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Gian Carlo Menotti

Italian-American composer and librettist

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Carlo Maria Giulini

Italian conductor

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Roberto Abbado

Italian conductor

3

Andrea Velis

American operatic tenor

4

Samuel Barber

American composer (1910-1981)

5

Julius Rudel

American conductor and impresario

6

Renata Tebaldi

Italian opera singer

7

Beverly Sills

American operatic soprano (1929-2007)

8

Alberto Erede

Italian conductor

9

Rico Saccani

Italian conductor

10

Jerry Hadley

American opera singer

11

Victor de Sabata

Italian conductor and composer

12

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Spanish conductor

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NBC Symphony Orchestra

radio orchestra

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Jeanette Scovotti

American opera singer

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Marcello Giordani

Italian operatic tenor

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Leonard Warren

Operatic baritone

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Eileen Farrell

singer

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Leonard Bernstein

American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist

19

George Shirley

American tenor

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Louis Quilico

Canadian opera singer

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Antonio Pappano

British born, Italian naturalized conductor and pianist

22

Piero Bellugi

Italian conductor

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Paul Plishka

Operatic bass

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Enrico Di Giuseppe

American opera singer