Best Opera albums of the 1960s
The best Opera studio albums released in the 1960s: 10 albums listeners most often call this genre
Best Opera albums of the 1960s
Die ZauberflöteMozart; Janowitz, Gedda, Popp, Berry, Frick, Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Klemperer
Die ZauberflöteWolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Berliner Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm
Il trovatoreGiuseppe Verdi; Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan
CarmenGeorges Bizet; Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard, Nadine Sautereau, Jane Berbié, Claude Calès, Chœurs René Duclos, Chœurs d’enfants Jean Pesneaud, Orchestre du Théâtre national de l’Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre
Le nozze di FigaroMozart; Giuseppe Taddei, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Eberhard Wächter, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
A Midsummer Night’s DreamBritten; Alfred Deller, Elizabeth Harwood, Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, Josephine Veasey, Heather Harper, Stephen Terry, John Shirley‐Quirk, Helen Watts, Owen Brannigan, Norman Lumsden, Kenneth MacDonald, David Kelly, Robert Tear, Keith Raggett, London Symphony, Benjamin Britten
L’Enfant et les sortilègesMaurice Ravel; Françoise Ogéas, Jane Berbié, Jeannine Collard, Sylvaine Gilma, Camille Maurane, Heinz Rehfuss, Michel Sénéchal, Colette Herzog, Orchestre National de la R.T.F., Lorin Maazel
Callas sings Rossini and Donizetti AriasRossini, Donizetti; Maria Callas, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicola Rescigno
Duke Bluebeard's CastleBartók; Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry, London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
CarmenGeorges Bizet; Christa Ludwig, Rudolf Schock, Melita Muszely, Hermann Prey, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, Horst Stein
Opera by country and decade
Bands and artists of the genre from different countries and eras, the best albums of each decade