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