Opera musicians
0
Aaron Copland
American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
1
Aarre Merikanto
Finnish composer
2
Adolphe Adam
French composer and music critic
3
Adrian Shaposhnikov
Russian composer
4
Adriano Lualdi
Italian composer
5
Adrienne Clostre
composer
6
Agathe Martel
Canadian singer
7
Ahmed Adnan Saygun
Turkish composer
8
Alan Hovhaness
Armenian-American composer
9
Alban Berg
Austrian composer
10
Albert Coates
British conductor
11
Albert Roussel
French composer
12
Albert Szirmai
Hungarian composer
13
Alberto Ginastera
Argentine composer
14
Alberto Mazzucato
Italian composer and music critic
15
Alberto Nepomuceno
Brazilian composer and conductor
16
Alec Wilder
American composer, lyricist
17
Aleksandra Kurzak
Polish operatic soprano
18
Alenka Gotar
Slovenian singer
19
Alessandro Safina
Italian tenor
20
Alessandro Stradella
Italian composer
21
Alexander Borodin
Russian composer, doctor and chemist
22
Alexander Goehr
English composer
23
Alexander Kipnis
Operatic bass
24
Alexander Mackenzie
Scottish conductor and composer
25
Alexander Moyzes
Slovak composer (1906–1984)
26
Alexander Reinagle
American composer, organist, and theater musician
27
Alexander Tcherepnin
American composer
28
Alexander von Zemlinsky
Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher
29
Alfred Bachelet
French conductor and composer
30
Alfred Cellier
British composer and conductor
31
Alfred Schnittke
German Soviet composer
32
Alfredo Keil
Portuguese artist and composer (1850-1907)
33
Alfredo Kraus
spanish tenor
34
Alice Parker
American composer and conductor
35
Alois Hába
Czech music educator and composer
36
Alun Hoddinott
Welsh composer
37
Amadeu Vives i Roig
Spanish–Catalan composer, writer and impresario
38
Ambroise Thomas
French composer
39
Amici Forever
40
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
41
Anders Näslund
Swedish baritone, actor
42
Andrea Bocelli
Italian tenor and singer-songwriter
43
André Bloch
French composer
44
André Boucourechliev
French composer of Bulgarian origin, music writer
45
André Campra
French composer and conductor
46
André Jolivet
French composer
47
André Messager
French opera composer and conductor
48
André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
49
André Wormser
French composer
50
Anna Netrebko
Russian-born Austrian operatic soprano
51
Anna Prohaska
Austrian singer and opera singer
52
Anne Sofie von Otter
Swedish mezzo-soprano
53
Anthony Braxton
American musician, composer, and philosopher
54
Anthony Davis
American pianist and composer
55
Antoine Duhamel
French composer
56
Anton Arensky
Russian composer, pianist and professor of music
57
Anton Reicha
Czech-born French composer
58
Antonio Bazzini
Italian violinist, composer and teacher
59
Antonio Lotti
Italian Baroque composer
60
Antonio Vivaldi
Italian composer and violinist
61
Antonín Dvořák
Czech composer (1841-1904)
62
António Chagas Rosa
Portuguese composer
63
Armstrong Gibbs
English composer
64
Arnold Bax
English composer and poet
65
Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-American composer (1874-1951)
66
Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
67
Arthur Bliss
British composer
68
Arthur Goring Thomas
English composer
69
Arthur Meulemans
Belgian composer
70
Arthur Sullivan
English composer of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
71
Artur Lemba
Estonian composer
72
Astor Piazzolla
Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger
73
Atli Heimir Sveinsson
Icelandic composer
74
August Enna
Danish composer
75
Aulis Sallinen
Finnish composer
76
Barbara Bonney
singer
77
Barbara Hendricks
African-American operatic soprano and concert singer
78
Barbara Kostrzewska
Polish singer
79
Barbara Schlick
German soprano
80
Battista Acquaviva
French singer
81
Bedřich Smetana
Czech composer
82
Bela Andreevna Roedenko
Russian music educator
83
Benjamin Britten
English composer, conductor, and pianist
84
Bent Sørensen
Danish composer
85
Bernard Herrmann
American composer (1911-1975)
86
Bernard Wagenaar
Dutch-American composer
87
Bernhard Crusell
Swedish-Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator
