- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Donald McIntyre, Alison Hargan, Royal School of Church Music Choir, Marjorie Biggar, Edgar Evans, Jon Vickers, Nan Christie, Michael Langdon, Reginald Goodall, Louis Hendrikx, Amy Shuard, Dennis Wicks, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Delia Wallis, Norman Bailey, Maureen Keetch, David Lennox, Royal Opera Chorus, John Dobson, Anne Pashley, Anne Howells
- George Barker, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Regina Resnik, Ettore Bastianini, Victor Godfrey, Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Michael Langdon, Amy Shuard, David Kelly, Sir Edward Downes, John Kollmann
- Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Elisabeth Schärtel, Jon Vickers, Marlies Siemeling, Maria von Ilosvay, Rita Gorr, Astrid Varnay, Ursula Boese, Hans Hotter, Hilde Scheppan, Leonie Rysanek, Grace Hoffman, Hans Knappertsbusch, Lotte Rysanek, Josef Greindl
- Calvin Marsh, Oscar Czerwenka, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Giorgio Tozzi, Jon Vickers, William Olvis, Birgit Nilsson, Hermann Uhde, Charles Anthony, Laurel Hurley
Jon Vickers
Biography
While Jon Vickers was best known as a Wagnerian heldentenor, he was also capable of singing lieder, Baroque opera, spinto Italian roles, and even comic roles. His voice and physique both radiated power. He was a man of equally powerful convictions, refusing to sing roles which he considered to be lacking in morality. He made his operatic debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Toronto Opera in 1954, and his 1957 Covent Garden debut was in Un ballo in maschera. His first Peter Grimes -- one of the most memorable interpretations -- was at the Met in 1967. In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He retired in 1988. Vickers was known for having a prickly temperament, but in other ways, he was deeply modest. He insisted that he was merely the interpreter of the real artists: the composers. ~ Anne Feeney