A week in music: week 5

• Monday Juan Diego Florez's Arias for Rubini Roberto Abbado cond. the orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Decca, 2007
• Tuesday Verdi's I due Foscari Live broadcast from Il Teatro degli Arcimboldi di Milano, May 13 2003, Leo Nucci, Dimitra Theodossiu, Aquilès Machado, Riccardo Muti cond. orch. & coro del Teatro alla Scala
  Natalie Dessay recital Live broadcast from Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb.11, 2008, Pinchas Steinberg cond. die Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
• Wednesday & Tuesday Bellini's Norma With Franco Corelli, Maria Callas, Tullio Serafin cond. EMI, 1961
• Friday Jacques Offenbach's La Belle Hélène Felicity Lott, Yann Beuron, Laurent Naouri, Marc Minkowski cond. Virgin Classics, 2001