88
Bernhard Paumgartner
Austrian composer and conductor
89
Beverly Sills
American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
90
Beyoncé
American artist
91
Blai Maria Colomer i Pérez
Spanish composer
92
Boris Christoff
Bulgarian bass singer
93
Brett Dean
Australian composer, conductor
94
Brian Ferneyhough
British composer
95
Bright Sheng
Chinese-American composer, conductor, and pianist
96
Bruce Mather
Canadian composer
97
Bruno Bartoletti
Italian conductor
98
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer and pianist
99
Camargo Guarnieri
Brazilian composer
100
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist
101
Carl Heinrich Graun
German composer and tenor singer
102
Carl Loewe
German composer
103
Carl Maria von Weber
German composer
104
Carl Nielsen
Danish composer
105
Carl Orff
German composer
106
Carl Reinecke
German composer, conductor and pianist
107
Carles Baguer
Catalan organist and composer
108
Carlile Vernon
109
Carlo Bergonzi
Italian opera singer
110
Carlo Felice Cillario
Italian conductor
111
Carlos Chávez
Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder of the Mexican Symphonic Orchestra (1899-1978)
112
Carlos López Buchardo
Argentine composer
113
Carlotta Ordassy
(1921--2006) Hungarian born American opera singer
114
Carmen Giannattasio
Italian opera singer
115
Catharinus Elling
Norwegian musician, composer, musicologist, and music educator
116
Cecilia Bartoli
Italian singer
117
Cesare Siepi
Italian opera singer
118
Cezar
Romanian opera countertenor, singer and pianist
119
Charles Arnold Tournemire
French composer
120
Charles Gounod
French composer
121
Charles Silver
French composer and music educator
122
Charles Wuorinen
American composer
123
Charles-Édouard Lefebvre
French composer
124
Chris Mann
singer
125
Christian Sinding
Norwegian composer
126
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
German composer
127
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
English organist, composer and conductor
128
Claire Dux
Operatic soprano
129
Claude Debussy
French composer
130
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
131
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer, string player, choirmaster and priest (1567-1643)
132
Clemens Krauss
Austrian conductor
133
Conrad Susa
American composer
134
Costi Ioniță
Romanian singer
135
Craig Armstrong
British composer
136
Craig First
American composer
137
Cyril Scott
English composer, writer, and poet
138
Cécile Chaminade
French composer and pianist
139
César Franck
Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher
140
Dan Welcher
American composer
141
Daniel François Esprit Auber
French composer
142
Darius Milhaud
French composer, conductor and teacher (1892-1974)
143
David Horne
Scottish composer, pianist and teacher
144
David del Puerto
Spanish musician
145
Deems Taylor
American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music
146
Della Jones
Welsh mezzo-soprano
147
Diedre Murray
American composer
148
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
149
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Russian composer
150
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian Soviet composer and pianist (1906-1975)
151
Dmitri Smirnov
Russian composer
152
Dmitrij Alekseevic Smirnov
Russian tenor
153
Dmitry Belosselskiy
Russian operatic bass singer
154
Dmitry Khvorostovsky
Russian operatic baritone
155
Domenico Bartolucci
Roman Catholic cardinal
156
Domenico Puccini
Italian composer
157
Domenico Scarlatti
Italian composer, son of Alessandro Scarlatti
158
Donald Tovey
British composer
159
Du Yun
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, performance artist
160
Dudley Buck
American composer and organist
161
Edgard Varèse
French composer
162
Edison Denisov
Russian Soviet composer
163
Eduard Tubin
Estonian composer and conductor
164
Edward German
English musician and composer
165
Edwin Carr
New Zealand composer
166
Eicca Toppinen
Finnish cellist
167
Eino Tamberg
Estonian composer
168
Elena Obraztsova
Soviet and russian opera singer
169
