- 1999
- Renée Fleming, English Chamber Orchestra & Jeffrey Tate
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pascal Tortelier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Susan Graham
- Anne Sofie von Otter, Berliner Philharmoniker & James Levine
- Frederica von Stade, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Sir John Pritchard
- Mirella Freni
- Mirella Freni, Herbert von Karajan, Luciano Pavarotti & Filarmónica de Viena