- Dame Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, Montserrat Caballé, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Richard Bonynge
- Kathleen Battle, Randi Stene, Richard Croft, Mark S. Doss, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Campanella & John McCarthy
- Lucia Popp, Munich Radio Orchestra, Werner Schmidt-Boelcke, Hans Zanotelli, Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Heinz Wallberg & Lamberto Gardelli
- Mirella Freni, Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, Ruggero Raimondi, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera & Herbert von Karajan
- Herbert von Karajan, Vienna Philharmonic, Leontyne Price, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Taddei & Fernando Corena
- Alfredo Kraus, Tatiana Troyanos, Jules Bastin, Christine Barbaux, Matteo Manuguerra, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Michel Plasson
- Anna Tomowa-Sintow, José Carreras, Isobel Buchanan, Sir Thomas Allen, Robert Lloyd, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Sir Colin Davis