Opera
Discover the world's most renowned opera stars, including legendary singers, composers, and conductors. Explore biographies, achievements, and performances of celebrated opera personalities from history to the present day.
Lyudmila Monastyrskaya
Ukraine
UkraineOpera singer, soprano; soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine
Herva Nelli
USA
USAAmerican opera singer-soprano of Italian descent
Iva Mihanovic
Germany
GermanyGerman-Croatian opera and concert soprano singer
Helen Francesca Traubel
USA
USAAmerican opera and concert singer
Eleanor Steber
USA
USAAmerican opera singer-soprano.
Amalie Materna
Austria
AustriaAustrian opera singer-soprano
Maria Briand
Russian Soviet singer (lyric soprano)
Szabolcs Brickner
Hungary
HungaryHungarian singer (tenor).
Rene Barbera
USA
USAAmerican opera singer-tenor
Martha Lipton
USA
USAAmerican opera singer, mezzo-soprano
Carlo Baucarde
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer.
Evgueniy Alexiev
France
FranceFrench opera singer (baritone)
Elisabetta Gambarini
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish singer (soprano)
Elizabeth Bainbridge
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish opera singer, mezzo-soprano and contralto
Renata Tebaldi
Italy
ItalySinger
Waldemar Kmentt
Austria
AustriaAustrian opera tenor
Giovanni Battista Rubini
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer-tenor
Nikolay Kondratuk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet concert, chamber and opera singer (baritone)
Michael Devlin
USA
USAAmerican opera singer, bass-baritone
William Cochran
USA
USAAmerican heldentenor singer
Clorinda Corradi
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer (contralto)
Giuseppe Anselmi
Italy
ItalyItalian opera tenor
Benjamin Bliss
USA
USAAmerican tenor
Mariana Gonich
Cuba
CubaRussian-Cuban singer (soprano)
Viktor Korotich
Russia
RussiaBaritone
Adelina Stehle
Austria
AustriaOpera singer, soprano
Filimon Koridze
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian opera singer (bass).
Ettore Bastianini
Italy
ItalyItalian singer (baritone)
Maria Callas
USA
USAOpera singer, soprano
Giuseppina Pasqua
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer, mezzo-soprano
Yvonne Gall
France
FranceFrench opera singer-soprano
Oleg Dzyuba
Ukraine
UkraineSinger, People's Artist of Ukraine (2010).
Poll Robeson
USA
USAAmerican black singer (bass-baritone) and actor
Charles Edward Horn
USA
USAAnglo-American singer (baritone) and composer
Wolfgang Brendel
Germany
GermanyGerman opera singer-baritone
Enzo Mascherini
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer, baritone
Sofia Scalchi
Italy
ItalyItalian opera singer
Dawn Upshaw
USA
USAAmerican singer (soprano).
Desiree Artot
France
FranceFrench singer
Gaspare Pacchierotti
Italy
ItalyItalian castrato singer, owner of a unique mezzo-soprano
Jules Bastin
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian opera singer, bass
Kirsten Flagstad
Norway
NorwayNorwegian opera singer (soprano)
Pauline Maria de Ahna
Germany
GermanyGerman opera singer (soprano)
Jorma Hynninen
Finland
FinlandFinnish opera singer-baritone
Yma Sumac
USA
USAPeruvian singer, soprano
Heidi Grant-Murphy
USA
USAAmerican soprano
Joseph Schmidt
Switzerland
SwitzerlandLyric tenor
Teresa Bertinotti
Italy
ItalyItalian opera soprano singer
Dorothy Dow
USA
USAAmerican classical soprano singer
Leonid Smetannikov
Russia
RussiaSinger