Great collection of legendary singers. The Boheme excerpts with Tebaldi and Bjorling alone are worth twice the asking price. Tebaldi is radiant and charming and completely at ease in front of the cameras and being in her mid 30's she is in prime voice. Bjorling is the ideal Rodolfo. This is from the same year as his recording of Boheme and his performance is fantastic. His acting is quite natural and doesn't do anything more or less than necessary. Charles Laughton's heartfelt and personal introduction to the Bjorling/Tebaldi performance was obviously in his own words. Boris Christoff goes all out in his Boris performance which may seem overdone on the small screen but there's no denying the quality of the vocal performance. Corelli's Non piangere,Liu finds the great tenor in his best voice. Gigli,Schipa,DiStefano,Vickers,Wunderlich,DeLosAngeles and Sutherland all sound wonderful and Vickers has a couple of interesting comments. Olivero's Vissi D'arte is incomplete as is the Parigi o cara from Callas and Kraus. The 58 year old Melchior sounds like he still had a couple of good years left in the voice and even at this stage would be a big improvement on any of today's "heldentenors." Rise Stevens sounds very lovely in her excerpt from Samson et Dalila even if it is a lip synch from a film.