Decca

William Orbit (programmer, keyboard, recordingarranger), Arden Hart (piano), Francesca Jackson (vocalist), Laurie Mayer (vocalist, additionalkeyboard), Rico Conning (additionalkeyboard)

Doris Rossiaud (piano)

L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)

London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Westminster Abbey Choir, Christchurch Cathedral Oxford Choir, New College Oxford Choir & All Angels

including Marco Decimo (cello) & Antonio Leofreddi (viola) & Robert Lippok

Renata Tebaldi (Cio Cio San), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Virgilio Carbonari (Il commissario imperiale), Paolo Washington (Lo zio Bonzo), Oscar Nanni (Yakusidè/L'ufficiale del Registro), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton)

Orchestra...

Jessye Norman, Thomas Allen, Marie McLaughlin, Patricia Kern, Helen Walker, Della Jones, Elizabeth Gale, Patrick Power & Derek Lee Ragin

English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard

Mira Zakai (contralto), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Sir Georg Solti, Riccardo Chailly

Robert Hale (Wotan), Hanna Schwarz (Fricka), Franz-Josef Kapellmann (Alberich), Peter Schreier (Mime), Nancy Gustafson (Freia), Kim Begley (Loge), Thomas Sunnegardh (Froh), Eike Wilm Schulte (Donner), Elena Zaremba (Erda), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fasolt), Walter Fink (Fafner), Gabriele Fontana (Woglinde),...

Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori)

Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Tullio Serafin