Opera

Joyce DiDonato

Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller

Mirella Freni, Luigi Alva, Emily Maire, Enzo Sordello & Sesto Bruscantini

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Carlo Felice Cillario

Designed and Directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Isabelle Kabatu, Soprano (Bess), Angela Renée Simpson, Soprano (Serena), Bibiana Nwobilo, Soprano (Clara), Roberta Alexander, Soprano (Maria), Jonathan Lemalu, Bass-Baritone (Porgy), Gregg Baker, Baritone (Crown), Rodney Clarke, Baritone (Jake), Michael Forest, Tenor (Sportin' Life) & Previn Moore, Tenor (Mingo, Robbins, Peter, Honey-Man, Crab-Man)

Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Willard White, Cynthia Haymon, Damon Evans, Cynthia Clarey, Harolyn Blackwell, Bruce Hubbard, Marietta Simpson & Gregg Baker

Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Martyn Hill (Taverner), David Wilson-Johnson (Jester), Stephen Richardson (Henry VIII), Fiona Kimm (Virgin Mary), Michael Chance (Priest/God), Quentin Hayes (White Abbot) & Peter Sidhom (Richard Taverner)

Fretwork, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta Voices, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts & New London Children’s Choir, Oliver Knussen

Joachim Kuntzsch, Julia Nachtmann, Michael Ransburg & Manfred Bittner

Kammerchor Stuttgart & Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Freider Bernius

Vivica Genaux (mezzo soprano)

Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi

Jennifer Larmore, Hei-Kyung Hong, Paul Groves & Robert Lloyd

Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, Donald Runnicles

Yvonne Kenny, Lillian Watson, Matti Salminen & Peter Schreier

Mozart-Orchester und Chor des Opernhauses Zürich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Edita Gruberova, Barbara Bonney, Matti Salminen & Hans Peter Blochwitz

Chor und Orchester des Opernhauses Zürich, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Margarita Zimmermann, Cecilia Gasdia, Ernesto Palacio & Chris Merritt

Prague Philharmonic Choir & Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Claudio Scimone