Chronological list of operatic sopranos

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This is a chronological list of sopranos who have performed in operas from classical music of the Western world. The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing. Singers who have recorded opera arias or sung them in concert but have never performed in an opera are not included in this list. Singers are sorted by their year of birth. Those singers whose birth year is unknown are sorted by the first year that they are known to have flourished. This list should not include singers who have never performed in a staged opera with the exception of historic non-white singers who were barred from the opera stage in varying parts of the world due to discrimination prior to the mid-20th century. This list is limited to those whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.

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Operatic sopranos born in the 15th and 16th centuries

=Before 1600=

  • Vittoria Archilei ({{flourished|1582|1620}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|author=H. Wiley Hitchcock|author2=Tim Carter|entry=Archilei [née Concarini], Vittoria [‘La Romanina’]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01175}}
  • Virginia Ramponi-Andreini (1583– c. 1630){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Andreini [née Ramponi], Virginia [‘La Florinda’ ]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41032|author=Tim Carter|author2= Anne MacNeil|title=Andreini [née Ramponi], Virginia }}
  • Caterina Martinelli (1589 or 1590–1608){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Martinelli, Caterina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17905|author=Denis Arnold|author2= Edmond Strainchamps}}
  • Settimia Caccini (1591– c. 1638){{cite book|title=Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950|year=1986|isbn=9780252014703|publisher=University of Illinois Press|editor1=Jane M. Bowers|editor2= Judith Tick|page=151}}

=1600–1649=

  • Margherita Costa (c.1600– after 1657){{cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1353/emw.2017.0047?journalCode=emw|title=The Bizarre Muse: The Literary Persona of Margherita Costa|author=Jessica Goethals|journal=Early Modern Women |volume= 12|number= 1|date=Fall 2017|pages=48–72 |doi=10.1353/emw.2017.0047 |url-access=subscription}}
  • Anna Renzi (b. 1620– after 1661){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Renzi [Rentia, Renzini], Anna|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23212|author=Thomas Walker|author2=Beth L. Glixon}}{{subscription required}}
  • Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=la Barre, Anne de|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381071|author=Jane M. Bowers|title=La Barre, Anne de |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

=1650–1699=

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  • Antonia Coresi ({{flourished|1655|1674}}){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Marie Aubry (c.1656–1704){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Aubry, Marie|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40857|author=James R. Anthony|title=Aubry, Marie |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Marie Le Rochois (c. 1658–1728){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Le Rochois, Marie [‘La Rochois’]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16461|author=James R. Anthony}}
  • Maria Landini (c. 1668–1722){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Fanchon Moreau (1668– after 1743){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Moreau, Fanchon [Françoise]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41062|author=James R. Anthony|title=Moreau, Fanchon |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Louison Moreau ({{flourished|1668|1692}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Moreau, Louison [Louise]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O004375|author=James R. Anthony}}
  • Vittoria Tarquini (1670–1746){{cite encyclopedia|author=Beth L. Glixon |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 95 |date=2019 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vittoria-tarquini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=Italian |title=TARQUINI, Vittoria|publisher=Treccani}}
  • Anne Bracegirdle (1671–1748){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bracegirdle, Anne|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.43379|author=Olive Baldwin|author2= Thelma Wilson}}
  • Mary Hodgson (1673–1719?){{Cite ODNB |last1=Baldwin |first1=Olive |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-70107 |title=Hodgson [Hudson; née Dyer], Mary (bap. 1673?, d. 1719?), singer |last2=Wilson |first2=Thelma |date=2004-09-23 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/70107|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
  • Diamante Maria Scarabelli (1675–1754){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/scarabelli-diamante-maria-detta-la-diamantina_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|title=SCARABELLI, Diamante Maria, detta la Diamantina|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 91|year=2018|author=Francesco Lora}}
  • Françoise Journet (1675–1722){{cite book|title="Les Lyonnais dignes de mémoire." I. La véritable histoire de Françoise Journet, chanteuse d'opéra, 1675-1722. II. J.-B. Prin et son Mémoire sur la trompette marine, 1742|author=Vallas, Léon|year=1912|location=Lyon|url=https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/4243899}}
  • Giulia Francesca Zuffi ({{flourished|1678|1685}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Zuffi, Giulia Francesca |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O907832|author=Sergio Durante}}
  • Margherita de L'Épine (c. 1680–1746){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2020|entry=L’Epine, (Francesca) Margherita [Françoise Marguérite] de |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16451|author=Winton Dean|author2=Olive Baldwin|author3=Thelma Wilson|title=L'Epine, (Francesca) Margherita [Françoise Marguérite] de |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Elisabetta Pilotti-Schiavonetti (c. 1680–1742){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Marie-Louise Desmatins ({{flourished|1682|1708}}){{cite book|page=121|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQMVEAAAQBAJ&dq=Marie-Louise+Desmatins+%28fl.%E2%80%891682+%E2%80%93+c.%E2%80%891708%29&pg=PA121|title=The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera|chapter=Opera, Gender, and Voice|author=Christine Jeanneret|editor=Jacqueline Waeber|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2021|isbn=9780521823593}}
  • Letitia Cross (1682–1737){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|author=Olive Baldwin|author2=Thelma Wilson|entry=Cross, Letitia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06873}}{{cite journal|url=https://academic.oup.com/em/article-abstract/12/1/85/381891?redirectedFrom=PDF|doi=10.1093/earlyj/12.1.85|title=Purcell's theatre music on record|author=Curtis A. Price|journal=Early Music|volume=12|issue=1|date=February 1984|pages= 85–92|url-access=subscription}}
  • Margarita Salicola ({{flourished|1682|1706}}){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Marianna Bulgarelli (c. 1684–1734){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Benti [Bulgarelli], Maria Anna [Marianna] (Garberini) [‘La Romanina’]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900529|author=Dennis Libby|title=Benti [Bulgarelli], Maria Anna }}
  • Catherine Tofts (c. 1685–1756){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/tofts-catherine-c-1685-1756|title=Tofts, Catherine (c. 1685–1756)|encyclopedia=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|author=Elizabeth Shostak|publisher=Yorkin|year=2000|isbn=9781414412672|editor=Anne Commire}}
  • Santa Stella (c. 1686–1759){{cite encyclopedia|author=Ben Byram-Wigfield |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 94 |date=2019 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/santa-stella_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|language=Italian |title=STELLA, Santa|publisher=Treccani}}
  • Marie Antier (1687–1747){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Antier, Marie|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01017|author=Julie Anne Sadie|title=Antier, Marie }}
  • Johanna Elisabeth Döbricht (1692–1786){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Döbricht, Johanna Elisabeth|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07896|author=Elisabeth Noack|author2=Dorothea Schröder}}
  • Anastasia Robinson (c. 1692–1755){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Robinson, Anastasia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23596|author=Winton Dean|title=Robinson, Anastasia }}
  • Rosa Borosini (c. 1693– after 1740){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Borosini, Rosa [née d’Ambreville]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381660|author=Winton Dean|title=Borosini, Rosa |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Livia Nannini Costantini ({{flourished|1695|1726}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|author=Sergio Durante|author2= Winton Dean|title=Nannini [Costantini], Livia Dorotea |entry=Nannini [Costantini], Livia Dorote|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O006085}}
  • Francesca Cuzzoni (1696–1778){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Cuzzoni, Francesca|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06995|author=Winton Dean|author2=Carlo Vitali|title=Cuzzoni, Francesca |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

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Operatic sopranos born in the 18th century