Elina Netšajeva
Estonian soprano
170
Elisabeth Lutyens
British composer
171
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
German opera soprano
172
Elliot Goldenthal
American composer
173
Elliott Carter
American composer
174
Elīna Garanča
Latvian operatic lyric mezzo-soprano
175
Emil von Reznicek
Austrian late Romantic composer
176
Emmanuel Chabrier
French Romantic composer and pianist
177
Emmanuel Nunes
Portuguese composer and music teacher
178
Ennemond Gaultier
French lutenist and composer
179
Enzo Dara
Italian opera singer
180
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth
181
Erich Zeisl
Austrian composer
182
Erik Chisholm
20th century Scottish composer and conductor
183
Erkki Melartin
Finnish conductor and composer
184
Erkki-Sven Tüür
Estonian composer
185
Erling Wold
American composer
186
Ernest Chausson
French composer
187
Ernest Guiraud
French composer and music teacher
188
Ernesto Lecuona
Cuban composer (1896-1963)
189
Ernst Toch
Austrian composer
190
Erwin Schulhoff
Czech composer and pianist
191
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
192
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
English conductor and composer
193
Eugeniusz Knapik
Polish composer
194
Eugène Bozza
French composer
195
Ewa Podleś
Polish contralto
196
Ezio Pinza
Italian opera singer
197
Fausto Romitelli
Italian composer
198
Fedora Barbieri
Italian mezzo-soprano singer
199
Felice Giardini
Italian composer and violinist
200
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor
201
Felix Weingartner
Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
202
Felix Werder
Australian composer
203
Ferdinando Bertoni
Italian composer and organist
204
Fernando del Valle
American opera singer
205
Ferruccio Busoni
Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and piano teacher
206
Fiorenza Cossotto
Italian mezzo-soprano singer
207
Flavio Testi
Italian composer
208
Florent Schmitt
French composer
209
Fortunato Chelleri
German-Italian Kapellmeister and composer
210
Francesco Balilla Pratella
Italian composer
211
Francesco Mancini
Italian composer
212
Francis Poulenc
French composer and pianist (1899-1963)
213
Francis Thorne
American composer
214
Francisco Alonso
Spanish composer
215
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
216
Francisco Mignone
Brazilian composer
217
Franco Alfano
Italian composer and pianist
218
Franco Battiato
Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and filmmaker
219
Franco Corelli
Italian operatic tenor
220
Franco Donatoni
Italian composer (1927–2000)
221
Franco Fagioli
Argentinian countertenor
222
Frank Martin
Swiss composer (1890-1974)
223
Franz von Suppé
Austrian composer and conductor
224
François Francoeur
French composer and violinist
225
François Rebel
French composer
226
François-Joseph Fétis
Belgian composer
227
Frederica von Stade
American singer and recording artist
228
Frederick Delius
English composer
229
Friedrich Kuhlau
Danish composer
230
Fritz Stiedry
Austrian conductor
231
Fritz Wunderlich
German tenor
232
Gabriel Fauré
French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
233
Gabriel Grovlez
eminent French composer and conductor
234
Gara Garayev
Azerbaijani composer (1918-1982)
235
Garðar Thór Cortes
Icelandic tenor
236
Gaspare Spontini
Italian composer and conductor
237
Gavin Bryars
British musician
238
Geoffrey Bush
British composer, organist and scholar
239
Georg Druschetzky
Czech oboist, timpanist, and composer
240
Georg Friedrich Haas
Austrian composer
241
Georg Muffat
Baroque composer
242
Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
243
George Adams
musician
244
George Antheil
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor
245
George Benjamin
British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
246
George Enescu
Romanian composer
247
George Frideric Handel
German, later British Baroque composer
248
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
249
George Onslow
French composer
250
George Whitefield Chadwick
American composer
251
Georges Aperghis
Greek composer of contemporary music living in France
252
