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