- Aprile Millo, James Levine, Samuel Ramey & The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Renée Fleming, London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Georg Solti
- Kathleen Battle, Paris Opera Orchestra & Myung-Whun Chung
- Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lucia Popp, Hermann Prey, Dame Margaret Price & Munich Radio Orchestra
- John Nelson, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Susan Graham
- Carol Vaness, Eugene Kohn, Munich Radio Orchestra & Plácido Domingo
- Brigitte Fassbaender, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra & Hans Graf