Georges Bizet
French composer
253
Geraldine Farrar
American soprano opera singer and film actress (1882-1967)
254
Giacomo Aragall
Spanish opera singer
255
Giacomo Meyerbeer
German Jewish opera composer
256
Giacomo Puccini
Italian opera composer (1858-1924)
257
Gian Carlo Menotti
Italian-American composer and librettist
258
Gian Francesco Malipiero
italian composer of the 20th century
259
Gilardo Gilardi
Argentine composer
260
Gilbert Bécaud
French singer, composer, pianist and actor
261
Gilbert and Sullivan
Victorian-era theatrical partnership
262
Gillian Whitehead
New Zealand composer
263
Gioachino Rossini
Italian opera composer
264
Giorgio Battistelli
Italian composer
265
Giovanni Allevi
Italian pianist and composer
266
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Italian composer
267
Giovanni Battista Sammartini
Italian composer
268
Giovanni Bononcini
Italian composer
269
Giovanni Francesco Giuliani
Italian choreographer and composer
270
Giovanni Marco Rutini
Italian composer
271
Giovanni Pacini
Italian composer
272
Giovanni Paisiello
Italian composer of the Classical era
273
Giovanni Sollima
Italian musician
274
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Italian opera singer
275
Giuseppe Giordani
Italian composer
276
Giuseppe Sammartini
Italian composer and oboist
277
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Italian conductor and composer
278
Giuseppe Verdi
Italian opera composer (1813-1901)
279
Gottfried Finger
Czech composer and violoncellist
280
Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel
German composer
281
Grace Williams
Welsh composer (1906-1977)
282
Granville Bantock
British composer and conductor
283
Grażyna Bacewicz
Polish composer, violinist
284
Gregory Kunde
American baritenor
285
Gundula Janowitz
Austrian opera soprano
286
Gunther Schuller
American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician
287
Gustav Holst
English composer
288
Guy Ropartz
French composer
289
György Ligeti
Hungarian composer
290
Gérard Pesson
French composer
291
H. Owen Reed
American composer
292
Hans Pfitzner
German composer
293
Hans Richter
Austrian-Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
294
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
295
Hans Werner Henze
German composer
296
Harrison Birtwistle
British composer
297
Healey Willan
musician, composer, organist
298
Hector Berlioz
French Romantic composer
299
Heinrich Schütz
German composer and organist
300
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian composer
301
Helen Donath
American soprano
302
Henk Badings
Dutch composer born in Java
303
Henri Pousseur
Belgian composer
304
Henri Tomasi
French composer and conductor
305
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
306
Henry Litolff
Piano virtuoso, composer and music publisher
307
Henry Purcell
English composer
308
Hildegard Behrens
German operatic soprano
309
Hugo Wolf
Austrian composer
310
Ian Wilson
Irish composer of classical music
311
Ignacio Cervantes
cuban pianist and composer
312
Ignacy Dygas
Polish singer
313
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician
314
Ignazio Balbi
Italian composer
315
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
316
Ihor Shamo
Ukrainian composer
317
Ikuma Dan
Japanese composer, essayist (1924-2001)
318
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Italian bass-baritone
319
Inga Nielsen
Danish opera soprano
320
Ingela Brimberg
Swedish opera singer
321
Ingvar Lidholm
Swedish composer
322
Ingvar Wixell
Swedish opera singer (1931-2011)
323
Isaac Albéniz
Spanish composer
324
Isang Yun
Korean composer
325
Ivan Rebroff
German singer
326
Jacques Charpentier
French composer
327
Jacques Ibert
French composer
328
Jacques Offenbach
German-born French composer, cellist and impresario
329
James MacMillan
Scottish composer and conductor
330
Jan Antonín Koželuh
Czech composer and organist
331
Jan Hanuš
Czech composer (1915-2004)
332
Jan Peerce
American opera singer
333
Jan van Gilse
Dutch conductor
334
Jarmil Burghauser
Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist
335
Jarmila Novotná
