Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Opera `Le Nozze di Figaro` (1786), KV492
Claudio Abbado (conductor), Cheryl Studer (soprano), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) , Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna State Opera Choir
Original version, Vienna 1786. Il Conte di Almaviva – Boje Skovhus; La Contessa di Almaviva – Cheryl Studer; Susanna – Sylvia McNair; Figaro – Lucio Gallo; Cherubino – Cecilia Bartoli; Marcellina – Anna Caterina Antonacci; Bartolo - Ildebrando d` Arcangelo; Basilio - Carlo Allemano; Don Curzio – Peter Jelosits; Barbarina – Andrea Rost; Antonio - Istvan Gati. Recorded: January/February 1994, Vienna.
Gustav Mahler
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Symphony No. 8 `Symphonie der Tausend` in Es-dur for 3 sopranos, 2 contralto, tenor, bass, boy`s choir, 2 mixed choirs, organ and orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor), Cheryl Studer (soprano), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) , Berliner Philharmoniker, Prague philharmonic choir
Sopranos: (I - Una Poenitentium) – Cheryl Studer, (II - Magna Peccatrix) – Sylvia McNair, (III - Mater Gloriosa] – Andrea Rost; contraltos: (I - Mulier Samaritana) – Anne Sofie Von Otter, (II - Maria Aegyptiaca) – Rosemarie Lang; tenor (Doctor Marianus) – Peter Seiffert; baritone (Pater Ecstaticus) – Bryn Terfel; bass (Pater Profundus) – Jan-Hendrik Rootering. Rundfunkchor Berlin. Tölzer Knabenchor. Recorded: February 1994, Berlin.
Claudio Monteverdi
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Opera `L`incoronazione di Poppea` (1642), SV308
John Elliot Gardiner (conductor), Sylvia McNair (soprano), Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Michael Chance (ñountertenor) , English Baroque Soloists
Poppea - Sylvia McNair / Nerone - Dana Hanchard / Ottavia - Anne Sofie von Otter / Ottone - Michael Chance / Seneca - Francesco Ellero d`Artegna / Drusilla - Catherine Bott / Nutrice - Roberto Balconi / Arnalta - Bernada Fink / Lucano - Mark Tucker / Valletto - Constanze Backes / Damigella - Marinella Pennicchi / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner / Recording of a concert performance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (December 8 1993).
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