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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - December 7, 1991)
The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Lopardo, Richard Cowan, Carlos Feller & Leopold Hager
United States
United States Top 100 Opera Albums Chart
What is the number 1 Opera album in the United States today?
The number 1 Opera album in the United States today is Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - December 7, 1991) by The Metropolitan Opera, Carol Vaness, Delores Ziegler, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Lopardo, Richard Cowan, Carlos Feller & Leopold Hager.
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40 Essential Soprano Opera Arias, Songs & Duets: Repertoire for High Voice with Quando me'n vo, O mio babbino, Vissi d'arte, Voi che sapete from Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Donizetti, Wagner & More
Various Artists
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Marcella Sembrich (Recorded 1906 - 1912)
Marcella Sembrich, Antonio Scotti, Emilio De Gogorza & Walter B. Rogers
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Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Roma, Coro Della Rai Di Roma & Fernando Previtali
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Recorded Live at The Met - October 1, 2011)
The Metropolitan Opera, Isabel Leonard, Javier Camarena, Peter Mattei, Maurizio Muraro, Paata Burchuladze & Maurizio Benini
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Puccini: Tosca (Recorded Live at The Met - January 29, 2011)
The Metropolitan Opera, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcelo Álvarez & Marco Armiliato
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights
Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Herbert von Karajan & Vienna Philharmonic
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Foremost Puccini Singers of the Early Twentieth Century
Alessandro Bonci, Giuseppe Anselmi, Lina Cavalieri, John McCormack, Rosa Ponselle, Giovanni Zentella, Maria Sammarca, Ferdinand Ansseaau, Mattia Battistini, Claudia Muzio, Enrico Caruso, Elisabeth Rethberg, Richard Tauber, Rosa Raisa, Aureliano Pertile, Emmy Destinn, Alfred Piccaver, Florence Easton, Antonio Cortis, Dmitri Smirnov, Anne Roselle & Giovanni Martinelli
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Martinelli in Opera Vol. 1
Giovanni Martinelli, Francis Lapitino, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Walter B. Rogers, Josef Pasternack, Nathaniel Shilkret, Rosario Bourdon & Giulio Setti
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Essential Wagner: His Very Best Opera & Orchestral Music, Including Ride of the Valkyries, Wedding March, the Tristan Prelude, Die Meistersinger & Excerpts from the Ring Cycle
Various Artists
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The Very Best of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Taddei & Fiorenza Cossotto
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Puccini: La bohéme (Recorded Live at The Met - January 16, 1982)
The Metropolitan Opera, Teresa Stratas, José Carreras & James Levine
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La Bohème
Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Ángeles, The RCA Victor Orchestra & Sir Thomas Beecham
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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, Marc Minkowski, Marion Harousseau, Mireille Delunsch & Richard Croft
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Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
José Van Dam, Teresa Berganza, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Daniela Mazzuccato, Stefania Malagu, Mirto Picchi, Paolo Montarsolo, Maria Borgato, Leonardo Monreale, Franco Ricciardi, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Milan & Claudio Abbado
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Rossini: Guglielmo Tell
Riccardo Chailly, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Sherrill Milnes, National Philharmonic Orchestra & Nicolai Ghiaurov
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Britten: The Turn of the Screw, Op. 54
Daniel Harding, Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers & Mahler Chamber Orchestra
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Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 (Recorded Live at The Met - February 14, 2009)
The Metropolitan Opera, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila, Piotr Beczala & Jiří Bělohlávek
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Verdi: Aida (Recorded Live at The Met - March 3, 1962)
The Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella Tucci, Franco Corelli, Irene Dalis, Cornell MacNeil & George Schick
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K. 588 (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1990)
The Metropolitan Opera, Marilyn Mims, Tatiana Troyanos, Hei-Kyung Hong, Jerry Hadley, Thomas Hampson, Richard Van Allan & James Levine
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Offenbach: Tales of Hoffman
Orchestra of Teatro Colon, Chorus of Teatro Colon, Sándor Kónya, Peter Maag, Gabriel Bacquier, Heather Harper, Mady Mesple, Radmila Bakocevic, Noemi Souza & Guy Gallardo
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Offenbach: the Tales of Hoffman
