**MANY OF THESE SINGERS SPANNED MORE THAN ONE VOICE TYPE IN THEIR CAREERS!**
COLORATURA and LYRIC COLORATURA SOPRANO: DRAMATIC SOPRANO: Joan Sutherland Maria Callas Birgit Nilsson Anna Moffo Kirstin Flagstad Lisette Oropesa Ghena Dimitrova Sumi Jo Hildegard Behrens Edita Gruberova Eva Marton Lucia Popp Lotte Lehmann Patrizia Ciofi Maria Nemeth Ruth Ann Swenson Rose Pauly Beverly Sills Helen Traubel Diana Damrau Jessye Norman
LYRIC MEZZO: SOUBRETTE & LYRIC SOPRANO: Janet Baker Mirella Freni Cecilia Bartoli Renee Fleming Teresa Berganza Kiri te Kanawa Kathleen Ferrier Hei-Kyung Hong Elena Garanca Ileana Cotrubas Susan Graham Victoria de los Angeles Marilyn Horne Barbara Frittoli Risë Stevens Lisa della Casa Frederica Von Stade Teresa Stratas Tatiana Troyanos Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Carolyn Watkinson
DRAMATIC MEZZO: SPINTO SOPRANO: Agnes Baltsa Anja Harteros Grace Bumbry Montserrat Caballe Christa Ludwig Maria Jeritza Giulietta Simionato Gabriela Tucci Shirley Verrett Renata Tebaldi Brigitte Fassbaender Violeta Urmana Rita Gorr Meta Seinemeyer Fiorenza Cossotto Leontyne Price Stephanie Blythe Zinka Milanov Ebe Stignani Rosa Ponselle Waltraud Meier Carol Neblett
** MANY SINGERS SPAN MORE THAN ONE CATEGORY IN THE COURSE OF A CAREER **
ROSSINI, MOZART TENOR: BARITONE:
Fritz Wunderlich Piero Cappuccilli Luigi Alva Lawrence Tibbett Alfredo Kraus Ettore Bastianini Ferruccio Tagliavani Horst Günther Richard Croft Giuseppe Taddei Juan Diego Florez Tito Gobbi Lawrence Brownlee Simon Keenlyside Cesare Valletti Sesto Bruscantini Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Mario Sereni FULL LYRIC TENOR: Bo Skovhus Dmitri Hvorostovsky Luciano Pavarotti Gino Bechi Nicolai Gedda Hermann Prey Richard Tucker John Shirley-Quirk Jonas Kaufmann Giuseppe di Luca Giacomo Lauri-Volpi Bryn Terfel Benianimo Gigli Gerald Finley Piotr Beczala Renato Bruson Jussi Björling Benjamin Luxon Franco Corelli Cornell MacNeill Carlo Bergonzi Georges Thill Jan Peerce BASS-BARITONE/BASSO: Enrico Caruso Feodor Chalipin Jerome Hines DRAMATIC TENOR: Cesare Siepi Salvatore Baccaloni James King Nicolai Ghiaurov Jon Vickers Leonard Warren Max Lorenz Hans Hotter Vladimir Atlantov Rene Pape Mario Del Monaco Theo Adam Set Svanholm Samuel Ramey Ludwig Suthaus Kurt Moll Giuseppe di Stefano Ezio Pinza Lauritz Melchior Tancredi Pasero Jess Thomas John Tomlinson Wolfgang Windgassen Thomas Stewart José Mardones Hans-Peter König George London José van Dam Fernando Corena Boris Shtokolov