Jonathan Knapp wrote:

>As we approach the holiday season, when most of us spend our hard
>earned cash on cds, and the end of the millenium, I thought it might be
>nice to reflect back on the opera recordings of the century and select
>some definitive recordings. ...

My list:

Britten: Peter Grimes: Vickers et al.
Wagner: Ring Cycle: Solti et al
Puccini: La Boheme: Bjorling/de los Angeles/Beecham
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde/Flagstad, Melchior, Furtwangler
Bellini:Norma/Callas et al
Puccini: La Boheme: Karajan/Pavarotti, Freni et al
Strauss: Elektra: Bohm, Varnay, Rysanek, Fischer-Dieskau et al
Donizetti: Lucia di Lamermoor: Sutherland/Pavarotti/Bonynge
Britten: The Turn of the Screw: Armstrong/Tear/Colin Davis
Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande: Dutoit and co.

Kevin Sutton