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Ruggero Raimondi
Italian opera singer
1
Francisco Araiza
opera singer
2
Cesare Siepi
Italian opera singer
3
Nicolai Ghiaurov
opera singer
4
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Italian bass-baritone
5
Luigi Alva
Peruvian opera tenor
6
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
German lyric baritone and conductor
7
Roberto Abbado
Italian conductor
8
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
9
James Morris
American opera singer
10
Beverly Sills
American operatic soprano (1929-2007)
11
Andrea Velis
American operatic tenor
12
Ingvar Wixell
Swedish opera singer (1931-2011)
13
Chris Merritt
American baritenor
14
Lucia Popp
Slovak operatic soprano
15
Tito Gobbi
Italian opera singer (1913-1984)
16
Frederica von Stade
American singer and recording artist
17
Laurence Dale
English tenor
18
Jonas Kaufmann
German tenor
