milcheva The Snow Maiden full opera (1985)

Franco Corelli Bonaldo Giaiotti Mary Curtis-Verna Cesare Bardelli La Gioconda full opera (1964 live)

George Shirley, Theodor Uppman, Mary Ellen Pracht etc. - Quintet from Die Zauberflöte (NY 1966)

Ascanio in Alba [Mozart] - Ilva Ligabue, Emilia Cundari, Anna Maria Rota, Petre Munteanu (1961)

Viktor Nechipailo Galina Oleinichenko Ruslan and Lyudmila full (1961 live, conducted by B. Khaikin)

Evgeny Nesterenko Galina Kovaleva Lucia di Lammermoor full opera (1970 live, in Russian)

Boris Shtokolov Galina Kovaleva Vsevolod Puchkov Ruslan and Lyudmila full opera (1965 live)

Alexander Vedernikov A Life for the Tsar [Ivan Susanin] full opera (1986)

Evgeny Nesterenko Tamara Sinyavskaya A Life for the Tsar [Ivan Susanin] full opera (1980)

Elisabeth Söderström Anders Näslund Arne Tyrén Wozzeck full opera (1959 live)

Inge Borkh Martha Mödl Siw Ericsdotter Mirto Picchi Elektra full opera (1965 live)

Elena Obraztsova Tamara Milashkina Vladimir Atlantov Yuri Mazurok Sadko full opera (1979 live)

[LINK IN DESCRIPTION] Carlos Kleiber conducts Der Rosenkavalier (1990 live, full opera, NY)

Stefania Toczyska Chris Merritt A Life for the Tsar [Ivan Susanin] full opera (1989)

Daniele Barioni Magda Olivero Bianca Berini Cavalleria Rusticana full opera (1964 live)