Czech actress, opera singer and singer
336
Jaroslav Krček
Czech conductor, composer and musician
337
Jaroslav Křička
Czech conductor, music educator and composer
338
Jean Absil
Belgian composer, organist, and professor
339
Jean Martinon
French conductor and composer
340
Jean Roger-Ducasse
French composer
341
Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
342
Jean Wiener
French musician
343
Jean-Baptiste Cardonne
French composer
344
Jean-Baptiste Davaux
French composer
345
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Italian-born French composer
346
Jean-Joseph Mouret
French composer
347
Jean-Michel Damase
French pianist, conductor and composer
348
Jean-Paul-Égide Martini
German composer
349
Jean-Philippe Rameau
French Baroque composer and music theorist
350
Jeannette Pilou
Italian soprano of Greek parentage and Egyptian birth
351
Jenő Zádor
American composer
352
Jerry Hadley
American opera singer
353
Joan Albert Amargós
Spanish composer and conductor
354
Joan Sutherland
Australian soprano
355
Joaquín Rodrigo
Spanish composer, best known for his Concierto de Aranjuez
356
Joaquín Turina
Spanish composer
357
Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann
Danish composer
358
Johan Wagenaar
Dutch composer, teacher, and organist
359
Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner
German-born Swedish composer
360
Johann Ernst Eberlin
German composer and organist
361
Johann Evangelist Brandl
German composer
362
Johann Strauss II
Austrian composer
363
Johann Vogel
German composer
364
Johannes Bernardus van Bree
Dutch composer, violinist and conductor
365
John Adams
American composer
366
John Blow
English composer
367
John Cage
American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
368
John Lunn
British composer
369
John Philip Sousa
American conductor and composer
370
John Tavener
British composer
371
Joly Braga Santos
Portuguese composer
372
Jon Vickers
Canadian singer
373
Jonas Kaufmann
German tenor
374
Joonas Kokkonen
Finnish composer
375
Jorge Salgueiro
Portuguese trumpeter, conductor and musicologist
376
Jorma Panula
Finnish conductor and composer
377
Josef Greindl
German opera singer
378
Josef Mysliveček
Czech composer
379
Josef Suk
Czech composer and violinist (1874-1935)
380
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
French composer
381
Joseph Canteloube
French composer, musicologist, and author
382
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
383
Joseph Holbrooke
English composer, conductor, and pianist
384
Joseph Leopold Eybler
Austrian composer
385
Joseph Martin Kraus
German composer
386
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
French harpsichordist and composer
387
José Carreras
Spanish opera singer
388
João de Sousa Carvalho
Portuguese composer
389
Juan Diego Flórez
peruvian tenor
390
Judith Weir
British composer
391
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842-1912)
392
Jussi Björling
Swedish tenor
393
Júlia Várady
singer
394
Kaija Saariaho
Finnish composer
395
Kalevi Aho
Finnish composer
396
Karita Mattila
Finnish operatic soprano
397
Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer
398
Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer
399
Katherine Jenkins
Welsh classical crossover singer
400
Kevin Volans
South African-Irish composer
401
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
402
Kjerstin Dellert
Swedish opera singer
403
Klaus Nomi
German countertenor
404
Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish composer and conductor
405
Kurt Weill
German composer
406
Laci Boldemann
Swedish composer
407
Larisa Avdeyeva
Soviet Russian singer
408
Lars-Erik Larsson
Swedish composer and conductor
409
Lazare Saminsky
Ukrainian opera composer
410
Lee Holdridge
Haitian-born, American composer and orchestrator
411
Leevi Madetoja
Finnish composer
412
Lennox Berkeley
British composer
413
Leo Nucci
opera singer
414
Leo Smit
American composer
415
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
416
Leonard Warren
Operatic baritone
417
Leopold Koželuch
Czech music educator, composer and pianist
418
Lepo Sumera
