Idomeneo
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Deutsche Grammophon 429864-2
Karl Bohm; Wieslaw Ochman, Julia Varady, Edith Mathis, Peter Schreier

Also recommended:
Deutsche Grammophon 2894477372
James Levine; Plácido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Carol Vaness, Heidi Grant Murphy

Ariadne auf Naxos
By Richard Strauss
Decca/London 460233-2
Goerg Solti; Leontyne Price, Edita Gruberova, Tatiana Troyanos, Rene Kollo

Carmen
By Georges Bizet
Decca/London 2894144892
Georg Solti; Tatiana Troyanos, Plácido Domingo, José van Dam, Kiri Te Kanawa

La bohème
By Giacomo Puccini
Decca/London 2894660702
Riccardo Chailly; Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna,

Vanessa
By Samuel Barber
Naxos 8.669140-41
Gil Rose; Ellen Chickering, Andrea Matthews, Marion Dry, Ray Bauwens, Richard Conrad, Philip Lima

Aida
By Giuseppe Verdi
Decca/London 2894174162
Georg Solit; Leontyne Price, Rita Gorr, Jon Vickers, Robert Merrill

Roméo et Juliette
By Charles Gounod
RCA Victor 09026-68440-2
Leonard Slatkin; Plácido Domingo, Ruth Ann Swenson, Alastair Miles, Kurt Ollmann, Susan Graham, Alain Vernhes

Falstaff
By Giuseppe Verdi
Deutsche Grammophon 2894105032
Carlo Maria Giulini; Renato Bruson, Katia Ricciarelli, Leo Nucci, Barbara Hendricks, Dalmacio Gonzalez, Lucia Valentini Terrani

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Claudio Abbado; Bryn Terfel, Adrianne Pieczonka, Thomas Hampson, Dorothea Röschmann, Daniil Shtoda, Larissa Diadkova

Der Rosenkavalier
By Richard Strauss
Decca/London 2894174932
Georg Solti; Regine Crespin, Yvonne Minton, Manfred Jungwirth, Helen Donath

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“Strauss Heroines”
Decca/London 2894663142
Christoph Eschenbach; Renee Fleming

“The Art of the Prima Donna”
Decca/London 2894671152
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; Joan Sutherland