=1700–1739=

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  • Margherita Durastanti ({{flourished|1700|1734}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Durastanti, Margherita|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.08380|author=Winton Dean|title=Durastanti, Margherita |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Maria Giustina Turcotti (c. 1700– after 1763){{Cite encyclopedia |date=2002 |title=Turcotti, Maria Giustina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online |series=Oxford Music Online |publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Dennis Libby and Carlo Vitali|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002685|isbn=9781561592630 }}
  • Joanna Maria Lindehleim ({{flourished|1702}} – died 1724){{Cite ODNB|title=Lindehleim, Joanna Maria [performing name the Baroness] (d. 1724), singer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-67180|access-date=2020-11-22|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/67180|last1=Baldwin|first1=Olive|last2=Wilson|first2=Thelma}}
  • Maria Gallia ({{flourished|1703|1734}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Gallia, Maria |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10553|author=Winton Dean|title=Gallia, Maria }}
  • Catherine-Nicole Lemaure (1704–1786){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Lemaure, Catherine-Nicole |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42322|author=Philip Weller}}
  • Marie Pélissier (1706 or 1707–1749){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Pélissier [Pellissier], Marie |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21216|author=Graham Sadler}}
  • Isabella Girardeau ({{flourished|1709|1712}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Girardeau, Isabella |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11204|author=Winton Dean}}
  • Mademoiselle Petitpas (1710–1739)
  • Kitty Clive (1711–1785){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|author=Winton Dean|entry=Clive [née Raftor], Kitty [Catherine]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05976}}
  • Maria Manina ({{flourished|1712|1736}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|author=Winton Dean|author2=Olive Baldwin|author3=Thelma Wilson|title=Manina [Fletcher, Seedo], Maria |entry=Manina [Fletcher, Seedo], Maria|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17641|isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Cecilia Young (1712–1789){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Young, Cecilia [Mrs Arne] |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381562|author=Olive Baldwin|author2=Thelma Wilson|editor-first1=Thelma |editor-last1=Wilson |title=Young, Cecilia |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Marie Fel (1713–1794){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Fel, Marie|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09429|author=Mary Cyr|title=Fel, Marie |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Ann Turner Robinson ({{flourished|1714}} – died 1741){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Robinson, Ann Turner [née Turner]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381355|author=Winton Dean|title=Fel, Marie |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Élisabeth Duparc (c. 1715–1778){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Duparc, Elisabeth [‘Francesina’]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.08337|author=Winton Dean|author2=Cheryll Duncan|author3=Rachel Allen|title=Duparc, Elisabeth |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Elisabeth Lillström (1717–1791){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Anna Maria Strada ({{flourished|1719|1741}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Strada del Pò, Anna Maria |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26887|author=Winton Dean}}
  • Celeste Gismondi ({{flourished|1722}} – died 1735){{cite encyclopedia|last1=Cicali |first1=Gianni |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 87 |date=2017 |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/celeste-resse_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=Italian |title=Resse, Celeste|publisher=Treccani}}
  • Regina Mingotti (1722–1808){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Mingotti [née Valentini], Regina [ ?Caterina ] |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18732|author=John Rosselli}}
  • Teresa Cornelys (1723–1797){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Cornelys, Theresa [Imer, Teresa; Madame Trenti]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06506|author=Murray R. Charters}}
  • Christina Maria Avoglio ({{flourished|1727|1746}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Avoglio [Avolio; née Croumann or Graumann], Christina Maria|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01602|author=Winton Dean|author2=Daniel E. Freeman}}
  • Giulia Frasi (c. 1730–1772){{Cite encyclopedia|last=Campi|first=Paola|title=FRASI, Giulia - Enciclopedia |date=1998|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|chapter=Frasi, Giulia|chapter-url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giulia-frasi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|access-date=28 March 2024|via=Treccani}}
  • Margherita Chimenti ({{flourished|1733|1746}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Chimenti [Chementi], Margherita [‘La Droghierina’]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05595|author=Winton Dean|title=Chimenti [Chementi], Margherita }}
  • Marie-Jeanne Larrivée Lemière (1733–1786){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Lemière [Larrivée, L’Arrivée], Marie-Jeanne |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O902827|author=Philip Weller}}
  • Dorothea Wendling (1736–1811){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Wendling [née Spurni], Dorothea|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002672|author=Paul Corneilson}}
  • Yelizaveta Belogradskaya (1739– c. 1764){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

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=1740s=

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  • Sophie Arnould (1740–1802){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Arnould [Arnoult], (Magdeleine) [Madeleine] Sophie|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01311|author=Julian Rushton|title=Arnould [Arnoult], (Magdeleine) [Madeleine] Sophie |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Elisabeth Olin (1740–1828){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Olin, Elisabeth|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O007062|author=Bertil H. van Boer}}
  • Antonia Bernasconi (1741–1803){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bernasconi, Antonia [Wagele]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02865|author=Robert Münster}}
  • Lucrezia Aguiari (born 1743 or 1746–1783)Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell. "Aguiari [Agujari], Lucrezia ['La Bastardina', 'La Bastardella']", Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  • Maria Anna Fesemayr (1743–1782){{cite book|page=112|title=The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context|author= Ruth Halliwell|year= 1998|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=9780198163718}}
  • Marie-Thérèse Laruette (1744–1837){{cite book|title=Opéra-Comique: A Sourcebook|author=Robert Ignatius Letellier|year= 2010|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=9781443821681|page=845}}
  • Anna Lucia de Amicis (c. 1745–1816){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=De Amicis [De Amicis-Buonsollazzi], Anna Lucia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07330|author=Saskia Willaert|title=De Amicis [De Amicis-Buonsollazzi], Anna Lucia |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Elisabeth Wendling (1746–1786){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Wendling [née Sarselli], Elisabeth |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O007737|author=Paul Corneilson}}
  • Maria Anna Braunhofer (1748–1819){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lwu9DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Maria+Anna+Braunhofer%22+1748&pg=PA137|page=137|title=Maria Anna Mozart: Facetten einer Künstlerin|isbn=9783990125625|year=2019|publisher=Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag|editor=Eva Neumayr}}
  • Franziska Romana Koch (1748–1796){{cite book

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  • Hedvig Wigert (1748–1780){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Rosalie Levasseur (1749–1826){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Levasseur [Le Vasseur], Rosalie [Marie-Rose-(Claude-)Josephe]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16509|author=Julian Rushton}}
  • Giovanna Sestini (1749Archivio della Curia Arcivescovile di Firenze. Libri dei Battezzati della Pieve di S. Martino a Gangalandi in Lastra a Signa (Firenze) : I - R.P.C 836 -1-battesimi dal 1727 al 1746: 194–1814){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2020|entry=Sestini, Giovanna (Joanna)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904569|author=Olive Baldwin|author2=Thelma Wilson|title=Sestini, Giovanna |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

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=1750s=

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  • Lovisa Augusti (1751–1790){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/LovisaAugusti|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Lovisa Sofia Augusti|year=2020}}
  • Maddalena Allegranti (1754– after 1801){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Allegranti, Maddalena|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00599|author=Roland Würtz|author2=Paul Corneilson}}
  • Josepha Duschek (1754–1824){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Dušek [Dušková] [née Hambacher], Josefa [Duschek, Josepha]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.08412|author=Milan Poštolka}}
  • Cecilia Davies (1756 or 1757–1836){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Davies, Cecilia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07286|author=Olive Baldwin|author2=Thelma Wilson}}
  • Antoinette Saint-Huberty (1756–1812){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Saint-Huberty [Huberti], Mme de [Clavel, Antoinette Cécile]unlocked|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24319|author=Julian Rushton}}
  • Brigida Banti (c. 1757–1806){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bondini(-Saporiti), Caterina |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.2079289|author=Peter Branscombe}}
  • Caterina Bondini (1757– after 1791){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Dušek [Dušková] [née Hambacher], Josefa [Duschek, Josepha]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.08412|author=Milan Poštolka}}
  • Harriett Abrams (c. 1758–1821){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Abrams, Harriett|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00059|author=Olive Baldwin|author2= Thelma Wilson}}
  • Marie Louise Marcadet (1758–1804){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9073|title=Marie Louise Marcadet|encyclopedia=Svenskt biografiskt lexikon|author=Kerstin Derkert|year=1987}}
  • Josepha Weber (1758–1819){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Weber [Hofer; Mayer], Josepha|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380414|author=Thomas Bauman|author2= Paul Corneilson|title=Weber [Hofer; Mayer], Josepha |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Adriana Ferrarese del Bene (1759– after 1803){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Ferrarese [Ferraresi, Ferrarese del Bene], Adriana [Andreanna, Andriana]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09512|author=Patricia Lewy Gidwitz|author2= John A. Rice}}

