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Verdi's Macbeth conducted by Claudio Abbado. Great performance!

James Levine's live 1984 MET broadcast of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.

To paraphrase the lyric in 1776: She plays the violin...

Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, conducted by James Levine, performance recorded on 20 February, 1999. Metropolitan Opera.

Luciano Pavarotti's debut performance on stage, 29 April 1961, Modena. The role: Rodolfo, in Puccini's La boheme.

Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Jaap van Zweden conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Live recording May 2015.

Wagner's Parsifal. Live recording from the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch, 1951.

Barbra Streisand Birth of a Legend 1961/1962 Live Recordings. Released for the first time. What a talent and what a voice. Live and unedited.

Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4 in G Major, op. 58. Rudolf Serkin, piano. Recorded live 26 November 1944.

Laura Benanti's new album.

Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes, recorded March 25, 1962. Ella Fitzgerald, what a sublime singer!

Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A minor, Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden; recorded live, March 2013, Dallas, TX.

Gounod's Faust, a Houston Grand Opera broadcast (2007) with Samuel Ramey as Mephistopheles.

Wagner's Tannhaeuser, abridged recording on 78s. Bayreuth Orchestra conducted by Karl Elmendorff, 1930.

Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major op. 61, Heifetz at the violin, live performance 1940; followed by Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor op. 37, Rubinstein at the piano, live performance 1944.

Toscanini conducts Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, Rec. Nov. 21, 1949.

Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

Toscanini conducting Elgar's Enigma Variations, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Broadcast 10 December 1951.

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. Live performance from the Met, Feb. 11, 1967. With Jon Vickers, conducted by Colin Davis.

A radio broadcast of Houston Grand Opera's production from 2013, which I attended, of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. At its conclusion, roughly 5 hours later, the great Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, as Isolde, placed a secure final note that belied that she had been singing for such a long span. It...

Verdi's I lombardi alla prima crociatta. James Levine conducting the MET Orchestra. Leech, Ramey, Racette, Anderson, Pavarotti.

Verdi's Rigoletto with Chernov, Pavarotti, Studer, etc. Metropolitan Opera Orchestra conducted by James Levine.

I like him too and will order the CD. Meanwhile, I just ordered the new Ella Fitzgerald release of newly discovered tracks from a Berlin gig.

Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten. Metropolitan Opera, live performance Dec. 17, 1966. Karl Boehm conducts. Leonie Rysanek and James King as lead singers. This was the first opera I ever saw in my life in 1977, also at the Met, with the same conductor and the same lead singers. It began my...

Verdi's Don Carlo (4 Act version) Live performance conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala. Pavarotti, Ramey, Dessi, Coni, d'Intino, Anisimov.

Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, live from the Met performance from 2015, via Sirius XM. What a gorgeous opera! Fortunately I was able to see a live performance at the Dallas Opera. It's a little-known work, unjustly so.

Toscanini conducting Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Glinka and Liadov. Man, that Italian must have been a Communist! :D

Puccini's Turandot, conducted by Zubin Mehta, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera House on Dec. 3, 1966. With Birget Nilsson and Franco Corelli as the dueling vocal stars (anything you can sing I can sing higher/louder/longer, et cetera). Thrilling, since there is no console doctoring, and...

Toscanini conducting Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, 1941

Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, World Premiere Live Performance recorded 16 September 1966 from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, NY. Starring Leontyne Price and Justino Diaz in the title roles, both still with us as I write.