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