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