Giuseppe Verdi Vittorio Gui Mirto Picchi Paolo Silveri Ljuba Welitsch Welitsch ‘Ballo’, Edinburgh Festival 1949
Alban Berg Sir Adrian Boult Suzanne Danco Heinrich Nillius BBC Symphony Orchestra Boult conducts ‘Wozzeck’
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Harry Blech Owen Brannigan Gré Brouwenstijn Peter Pears Mozart’s ‘Zaide’ at the Royal Festival Hall, 1952
Benjamin Britten Sir John Pritchard Joan Cross Peter Pears Covent Garden Opera First performance of ‘Gloriana’
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Igor Markevitch Covent Garden Opera Markevitch conducts `The Golden Cockerel`
Leoš Janáček Rafael Kubelík Amy Shuard Sadlers Wells Opera ‘Katya Kabanová’ with Shuard, conducted by Kubelík
Sir William Walton Sir Malcolm Sargent Magda Laszlo Richard Lewis Covent Garden Opera Walton’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’ at Covent Garden
Gabriel Fauré Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht Régine Crespin Raoul Jobin Fauré’s ‘Pénélope’, Radio France, 1956
John Blow Gustav Holst Charles Mackerras Heather Harper Thomas Hemsley Peter Pears Holst: ‘Sāvitri’ / Blow: ‘Venus and Adonis’
Lennox Berkeley Charles Mackerras Peter Pears Anna Pollak English Opera Group Lennox Berkeley`s `Ruth` conducted by Mackerras
Vincenzo Bellini Antonino Votto Maria Callas Fiorenza Cossotto Nicola Monti Callas, ‘La Sonnambula’, Edinburgh Festival 1957
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Richard Wagner Rafael Kubelík Joan Sutherland Jon Vickers Rare Sutherland and Vickers, London 1957
Jules Massenet Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Vissarion Shebalin Giuseppe Verdi Ivan Kozlovsky Sergei Lemeshev Galina Vishnevskaya Vishnevskaya Operatic Recital
Giacomo Puccini Rudolf Kempe Victoria de los Ángeles Victoria de los Ángeles, ‘Madama Butterfly’ Covent Garden 1957
Hector Berlioz Rafael Kubelík Amy Shuard Blanche Thebom Jon Vickers ‘The Trojans’, Covent Garden 1957