Estonian composer
419
Lera Auerbach
Soviet-Russian-born American classical composer and pianist
420
Lewis Spratlan
American music academic and composer of contemporary classical music
421
Libby Larsen
American composer and educator
422
Lilli Lehmann
German operatic soprano
423
Lily Pons
American opera singer and actress (1898-1976)
424
Lisa Della Casa
Swiss soprano (1919-2012)
425
Liza Lim
Australian composer
426
Lodewijk Mortelmans
Belgian composer
427
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
428
Louis Andriessen
Dutch composer and pianist
429
Louis Aubert
French pianist and composer (1877-1968)
430
Louis Spohr
German composer, violinist and conductor
431
Louise Talma
American composer
432
Lowell Liebermann
American composer, pianist and conductor
433
Luca Francesconi
Italian composer
434
Lucia Popp
Slovak operatic soprano
435
Luciano Pavarotti
Italian operatic tenor
436
Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert
French pianist and composer of African-American Creole descent
437
Ludwig van Beethoven
German classical and romantic composer
438
Luigi Alva
Peruvian opera tenor
439
Luigi Arditi
Italian composer, conductor
440
Luigi Cherubini
Italian composer
441
Luigi Nono
Italian composer
442
Luis de Pablo
Spanish composer
443
Magdalena Kožená
Czech mezzo-soprano
444
Magnus Lindberg
Finnish composer and pianist
445
Makoto Moroi
Japanese composer
446
Malcolm Williamson
Australian composer
447
Malena Ernman
Swedish opera singer
448
Manuel Ponce
Mexican composer
449
Manuel de Zumaya
Mexican composer
450
Marc Blitzstein
American composer, lyricist, and librettist
451
Marc-Antoine Charpente
17th-century French composer
452
Marcel Landowski
French composer
453
Marcel Mihalovici
French composer
454
Marcelo Álvarez
Argentine tenor
455
Marco Frisina
Italian priest and composer
456
Marcos Portugal
Portuguese classical composer
457
Margaret Price
Welsh opera singer
458
Maria Callas
American-born Greek operatic soprano
459
Maria Caniglia
singer
460
Maria Farantouri
Greek singer
461
Maria Guleghina
Ukrainian singer
462
Maria Jeritza
Czech opera singer
463
Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard
French composer
464
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
465
Marina Krilovici
singer
466
Mario Del Monaco
Italian opera singer
467
Mario Frangoulis
Greek singer
468
Mario Lanza
American tenor and actor
469
Marjorie Lawrence
Australian singer
470
Mark Adamo
American composer and librettist
471
Mark-Anthony Turnage
English composer
472
Martín Matalon
Argentine composer
473
Mary Garden
Scottish opera singer (1874-1967)
474
Maurice Ohana
Anglo-French composer
475
Maurice Ravel
French composer
476
Maurice Yvain
French composer
477
Mauricio Kagel
Argentine-German composer
478
Mauricio Sotelo
Spanish composer
479
Melani García
Spanish singer
480
Michael Jarrell
Swiss composer
481
Michael Nyman
English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist
482
Michael William Balfe
Irish composer
483
Michaël Levinas
French composer
484
Michał Kleofas Ogiński
Polish composer, diplomat and politician (1765-1833)
485
Michel Blavet
French flutist and composer
486
Michel Sénéchal
French opera singer
487
Michel van der Aa
Dutch composer
488
Michele Puccini
Italian composer
489
Mieczysław Weinberg
Polish Soviet composer
490
Mikael Tariverdiev
Soviet composer
491
Mikhail Glinka
Russian composer
492
Mikis Theodorakis
Greek recording artist; songwriter, politician
493
Milva
Italian singer and actress
494
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
495
Mirella Freni
Italian soprano
496
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Russian composer (1839-1881)
497
Montserrat Caballé
Spanish operatic soprano
498
Moritz Moszkowski
German composer, pianist and teacher
499
Muslim Magomayev
Soviet-Azerbajiani singer
500
Mykola Leontovych
Composer, conductor, and teacher
501
Nancy Van de Vate
American composer
502
Natalie Dessay
French opera soprano
503
Natasha Marsh
Welsh soprano
504
Nazzareno De Angelis
Italian opera singer
505
Ned Rorem
American composer
506
Nevit Kodallı
Turkish composer
507