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=1760s=

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  • Celeste Coltellini (1760–1828){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Coltellini, Celeste|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06158|author=Rudolph Angermüller|author2=Dorothea Link}}
  • Luisa Laschi (1760–c.1790){{cite encyclopedia|author=Federico Pirani|year=2004|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/luisa-laschi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |title=Laschi, Luisa|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 63}}
  • Aloysia Weber (c. 1760–1839){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Weber [Lange], (Maria) Aloysia (Louise Antonia)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380415|author=Patricia Lewy Gidwitz|title=Weber [Lange], (Maria) Aloysia |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Christina Rahm (1763–1837){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/ChristinaMargarethaRahm|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Christina Margaretha Rahm|author=Crister Lindström|year=2020}}
  • Teresa Saporiti (1763–1869){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Saporiti [Codecasa], Teresa|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24569|author=Christopher Raeburn|title=Saporiti [Codecasa], Teresa }}
  • Christiane Haßloch (1764–1829){{cite book|page=218|title=Deutschsprachige Theater-Almanache: Register / German-language Theater Almanacs: Index (1772–1918)|author=Paul S. Ulrich|year=2023|publisher=Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag|isbn=9783990941348}}
  • Jeanne-Charlotte Schroeder (1764–1850){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Saint-Aubin [Schroeder], Jeanne Charlotte |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904517|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Sofia Liljegren (1765–1795){{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fE_EEAAAQBAJ&dq=Sofia+Liljegren+(1765–1795)&pg=PA220|page=220|title=Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland|chapter=Liljegren, Sofia Ulrika|author=Barbara B. Hong|year=1997|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-38775-3 }}
  • Nancy Storace (1765–1817){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Storace, Nancy [Ann Selina; Anna]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41411|author=Patricia Lewy Gidwitz|author2=Betty Matthews}}
  • Adélaïde Gavaudan (1767–1805){{cite book|page=96|title=Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848|author=Kimberly White|year=2018|isbn=9781108643191|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
  • Rose Renaud (1767–c. 1840){{cite book|page=338|title=Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution|author1=Jacqueline Letzter|author2=Robert Adelson|year= 2001|isbn=9780520226531|publisher=University of California Press}}
  • Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (1768–1803){{cite book|page=131|title=Fodor's Moscow and St. Petersburg|year=2008|isbn=9781400007172|publisher=Fodor's|editor=Salwa Jabado}}
  • Julie-Angélique Scio (1768–1807){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Scio [Le Grand], Julie- [Claudine-]Angélique |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904513|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Scio [Le Grand], Julie- [Claudine-]Angélique }}
  • Marianne Willmann (1768–1813){{cite book|page=737|title=Beethoven aus der Sicht seiner Zeitgenossen in Tagebüchern, Briefen, Gedichten und Erinnerungen: Lachner - Zmeskall|year=2009|publisher=G. Henle Verlag|author=Klaus Martin Kopitz|editor=Rainer Cadenbach|isbn=9783873281202}}

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=1770s=

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  • Marianne Sessi (born c.1770–1776 – died 1847){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Magdalena Willmann (1771–1801){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Willmann, (Johanna) Magdalena|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381540|author=Karl Maria Pisarowitz|title=Willmann, (Johanna) Magdalena |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Marianne Müller (1772–1851){{cite book|page=59|title=200 Jahre Uraufführungen in der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde|date=17 June 2019 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag|isbn=9783205209362|editor=Hartmut Krones}}
  • Antonia Campi (1773–1822){{cite book|page=54|title=Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini|author=Nancy November|year= 2024|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781009409803}}
  • Margarete Luise Schick (1773–1809){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Schick [née Hamel], Margarete (Luise)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O003190|author=Gaynor G. Jones}}
  • Tatyana Shlykova (1773–1863)
  • Therese Rosenbaum (1774–1837){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Gassmann, Florian Leopold|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10717|author=George R. Hill|author2=Joshua Kosman|title=Gassmann, Florian Leopold }}
  • Teresa Bertinotti (1776–1854){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bertinotti(-Radicati), Teresa|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02921|author=Albert Mell|title=Bertinotti(-Radicati), Teresa }}
  • Jane Bianchi (1776–1858){{Cite book|last1=Highfill|first1=Philip H.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cS6x-tsbNZEC&q=%22jane+bianchi%22+singer&pg=PA107|chapter=Bianchi, Mrs Francesco, Jane, née Jackson, later Mrs John Lacy 1776–1858|page=107|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800|last2=Burnim|first2=Kalman A.|last3=Langhans|first3=Edward A.|date=1973|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|isbn=978-0-8093-0518-6}}
  • Maria Anna Tauber ({{flourished|1777|1779}}){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Tauber [Taube], Maria Anna|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27557}}
  • Friederike Vohs (1777–1860){{cite book|page=298|title=Selbstinszenierungen im klassischen Weimar: Autobiographie, Kritiken, Huldigungen|publisher=Wallstein Verlag|year=2004|author1=Ruth B. Emde|author2= Achim von Heygendorff|isbn=978-3-89244-743-6}}

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=1780s=

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  • Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu (1780–1850){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Branchu, Alexandrine Caroline|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O009587|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Branchu, Alexandrine Caroline }}
  • Margherita Chabran (born 1780?){{cite web|url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/15878489/margherita_chabrand/|title=Margherita Chabrand (chanteuse, 1780?-18..)|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France|access-date=September 21, 2024}}
  • Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani (1780–1828){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Angelica Catalani (1780–1849){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Catalani, Angelica|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05159|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Catalani, Angelica }}
  • Joaquina Sitches (1780–1864){{cite book|page=26|title=Art Song Composers of Spain: An Encyclopedia|author=Suzanne Rhodes Draayer|year= 2009|isbn=9780810863620|publisher=Scarecrow Press}}
  • Alexandrine Marie Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel (1781–1850){{cite book|title=The Dictionary of Biographical Reference|author=Lawrence B. Phillips|year=2023|publisher=Anatiposi Verlag|isbn=9783382116828|page=422|chapter=Gavaudan , Alexandrine Marie Agathe Ducamel}}
  • Violante Camporesi (1785–1839){{cite encyclopedia|author=Raoul Meloncelli|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 17 |date=1974|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/violante-camporese_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|language=Italian |title=CAMPORESE (Camporesi), Violante|publisher=Treccani}}
  • Charlotte Häser (1784–1871){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Häser, Charlotte |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008147|author=David Cummings}}
  • Louise Müller (1784–1837){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Jeanette Wässelius (1784–1853){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/JeanetteWasselius|title=Maria Johanna (Marie Jeanette) Wässelius|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|year=2020|author=Marie Steinrud}}
  • Isabella Colbran (1785–1845){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Colbran, Isabella [Isabel] (Angela )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06067|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Cécile Duret-Saint-Aubin (1785–1862){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Saint-Aubin [Schroeder], Jeanne Charlotte |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904517|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Anna Milder-Hauptmann (1785–1838){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Milder-Hauptmann, (Pauline) Anna |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18669|author=F.A. Marshall|author2=Christopher H. Gibbs}}
  • Antonia Laucher (1786–1871){{cite book|author=Nancy November|chapter=Kenner und Liebhaber: Meeting the Domestic Market|title= Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini|doi=10.1017/9781009409797.003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2024|page=54}}
  • Antoinette Lemonnier (1787–1866){{cite book|title=Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part II vol 5|author1=Stephen Bending|author2=Stephen Bygrave|author3=Lucy Morrison|author4=Benjamin Colbert|author5= Paul Hague|isbn=9781040239070|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2012|page=529}}
  • Franziska Sontag (1787 or 1789–1865){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Margarethe Carl (1788–1861){{cite book|page=300|title=Josephine Lang: Her Life and Songs|author1= Harald Krebs|author2= Sharon Krebs|year= 2006|isbn=9780198038702|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
  • Cathinka Buchwieser (1789–1828){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Joséphine Fodor (1789 or 1793–1870){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Fodor-Mainvielle [Mainvielle-Fodor], Joséphine |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O901653|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Fodor-Mainvielle [Mainvielle-Fodor], Joséphine }}
  • Marie Zinck (1789–1823){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Marie_Zinck|title=Marie Zinck|author=Neiiendam, Robert|date=18 July 2011 |publisher=Gyldendal|encyclopedia= Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|language=Danish}}

