Christian Thielemann

Christian Thielemann

male
Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959, in Berlin) is a German conductor. He is currently principal conductor ("Generalmusikdirektor") of the...
Erich Kleiber

Erich Kleiber

male, deceased (1956)
Erich Kleiber was an Austrian-born conductor. Born in Vienna, Kleiber studied in Prague. In 1923, after conducting a stirring performance of...
Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

male, 47 years old
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (born October 16, 1962), is a top baritone opera singer from Russia. Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. He...
Franz Konwitschny

Franz Konwitschny

male, deceased (1962)
Franz Konwitschny was a German conductor. He started his career on the viola, playing in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Wilhelm...
Jessye Norman

Jessye Norman

female, 64 years old
Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is one of the most admired contemporary opera singers and recitalists, and one of the highest...
Erna Berger

Erna Berger

female, deceased (1990)
Erna Berger was a German soprano of the coloratura style. Along with Elisabeth Grümmer, Hilde Gueden, Lotte Lehmann, Martha Mödl, Gundula Ja...

René Jacobs

male, 63 years old
René Jacobs is a Belgian (Flemish) musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conductor of Baroque a...

Rita Streich

female, deceased (1987)
Rita Streich was one of the most significant coloratura sopranos of the post-war period. Rita Streich moved to Germany with her parents during her...
Emmy Destinn

Emmy Destinn

female, deceased (1930)
Emmy Destinn was a renowned Czech operatic soprano. Destinn was born Emilie Pauline Kittel or Ema Pavlína Věnceslava Kittlová in Prague, in wha...
Maria Cebotari

Maria Cebotari

female, deceased (1949)
Maria Cebotari, Moldovan-born Austrian soprano and actress. Born as Maria Cebutaru, she studied singing at the Chişinău Conservatory and in 1929 jo...