This budget-price box set brings together 12 classic live Royal Opera performances, spanning over forty years, from 1955 to 1997. It includes many of the world’s greatest performers from this period, including Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Tear, Boris Christoff, Tito Gobbi, Geraint Evans, Amy Schuard, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Jon Vickers.

Artists

Janet Baker (Alceste), Robert Tear (Admète), John Shirley-Quirk (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Maldwyn Davies (Evandre), Jonathan Summers (Hercule), Phillip Gelling (Un Héraut/Apollon), Matthew Best (La voix de l'Oracle), John Shirley-Quirk (Dieu infernal), Stuart Burrows (Ferrando), Thomas Allen (Guglielmo), Richard Van Allan (Don Alfonso), Kiri Te Kanawa (Fiordiligi), Agnes Baltsa (Dorabella), Daniela Mazzucato (Despina), Ann Murray (Octavian), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Marschallin), Kurt Moll (Baron Ochs), Alan Opie (Herr von Faninal), Barbara Bonney (Sophie), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Marianne Leitmetzerin), John Dobson (Major-domo to the Marschallin), Gordon Sandison (Notary), Paul Crook (Valzacchi) & Leah-Marian Jones (Annina), John Tomlinson (Hans Sachs), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Gosta Winbergh (Walther von Stolzing), Nancy Gustafson (Eva), Herbert Lippert (David), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Magdalena), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Kothner), Michael Druiett (Nachtwächter), Alasdair Elliot (Kunz Vogelgesang), Richard Lloyd-Morgan (Konrad Nachtigall), Paul Crook (Ulrich Eisslinger), Robin Leggate (Balthasar Zorn), John Dobson (Augustin Moser), Grant Dickson (Hermann Ortel), Geoffrey Moses (Hans Schwarz), Simon Wilding (Hans Foltz), Jon Vickers (Don Carlo), Gre Brouwenstijn (Elisabetta di Valois), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Fedora Barbieri (La Principessa Eboli), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Michael Langdon (Il Grande Inquisitore), Cesare Siepi (Don Giovanni), Leyla Gencer (Donna Anna), Richard Lewis (Don Ottavio), Sena Jurinac (Donna Elvira), Geraint Evans (Leporello), Robert Savoie (Masetto), Mirella Freni (Zerlina), David Ward (Il Commendatore), Joan Sutherland (Lucia), João Gibin (Edgardo), John Shaw (Enrico), Joseph Rouleau (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Robert Bowman (Normanno), Victoria de los Ángeles (Cio Cio San), John Lanigan (Pinkerton), Geraint Evans (Sharpless), Barbara Howitt (Suzuki), Joyce Livingston (Kate Pinkerton), David Tree (Goro), David Allen (Il principe Yamadori), Michael Langdon (Lo zio Bonzo), Ronald Firmager (Il commissario imperiale), Harry Gawler (L'ufficiale del Registro), Ramón Vinay (Otello), Gré Brouwenstijn (Desdemona), Otakar Kraus (Iago), John Lanigan (Cassio), Raymond Nilsson (Rodrigo), Marian Nowakowski (Lodovico), Michael Langdon (Montano), Noreen Berry (Emilia), Forbes Robinson (Un Araldo), Jon Vickers (Parsifal), Norman Bailey (Amfortas), Amy Shuard (Kundry), Louis Hendrikx (Gurnemanz), Donald McIntyre (Klingsor), Michael Langdon (Titurel), Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia), Forbes Robinson (Il Sagristano), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Un pastore), Rhoderick Davies (Un carceriere), Jon Vickers (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Amy Shuard (Amelia), Regina Resnik (Ulrica), Joan Carlyle (Oscar), Victor Godfrey (Silvano), David Kelly (Samuele), Michael Langdon (Tom), John Kollmann (Un Giudice), George Barker (Un servo)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Charles Mackerras, Colin Davis, Andrew Davis, Bernard Haitink, Carlo Maria Giulini, Georg Solti, Tullio Serafin, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Reginald Goodall, Alexander Gibson, Edward Downes