Top 10 Best Opera Singers
It's self-evident that there are listings of all opera stars, both male and female, across all vocal ranges. These stars have been heard either in person or on recordings.The criteria for these listings are voice quality, vocal production, which includes placement and breath control, and artistry. Artistry encompasses musicianship and an understanding of the idiom.
Jonathan Antoine is an incredible tenor that will captivate you from the first note. His vocal range is unbelievable. Impeccable and fascinating performances that will leave you begging for just one more song! Mr Antoine not only has an amazing voice, he is one of the nicest and most kind people to Grace a stage. His relationship with his fans (The Fantoines) is second to none. He is very down to earth yet his voice soars!
From the first note uttered, I new I was going to love his music. Johnathan is an all round lovely human being, talented, clever and kind.
Other opera singers come and go but NO ONE has or had the glorious voice of Luciano Pavarotti. His voice is truly a magnificent gift from God.
Luciano Pavarotti's voice is better than any other voice period & he is/was the absolute MASTER of OPERA.
This is the man with the most magnificent classical & operatic voice the world has ever known.
Beautiful pieces, beautiful voice! You sing such beautiful arias, and Schuberts ave Maria! Your Casta Diva sounds so beautiful!
While the quality of sound limits the ability to judge beauty, this is the best produced and most powerful of voices. Listen, for example to Nina. No one else can sing like this. Remember that when he auditioned for Mascagni, the later said "Who sent you to me - God? "
Likely the greatest male voice of all time, although only primitive recordings exist from his era. Definitely the ONLY person for whom a credible argument can be made that he is greater than Pavarotti.
That's crazy that Aria Tensolin is in 4th place. Gigli, Caruso and Flagstad is not better than Joan Sutherland. Pavarotti didn't call her the grestest voice he's ever met and the "Voice of the Century for nothing.
She's only known by opera fans as La Stupenda. No other singer has a title like that which almost almost every opera buff know who that title belong to except Joan Sutherland as La Stupenda.
She should be at the top of this list. She was voted #1 in TheTopTens' "10 greatest sopranos" and #2 in TheTopTens' "10 best female opera singer". She is the Queen of Opera.
Again, a great voice and most versatile of all.
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The greatest of Wagnerian sopranos, generally recognized as without peer. The voice had great beauty and power as befits the need of the idiom.
He's a classical crossover singer. It's not the same thing as opera. Others like Jackie Evancho, Sarah Brightman & such are classical crossover artists as well. They use great vocals over a wide variety of sounds. He's a legend of the blind community.
The most distinctive of voices, Pinza was the ultimate cantabile basso. His Don Giovanni is legendary. A great natural talent who never study singing and was at home in all opera (and Broadway - S. Pacific). He made his debut at the Met singing Boris Godunov in Italian (the other principles sang in French, the chorus in Russian)
Brilliant voice and I think basses and baritones are underestimated in such rankings.
The most beautiful voice. While lacking the weight and power of the Caruso voice, his singing was sensuous and seductive. Before his voice changed, he was acclaimed for his singing of Norma!
Like Caruso, her recordings do not allow us to hear the full quality of her voice - but there is no question of her musicianship or quality and power of voice. Clearly the greatest of Italian sopranos against whom all others are measured
What few recordings exist demonstrate the greatest of singing actors.
The "greatest recordings of the century disc" shows a phenomenal portrayal of Boris.
While perhaps Domingo belongs here, Bjoerling is a greater musician with a better voice. There exists a wonderful recording of him singing as a boy. The clincher is his recording of Lensky's aria from Onegin.