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Browse a selection of images from EMI Classics’ fascinating archive: artist portraits, original sleeve artwork and photos from recording sessions

 

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Performer photos

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni © Fayer, Wien Maria Callas with Franco Corelli at the Norma recording sessions © Erio Piccagliani Otto Klemperer © Lotte Meitner-Graf Mstislav Rostropovich with Dmitri Shostakovich, composer of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in London in the 1960s Maria Callas at the Tosca recording sessions in 1953 © Erio Piccagliani Mstislav Rostropovich with wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya © Ken Veeder Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro Christa Ludwig with Jon Vickers at the Fidelio recording sessions, Kingsway Hall, 1962 © Brian Seed Maria Callas with (l to r) Tullio Serafin, producer Walter Legge and Christa Ludwig © Erio Piccagliani Maria Callas recording Carmen with Georges Prêtre © Sabine Weiss
Mirella Freni as Mimì in La Bohème © Fayer, Wien Mirella Freni (Mimì) with Nicolai Gedda (Rodolfo) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf as Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro © Willi Saeger Bernard Haitink drills the forces of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in Britten’s <em>Peter Grimes</em> © Mark Harrison Otto Klemperer with members of the cast and recording crew in the <em>Flying Dutchman</em> control room © Reg Wilson <em>Lohengrin</em> recording sessions © Harry Weber <em>Lohengrin</em> recording sessions © Harry Weber A young Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at the <em>Lohengrin</em> recording sessions © Harry Weber Christa Ludwig recording <em>Lohengrin</em> © Harry Weber Angela Gheorghiu sings the title role of Massenet’s <em>Manon</em> at the Cirque Royale in Brussels © Alex von Koettlitz
Roberto Alagna records Des Grieux (<em>Manon</em>) at the Cirque Royale in Brussels © Alex von Koettlitz Recording <em>Les Contes d’Hoffmann</em> at the Salle Wagram in 1964 © Sabine Weiss (l-r) André Cluytens, Victoria de los Angeles and Nicolai Gedda recording <em>Les Contes d’Hoffmann</em> at the Salle Wagram in 1964 Victoria de los Angeles and Nicolai Gedda relaxing during the recording of <em>Les Contes d’Hoffmann</em> © Sabine Weiss Christa Ludwig and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with Walter Legge and Herbert von Karajan at the <em>Rosenkavalier</em> recording sessions in December 1956 © George Maiteny (l-r) Richard Stilwell, Nadine Denize, Frederica von Stade, Herbert von Karajan at the <em>Pelléas et Mélisande</em> recording sessions, Philharmonie, Berlin © Siegfried Lauterwasser Herbert von Karajan with José van Dam and Frederica von Stade at the Berlin Philharmonie recording Debussy’s <em>Pelléas et Mélisande</em> © Siegfried Lauterwasser Montserrat Caballé (and Placido Domingo) recording <em>Don Carlo</em> at Walthamstow Town Hall in 1970 © Reg Wilson Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra of La Scala, Milan in <em>Attila</em> © Lelli & Masotti
Samuel Ramey as Attila © Lelli & Masotti <em>Werther</em> recording sessions at Abbey Road Studio No.1 © Reg Wilson Alfredo Kraus, Eric MacLeod and Michel Plasson (l-r) recording Massenet’s <em>Werther</em> at Abbey Road Studios in 1979 © Reg Wilson