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=1790s=

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  • Carolina Crespi (c.1790– after 1842){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Karoline Seidler-Wranitzky (1790–1872){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Seidler-Wranitzky, Karoline|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.2079361|author=Milan Poštolka|author2=Roger Hickman]}}
  • Anna Maria Sessi (1790–1864){{cite encyclopedia|editor=Gerhard Allroggen|year=2017|url=https://weber-gesamtausgabe.de/de/A001816.html|title=Neumann-Sessi, Anna Maria|encyclopedia= Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gesamtausgabe|language=German}}
  • Anna Sofia Sevelin (1790–1871){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/AnnaSofiaSevelin0|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Anna Sofia Sevelin|author=Carl-Gunnar Åhlen|year=2020}}
  • Augustine Albert (1791– after 1846){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Fanny Corri-Paltoni (1791 or 1792–1861){{Cite ODNB|title=Corri family (per. c. 1770–1860)|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69602|access-date=2024-09-21|year=2014|language=en|last1=Golby|first1=David J.|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69602}}
  • Therese Grünbaum (1791–1876){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Grünbaum, Therese [née Müller]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47566|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Ester Mombelli (1792{{cite encyclopedia|author=Pier Giuseppe Gillio|year=2011|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-mombelli_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |title=Mombelli, Domenico|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume=75|language=Italian}}– after 1827){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Mombelli, Ester |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47904|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Mombelli, Ester }}
  • Benedetta Rosmunda Pisaroni (1793–1872){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Pisaroni, Benedetta Rosmunda |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21837|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Alexandrine Saint-Aubin (1793–1867){{cite encyclopedia|page=4094|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Saint-Aubin, Alexandrine|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Justina Casagli (1794–1841){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/JustinaCasagli|title=Justina Kristina Casagli|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|year=2020|author=Marie Steinrud}}
  • Zulmé Dabadie (1795–1877)Birth record; death record.
  • Caroline Grassari (1795– after 1832){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Friederike Funk (1796– after 1863){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
  • Henriette Widerberg (1796–1872){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/HenrietteWiderberg|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Henriette Sophie Widerberg|year=2018|author=Hélène Ohlsson}}
  • Caroline Willmann (1796– c. 1860){{cite book|page=178|title=Mozart and His Circle: A Biographical Dictionary|author= H. P. Clive|year=1993|isbn=9780460860789|publisher=Yale University Press}}
  • Giuditta Pasta (1797–1865){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Pasta [née Negri], Giuditta (Angiola Maria Costanza)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21047|author=Kenneth Stern}}
  • Anna Bondra (1798–1836){{cite book|page=724|title=Virtuosität und Wiener Charme. Joseph Mayseder|author=Raimund Lissy|publisher=Hollitzer Verlag|year=2019|isbn=9783990126219}}
  • Henriette Méric-Lalande (1799–1867){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Méric-Lalande [née Lamiraux-Lalande], Henriette ( Clémentine )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18443|author=Philip H. Robinson |author2=Julian Marshall|title=Méric-Lalande [née Lamiraux-Lalande], Henriette |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Clara Vespermann (1799–1827){{cite book|page=493|title=Briefe: Gesamtausgabe (1809-1856)|author1= Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner|author2= Reiner Nägele|year= 2001|isbn=9783932622243|publisher=Hainholz Verlag}}

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Operatic sopranos born in the 19th century

=1800s=

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1800

  • Elizabeth Austin (c. 1800 – after 1835){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Austin, Elizabeth|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.46388|author=William Brooks|author2=Katherine K. Preston}}
  • Luigia Boccabadati (1800–1850){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Boccabadati, Luigia |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900596|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Boccabadati, Luigia }}
  • Rosalbina Caradori-Allan (1800–1865){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Caradori-Allan [née de Munck], Maria (Caterina Rosalbina )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.04893|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Emilie Pohlmann (c. 1800–1875){{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GZIPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Emilie+Pohlmann%22%C2%A0&pg=PA559|title=Lemberg|journal=The Musical World|editor=James William Davison|date=August 14, 1875|volume=53|number=33|page=559}}
  • Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis (1800–1853){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Ronzi de Begnis [née Ronzi], Giuseppina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23799|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Henriette Spitzeder (1800–1828){{cite book|page=581|title=Goethe and Zelter: Musical Dialogues|author=Lorraine Byrne Bodley|year= 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781351565332}}
  • Karoline Stern (1800–1885){{cite book|page=206|title=Das Reisetagebuch des Klavierbauers Johann Baptist Streicher 1821-1822: Text und Kommentar|author1=Johann Baptist Streicher|author2= Uta Goebl-Streicher|author3= Jutta Streicher|year= 2009|isbn=9783795212704|publisher=H. Schneider}}
  • Adelaide Tosi (c. 1800–1859){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Tosi, Adelaide|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O006418|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}

1801

  • Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801–1863){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Cinti-Damoreau [née Montalant], Laure (Cinthie)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05799|author=Philip E.J. Robinson}}

1802

  • Mary Ann Paton (1802–1864){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Wood [née Paton], Mary Anne|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21082|author=Katherine K. Preston|title=Wood [née Paton], Mary Anne |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Geneviève-Aimé-Zoë Prévost (1802–1861){{cite book|page=141|title=George Onslow: Gentleman compositeur|author=Viviane Niaux|year=2003|publisher=Presses universitaires Blaise-Pascal|isbn=9782845162334}}

1803

  • Emilie da Fonseca (1803–1884){{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet|author=Liv Jensson|year=1981|title=Fonseca, Emilie da|page=31|publisher=Universitetsforl|location=Oslo|isbn=978-8200056225}}
  • Margarethe Stockhausen (1803–1877){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Stockhausen [née Schmuck], Margarethe|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380394|author=Robert J. Pascall|title=Stockhausen [née Schmuck], Margarethe |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

1804

  • Wilhelmina Enbom (1804–1880){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/ChristinaWilhelminaEnbom|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Christina Wilhelmina Enbom|author=Marie Steinrud|year=2020}}
  • Nanette Schechner (1804–1860){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Schechner [Schechner-Waagen], Nanette [Anna]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24766|author=John Warrack}}

1801

  • Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804–1860){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Schröder-Devrient [née Schröder], Wilhelmine|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.25090|author=John Warrack|title=Schröder-Devrient [née Schröder], Wilhelmine |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

