Essential Classical Music - The Best Opera Recordings

In this installment of Essential Classical Music, I cover the best recordings of the major operas. 0:00 Introduction 5:09 Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle 8:02 Beethoven, Fidelio 13:50 Bellini, Norma 19:48 Berg, Wozzeck 22:45 Berlioz, Les Troyens 27:26 Bizet, Carmen 40:14 Britten, Peter Grimes 43:40 Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande 48:41 Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor 53:21 Donizetti, L’Elisir d’Amore 57:34 Gershwin, Porgy and Bess 1:01:37 Gluck, Orfeo ed Eurydice 1:05:55 Gounod, Faust 1:10:31 Gounod, Roméo et Juliette 1:13:53 Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto 1:17:25 Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel 1:19:00 Janáček, Jenůfa 1:22:43 Janáček, Káťa Kabanová 1:25:02 Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen 1:27:09 Lehar, Die Lustige Witwe 1:30:51 Mascagni, Cav/Leoncavallo, Pag 1:41:41 Massenet, Manon 1:47:36 Massenet, Werther 1:50:43 Monteverdi, L’Orfeo 1:54:44 Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea 1:59:25 Mozart, Don Giovanni 2:17:09 Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro 2:31:02 Mozart, Die Zauberflöte 2:44:45 Mozart, Così fan tutte 2:52:12 Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov 2:59:54 Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann 3:02:51 Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites 3:05:01 Puccini, La bohème 3:16:34 Puccini, Tosca 3:29:45 Puccini, Madama Butterfly 3:38:38 Puccini, Turandot 3:50:03 Purcell, Dido and Aeneas 3:52:35 Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia 4:03:22 Rossini, La Cenerentola 4:06:00 Rossini, Guillaume Tell 4:09:23 Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila 4:12:34 Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 4:15:09 Smetana, The Bartered Bride 4:17:36 Strauss, J., Die Fledermaus 4:20:48 Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier 4:31:11 Strauss, Salome 4:38:52 Strauss, Elektra 4:43:09 Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten 4:47:16 Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos 4:52:42 Tchaikovsky, Eugen Onegin 5:00:35 Verdi, La Traviata 5:14:44 Verdi, Otello 5:28:48 Verdi, Aida 5:40:32 Verdi, Rigoletto 5:52:12 Verdi, Il Trovatore 6:01:31 Verdi, Don Carlo 6:06:45 Verdi, Falstaff 6:11:04 Verdi, La forza del destino 6:14:53 Verdi, Macbeth 6:17:17 Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen 6:51:11 Wagner, Tristan und Isolde 7:05:21 Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 7:13:10 Wagner, Parsifal 7:18:37 Wagner, Der Fliegende Holländer 7:22:58 Wagner, Lohengrin 7:27:19 Wagner, Tannhäuser 7:32:49 Weber, Der Freischütz 7:35:10 Opera Recitals 7:48:48 Enrico Caruso