Versatile baritone who appeared on television in Britten’s opera for the medium, Owen Wingrave, and in The Good Old Days

Conductor who won the inaugural Philharmonia competition and recorded Brahms with the Hallé and Beethoven with the London Symphony Orchestra

Soprano at the heart of productions of the Ring cycle and other Wagner operas conducted by Reginald Goodall

Pianist who won the Chopin competition at 19 and who had an intellectual approach to art and life

Tenor whose robust and attractive tone enhanced a thrillingly heroic delivery

Dramatically intense soprano with a scintillating if hard-edged tone who relished the role of a diva both on and off stage

Versatile singer whose roles ranged from Wagner and Janáček to Dido in the first complete performance of Berlioz’s Les Troyens

Countertenor with a clean, focused and lyrical approach to both early and new music, including roles in two Britten operas

Arts administrator who founded the London Sinfonietta and led the Southbank Centre and Glyndebourne