Owned!! =P

On different opera boards there were discussions of "owning roles" and some I agreed with, and some I didn't. So, here is my list of singers who in my mind "own" these roles.


Mozart:

Queen of the Night- Edita Gruberova, Diana Damrau
Pamina- Lucia Popp
Sarastro- Rene Pape
Tamino- Matthew Polenzani

Figaro- Hermann Prey, Jose Van Dam
Susanna- Mirella Freni, Lucia Popp
Contessa- Renee Fleming, Kiri te Kanawa, Gundula Janowitz
Conte- Sir Thomas Allen
Cherubino- Frederica von Stade, Theresa Berganza

Don Giovanni- Cesare Siepi, Sir Thomas Allen
Leporello- Gabriel Bacquier
Zerlina- Susanne Mentzer
Donna Anna- Renee Fleming
Donna Elvira- Maria Ewing


Puccini

Turandot- Eva Marton, Birgit Nilsson
Calaf- Placido Domingo, Franco Corelli, Jose Carreras
Liu- Katia Ricciarelli
Timur- Paul Plishka, John Paul Bogart

Tosca- Eva Marton, Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas
Cavaradossi- Placido Domingo
Scarpia- Cornell Macneil

Verdi

Violetta- Joan Sutherland, Maria Callas, Theresa Stratas
Alfredo- Placido Domingo, Carlo Bergonzi
Germont- Cornell Macneil, Robert Merrill

Rigoletto- Cornell Macneil, Louis Quilico, Robert Merrill
Gilda- Ileana Cotrubas, Edita Gruberova
Duke- Luciano Pavarotti, Carlo Bergonzi, Placido Domingo

Riccardo- Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo
Amelia- Katia Ricciarelli
Renato- Louis Quilico, Cornell Macneil
Oscar- Edita Gruberova, Judith Blegen

Luisa Miller- Katia Ricciarelli

Otello- Placido Domingo
Desdemona- Katia Ricciarelli
Iago- Justino Diaz, Sherrill Milnes

Sir John Falstaff- Paul Plishka
Fenton- Juan Diego Florez, Frank Lopardo
Alice Ford- Mirella Freni


Bellini

Elvira- Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills
Arturo Talbot- Juan Diego Florez, Luciano Pavarotti

Norma- Maria Callas


Rossini

Conte Almaviva- JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
Figaro- Thomas Hampson, Peter Mattei
Rosina- Beverly Sills, Joyce Di Donato


Handel

Cleopatra- Beverly Sills


Dvorak

Rusalka- Renee Fleming


Donizetti

Lucia di Lammermoor- Joan Sutherland
Edgardo- Jose Carreras, Alfredo Kraus

Tonio- Juan Diego Florez, Luciano Pavarotti
Marie- Joan Sutherland, Beverley Sills

Elisabetta, Queen of England- Beverly Sills

Anna Bolena- Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland
Enrico- James Morris

Nemorino- Juan Diego Florez, Jussi Bjorling
Adina- Kathleen Battle


Ponchielli

Gioconda- Eva Marton, Violetta Urmana
Laura- Olga Borodina
Enzo- Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo


Strauss

Marschallin- Gwyneth Jones, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renee Fleming, Dame Kiri te Kanawa
Octavian- Frederica von Stade, Brigitte Fassbaender
Sophie- Lucia Popp, Barbara Bonney
Baron Ochs- Kurt Moll, Manfred Jungwirth

Countess (Capriccio)- Renee Fleming, Dame Kiri, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Wagner

Wotan- James Morris
Brunnhilde- Eva Marton, Hildegard Behrens, Birgit Nilsson
Fricka- Christa Ludwig
Sieglinde- Leontyne Price


Tchaikovsky

Eugene Onegin- Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sir Thomas Allen
Tatiana- Renee Fleming
Gremin- Sergei Aleksashkin