Daugherty: Jackie O
Nicole Heaston (Jackie); Stephanie Novacek (Maria Callas); Eric Owens (Aristotle Onassis); Jonita Lattimore (Liz Taylor); Joyce DiDonato (Grace Kelly); Daniel Belcher (Andy Warhol); John McVeigh (JFK's voice); Bruce Brown (Paparazzo)
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Christopher Larkin, conductor
Argo 455 51-2 (1cd) - text and commentary in German, French nd English; libretto in English only

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Wagner: Die Walküre
Gabriele Schnaut (Brünnhilde); Alessandra Marc (Sieglinde); Anja Silja (Fricka); Poul Elming (Siegmund); Robert Hale (Wotan); Alfred Muff (Hunding); and Ruth Falcon, Susan Marie Pierson, Michele Crider, Katherine Ciesinski, Karin Goltz, Penelope Walker, Susan Shafer, Sandra Walker
The Cleveland Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Decca 440 371-2 (4 cds) - text and commentary in German, French, Italian and English

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Beethoven: Leonore
Hillevi Martinpelto (Leonore); Christiane Oelze (Marzelline); Kim Begley (Florestan); Michael Schade (Jaquino); Matthew Best (Pizarro); Franz Hawlata (Rocco); Alastair Miles (Don Fernando); and Christoph Banzer (Narrator)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Archiv 453 461-2 (2 cds) - text and commentary in German, French and English

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Richard Strauss: Der Bürger als Edelmann; Ariadne auf Naxos
Dame Margaret Price (Ariadne); Sumi Jo (Zerbinetta); Gösta Winbergh (Bacchus); Thomas Mohr (Harlekin); Markus Schäfer (Brighella); Steven Cole (Scaramuccio); Alfred Kuhn (Truffaldin); Veronica Cangemi (Sängerin), Virginie Pochon (Echo); Brigitte Fournier (Naiade/Schäferin); Doris Lamprecht (Dryade/Schäfer); and Ernst Theo Richter (Monsieur Jourdain)
Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon Kent
Nagano, conductor
Virgin 7243 4 34111 2 7 (2 cds) - text and commentary in German, French and English.

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