| 1970 | Carmina Burana | Carl Orff; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ozawa, Evelyn Mandac, Stanley Kolk, Sherrill Milnes, New England Conservatory Chorus, New England Conservatory Children’s Chorus | | 12 |
| 1970 | Il trovatore (1969 studio cast) | Giuseppe Verdi; Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, John McCarthy, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta | 5 | 8 |
| 1971 | Aida | Verdi; Leontyne Price, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry, Ruggero Raimondi, Hans Sotin, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf | | 5 |
| 1971 | Don Carlo (1970 studio cast, 5 acts, in Italian) | Giuseppe Verdi; Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Ruggero Raimondi, Shirley Verrett, Sherrill Milnes, Giovanni Foiani, Simon Estes, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Carlo Maria Giulini | | 7 |
| 1971 | Il tabarro (Remastered) | Puccini; Erich Leinsdorf, New Philharmonia Orchestra, The John Alldis Choir, Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo & Sherrill Milnes | | 1 |
| 1971 | Un ballo in maschera (1970 Decca recording) | Verdi; Renata Tebaldi, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Regina Resnik, Helen Donath, Chorus and Orchestra of The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Bruno Bartoletti | 5 | 4 |
| 1973 | Giovanna d’Arco | Giuseppe Verdi; Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, James Levine | 5 | 3 |
| 1973 | Lucia di Lammermoor (1971 studio cast) | Gaetano Donizetti; Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolaï Ghiaurov, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge | 5 | 9 |
| 1974 | Rigoletto (1971 studio cast) | Verdi; Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes, Huguette Tourangeau, Marti Talvela, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge | 5 | 4 |
| 1975 | Il barbiere di Siviglia (London, 1975) | Gioachino Rossini; Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Gedda, Renato Capecchi, Fedora Barbieri, Ruggero Raimondi, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine | 5 | 8 |
| 1976 | Thaïs | Jules Massenet; Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Gedda, John Alldis Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel | 5 | 3 |
| 1978 | Adriana Lecouvreur | Francesco Cilea; Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo, Elena Obraztsova, Sherrill Milnes, Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra & James Levine | | 2 |
| 1978 | Carmen (1977 studio cast) | Georges Bizet; Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Sherrill Milnes, The Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado | 5 | 14 |
| 1978 | La fanciulla del West (1978 studio cast) | Giacomo Puccini; Carol Neblett, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta | 4 | 3 |
| 1978 | Up in Central Park | Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, New York City Opera Orchestra, Julius Rudel | 5 | 2 |
| 1979 | Carmen: Extraits (1977 studio cast) | Georges Bizet, Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubaş, Sherrill Milnes, The Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra et Claudio Abbado | | 2 |
| 1979 | Tosca (1978 studio cast) | Puccini; Freni, Pavarotti, Milnes, Rescigno, National Philharmonic | | 4 |
| 1984 | Hamlet | Ambroise Thomas; Joan Sutherland, Sherrill Milnes, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge | | 1 |
| 1985 | La traviata (1976-77 studio cast) | Giuseppe Verdi; Ileana Cotrubas, Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber | | 11 |
| 1985 | Bravissimo, Domingo! | Plácido Domingo, Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes | | 1 |
| 1986 | Attila | Verdi; Raimondi, Deutekom, Milnes, Bergonzi, Ambrosian Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli | | 3 |
| 1986 | Guglielmo Tell (1978–79 studio cast) | Gioachino Rossini; Sherrill Milnes, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Nicolaï Ghiaurov, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly | | 2 |
| 1988 | Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande / Pavane | Fauré; Te Kanawa, Milnes, Dutoit, Montréal | | 2 |
| 1988 | Così fan tutte (1967 London studio cast) | Mozart; Leontyne Price, Tatiana Troyanos, Judith Raskin, Sherrill Milnes, George Shirley, Ezio Flagello, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf | | 2 |
| 1988 | Luisa Miller (1975 studio cast) | Verdi; Pavarotti, Caballé, Milnes, Giaiotti, Reynolds, van Allan, National Philharmonic, Maag | | 3 |
| 1988 | Sherrill Milnes at the Met | Sherrill Milnes | | 1 |
| 1989 | Salome | Strauss; Montserrat Caballé, Sherrill Milnes, Richard Lewis, Regina Resnik, James King, London Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf | | 2 |
| 1989 | Le Roi de Lahore | Jules Massenet, Joan Sutherland, Luis Lima, Sherrill Milnes, Nicolaï Ghiaurov, James Morris, Huguette Tourangeau, John Tomlinson, Gareth Morrell & David Wilson‐Johnson | | 1 |
| 1990 | La bohème (1973 studio cast) | Giacomo Puccini; Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Judith Blegen, Vicente Sardinero, Ruggero Raimondi, The John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti | | 5 |
| 1991 | La bohème (1979 studio cast) | Giacomo Puccini; Renata Scotto, Alfredo Kraus, Sherrill Milnes, Carol Neblett, Paul Plishka, Matteo Manuguerra, Renato Capecchi, Italo Tajo, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine | | 2 |
| 1992 | Belshazzar's Feast / Coronation Te Deum / Cello Concerto | Walton; Ralph Kirshbaum, Sherrill Milnes, Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Alexander Gibson | | 1 |
| 1992 | La traviata (Auszüge • Highlights • Extraits) (1976-77 studio cast) | Giuseppe Verdi; Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubaș, Sherrill Milnes, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber | | 1 |
| 1994 | Tosca (1972 studio cast) | Giacomo Puccini; Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Paul Plishka, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta | | 2 |
| 1995 | I vespri siciliani (1973 recording) | Verdi; Martina Arroyo, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi, New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir, James Levine | | 2 |
| 1996 | Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi; Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Alfredo Kraus, Mignon Dunn, Samuel Ramey, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Julius Rudel | 5 | 3 |
| 1997 | La forza del destino | Giuseppe Verdi; Leontyne Price, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Gabriel Bacquier, London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine | | 3 |
| 1997 | Pagliacci (1971 studio cast) | Leoncavallo; Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Sherrill Milnes, Barry McDaniel, The John Alldis Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Nello Santi | | 1 |
| 1999 | La Gioconda (1981 studio cast) | Amilcare Ponchielli; Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Agnes Baltsa, Alfreda Hodgson, Sherrill Milnes, John del Carlo, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Neil Jenkins, Stephen Varcoe, Geoffrey Shaw, Rodney Macann; National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Opera Chorus, Bruno Bartoletti | | 2 |
| 1999 | La traviata | Giuseppe Verdi; Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Bergonzi, Sherrill Milnes, Dorothy Krebill, RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Georges Prêtre | | 1 |
| 1999 | Macbeth (1976 EMI recording, Muti) | Verdi; Sherrill Milnes, Fiorenza Cossotto, José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti | | 1 |
| 2004 | Lincoln Portrait & Other Works | Aaron Copland; Katharine Hepburn, Sherrill Milnes, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel | | 1 |
| 2014 | Salome | Richard Strauss; Montserrat Caballé, Sherrill Milnes, Richard Lewis, Regina Resnik, James King, Erich Leinsdorf, London Symphony Orchestra | | 1 |
| 2017 | The Impresario | Mozart; Reri Grist, Judith Raskin, Richard Lewis, Sherrill Milnes, Leo McKern, English Chamber Orchestra, André Previn | | 2 |
| — | Carmen – Highlights | Georges Bizet; Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado | | 1 |
| — | The Baritone Voice | Sherrill Milnes | | 1 |