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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
