‘Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all mankind should learn to sing.’ -William Byrd, ‘They who sing doth scare away all their woes.’-Miguel de Cervantes ‘Singing is a way of escaping. It’s another world. I’m no longer on Earth.’ -Edit Piaf
1. Rosa Ponselle, Renatoa Tebaldi, Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Sofie von Otter
2.  Victoria De Los Angeles, Maria Callas, Birgit Nilsson, Jessye Norman, joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, Kiri de Kanawa
3.  Marian Anderson, Kathleen Ferrier, Christa Ludwig, Elena Obratzova, Tatiana Troyanos, Marilyn Horne, Frederika von Stade
4.  Eba Stagnati, Teresa Berganza, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, Janet Baker, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Olga Borodino
5.  Rita Gorr, Denyce Graces, Susan Graham, Rise Stevens, Agnes Baltsa, Forence Quivar, Maureen Forrester
6. Lawrence Tibbet, Paul Robeson, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Paul Plishka, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Leonard Warren, Samuel Ramey
7.  Rene Pape, Kurt Moll, Ezio Pinza, Thomas Hampson, Tom Krause, Cornell McNeill, Ruggero Raimundi, Hans Hotter, Thomas Quasthoff
8.  Juan Diego Florez, Mario Lanza, Rolando Villazon, Carlo Bergonzi, Jon Vickers, Richard Tauber, Roberto Alagna, Siegfried Jerusalem
9. Beniamino Gigli, Franco Corelli, Jussi Bjorling, Fritz Wunderlich, Peter Pears, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti