Richard Wagner

German Romantic Opera Composer

Karl Schmitt-Walter

German Baritone Opera Singer

Gottlob Frick

German operatic bass singer

Hans Hotter

German Operatic Bass-Baritone

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian Classical Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian Opera Composer

Astrid Varnay

Swedish-American Operatic Soprano

Ramón Vinay

Chilean Operatic Tenor and Baritone

Jean Madeira

American Mezzo-Soprano and Opera Singer

Clara Ebers

Ludwig van Beethoven

German Classical Composer

Richard Strauss

German Romantic Composer and Conductor

Giacomo Puccini

Italian Opera Composer

Fritz Reiner

Hungarian-American Conductor and Opera Director

Rudolf Kempe

Celebrated German Conductor

The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra

Prestigious New York-based Opera Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Prestigious Opera Ensemble

Birgit Nilsson

Swedish operatic soprano

Erich Leinsdorf

Austrian-American Conductor and Music Director

André Cluytens

Belgian-born French orchestral and opera conductor

Walter Berry

Austrian Operatic Baritone

Joseph Keilberth

German Conductor and Classical Musician

Albert Lortzing

19th-Century German Composer and Opera Singer

Wolfgang Windgassen

German Wagnerian Tenor

Hans Hopf

German Tenor of the Mid-20th Century

Josef Greindl

German Operatic Bass Singer

Rudolf Schock

German Tenor and Opera Singer

Martha Mödl

German Dramatic Soprano and Opera Singer

Hermann Uhde

German Operatic Baritone

Paul Schöffler

Austrian Operatic Baritone

Marianne Schech

German Operatic Soprano

Franz Fehringer

German Tenor and Opera Singer

Kurt Schröder

Margaret Harshaw

Celebrated American Opera Singer and Vocal Teacher

Costantino Ego

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian Romantic Composer

Gioacchino Rossini

Italian Opera Composer

Karl Böhm

Austrian Conductor and Opera Maestro

Jacques Offenbach

French composer and cellist

Rafael Kubelik

Czech Conductor and Composer

Christoph Willibald Gluck

18th-Century German Opera Composer

Georg Solti

Hungarian-British Orchestral and Opera Conductor

Hans Pfitzner

German Romantic Composer and Conductor

Christa Ludwig

German Operatic Mezzo-Soprano

Pietro Mascagni

Italian Opera Composer and Conductor

Hans Knappertsbusch

Renowned German Conductor

Fritz Wunderlich

German Tenor and Opera Singer

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Italian Opera Composer and Librettist

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

German Wagnerian Festival Orchestra

NDR Sinfonieorchester

German Symphony Orchestra

Jussi Björling

Swedish operatic tenor

Franz Konwitschny

German Conductor and Violinist

Kirsten Flagstad

Norwegian Soprano Legend

Ernst Haefliger

Swiss Classical Tenor

Eugen D'Albert

German-Scottish Romantic Composer and Pianist

Jascha Horenstein

Renowned Conductor of the 20th Century

Kurt Böhme

German bass-baritone opera singer

Elisabeth Söderström

Swedish Operatic Soprano

Richard Tucker

Celebrated American Operatic Tenor

Set Svanholm

Swedish Operatic Tenor