Here is my list of the ”Top 20” operas, and it turned out to be harder than I anticipated to come up with 20 recordings I felt that strongly about. Anyhow, for better or worse, here it is. Beethoven: ...

Singers include Beniamino Gigli, Gottlob Frick and Nicolai Gedda, Australian sopranos Nance Grant and Gladys Moncrieff, and Tano Ferendinos, a tenor popular in London in the 1940s.