Richard Wagner

German Romantic Opera Composer

Karl Schmitt-Walter

German Baritone Opera Singer

Gottlob Frick

German operatic bass singer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian Classical Composer

Hans Hotter

German Operatic Bass-Baritone

Giuseppe Verdi

Italian Opera Composer

Ramón Vinay

Chilean Operatic Tenor and Baritone

Jean Madeira

American Mezzo-Soprano and Opera Singer

Clara Ebers

Richard Strauss

German Romantic Composer and Conductor

Giacomo Puccini

Italian Opera Composer

Rudolf Kempe

Celebrated German Conductor

Fritz Reiner

Hungarian-American Conductor and Opera Director

Birgit Nilsson

Swedish operatic soprano

Joseph Keilberth

German Conductor and Classical Musician

André Cluytens

Belgian-born French orchestral and opera conductor

Albert Lortzing

19th-Century German Composer and Opera Singer

Walter Berry

Austrian Operatic Baritone

Erich Leinsdorf

Austrian-American Conductor and Music Director

Astrid Varnay

Swedish-American Operatic Soprano

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

Franz Fehringer

German Tenor and Opera Singer

Kurt Schröder

Margaret Harshaw

Celebrated American Opera Singer and Vocal Teacher

Costantino Ego

Ludwig van Beethoven

German Classical Composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian Romantic Composer

Gioacchino Rossini

Italian Opera Composer

Karl Böhm

Austrian Conductor and Opera Maestro

Rafael Kubelik

Czech Conductor and Composer

Jacques Offenbach

French composer and cellist

Hans Pfitzner

German Romantic Composer and Conductor

Georg Solti

Hungarian-British Orchestral and Opera Conductor

Christa Ludwig

German Operatic Mezzo-Soprano

Fritz Wunderlich

German Tenor and Opera Singer

The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra

Prestigious New York-based Opera Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Prestigious Opera Ensemble

Hans Knappertsbusch

Renowned German Conductor

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

Italian Opera Composer and Librettist

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

German Wagnerian Festival Orchestra

NDR Sinfonieorchester

German Symphony Orchestra

Jascha Horenstein

Renowned Conductor of the 20th Century

Ernst Haefliger

Swiss Classical Tenor

Wolfgang Windgassen

German Wagnerian Tenor

Kurt Böhme

German bass-baritone opera singer

Eberhard Wächter

Austrian Baritone Opera Singer

Chor der Bayreuther Festspiele

German Festival Choir

The Metropolitan Opera

Prestigious American Opera Company

Leonie Rysanek

Austrian Soprano Opera Singer

Waldemar Kmentt

Austrian Operatic Tenor

Jaromir Weinberger

Czech Classical Composer and Conductor

Peter Maag

Swiss Conductor

Clemens Krauss

Austrian Conductor and Opera Director

Carl Millöcker

Austrian Operetta Composer and Conductor

Orchestra Sinfonica Di Torino Della RAI

Italian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra