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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Luigi Alva
Luigi Alva
Peruvian opera tenor
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Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf
American conductor
3
Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo
American opera singer, television personality, and dramatic actress
4
Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
American conductor, born 1916
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Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Gedda
Swedish opera singer
6
Otto Klemperer
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
7
Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
8
Lorin Maazel
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
9
Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen
American composer
10
Ben Heppner
Ben Heppner
Canadian opera singer
11
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
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Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
13
William Steinberg
William Steinberg
American conductor
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Nicholas Maw
Nicholas Maw
British composer
15
Francisco Araiza
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
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Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
orchestra
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Eileen Farrell
Eileen Farrell
singer
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Don Shirley
Don Shirley
American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer
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Jeanne Deroubaix
Jeanne Deroubaix
mezzo-soprano
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch
German conductor and pianist
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Bonaldo Giaiotti
Bonaldo Giaiotti
Italian operatic bass
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Sylvia McNair
Sylvia McNair
American opera singer, soprano
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Jerry Hadley
Jerry Hadley
American opera singer
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Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
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Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen
Dutch composer and pianist
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
George Shirley
American tenor

George Shirley

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American tenor
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George Shirley, 1961

George Irving Shirley (born April 18, 1934) is an American operatic tenor, and was the first African-American tenor to perform a leading role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.