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What makes a star singer? Other than a good voice, of course. The last few hundred years have produced more good singers that we can even begin to count. But who are the best opera singers to have graced the stages of the world’s opera houses?<\/strong><\/p> But it’s that particular alchemy of personal gifts – and I say ‘personal’ because personality is fundamental to the whole package – that makes for a once in a generation phenomenon. Not that everyone will be unanimous on who that happens to be.<\/p> Here is our list of ten best opera singers in history.<\/p> Is this the first name that came to your mind? It’s likely that it was. A man of many sides – charming, boyish, unreliable, demanding, jovial, philandering, and many other adjectives besides – Luciano Pavarotti<\/a><\/strong> wasn\u2019t everyone\u2019s favourite human being: he was famously banned for life from the Lyric Opera of Chicago after cancelling 26 out of 41 scheduled appearances over an eight year period.<\/p> But the fact remains: whether you put it down to the stadium-filling vocal power, the honeyed tone or the colossal charisma, the talent of this Italian tenor towered over that of almost all other singers, and continues to do so 15 years after his death. We named him one of the greatest tenors of all time<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>Best opera singers of all time<\/h2>
1. Luciano Pavarotti<\/b><\/h3>