1805

1806

  • Fanny Ayton (1806{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Ayton, Fanny |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.01624|author=George Biddlecombe|title=Ayton, Fanny }}–1891{{cite news|newspaper=Whistable Times and Herne Bay Herald|date=30 May 1891|title=Deaths|page=8}})
  • Caroline Fischer-Achten (1806–1896){{cite encyclopedia|page=1478|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Fischer-Achten, Caroline|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Anna Fischer-Maraffa (1806–1866){{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: eine Encyklopädie alles Wissenswerthen der Schauspielkunst und Bühnentechnik|year=1889|title=Fischer-Maraffa, Anna|publisher=Verlag von Carl Reißner|editor1=Adolf Oppenheim|editor2=Ernst Gettke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1vEjGKYsrsC&dq=Anna+Fischer-Maraffa+(1806–1866)&pg=PA268}}
  • Henriette Sontag (1806–1854){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Sontag [Sonntag], Henriette (Gertrud Walpurgis)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26234|author=John Warrack}}

1807

  • Giacinta Toso (1807–1889){{cite encyclopedia|author=Renato Meucci|author2=Gabriele Rocchetti|encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani|volume= 85 |date=2016|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-antonio-maria-puzzi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|language=Italian |title=PUZZI, Giovanni Antonio Maria|publisher=Treccani}}

1808

  • Franziska Cornet (1808–1870){{cite book|title=Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary|author=Peter Clive|year= 2006|isbn=9781461722809|publisher=Scarecrow Press|page=89}}
  • Jane Shirreff (1808{{cite news |title=Chat from the Capital |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/18840101/007/0003 |access-date=2 June 2021 |work=Liverpool Echo |date=1 January 1884}}{{cite web |title=17 Holland Street, 1881 census |url=https://ukcensusonline.com/search/advanced/census/main-household/?hlt=164033067&county=337&y=1881&household_id=9163524&a=Search&hh=1&hs=1&cl=1&sscid=337&view_type=fullRecord&v=20 |website=UK Census Online |access-date=2 June 2021}}–1883){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Shirreff [Shireff], Jane|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O004982|author=Katherine K. Preston}}
  • Eugenia Tadolini (1808–1872){{cite encyclopedia|page=4635|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Tadolini, Eugenia|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}

1809

  • Sabine Heinefetter (1809–1872){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Heinefetter, Sabine |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380963|author1=C.A. Jahant|author2=Elizabeth Forbes|editor-first1=Elizabeth |editor-last1=Forbes |title=Heinefetter, Sabine |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Maria Theresia Löw (1809–1885){{cite encyclopedia|page=2668|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Löw, Maria Theresia|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Nadezhda Repina (1809–1867){{cite book|page=1177|title=Women & Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography|year=2007|publisher=Routledge|editor1=Mary Zirin|editor2=Irina Livezeanu|editor3=Christine D. Worobec|editor4=June Pachuta Farris|isbn=978-0765607379}}

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1810

  • Anna Bishop (1810–1884){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bishop, Anna [née Riviere]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03144|author=Nicholas Temperley}}
  • Konstancja Gładkowska (1810–1889){{cite encyclopedia|title=Gladkowska , Konstancja|encyclopedia=The Polish Biographical Dictionary:Profiles of Nearly 900 Poles who Have Made Lasting Contributions to World Civilization|author1=Stanley S. Sokol|author2= Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane|author3= Alfred L. Abramowicz|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers|year=1992|isbn=9780865162457|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IGOhdT-w1eIC&dq=Konstancja+Gładkowska+(1810–1889)&pg=PA126}}

1811

1812

  • Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani (1812–1867){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Tacchinardi-Persiani [née Tacchinardi], Fanny|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27350|author=Francesco Bussi|title=Tacchinardi-Persiani [née Tacchinardi], Fanny }}

1813

  • Teresa Brambilla (1813–1895){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Brambilla, Teresa|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380555|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Brambilla, Teresa |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Maria Flécheux (1813–1842){{cite book|title=Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848|page=150|chapter=Flécheux, Maria|author=Kimberly White|year= 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107101234}}

1814

  • Cornélie Falcon (1814–1897){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Falcon, (Marie) Cornélie |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09256|author=Philip E.J. Robinson|author2= Benjamin Walton|title=Falcon, (Marie) Cornélie }}
  • Mathilda Gelhaar (1814–1889){{cite encyclopedia|page=1680|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Gelhaar, Matilda|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}

1815

  • Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi (1815–1879){{cite encyclopedia|page=1389|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Falconi, Anna|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Rita Gabussi (c.1815–1891){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Gabussi [Gabussi-De Bassini], Rita |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O901841|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Gabussi [Gabussi-De Bassini], Rita }}
  • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli (1815–1891){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Salvini-Donatelli, Fanny [Lucchi, Francesca]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24434|author=Charles A. Jahant}}
  • Antonietta Marini-Rainieri (c. 1815–1870){{cite encyclopedia|page=3821|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Rainieri-Marini, Antonietta|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Mariya Stepanova (1815–1903){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2019|entry=Stepanova, Mariya Matveyevna |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904798|author=Elizabeth Forbes|author2=Laikin Simons|title=Stepanova, Mariya Matveyevna |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Giuseppina Strepponi (1815–1897){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Strepponi, Giuseppina [Clelia Maria Josepha]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26946|author=Julian Budden|title=Strepponi, Giuseppina |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}

1816

1817

  • Teresa De Giuli Borsi (1817–1877){{cite encyclopedia|page=1056|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Borsi, Teresa|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Adelina Catalani ({{flourished|1818|1832}}){{cite book|author=Dan H. Marek|title=Alto: The Voice of Bel Canto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=200UDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|date=20 October 2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-3589-2|page=151}}
  • Marianna Barbieri-Nini (1818–1887){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Barbieri-Nini, Marianna|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02008|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Barbieri-Nini, Marianna }}
  • Euphrasie Borghèse (born 1818){{cite book|page=141|title=Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848|author=Kimberly White|year=2018|isbn=9781108643191|publisher=Cambridge University Press|chapter=Borghèse, Juliette Euphrosine (née Bourgeois) (1818–?)}}
  • Livia Frege (1818–1891){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Frege [née Gerhard], Livia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10191|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Frege [née Gerhard], Livia }}
  • Erminia Frezzolini (1818–1884){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Frezzolini [Frezzolini-Poggi], Erminia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40467|author=John Rosselli|title=Frezzolini [Frezzolini-Poggi], Erminia |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Clara Novello (1818–1908){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Novello, Clara (Anastasia)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000381258|author=Rosemary Hughes|author2=Fiona M. Palmer|editor-first1=Fiona M. |editor-last1=Palmer |title=Novello, Clara |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Louise Sahlgreen (1818–1891){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Louise_Sahlgreen|title=Louise Sahlgreen|author=Lisbeth Ahlgren Jensen|date=22 April 2023 |publisher=Gyldendal|encyclopedia= Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|language=Danish}}

1819

  • Jeanne-Anaïs Castellan (1819– after 1858){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Castellan, Jeanne Anaïs|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05120|author=Philip E.J. Robinson}}
  • Wilhelmina Fundin (1819–1911){{cite book|page=205|title=I Stockholm och på sommarnöje 1849-1852: Marie-Louise Forsells sista dagboksanteckningar|year=1917|publisher=Bonnier|author1=Marie-Louise Forsell|author2= Syster Heijkenskjöld}}
  • Kathinka Heinefetter (1819–1858){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Heinefetter, Kathinka |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380965|author1=C.A. Jahant|author2=Elizabeth Forbes|editor-first1=Elizabeth |editor-last1=Forbes |title=Heinefetter, Kathinka |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Anna Thillon (1819-1903){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Thillon [née Hunt], Sophie Anne [Anna ]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27844|author1=Alexis Chitty|author2=Harold Rosenthal}}

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1820

1821

1822

  • Julie Berwald (1822–1877){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Berwald, Johan Fredrik|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.60000200218|author=Robert Layton|author2= Daniel M. Grimley|editor-first1=Daniel M. |editor-last1=Grimley |title=Berwald, Johan Fredrik |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Anna Zerr (1822–1881){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Zerr, Anna|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O011382|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}

