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Samuel Ramey
Operatic bass
1
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
2
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
3
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
4
Kathleen Battle
American opera singer
5
José Carreras
Spanish opera singer
6
Sylvia McNair
American opera singer, soprano
7
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
8
Renée Fleming
American opera soprano
9
Lucia Popp
Slovak operatic soprano
10
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
11
Tatiana Troyanos
classical music and opera singer
12
Delores Ziegler
American singer
13
Teresa Stratas
Canadian-American singer
14
Janet Baker
Opera and concert singer
15
Anne Sofie von Otter
Swedish mezzo-soprano