Niccola Spinelli
Italian opera composer
508
Nicholas Maw
British composer
509
Nico Muhly
American contemporary classical composer
510
Nicolae Herlea
Romanian singer
511
Nicolai Gedda
Swedish opera singer
512
Nicolai Ghiaurov
opera singer
513
Nicolas Dalayrac
French musician and composer of comic operas (Muret 1753 - Paris 1809)
514
Nicolas Nabokov
Russian composer
515
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian composer
516
Nikolai Tcherepnin
Russian composer
517
Nikolay Baskov
Russian singer
518
Nikos Zaccaria
Greek opera singer
519
Nina Osegueda
Metal Vocalist
520
Nino Rota
Italian composer (1911-1979)
521
Norman Dello Joio
American musician
522
Néstor Mesta Chaires
Mexican tenor
523
Olga Borodina
mezzo-soprano
524
Oliver Knussen
British composer and conductor
525
Olivier Messiaen
French composer, organist and ornithologist
526
Olle Persson
Swedish baritone
527
Orazio Vecchi
Italian composer
528
Osvaldo Golijov
Argentine composer of classical music
529
Othmar Schoeck
Swiss composer (1886-1957)
530
Otto Ackermann
Romanian conductor
531
Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer, musicologist and conductor
532
Paavo Heininen
Finnish composer and pianist
533
Paul Büttner
German composer, conductor, choir director, musicologist, oboist and music critic
534
Paul Dukas
French composer
535
Paul Graener
German composer (1872-1944)
536
Paul Hindemith
German-born American composer (1895–1963)
537
Paul Véronge de La Nux
French composer
538
Per Nørgård
Danish composer
539
Perttu Kivilaakso
Finnish musician
540
Peter Lodahl
Danish opera singer
541
Peter Mattei
Swedish operatic baritone
542
Peter Maxwell Davies
English composer and conductor
543
Peter Racine Fricker
English composer
544
Peter Schat
Dutch composer
545
Peter Schreier
German tenor and conductor
546
Peter Sculthorpe
Australian composer
547
Philip Glass
American composer and pianist
548
Philippe Jaroussky
French operatic sopranist countertenor
549
Philippe Manoury
French composer
550
Piero Cappuccilli
Operatic baritone
551
Pierre Schaeffer
French composer and musicologist
552
Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer known for operas
553
Plácido Domingo
Spanish tenor and conductor
554
Poul Ruders
Danish composer
555
Poul Schierbeck
Danish composer and organist
556
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
557
R. Murray Schafer
Canadian composer
558
Rachel Portman
British composer
559
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
560
Ragnar Søderlind
Norwegian composer
561
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
562
Regina Resnik
American opera singer
563
Reginald De Koven
American music critic and composer
564
Reinbert de Leeuw
Dutch conductor
565
Reinhold Glière
Soviet Ukrainian composer
566
Renata Tebaldi
Italian opera singer
567
Renato Bruson
Italian opera singer
568
Renzo Rossellini
Italian composer
569
Renée Fleming
American opera soprano
570
Riccardo Zandonai
Italian composer
571
Richard Mills
Australian conductor and composer
572
Richard Strauss
German composer and orchestra director
573
Richard Thomas
British musician, writer, and comedy actor
574
Richard Wagner
German composer and conductor
575
Robert Ashley
American composer
576
Robert Gerhard
Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer
577
Robert Kurka
American musician and composer
578
Robert Schumann
German composer
579
Robert Tear
Welsh tenor singer and conductor
580
Robert Ward
American composer
581
Roberta Peters
American operatic soprano
582
Roberto Carnevale
Italian musician
583
Roberto García Morillo
Argentine composer and musicologist
584
Rodion Shchedrin
Russian composer
585
Rodrigo Prats
Cuban composer of zarzuelas
586
Roger Waters
English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd
587
Rolando Panerai
Italian opera singer
588
Rolf Liebermann
Swiss composer
589
Romualdo Marenco
Italian composer
590
Rosa Raisa
Operatic soprano (1893-1963)
591
Rudolf Friml
Czech composer
592
Rued Langgaard
Danish composer and organist
593
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Italian composer
594
Ruggero Raimondi
