Biographies: Selected Opera and Concert Performers

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Selected Opera and Concert Performers

Placido Domingo

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• Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists
• Asian American Artists and Musicians
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Biographies by Category

• Anderson, Marian, American contralto
• Baccaloni, Salvatore, Italian operatic bass
• Baker, Dame Janet, English mezzo-soprano
• Bartoli, Cecilia, Italian mezzo-soprano
• Battle, Kathleen, African-American soprano
• Bispham, David Scull, American baritone
• Björling, Jussi, Swedish tenor
• Bori, Lucrezia, Spanish soprano
• Caballé, Montserrat, Spanish soprano
• Callas, Maria Meneghini, Greek-American soprano
• Calvé, Emma, French operatic soprano
• Caruso, Enrico, Italian operatic tenor
• Cavalieri, Lina, Italian operatic soprano
• Chaliapin, Feodor Ivanovich, Russian operatic bass
• Corelli, Franco, Italian tenor
• Crespin, Régine, French soprano
• de los Angeles, Victoria, Spanish soprano
• Deller, Alfred, English countertenor
• Destinn, Emmy, Czechoslovakian soprano
• Domingo, Placido, Spanish operatic tenor
• Farinelli, Carlo Broschi, Italian male soprano
• Farrar, Geraldine, American operatic soprano
• Farrell, Eileen, American dramatic soprano
• Ferrier, Kathleen, British contralto
• Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, German baritone.
• Flagstad, Kirsten, Norwegian soprano
• Fleming, Renée, American soprano
• Galli-Curci, Amelita, Italian coloratura soprano
• Garden, Mary, Scottish-American operatic soprano
• Gerhardt, Elena, German mezzo-soprano
• Gigli, Beniamino, Italian tenor
• Grisi, Giulia, Italian operatic soprano
• Hayes, Roland, American tenor
• Horne, Marilyn, American mezzo-soprano
• Jeritza, Maria, Austrian-American soprano
• Kellogg, Clara Louise, American operatic soprano
• Kipnis, Alexander, Russian-American operatic bass
• Lauder, Sir Harry, Scottish baritone
• Lehmann, Lilli, German operatic soprano
• Lehmann, Lotte, German-American soprano
• Lind, Jenny, Swedish soprano
• Ludwig, Christa, German mezzo-soprano
• Malibran, Maria Felicití , French-Spanish contralto
• Mario, Italian tenor
• Martinelli, Giovanni, Italian-American operatic tenor
• McCormack, John, Irish-American tenor
• Melba, Dame Nellie, Australian soprano
• Melchior, Lauritz, Danish heroic tenor
• Merrill, Robert, American baritone
• Nilsson, Birgit, Swedish soprano
• Nordica, Lillian, American soprano
• Norman, Jessye, American soprano
• Patti, Adelina, American coloratura soprano
• Pavarotti, Luciano, Italian tenor
• Pears, Sir Peter, English tenor
• Peerce, Jan, American tenor
• Pinza, Ezio, Italian bass
• Pons, Lily, French-American coloratura soprano
• Ponselle, Rosa, American operatic soprano
• Price, Leontyne, American soprano
• Ramey, Samuel, American operatic bass
• Reszke, Jean de, Polish singer
• Robeson, Paul, American actor and bass singer
• Schipa, Tito, Italian operatic tenor
• Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, Austrian-American contralto
• Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, German lyric soprano
• Scotti, Antonio, Italian operatic baritone
• Scotto, Renata, Italian soprano
• Sembrich, Marcella, Polish coloratura soprano
• Sills, Beverly, American coloratura soprano
• Slezak, Leo, Czech tenor
• Sontag, Henriette, German operatic soprano
• Sutherland, Dame Joan, Australian soprano
• Tauber, Richard, Austrian tenor
• Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri, New Zealand opera and concert singer
• Tebaldi, Renata, Italian lyric soprano
• Tetrazzini, Luisa, Italian coloratura soprano
• Thomas, John Charles, American baritone
• Tibbett, Lawrence, American baritone
• Tucker, Richard, American tenor
• Viardot-Garcia, Pauline, French mezzo-soprano
• Witherspoon, Herbert, American basso