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Lucia Popp
Lucia Popp
Slovak operatic soprano
1
Roberto Abbado
Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
2
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
3
Helen Donath
Helen Donath
American soprano
4
Eva Lind
Eva Lind
Austrian operatic soprano
5
Júlia Várady
Júlia Várady
singer
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Sylvia McNair
Sylvia McNair
American opera singer, soprano
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Eugen Jochum
Eugen Jochum
German conductor
8
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
9
Robert Gambill
Robert Gambill
American singer
10
John Aler
John Aler
American lyric tenor
11
Arianna Zukerman
Arianna Zukerman
American opera singer
12
Nan Merriman
Nan Merriman
American operatic mezzo-soprano singer
13
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
14
Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter
Swedish mezzo-soprano
15
Ben Heppner
Ben Heppner
Canadian opera singer
16
Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
17
Jonathan Darlington
Jonathan Darlington
British conductor
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Rico Saccani
Rico Saccani
Italian conductor
19
Elzbieta Szmytka
Elzbieta Szmytka
Polish soprano singer
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Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier
German tenor and conductor
21
Magdalena Kožená
Magdalena Kožená
Czech mezzo-soprano
22
Sarah Walker
Sarah Walker
British mezzo-soprano
23
José Carreras
José Carreras
Spanish opera singer
24
Jeanne Deroubaix
Jeanne Deroubaix
mezzo-soprano
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Rafael Kubelík
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
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Delores Ziegler
Delores Ziegler
American singer
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Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor
Francisco Araiza
opera singer

Francisco Araiza

Intro
opera singer
Genres
Francisco Araiza as Romeo in Roméo et Juliette, Zurich 1990

José Francisco Araiza Andrade (born 4 October 1950), is a Mexican operatic tenor and lied singer who has sung as soloist in leading concert halls and in leading tenor operatic roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America during the course of a lengthy career. Born in Mexico City, he studied singing at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música de México and later in Germany, with Mozartian tenor Richard Holm, and lieder interpretation with Erik Werba. He made his operatic debut in 1970 in Mexico City as First Prisoner in Beethoven's Fidelio. Araiza initially came to international prominence singing in Mozart and Rossini operas, but in the 1980s broadened his repertoire to include Italian and French lyric tenor roles and Wagnerian roles such as Lohengrin and Walther von Stolzing. He was made a Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera in 1988. Now retired from the opera stage, he teaches singing and serves on the juries of several international singing competitions.