Italian opera singer
595
Rutland Boughton
English composer of opera and choral music
596
Salvatore Sciarrino
Italian composer
597
Samuel Barber
American composer (1910-1981)
598
Sara Mingardo
Italian opera singer
599
Scott Joplin
American composer, musician, and pianist
600
Serena Daolio
Italian singer
601
Sergei Prokofiev
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
602
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Russian composer, pianist, and conductor
603
Sergio Ortega
Chilean musician
604
Seymour Barab
American musician
605
Shirley Verrett
American opera singer, educator and writer
606
Sissel Kyrkjebø
Norwegian soprano
607
Sophie Gail
French singer and composer
608
Stanisław Moniuszko
Polish composer
609
Stephen Paulus
American composer
610
Steve Nieve
English keyboardist
611
Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Georgian composer
612
Sumi Jo
South Korean operatic soprano
613
Sven-David Sandström
Swedish composer
614
Sydney Smith
English pianist and composer
615
Tan Dun
Chinese composer
616
Tapani Länsiö
Finnish composer and choral conductor
617
Tatiana Sterling
Soviet Russian singer and pedagogue
618
Terence Blanchard
American musician and composer
619
Teresa Berganza
Spanish mezzo-soprano
620
Teresa Stratas
Canadian-American singer
621
The Three Tenors
popular operatic singing group consisting of Spaniards Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and Italian Luciano Pavarotti
622
Thea Musgrave
Scottish composer
623
Theophrastos Sakellaridis
Greek composer
624
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
625
Thomas Allen
English operatic baritone
626
Thomas Vikström
Swedish singer
627
Thorvald Lammers
Operatic and concert singer
628
Tikhon Khrennikov
Russian Soviet composer (1913-2007)
629
Tito Gobbi
Italian opera singer (1913-1984)
630
Tito Schipa
Italian opera singer (1888-1965)
631
Tobias Picker
American composer
632
Tom Johnson
American composer
633
Tomaso Albinoni
Italian composer
634
Ton de Leeuw
Dutch composer
635
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Japanese composer
636
Toshio Hosokawa
Japanese composer of contemporary classical music
637
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Japanese composer
638
Tuomas Kantelinen
Finnish composer
639
Ture Rangström
Swedish composer
640
Ulysses Kay
composer
641
Umberto Giordano
Italian opera composer
642
Unsuk Chin
South Korean composer
643
Vagn Holmboe
Danish composer
644
Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
645
Vasyl Slipak
Ukrainian opera singer
646
Veljo Tormis
Estonian composer
647
Vernon Duke
American composer
648
Victor de Sabata
Italian conductor and composer
649
Viktor Ullmann
Austrian composer
650
Vincenzo Bellini
Italian opera composer (1801–1835)
651
Vincenzo Tommasini
Italian composer
652
Virgil Thomson
American composer and critic
653
Vitas
Ukrainian singer
654
Vittorio Grigolo
Italian opera singer
655
Vladimir Cosma
Romanian-French Composer, violinist and conductor
656
Walter Braunfels
German composer, pianist, and music educator
657
Walter Buczynski
Canadian musician
658
Walter Schumann
American composer for film, television, theater
659
Waltraud Meier
German soprano and mezzo-soprano
660
Wenzel Müller
composer
661
Werner Enders
German singer
662
William Alwyn
English composer, conductor, and music teacher
663
William Bolcom
American composer
664
William Schuman
American composer and arts administrator (1910-1992)
665
William Sydeman
American composer
666
William Walton
English composer
667
William Warfield
American concert bass-baritone singer and actor (1920-2002)
668
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer of the Classical period
669
Wolfgang Fortner
German composer and conductor
670
Władysław Żeleński
Polish neoromantic composer, pianist and organist
671
Xiomara Alfaro
Cuban singer
672
Yaniv D'Or
Israeli opera singer
673
Yasushi Akutagawa
Japanese composer (1925-1989)
674
Yevheniia Miroshnychenko
Ukrainian opera singer
675
Yuri Levitin
Soviet Russian composer
676
Yuri Shaporin
Soviet composer and conductor
677
Éva Marton
opera singer