January 1, 1979 41 songs, 3 hours 2 minutes A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1979, 1988 Parlophone Records Limited
- Carlo Felice Cillario, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Montserrat Caballé, Shirley Verrett & Teatro Alla Scala Orchestra
- Geraint Evans, Hans Sotin, Otto Klemperer, Yvonne Minton, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Dame Margaret Price & Luigi Alva
- Dame Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Opera Company of Boston & Richard Bonynge
- Raymond Leppard, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Marjorie Biggar, Enid Hartle, Teresa Cahill, Ugo Trama, Peter Gottlieb, Ileana Cotrubas, James Bowman, Dame Janet Baker, Hugues Cuenod, Janet Hughes, Federico Davia, Owen Brannigan, Teresa Kubiak & Isla Brodie
- Birgit Nilsson, Eberhard Wächter, Gerhard Stolze, Sir Georg Solti & Vienna Philharmonic
- June Anderson, Laurence Dale, Ernesto Palacio, Margarita Zimmermann, Samuel Ramey, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra & Claudio Scimone