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