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Kathleen Battle

American opera singer

1

Lucia Popp

Slovak operatic soprano

2

Helen Donath

American soprano

3

Cecilia Bartoli

Italian singer

4

Jon Vickers

Canadian singer

5

Natalie Dessay

French opera soprano

6

Renée Fleming

American opera soprano

7

Kiri Te Kanawa

New Zealand opera singer

8

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

German opera soprano

9

Sandrine Piau

French opera soprano

10

José Carreras

Spanish opera singer

11

Gundula Janowitz

Austrian opera soprano

12

Dilber Yunus

Finnish singer

13

Luciano Pavarotti

Italian operatic tenor

14

Wilma Lipp

Austrian soprano

15

Jeanette Scovotti

American opera singer

16

Eva Lind

Austrian operatic soprano

17

Ben Heppner

Canadian opera singer

18

Giuseppe Di Stefano

Italian opera singer

19

Elzbieta Szmytka

Polish soprano singer

20

Laurence Dale

English tenor

21

Jussi Björling

Swedish tenor

22

Anne Sofie von Otter

Swedish mezzo-soprano

23

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

German lyric baritone and conductor

24

Roberta Peters

American operatic soprano