Greatest classical sopranos

selected by Piero Scaruffi
Back to the Essentials | Selected discography | Classical masterpieces
  1. Cecilia Bartoli (Italy, 1966)
  2. Maria Callas (Greece, 1923)
  3. Joan Sutherland (Austria, 1926)
  4. Jessye Norman (USA, 1945)
  5. Renata Tebaldi (Italy, 1922)
  6. Galina Vishnevskaya (Russia, 1926)
  7. Birgit Nilsson (Sweden, 1918)
  8. Montserrat Caballe (Spain, 1933)
  9. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Austria, 1915)
  10. Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand, 1944)
  11. Renee Fleming (USA, 1959)
  12. Kirsten Flagstad (Norway, 1895)
  13. Lucia Popp (Slovakia, 1939)
  14. Raina Kabaivanska (Bulgaria, 1934)
  15. Diana Damrau (Germany, 1971)
  16. Victoria de los Angeles (Spain, 1923)
  17. Angela Gheorghiu (Romania, 1965)
  18. Anna Netrebko (Russia, 1971)
  19. Gundula Janowitz (Austria, 1937)
  20. Rosa Ponselle (UAS, 1897)
  21. Maria Guleghina (Ukraine, 1959)
  22. Elly Ameling (Netherlands, 1933)
  23. Margaret Price (Britain, 1941)
  24. Regine Crespin (France, 1927)
  25. Karita Mattila (Finland, 1960)
  26. Katia Ricciarelli (Italy, 1946)
  27. Sena Jurinac (Yugoslavia, 1921)
  28. Anna Moffo (USA, 1935)
  29. Lise Davidsen (Norway, 1987)
  30. Edita Gruberova (Slovakia, 1946)
  31. Teresa Stratas (Canada, 1938)
  32. Megan Marie Hart (USA, 1983)
  33. Leontyne Price (USA, 1927)
  34. Emma Kirkby (Britain, 1949)
  35. Elisabeth Schumann (USA, 1888)
  36. Mirella Freni (Italy, 1935)
  37. Christine Brewer (USA, 1955)

Back to the Essentials | A discography of Classical Music | Brief history