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