Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet

male, deceased (1912)
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th cen...
Alfredo Kraus

Alfredo Kraus

male, deceased (1999)
Alfredo Kraus Trujillo was a Spanish tenor of Austrian descent, and considered among the legendary tenors of the 20th century along with others...
Alfredo Catalani

Alfredo Catalani

male, deceased (1893)
Alfredo Catalani, was an Italian operatic composer, best known for the works "La Wally" (1892, to a libretto by Luigi Illica, containing Catalani's...
Susan Graham

Susan Graham

female, 49 years old
Susan Graham (born 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano. She was raised in Midland, Texas. She is a graduate of Texas Tech...
Raina Kabaivanska

Raina Kabaivanska

female, 74 years old
Raina Kabaivanska (born December 15, 1934) is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the most renowned sopranos in the second half of the 20th century....
Maxim Vengerov

Maxim Vengerov

male, 35 years old
Maxim Vengerov (born August 20, 1974 in Novosibirsk) is a Russian violinist virtuoso of Jewish origin. Vengerov was five when he received his first...
Anna Moffo

Anna Moffo

female, deceased (2006)
The American soprano Anna Moffo (born on June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an opera soprano primarily active in the 1960s. During her heyday,...

Georges Hartmann

male
Georges Hartmann was a French dramatist and opera librettist. His librettos include Massenet's "Hérodiade" (1881) and "Werther" (1892), Silver's "...

Régine Crespin

female, deceased (2007)
Régine Crespin was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire.
Philippe Gille

Philippe Gille

male
Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are...