- 2001
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- Angela Gheorghiu, John Mauceri & Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino
- Mirella Freni
- Bryn Terfel, James Levine & The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Cecilia Bartoli, György Fischer & Wiener Kammerorchester
- Kathleen Battle, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris & Myung-Whun Chung