The No. 1 Opera Album 2007

Verdi: Rigoletto, Act III - La donna è mobile

by Luciano Pavarotti, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 1 - "Non più andrai"

by Bryn Terfel, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Verdi: "Libiamo ne'lieti calici"  (Brindisi) (Violetta)

by Anna Netrebko

Puccini: "O Mio Babbino Caro" (From Gianni Schicchi) (Album Version)

by Katherine Jenkins, Philharmonia Orchestra, Anthony Inglis

Verdi: Il Trovatore / Act III - "Di quella pira"

by Rosalind Plowright, Plácido Domingo, Walter Gullino, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Bellini: Norma / Act 1 - Casta Diva

by Renée Fleming, London Voices, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 3 - "Dove sono i bei momenti"

by Kiri Te Kanawa, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Catalani: La Wally / Act 1 - "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana"

by Angela Gheorghiu, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, John Mauceri

Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore / Act 2 - "Una furtiva lagrima"

by Juan Diego Flórez, Riccardo Frizza, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi

Bizet: Carmen / Act II - "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre"

by Barry Wordsworth, Bryn Terfel, London Symphony Orchestra

Puccini: Tosca / Act 3 - "E lucevan le stelle"

by José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herze" (Excerpt)

by Luciana Serra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sir Colin Davis

Verdi: La traviata / Act II - Di Provenza il mar, il suol

by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

Puccini: La Rondine / Act 1 - "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta"

by Nicole Cabell, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis

Cilea: L'arlesiana / Act 2 - E la solita storia (Lamento di Federico)

by Joseph Calleja, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2 - "Voi che sapete"

by Magdalena Kožená, PKF – Prague Philharmonia, Michel Swierczewski

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"

by Andrea Bocelli, Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania, Steven Mercurio

Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "Che gelida manina"

by José Carreras, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir Colin Davis

Puccini: Turandot, SC 91, Act III - Nessun dorma!

by Luciano Pavarotti, John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta

Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles - C'était le soir - Au fond du temple Saint - "C'était le soir... Au fond du temple Saint"

by Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth

Habanera (From “Carmen”, WD. 31)

by Katherine Jenkins, The Arcadian Ensemble

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - Papagena! Papageno! (Papageno, Papagena)

by Bryn Terfel, Miah Persson, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 / Act 2 - "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"

by Plácido Domingo, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Puccini: Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II - Un bel dì vedremo

by Renée Fleming, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras

Verdi: Aida / Act 1 - "Se quel guerrier io fossi!..Celeste Aida"

by Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Lorin Maazel

Handel: "Ombra mai fu" (Serse), HWV 40 (Album Version)

by Elin Manahan Thomas, Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, Harry Christophers

Delibes: The Flower Duet (from Lakmé)

by All Angels

Verdi: Nabucco / Act 3 - Va, pensiero

by Russell Watson, Neil Jason, Bashiri Johnson, The Metro Voices, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Dodd

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - One Fine Day

by Hayley Westenra, Irish Film Orchestra, Nick Ingman

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act I - No. 2 Cavatina: "Largo al factotum"

by Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Philharmonia Orchestra, Ion Marin

Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - "Mamma, quel vino è generoso"

by Andrea Bocelli, Elena Belfiore, Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania, Steven Mercurio

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 4 - "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"

by Anne Sofie von Otter, Francisco Araiza, Cheryl Studer, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Jeffrey Tate

Puccini: Tosca / Act 2 - "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"

by Kiri Te Kanawa, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti

Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114, B.203 / Act 1 - Mesicku na nebi hlubokém

by Anna Netrebko, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gianandrea Noseda

Puccini: Quando m'en vo

by Lesley Garrett

Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1 - "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì" (Live In London / 1994)

by Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Barlow

Mozart: Così fan tutte ossia La scuola degli amanti, K.588 - (L. da Ponte) - Act 1 - "Soave sia il vento"

by Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, José van Dam, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner

Puccini: La Bohème / Act I - "O soave fanciulla"

by Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Staatskapelle Dresden, Nicola Luisotti

Puccini: Tosca / Act 1 - "Recondita armonia"

by Luciano Pavarotti, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno