Great Arias Dame Ann Murray - Ariodante: "Take you pleasure" from English National Opera, 1996. Conductor Ivor Bolton.

Great Arias Nikolai Putilin - La forza del destino: "Morir! Tremenda cosa!...Urna fatale del mio destino" from Mariinsky Theatre, 1999. Conductor Valery Gergiev.

Great Arias Magdalena Kožená - Orphée et Eurydice: "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice" and "Objet de mon amor", by C.W. Gluck, from Théâtre du Châtelet, 2000. Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, starring Magdalena Kožená (Orphée)

Great Arias Yvonne Kenny - Giulio Cesare: "Piangerò la sorte mia" from Opera Australia, 1995. Conductor Richard Hickox.

Great Arias David Daniels - Rinaldo: "Cara sposa, amante cara", by G.F. Handel, from Prinzregententheater, 2002. Conductor Harry Bicket, starring David Daniels (Rinaldo)

Great Arias Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - Capriccio: "Morgen mittag um elf", by R. Strauss, from San Francisco Opera, 1993. Conductor Donald Runnicles, starring Kiri Te Kanawa (The Countess), Dale Travis (Major Domo)

Great Arias Rodney Gilfry - Iphigénie en Tauride: "Dieux qui me poursuivez" and "Dieux! Protecteurs de ces affreux rivages - La calme rentre dans mon coeur!", by C.W. Gluck, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor William Christie, starring Rodney Gilfrey (Oreste).

Great Arias Philip Langridge - Peter Grimes: "Sea wall" from English National Opera, 1994. Conductor David Atherton.

Great Arias Christine Schäfer - Die Entführung aus dem Serail: "Martern aller Arten" from Salzburger Festspiele, 1999. Conductor Marc Minkowski.

Great Arias Alexander Gergalov - War and Peace: "It's stretching higher and further", by S. Prokofiev, from Kirov Opera, 1995. Conductor Valery Gergiev, starring Alexander Gergalov (Prince Andrei Bolkonsky), Yelena Prochina (Countess Natasha Rostova)

Great Arias Thomas Allen - Billy Budd: "They'll lash me in a hammock" from English National Opera, 1995. Conductor David Atherton.

Great Arias Yvonne Kenny - Così fan tutte: "Per pietà, ben mio, perdona", by W.A. Mozart, from Opera Australia, 1995. Conductor Peter Robinson, starring Yvonne Kenny (Fiordiligi)

Great Arias Dame Joan Sutherland - Norma: "Casta Diva" from Opera Australia, 1994. Conductor Richard Bonynge.

Great Arias Juliette Galstian - Iphigénie en Tauride: "Oh toi qui prolonges mes jours" and "Je cède a vos désirs", by C.W. Gluck, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor William Christie, starring Juliette Galstian (Iphigénie)

Great Arias Sir Franz Hawlata - Die Entführung aus dem Serail: "Solche hergelaufne Laffen" from Salzburger Festspiele, 1999. Conductor Marc Minkowski.

Great Arias Eva Marton - Tosca: "Vissi d'arte", by G. Puccini, from Opera Australia, 1990. Conductor Alberto Erede, starring Eva Marton (Tosca), John Shaw (Scarpia)

Great Arias Paoletta Marrocu - Macbeth: "Vieni! t'affretta" and "La luce langue", by G. Verdi, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor Fritz Weller-Möst, starring Paoletta Marrocu (Lady Macbeth).

Great Arias Deon van der Walt - Iphigénie en Tauride: "Quell langage accablant pour un ami" and "Divinité des grands âmes", by C.W. Gluck, from Opernhaus Zürich, 2001. Conductor William Christie, starring Deon van der Walt (Pylade)

Great Arias Orla Boylan - Eugene Onegin: "No, there could never be another" from European Union Opera, 1999. Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky.

Great Arias Felicity Lott - La Belle Hélène: "Amours divins" and "L'invocation á Venus", by J. Offenbach, from Théâtre du Châtelet, 2000. Conductor Marc Minkowski, starring Felicity Lott

Great Arias Nikolai Okhotnikov - War and Peace: "Aria of Kutuzov", by S. Prokofiev, from Kirov Opera, 1995. Conductor Valery Gergiev, starring Nikolai Okhotnikov (Field Marshal Kutuzov)