The Sadler's Wells Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
Mascagni: Cavaleria Rusticana - Milanov, Gismondo, Rayson - Cellini
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L'elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Thomas Schippers
![Cover art for Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1979) [Live] by The Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, Gabriel Bacquier & Nicola Rescigno](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music69/v4/19/fd/a7/19fda7b3-2037-9bb6-01cb-765eed34208b/1400X1400_DonPasquale_iTunes.1979.jpg/170x170bb.png "Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1979) [Live] by The Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, Gabriel Bacquier & Nicola Rescigno — number 56 in the United States Top 100 Opera Albums Chart")
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Recorded Live at The Met - January 20, 1979) [Live]
The Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, Gabriel Bacquier & Nicola Rescigno
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L'Elisir D'Amore (Live)
Carlo Bergonzi, Carlo Cava, Gaetoano Donizetti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Taddei, Renata Scotto & Renza Jotti
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Opera Classics: Rossini's "Tancredi"
Alberto Zedda, Capella Brugensis, Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, Ewa Podleś, Stanford Olsen & Sumi Jo
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Puccini: Turandot
Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Björling, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma & Erich Leinsdorf
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 (Recorded Live at The Met - March 18, 1961)
The Metropolitan Opera, Birgit Nilsson, Karl Liebl & Joseph Rosenstock
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Reader's Digest Classical Collection: Puccini: Suor Angelica
Miriam Gauci, Alexander Rahbari, BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra & Jaak Gregoor Chorus
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Philip Glass: Orphée (The Complete Opera Recording)
Portland Opera, Anne Manson, Philip Cutlip, Lisa Saffer, Ryan MacPherson & Georgia Jarman
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Zandonai: Francesca Da Rimini (Recorded Live at The Met - April 7, 1984)
The Metropolitan Opera, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Renata Scotto & James Levine
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Classic Recitals: Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill, Sir Edward Downes & The New Symphony Orchestra Of London
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Written on Skin
Barbara Hannigan, George Benjamin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Bejun Mehta, Christopher Purves, Rebecca Jo Loeb & Allan Clayton
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Haydn: Orfeo Ed Eurydice
Cecilia Bartoli, Academy of Ancient Music, Uwe Heilmann & Christopher Hogwood
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Bellini: I Puritani (Recorded Live at The Met - March 30, 1991)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Edita Gruberová, Chris Merritt, Paolo Gavanelli, Paul Plishka & Richard Bonynge
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Gounod: Faust
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Wilfred Pelletier
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Rossini: the Barber of Seville
Robert Merrill, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Erich Leinsdorf
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Rossini: L'italiana In Algeri
Marilyn Horne, Luigi Alva, Paolo Montarsolo, Enzo Dara, Margherita Guglielmi, Laura Zannini, Alberto Rinaldi, La Scala Chorus, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
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La Bohème (plus five bonus Puccini arias)
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna D'Angelo, Ettore Bastianini, Cesare Siepi, Chorus & Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome & Tullio Serafin
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Gian-Carlo Menotti's the Medium (Complete Soundtrack of the Acclaimed 1950 Film)
Marie Powers & Anna Marie Alberghetti
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Verdi: la Traviata (Live)
Renata Scotto, José Carreras, Sesto Bruscantini, Anna Pedrotti, Guido Mazzini, Fernando Jacopucci, Franco Lombardi, Carlo Meliciani, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Chorus of La Scala, Milan & Nino Verchi
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L'Elisir D'Amore (The Elixir Of Love)
Orchestra E Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
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Bizet: Carmen
Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, José Van Dam, Adriana Maliponte, Giovanna Santelli, Nicoletta Ciliento, Nino Carta, Pier Francesco Poli, Carlo Del Bosco, Arturo Testa, Maria Grazia Allegri, La Scala Opera House Orchestra, La Scala Opera House Chorus & Georges Prêtre
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Menotti: Amelia Al Ballo
Margherita Carosio, Rolando Panerai, Giacinto Prandelli, Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Nino Sanzogno
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