1977. Ambrosian singers. The George Watson`s College Boys Choir.
Teresa Berganza (Carmen), Placido Domingo (Jose), Cheryl Milnes (Escamillo), Ilana Kotrubash (Michaela), Yvonne Kenny (Frasquita), Alicia Nathe (Mercedes), Robert Lloyd (Zuniga), Gordon Sandison (Dankair), Joffrey Pogson, Jean Lan (Andres), Shirley Minty (merchant), Lesi Faison (Gypsy), Georges Man (Lilas Pastia).
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.
Orchestra Mozart, conductor - Claudio Abbado. Giuliano Carmignola - principal violin. Recorded live at Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, 21 April 2007.
Maria Ewing - Mélisande, François Le Roux - Pelléas, José van Dam - Golaud, Jean-Philippe Courtis - Arkel, Patrizia Pace - Yniold, Rudolf Mazzola - le médecin, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Helmut Froschauer - chorus master, Wiener Philharmoniker, conductor Claudio Abbado. Rec. 1/1991, Vienna. Label: Deutsche Grammophon.
Don Giovanni - Ruggero Raimondi, Leporello - Lucio Gallo, Donna Anna - Cheryl Studer, Elvira - Karita Mattila, Zerlina - Mary McLaughlin, Anatoly Kocherga - Il Commendatore.
Orchestra and Chorus – Wiener Staatsoper. Conductor Claudio Abbado. Wiener Festwochen. 1990. Theater an der Wien.
Lohengrin: Siegfried Jerusalem; Elsa: Rosalind Plowright; Ortrud: Eva Randova; Friedrich von Telramund: Hartmut Welker; Konig Heinrich: Robert Lloyd. Chorus: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Recording of a concert performance in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh (August 1984).
Alexander Nevsky, Cantata, Op. 78. E. Obraztsova - mezzo soprano. London Symphony Chorus. London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Claudio Abbado. Label: Deutsche Grammophon.
Piero CAPPUCCILLI (Simon Boccanegra); Mirella FRENI (Maria Boccanegra/Amelia); Nicolai GHIAUROV (Jacopo Fiesco); José CARRERAS (Gabriele Adorno); José VAN DAM (Paolo Albiani); Giovanni FOIANI (Pietro); Antonio SAVASTANO (Capitano); Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Recorded in 1977.
Karita Mattila - soprano, Marjana Lipovsek - alt/conralto, Jerry Hadley - tenor I, Jorge Pita - tenor II, Robert Holl - bass. Wiener Philharmoniker, conductor Claudio Abbado. Label: Deutsche Grammophon. Rel. 1988. Live recording 1 November 1986.