Opera Singer

🇺🇦Vasyl Slipak

Music

1974–2016

"He never stopped to sing, never. It's about resistance. It's not about to be a soldier. He is a singer who decided to defend his country — that's all."

🇺🇸Ezra Miller

Entertainment

b. 1992

"| Ezra Miller: The Most Misunderstood Kid in America?"

🇮🇹Luciano Pavarotti

Music

1935–2007

"Anthony Tommasini, "An Appraisal: A Master of Italian Operatic Artistry", The New York Times, 6 September 2007"

🇺🇸Florence Foster Jenkins

Music

1868–1944

"People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing."

"You must know the physiology behind the art. All the ‘pink clouds’ in the world won’t help you move through the passaggio."

🇺🇸Lila Downs

Music

b. 1968

"My mother would really make me notice the world of women, and in Latin America they have a kind of magic in that they make society function in every kind of intimate way, as well as in the bigger picture."

🇮🇹Andrea Bocelli

Music

b. 1958

"I have always found poetry and beauty in the church attributing central stage to a female presence who works on our behalf. I am a devotee of the Virgin to whom I always dedicate part of my prayers."

🇺🇸Beverly Sills

Music

1929–2007

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."

🇺🇸Josh Groban

Music

b. 1981

"I have to work hard to not look like a nerd all the time. My friends are the only people I know that don't care about my image. I need to have people who treat me just as Josh, not as Josh the singer."

🇬🇧Sarah Brightman

Music

b. 1960

"In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live."

🇺🇸Jessye Norman

Music

1945–2019

"Herbert von Karajan always rolled out a magic carpet for us, the singers. With him, our musical work took on another dimension."

🇷🇺Vytautas Juozapaitis

Music

b. 1963

"Lithuanian baritone Vytas Juozapaitis brings presence and a warm, strong voice to the title role. When we first see him, hair flying in mid-rape, he looks like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean."

🇺🇸Kathryn Grayson

Entertainment

1922–2010

"I must be the oldest living child soprano."