1823

  • Louise Lavoye (1823–1897){{cite book|page=154|title=Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830-1848|author=Kimberly White|year=2018|isbn=9781108643191|publisher=Cambridge University Press|chapter=Lavoye , Anne Benoîte Louise ( 1823-1897 )}}
  • Rosina Penco (1823–1894){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Penco, Rosina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48397|author=John Rosselli}}
  • Paulina Rivoli (1823–1881){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Rivoli [Riwoli], Paulina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23546|author=Irena Poniatowska}}

1824

1825

  • Therese Braunecker-Schäfer (1825–1888){{cite book|page=1796|title=The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre: O-Z|author=Kurt Gänzl|year=2001|publisher=Schirmer Books|isbn=9780028655741|chapter=Schäfer, Therese [ née BRAUNECKER ] ( b Vienna , 3 April 1825 ; d Iglau , 8 March 1888 )}}
  • Malvina Garrigues (1825–1904){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Schnorr von Carolsfeld [née Garrigues], Malvina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.2079707|author=John Warrack|title=Schnorr von Carolsfeld [née Garrigues], Malvina |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Anna de La Grange (1825–1905){{cite book|title=The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont|page= 86|editor1=Pamela Herr|editor2=Mary Lee Spence|year=1993|isbn=9780252019425|publisher=University of Illinois Press}}
  • Balbina Steffenone (1825–1896){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9nKQ5o8G0nQC&dq=Balbina+Steffenone+(1825–1896)&pg=PA193|page=193|title=La symphonie dans la cité: Lille au XIXe siècle|author=Guy Gosselin|year= 2011|publisher=J. Vrin|isbn=9782711624041}}

1826

1827

1828

1829

  • Luisa Cappiani (1829–1919){{cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0e549350-47a7-0134-4d5c-00505686a51c|title=Cappiani, Luisa|work=The New York Public Library Digital Collections|publisher=New York Public Library|access-date=September 22, 2024}}
  • Lucy Escott (1829–1895){{Cite web |last=Gänzl |first=Kurt |author-link=Kurt Gänzl |date=2021-03-03 |title=Lucy Escott: Australia's greatest American prima donna |url=https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/profiles/item/681-lucy-escott-australia-s-greatest-american-prima-donna |access-date=2024-03-20 |website=Theatre Heritage Australia |language=en-GB}}
  • Delphine Ugalde (1829–1910){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Ugalde [née Beaucé], Delphine|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008041|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}

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1830

1831

  • Inez Fabbri (1831–1909){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Fabbri(-Mulder), Inez [Schmidt, Agnes]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47357|author=John A. Emerson|title=Fabbri(-Mulder), Inez }}
  • Emmy La Grua (1831{{cite encyclopedia|page=2577|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=La Grua, Emmy |year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}–1922){{cite web|url=https://www.theatermuseum.at/online-sammlung/detail/614719/|title=Emilie La Grua|publisher=Austrian Theatre Museum|access-date=September 22, 2024}}
  • Luise Meyer-Dustmann (1831–1899){{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians|year=1924|page=326|editor=Waldo Selden Pratt|title=Dustmann , Marie Luise , née Meyer ( Aix , 1831-1899 , Berlin )|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cN5RAQAAMAAJ&dq=Luise+Meyer-Dustmann+(1831–1899)&pg=PA326|publisher=Macmillan Company}}
  • Marcella Lotti della Santa (1831–1901){{cite book|publisher=Appleton-Century|title=The Mapleson Memoirs: The Career of an Operatic Impresario, 1858-1888|author=James Henry Mapleson|year= 1966|editor=Harold Rosenthal|chapter=LOTTI DELLA SANTA , Marcella ( 1831- 1901 )|page=323}}
  • Thérèse Tietjens (1831–1877){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Tietjens [Titiens], Therese (Carolina Johanna Alexandra )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27950|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}

1832

  • Caroline Duprez (1832–1875){{cite encyclopedia|page=1258|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Duprez, Caroline|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Eleonora Ehrenbergová (1832–1912){{cite book|title=Antonín Dvořák, korespondence a dokumenty: Korespondence odeslaná 1896-1904|author1= Milan Kuna|author2= Ludmila Bradová|year=1995|publisher=Supraphon|page=365|chapter=EHRENBERGOVÁ, Eleonora|isbn=978-80-7058-336-4 }}

1833

  • Mathilda Enequist (1833–1898){{cite book|page=143|title=The Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Belfast|author=Roy Johnston|year=2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781351542104}}
  • Hortense Schneider (1833–1920){{Cite book|page=44|title=L'opéra dans la fiction narrative française de 1850 à 1914|author= Thierry Santurenne|year= 2003|isbn=9782284045946|publisher=Atelier national de reproduction des thèses}}
  • Marie Wilt (1833–1891){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Wilt, Marie (Liebenthaler )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O905666|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}

1834

  • Ottilie Genée (1834–1911){{cite book|page=102|title=Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840-1940|author=John Koegel|year= 2009|isbn=9781580462150|publisher=University of Rochester Press}}
  • Pauline Guéymard-Lauters (1834–1918)[http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/personnages/Gueymard-Lauters.html Pauline Lauters entry at Art Lyrique website] accessed 23 August 2019. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191030071251/http://www.artlyriquefr.fr/personnages/Gueymard-Lauters.html Archive copy (30 October 2019)].
  • Helen Lemmens-Sherrington (1834–1906){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Lemmens-Sherrington [née Sherrington], Helen|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.16386|author=George Grove|author2=Bruce Carr}}
  • Luise Limbach (1834–1909){{cite encyclopedia|page=2725|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Limbach, Luise |year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Angiolina Ortolani-Tiberini (1834–1913){{cite book|page=129|title=The Monumental Cemetery of Milan: Historical Guide|author=Giovanna Ginex|author2= Ornella Selvafolta|year=1996|publisher=Silvana Editoriale|isbn=9788836605118}}
  • Marietta Piccolomini (1834–1899){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Piccolomini, Marietta|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.21680|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Piccolomini, Marietta }}
  • Ema Pukšec (1834–1889){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Murska, Ilma de [di] [Pukšec, Ema]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07815|author=Nada Bezić}}
  • Marie Sasse (1834–1907){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Sasse [Sax, Saxe, Sass], Marie (Constance ) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47796|author1=Ronald Crichton|author2=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Sasse [Sax, Saxe, Sass], Marie }}
  • Teresa Stolz (1834–1902){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Stolz [Stolzová], Teresa [Teresina, Terezie]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26839|author=Andrew Porter}}
  • Lise Tautin (1834–1874){{cite encyclopedia|page=897|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Cor, Mlle|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}

1835

1836

1837

  • Wilhelmina Gelhaar (1837–1923){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTFDDwAAQBAJ|year=2017|title=Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe|isbn=9781315466439|publisher=Taylor & Francis|editor=Jens Hesselager|author=Owe Ander|chapter=Halévy’s La Juive in Stockholm, 1866}}
  • Signe Hebbe (1837–1925){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://skbl.se/en/article/SigneHebbe|encyclopedia=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|title=Signe Amanda Georgina Hebbe|year=2018|author=Inga Lewenhaupt}}
  • Lucille Tostée (1837–1874){{cite book|page=44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OJg4DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lucille+Tostée%22+%221874%22&pg=PA44|title=Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America|author=Katherine K. Preston|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199371662}}

