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Ulf Schirmer

German conductor

1

Roberto Abbado

Italian conductor

2

Ben Heppner

Canadian opera singer

3

Francisco Araiza

opera singer

4

Helen Donath

American soprano

5

Júlia Várady

singer

6

Claudio Abbado

Italian conductor (1933-2014)

7

Giuseppe Patanè

Italian conductor

8

Lucia Popp

Slovak operatic soprano

9

Piero Cappuccilli

Operatic baritone

10

Wolfgang Sawallisch

German conductor and pianist

11

Lorin Maazel

French-American conductor

12

Carlos Kleiber

German-born Austrian conductor

13

Fabio Luisi

Italian conductor

14

Rico Saccani

Italian conductor

15

Eugen Jochum

German conductor

16

Michael Schønwandt

Danish conductor

17

Zubin Mehta

Indian conductor

18

Mariss Jansons

Latvian conductor

19

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Spanish conductor

20

David Robertson

American conductor

21

Vladimir Jurowski

Russian conductor

22

Eva Lind

Austrian operatic soprano

23

Valery Gergiev

Russian conductor and opera company director

24

Simon Rattle

British conductor

25

Hildegard Behrens

German operatic soprano

26

David Zinman

American conductor and violinist

27

Ingvar Wixell

Swedish opera singer (1931-2011)

28

David Porcelijn

Dutch composer and conductor

29

José Carreras

Spanish opera singer

30

Éva Marton

opera singer

31

Kirill Petrenko

Russian conductor

32

James Levine

American conductor and pianist

33

Angela Brower

34

Alan Gilbert

American conductor and violinist