- Reginald Goodall, Delia Wallis, Marjorie Biggar, Dennis Wicks, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Norman Bailey, Maureen Keetch, Louis Hendrikx, John Dobson, David Lennox, Royal Opera Chorus, Anne Pashley, Amy Shuard, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Donald McIntyre, Alison Hargan, Royal School of Church Music Choir, Edgar Evans, Jon Vickers, Nan Christie, Michael Langdon, Anne Howells
- Ettore Bastianini, Amy Shuard, David Kelly, Sir Edward Downes, Regina Resnik, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, George Barker, Jon Vickers, Joan Carlyle, Victor Godfrey, Michael Langdon, John Kollmann
- Leonie Rysanek, Grace Hoffman, Hans Knappertsbusch, Ursula Boese, Hans Hotter, Astrid Varnay, Hilde Scheppan, Elisabeth Schärtel, Maria von Ilosvay, Rita Gorr, Josef Greindl, Lotte Rysanek, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Jon Vickers, Marlies Siemeling
- Laurel Hurley, Oscar Czerwenka, Calvin Marsh, Charles Anthony, Birgit Nilsson, William Olvis, Hermann Uhde, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Giorgio Tozzi, Jon Vickers
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