1838

  • Marie Battu (1838–1919){{Cite web|url=https://data.bnf.fr/14751123/marie_battu/|title=Marie Battu (1837-1919)|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France|date=September 21, 2024}}
  • Julia Espín y Pérez de Collbrand (1838–1906){{cite journal|url=https://digibuo.uniovi.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10651/32023/Julia%20Espín%20y%20los%20arquetipos%20románticos%20femeninos.pdf?sequence=9&isAllowed=y|title=Julia Espín y los arquetipos románticos femeninos|author=Gloria Araceli Rodríguez Lorenzo|language=Spanish|journal=Associació Valenciana de Musicologia|year=2015|page= 55-65}}
  • Adele Passy-Cornet (1838–1915){{cite book|chapter=PASSY - CORNET , ADELE ( b . Braunschweig , 22 January 1838 [ ? 1834 ] ; d . Nuremberg , 2 November 1915 )|author=H. P. Clive|year=2006|title=Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary|page=338|isbn=9780810857216|publisher=Scarecrow Press}}
  • Sophie Stehle (1838–1921){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Stehle, Sophie |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O904797|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Stehle, Sophie }}

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  • Antonietta Fricci (1840–1912){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Fricci [Frietsche], Antonietta|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O901633|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Júlia Gusztinyi ({{flourished|1840}} – died 1849){{cite book|page=266|title=Magyar színházművészeti lexikon|chapter=Gusztinyi, Júlia|year=1994|publisher=Akadémiai Kiadó|editor=György Székely|isbn=9789630566353|url=https://mek-oszk-hu.translate.goog/02100/02139/html/sz08/245.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=hu&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc}}

1841

  • Zulma Bouffar (1841–1909){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Bouffar [Boufflar], Zulma (Madeleine )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900636|author=Kurt Gänzl|title=Bouffar [Boufflar], Zulma }}
  • Alice Ducasse (1841–1923)
  • Pauline Lucca (1841–1908){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Lucca, Pauline|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.17104|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Aglaja Orgeni (1841–1926){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Orgéni, Aglaja [Görger St Jörgen, Anna Maria von ]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20456|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Orgéni, Aglaja }}
  • Yuliya Platonova (1841–1892){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Platonova [Garder], Yuliya [Julia] Fyodorovna|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002322|author=Boris Semeonoff}}

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1892

  • Florence Austral (1892–1968){{Cite web|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111770|title=Austral, Florence (1892–1968), singer |work= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2019 |language=en|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111770|access-date=2019-12-30|last1=Neill |first1=Roger |isbn=9780198614128 }}
  • Valeria Barsova (1892–1967){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry= Barsova [née Vladimirova], Valeriya (Vladimirovna) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02132|author=I.M. Yampol′sky}}
  • Santa Biondo (1892–1989)
  • Margherita Grandi (1892–1972)
  • Zinaida Jurjewskaja (1892–1925){{cite web |last1=Reinhart |first1=Heili |title=Zinaida Jurjevskaja – Tartust tõusnud ja Šveitsis kärestikku langenud täht |url=https://naine.postimees.ee/3966327/zinaida-jurjevskaja-tartust-tousnud-ja-sveitsis-karestikku-langenud-taht |website=Naine |access-date=26 September 2024 |language=et |date=3 January 2017 | trans-title=Zinaida Jurjevskaja - a star who rose from Tartu and fell into a rapid in Switzerland}}
  • Aga Lahowska (1892–1962)
  • Winifred Lawson (1892–1961)
  • Maria Litvinenko-Volgemut (1892–1966){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry= Lytvynenko-Vol’hemut, Mariya (Ivanovna )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O902729|author=I.M. Yampol′sky|title= Lytvynenko-Vol'hemut, Mariya}}
  • Emma Luart (1892–1968){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Luart [Lawaert], Emma |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41588|author=J.B. Steane}}
  • Dorothee Manski (1892–1967)
  • Edith Mason (1892{{cite encyclopedia|editor=Albert Ernest Wier|year=1938|title=Mason, Edith|encyclopedia=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Volume 2|publisher=MacMillan|page= 1136}}–1973){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/edith-mason-dies-leading-soprano-favorite-at-chicago-opera-also.html|title=EDITH MASON DIES; LEADING SOPRANO|work=The New York Times|date=November 27, 1973|page= 47}}
  • Gladys Moncrieff (1892–1976){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry= Moncrieff, Gladys ( Lillian )unlocked |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18939|author=Roger Covell}}
  • Delia Reinhardt (1892–1974){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Reinhardt, Delia|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23138|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Gilda dalla Rizza (1892–1975){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Dalla Rizza, Gilda|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07084|author=Harold Rosenthal}}
  • Lisa Roma (1892–1965)
  • Eva Turner (1892–1990){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Turner, Dame Eva |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.28620|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth|title=Turner, Dame Eva }}

1893

1894

1895

1896

  • Eva Didur (born 1896)
  • Queena Mario (1896–1951){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Mario [Tillotson], Queena|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002168|author=Philip L. Miller|title=Mario [Tillotson], Queena }}
  • Rosetta Pampanini (1896–1973){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Pampanini, Rosetta |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.20793|author= Rodolfo Celletti}}
  • Evelyn Scotney (1896–1967)
  • Ebba Wilton (1896–1951)

1897

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1900

  • Erna Berger (1900–1990){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Berger, Erna |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02782|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Margit Bokor (1900{{cite encyclopedia|last= Schindler|first= Agata|entry-url= https://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00002790|entry=Margit Bokor|encyclopedia=Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnen der NS-Zeit|access-date=18 February 2019}} or 1903{{cite book| last1= Kutsch|first1= K.-J.|author1-link = Karl-Josef Kutsch|last2= Riemens|first2=Leo|author2-link=Leo Riemens|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dsfq_5dFeL0C&pg=480|chapter=Bokor, Margit|title=Großes Sängerlexikon|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|edition=4th|language=de|year=2012|pages=480–481|isbn=978-3-59-844088-5}}–1949)
  • Mary Bothwell (1900- died mid 1970s){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-bothwell-emc|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|date=December 16, 2013|title=Mary Bothwell}}
  • Vina Bovy (1900–1983){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Bovy, Vina [Van Overberghe, Malvina Johanna Pauline Félicité ] |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900773|author=Harold Rosenthal}}
  • Josepha Chekova (1900–1968){{cite news|work=The Courier-News|date=March 13, 1968|title=Obituaries: Josepha Domansky, 68, Soprano|page=40}}
  • Gina Cigna (1900–2001){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Cigna, Gina [Sens, Genoveffa; Sens, Ginetta]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05778|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Joan Cross (1900–1993){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Cross, Joan (Annie) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06872|author=Bryan Crimp|title=Cross, Joan }}
  • Mary Ellis (1900–2003){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Ellis [Elsas], Mary |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48351|author=Paul Webb}}
  • Anni Frind (1900–1987){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/anni-frind-soprano-is-dead-performed-in-20-s-and-30-s.html|title=Anni Frind, Soprano, Is Dead; Performed in 20's and 30's|work=The New York Times|date=April 11, 1987|page= 32}}
  • Helga Görlin (1900–1993){{cite encyclopedia|page=1767|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title=Görlin, Helga|year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Evelyn Laye (1900–1996){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry= Laye, Evelyn |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.52326|editor=Stanley Sadie}}
  • Mary Lewis (1900–1941){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Lewis, Mary|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002667|author=J. B. Steane|title=Lewis, Mary }}
  • Audrey Mildmay (1900–1953){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Mildmay, (Grace) Audrey (Louise St John)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002336|author=Harold Rosenthal}}
  • Wanda Wermińska (1900–1988){{citation needed|date=September 2024}}

