Top 10 Most Amazing Opera Voices

Top 10 Opera Singers

Opera is an artform that truly has the power to transcend, and that’s largely thanks to the incredible force and beauty of the voices of opera singers. This list looks at the most awe-inspiring, beautiful and powerful opera voices past and present.

List entries and rank:
#10: Nicolai Gedda
1925 -
#9: Renée Fleming
1959 -
#8: Jussi Björling
1911 - 1960
#7: Kirsten Flagstad
1895 - 1962
#6: Enrico Caruso
1873 - 1921
#5: Joan Sutherland
1926 - 2010
#4: José Carreras
1946 -
#3, #2 & #1: ?

For this list, we’re taking a look at those singers whose musical work almost completely subsists of this dramatic musical art form. So as powerful of Andrea Bocelli’s voice is, he will not be considered for this list.

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[marcgiardina]

Too bad the narrator couldn't keep his mouth shut long enough to enjoy the great voices.

[flaviofrancoribeiro]

Maria Callas wasn't just a human. She was a force of nature.

[mellowmonsoon]

Looks like Mojo stepped in to a total unknown territory and got slapped lol

[alirezayazdi]

Franco corelli wasn't even an honorable mention! What an idiotic list

[natoman]

this should have been split up amongst men and women and then voices( alto, soprano, tenner, etc, etc.)

[stevenanderson]

Why is this all Tenors and Sopranos? Where are the Basses, Baritones, Contraltos, and Mezzo-Sopranos? Hell, what about Countertenors? I mean these are all good, but...?

[BrandonDanz]

Luciano Pavarotti had the greatest human voice ever put to recording.

[axelpetersson]

The great Pavarotti said, "Please do not compare me with Björling, for I am a mere mortal." I think that is enough said!

[Jacob-rylu]

Its a shame that Corelli, Del Monaco, and Gigli aren't in this list.

[sandraseaton]

You include Renee Fleming and only give the magnificent Leontyne Price an honorable mention? Amazing!

[ruthjohnson]

For me, Pavarotti is the best tenor of all time.

[armondpb]

Diana Damrau???? You guys fucked up this time.

[sugarbist]

20 Amazing Tenor Voices: Caruso, Gigli, Lauri Volpi, Di Stefano, Tucker, Del Monaco, Corelli, Pavarotti, Filippeschi, Martinelli, Bjorling, Zenatello, Mc Cormack, Wunderlich, Melchior, Tamagno, De Muro, Penno, Pertile, and Lanza. 20 Amazing Sopranos: Ponselle, Muzio, Callas, Tebaldi, Nilsson, De Los Angeles, Millo, Norman, Caballe, Voight, Price, Petrella, Tucci, Cossutto, Gheorghiu, Freni, Zeani, Gencer, Amara, Pons, and many more.

[raphaelgonzalez]

i don't listen to opera but this is kinda making me want to.

[OlafReuh]

So only tenors and sopranos ? And how about the great mezzos, basses and baritones ? Giulietta Simionato, Teresa Berganza, Christa Ludwig, Grace Bumbry, Cesare Siepi, José van Dam, Samuel Ramey, Nicolaï Ghiaurov, Kurt Moll, Feodor Chaliapine, Piero Cappuccilli, Ettore Bastianini, Giorgio Zancanaro, Leo Nucci... all names that coud easily be on these lists. And as for the tenors and sopranos where are Franco Corelli, Beniamino Gigli, Edita Gruberova, Renata Tebaldi, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni ?

[DawoudKringle]

How could they omit Montserrat Caballé, Jesse Norman, Kathleen Battle, and Renata Tebaldi from even the honorable mentions? (They did show Caballé at the beginning, , , )

[wsc]

There needs to be a separate list or lists of living opera singers, maybe organized by male & female, or even by type of voices. Otherwise, it's all apples & oranges.

[toyotacamri]

Opera is so time I hear arias I feel as though my body has been lifted to the clouds where I begin playing a harp in a white toga with angel like creatures floating around me singing lol.

[vkmariner]

Shalyapin or Hvorostovsky not on a list?? this list is a farse

[richardk.]

Probably should be called "Best known opera singers". You missed the mark here.