Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 1 Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 1 Binding: Audio CD Manufacturer: Nimbus Records Amazon.com: This spectacular collection of more than 90 arias sung by 46 of the greatest singers of the century consists of recordings made between 1906 and 1943. Naturally, they are in far from high fidelity, but this is more charming than disturbing. And all the greats are here: from the tenors Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, John McCormack, and Jussi Bjoerlong, to the sopranos Rosa Ponselle, Amelita.Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola.

Stepping In Think you've had a rough time during flu season? Things are getting tense at the Metropolitan Opera, where tenor Ben Heppner has .been out most of the past week with a virus - will he or won't he be singing Tristan for this weekend's broadcast? - and then soprano Deborah Voigt, the opera's Isolde, bailed out of Act II of Tristan on Friday night due to a stomach virus, leaving two understudies who've probably never rehearsed together (if they were rehearsed at all) alone on stage for what must'v. Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Tickets.