- 1999
- Cecilia Bartoli, Gundula Janowitz, Juan Diego Flórez & Renée Fleming
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Lorenzo Anselmi & National Philharmonic Orchestra
- Angela Gheorghiu
- Lucia Popp, Brigitte Fassbaender, Werner Krenn, Tom Krause, Manfred Jungwirth, Vienna Haydn Orchestra & István Kertész
- Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Elīna Garanča, René Pape & Thomas Quasthoff
- Anne Sofie von Otter, The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock