VA - The Greatest Opera Show on Earth (1997)

This is the same CD set as the World's Greatest Opera Album. The Greatest Opera Show On Earth! 2CDs featuring Bocelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, Sutherland, Terfel & more! This really is a remarkable collection, and anyone even remotely interested in opera is bound to be vastly entertained by it. Almost everything and everyone is here, albeit in small doses: Tebaldi, Pavarotti (a lot), Bjoerling, Bartoli, Sutherland, Solti, Karajan, Troyanos, Gheorghiu, Nucci; the composers are Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, and all the other usual suspects. There are plenty of fine compilation sets on the market, and this is one of the best. One can only hope that it whets listeners' appetites for whole operas. --Robert Levine

Disc 1 (01:16:38)
1. Georges Bizet – Carmen: Prelude (02:21)
2. Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata: Brindisi (02:56)
3. Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème: Che gelida manina (04:45)
4. Léo Delibes – Lakmé: Flower Duet (05:11)
5. Umberto Giordano – Fedora: Amor ti vieta (02:04)
6. Georges Bizet – Carmen: Habanera (04:28)
7. Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew slaves (04:42)
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro: Dove sono (05:03)
9. Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (02:27)
10. Richard Wagner – Lohengrin: Bridal Chorus - Lohengrin (05:24)
11. Giacomo Puccini – Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro (02:14)
12. Gioachino Rossini – Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum (05:07)
13. Alfredo Catalani – La Wally: Ebben? … Ne andrò lontana (03:46)
14. Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus (03:06)
15. Georges Bizet – Carmen: Flower Song (03:58)
16. Jacques Offenbach – Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle (04:20)
17. Giacomo Puccini – Tosaca: È lucevan le stelle (02:34)
18. Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Un bel dì (04:40)
19. Georges Bizet – Les Pêcheurs de perles: Au fond du temple saint (07:32)

Disc 2 (01:18:00)
1. Richard Wagner – Die Walküre: The Ride of the Valkyries (03:09)
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete (02:56)
3. Ruggero Leoncavallo – Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba (04:11)
4. Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème: O soave fanciulla (04:18)
5. Giuseppe Verdi – Il trovatore: Anvil Chorus (02:54)
6. Giacomo Puccini – Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai (02:16)
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni: Là ci darem la mano (03:25)
8. Ruggero Leoncavallo – Mattinata (02:23)
9. Charles‐François Gounod – Faust: Soldiers' Chorus (03:19)
10. Gaetano Donizetti – L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima (03:48)
11. Giacomo Puccini – Turandot: Signore, ascolta! (02:49)
12. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni: Champagne Aria (01:23)
13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Così fan tutte: Trio - Soave sia il vento (02:53)
14. Giuseppe Verdi – Il Trovatore: Di quella pira (03:25)
15. Giacomo Puccini – Tosca: Vissi d'arte (03:24)
16. Georges Bizet – Carmen: Toreador Song (05:27)
17. Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Love Duet (07:58)
18. Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo (03:20)
19. Antonín Dvořák – Rusalka: O Silver Moon (06:49)
20. Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (04:53)
21. Giacomo Puccini – Turandot: Nessun dorma (03:00)