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