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