1901

1902

  • Beatrice Belkin (1902–1998)>Beatrice B. Littau in the U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
  • Colette D'Arville (1902–1944){{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/12/17/archives/colette-darville-soprano-42-is-dead.html|title=Colette D'Arville, Soprano, 42, Is Dead|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 December 1944}}
  • Sybil Gordon (1902–1981)Stone, David. [http://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/G/GordonSybil.htm Sybil Gordon], Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 23 September 2020, accessed 15 November 2020
  • Zoia Gaidai (1902–1965){{cite web|last=The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979)|title=Gaidai, Zoia Mikhailovna|url=http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gaidai,+Zoia+Mikhailovna|publisher=The Free Encyclopedia|access-date=1 July 2012}}
  • Dusolina Giannini (1902–1986){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Giannini, Dusolina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11076|author=Max de Schauensee}}
  • Hedwig Hillengaß (1902–1970){{Cite encyclopedia|title=Hillengaß, Hedwig|encyclopedia=Deutsches Theater-Lexikon|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-028755-4|year=2019|author=Ingrid Bigler-Marschall|url=https://www.degruyter.com/database/DTLO/entry/dtlo.2.1785/html}}
  • Anny Konetzni (1902–1968)){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Konetzni(-Wiedmann), Anny)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.15324|author=Peter Branscombe}}
  • Bidu Sayão (1902–1999){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Sayão, Bidú [Balduina] (de Oliveira) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.24672|author=Martin Bernheimer|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Maria Sokil (1902–1999){{Cite web |date=2015-12-10 |title=Марія Сокіл – співуча українська зірка ХХ ст. |url=http://istznu.org/dc/file.php?host_id=1&path=/page/issues/17/17/velichko.pdf |access-date=2024-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210194911/http://istznu.org/dc/file.php?host_id=1&path=/page/issues/17/17/velichko.pdf |archive-date=2015-12-10 |language=uk}}
  • Alice Tully (1902–1993){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2016|entry=Tully, Alice (Bigelow )|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2293220|author=Gary Galván}}
  • Hatsue Yuasa (1902– after 1943)

1903

  • Gitta Alpár (1903–1991){{cite encyclopedia|page=69|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Alpar, Gitta |year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Helena Braun (1903–1990){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Braun, Helena |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O011284|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Muriel Dickson (1903–1990)Stone, David. [https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/D/DicksonMuriel.htm Muriel Dickson]. Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 15 August 2003, accessed 28 September 2024
  • Irene Eisinger (1903–1994){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Eisinger, Irene|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O009069|author=J. B. Steane|title=Eisinger, Irene }}
  • Mafalda Favero (1903–1981){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Favero, Mafalda|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.09378|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Marie-Thérèse Gauley (1903–1992){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://opera1900.ovh/personnages/Gauley%20M%20T.html|author1=Clément, Félix|author2=Wolff, Stéphane|year=2019|title=Marie-Thérèse Gauley|encyclopedia=Encyclopédie de l'art lyrique français|publisher= Association l'Art Lyrique Français|access-date=28 September 2024|language=French}}
  • Nanette Guilford (1903–1990){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/20/obituaries/nanette-guilford-met-opera-singer-voice-teacher-86.html|title=Nanette Guilford, Met Opera Singer, Voice Teacher, 86|last=Kozinn|first=Allan|date=1990-03-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-16|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
  • Anny Helm (1903–1993){{cite encyclopedia|page=2025|first1= K. J.|last1= Kutsch|first2= Leo|last2= Riemens|encyclopedia=Grosses Sängerlexikon|publisher=K. G. Saur Verlag|editor-first=Hansjörg|editor-last= Rost|title= Helm, Anny |year=2003|isbn=9783598440885}}
  • Frances James (1903–1988)
  • Jeanette MacDonald (1903–1965){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=MacDonald, Jeanette |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47010|author=Jean W. Thomas}}
  • Verna Osborne (1903–2006)
  • Noémie Pérugia (1903–1992)
  • Maria Reining (1903–1991){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Reining, Maria|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23149|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Margaret Ritchie (1903–1969){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Ritchie, Margaret [Ritchie, Mabel Willard]|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O006710|author=Desmond Shawe-Taylor}}
  • Ina Souez (1903–1992){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Souez [née Rains], Ina|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41629|author=J. B. Steane|title=Souez [née Rains], Ina }}
  • Pia Tassinari (1903–1995){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry=Tassinari, Pia (Domenica)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.41631|author=J. B. Steane|title=Tassinari, Pia }}
  • Margarete Teschemacher (1903–1959){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Teschemacher, Margarete|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27731|author=Harold Rosenthal|author2=Alan Blyth}}
  • Geneviève Touraine (1903–1982)
  • Sim Viva (1903–1982)

1904

  • İclal Ar (1904–2007)
  • Irma Beilke (1904–1989){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Beilke, Irma|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900500|author=Elizabeth Forbes|title=Beilke, Irma }}
  • Iris Adami Corradetti (1904–1998){{cite web |url=https://www.padovanet.it/informazione/biografia-di-iris-adami-corradetti |title=Biografia di Iris Adami Corradetti: La vita dell'artista italiana |trans-title=Biography of Iris Adami Corradetti: The life of an Italian artist |website=Padovanet |date=6 July 2018 |publisher=Comune di Padova |language=it |access-date=22 January 2022}}
  • Margarethe Düren (1904– c.1988)
  • Sybil Evers (1904–1963)
  • Karen-Marie Flagstad (1904–1992)
  • Lillie Grandval (1904–2000)
  • Bahrija Nuri Hadžić (1904–1993)
  • Else-Marie Hansen (1904–2003)
  • Helen Jepson (1904–1997){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2020|entry=Jepson, Helen |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O007429|author=Richard LeSueur|title=Jepson, Helen |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 }}
  • Stella Roman (1904–1992){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2009|entry= Roman, Stella [Blasu, Florica Vierica Alma Stela] |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23724|author=Richard LeSueur|title= Roman, Stella }}
  • Joan Ruth (c.1904– after 1944)
  • Erna Schlüter (1904–1969){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Schlüter, Erna |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008670|author=David Cummings}}

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1940

  • Claudine Arnaud (1940–2017)
  • Josephine Barstow (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Barstow, Dame Josephine (Clare)|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02133|author=Alan Blyth}}
  • Beverley Bergen (born 1940){{cite book|title=Southern Voices: International Opera Singers of New Zealand|chapter=Bergen, Beverley|author1=Adrienne Simpson|author2= Peter Downes|year= 1992|isbn=9780790002255|publisher=Reed Publishing}}
  • Dorothea Chryst (born 1940)
  • Gilda Cruz-Romo (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Cruz-Romeo [Cruz-Romo, Cruz-Romero], Gilda|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002480|author=Noël Goodwin}}
  • Helen Donath (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2013|entry=Donath, Helen|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2234998|author=Elizabeth Forbes|author2=James Bash|title=Donath, Helen }}
  • Beatriz Parra Durango (born 1940)
  • Kay Griffel (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Griffel, Kay |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O011478|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}
  • Rotraud Hansmann (born 1940)
  • Hana Janků (1940–1995){{Cite Grove |author=David Cummings|title=Janků, Hana |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O902402|date=1 December 1992}}
  • Anu Kaal (born 1940)
  • Lilleba Lund Kvandal (1940–2016)
  • Tiiu Levald (born 1940)
  • Mary Beth Peil (born 1940)
  • Galina Savova (1940{{Cite encyclopedia|date=2002|entry=Savova, Galina |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O008192|author=Elizabeth Forbes}}–2021){{cite news|url=https://blitz-bg.translate.goog/stsena/kak-impresariite-na-pavaroti-iskakha-galina-savova-v-pamet-na-opernata-ni-prima_news794352.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp|title=Как импресариите на Павароти искаха Галина Савова – в памет на оперната ни прима|author= София, България |date=January 19, 2021|work=Bltiz Media}}
  • Anja Silja (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=2001|entry=Silja, Anja|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.25772|author=Alan Blyth}}
  • Radmila Smiljanić (born 1940){{Cite encyclopedia|date=13 January 2015|entry=Smiljanić, Radmila|encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.2274358|author=Lana Paćuka|title=Smiljanić, Radmila }}
  • Elisabeth Speiser (born 1940)
  • Heather Thomson (born 1940)

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