This budget-price box set brings together 12 classic live Royal Opera performances, spanning over forty years, from 1955 to 1997. It includes many of the world’s greatest performers from this period, including Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Tear, Boris Christoff, Tito Gobbi, Geraint Evans, Amy Schuard, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Jon Vickers.

Gluck: ALCESTE (1981)
Baker / Tear
Conductor: Charles Mackerras

Mozart: COSÍ FAN TUTTE (1981)
Te Kanawa / Baltsa/ Mazzucato / Burrowes / Allen / Van Allen
Conductor: Colin Davis

Strauss: DER ROSENKAVALIER (1995)
Tomowa-Sintow / Moll / Murray / Bonney
Conductor: Andrew Davis

Wagner: DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURNBERG (1997)
Winbergh / Gustafson / Tomlinson / Allen
Conductor: Bernard Haitink

Verdi: DON CARLO (1958)
Vickers / Brouwenstijn / Christoff
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini

Mozart: DON GIOVANNI (1962)
Siepi / Evans / Lewis / Jurinac / Gencer / Freni
Conductor: Georg Solti

Donizetti: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (1959)
Sutherland
Conductor: Tulio Serafin

Puccini: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (1957)
De los Angeles / Lanigan / Evans
Conductor: Rudolf Kempe

Verdi: OTELLO (1955)
Vinay / Kraus / Brouwenstijn
Conductor: Rafael Kubelik

Wagner: PARSIFAL (1971)
Vickers / Bailey / Shuard / McIntyre / Hendrikx
Conductor: Reginald Goodall

Puccini: TOSCA (1957)
Milanov / Corelli / Guelfi
Conductor: Alexander Gibson

Verdi: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (1962)
Shuard / Vickers / Bastianini / Resnik / Carlyle
Conductor: Edward Downes