CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF FAMOUS SINGERS.
The dates in italic are not authenticated.
| Name | Birth | Début | Retired | Death |
| Ferri, Baldassare | 1610 | 1621 | 1680 | |
| Abell, John | 1660 | 1682 | 1716 | |
| Nicolini, Nicolo Grimaldi | 1673 | 1694 | 1726 | ? |
| Leveridge, Richard | 1670 | 1695 | 1730 | 1758 |
| Tofts, Mrs. Katharine | ? | 1703 | 1709 | 1740 |
| Epine, Francesca Margherita | ? | 1704 | 1718 | ? |
| Valentini, Valentino Urbani | ? | 1707 | 1714 | ? |
| Boschi, Giuseppe | ? | 1711 | 1728 | ? |
| Bernacchi, Antonio | 1690 | 1712 | 1730 | 1756 |
| Galeratti, Catherina | ? | 1714 | 1721 | ? |
| Robinson, Anastasia | ? | 1715 | 1722 | 1750 |
| Bordoni, Faustina (Hasse) | 1700 | 1716 | 1756 | 1783 |
| Cuzzoni, Francesca (Sandoni) | 1700 | 1719 | 1750 | 1770 |
| Senesino, Francesco Bernardi | 1680 | 1719 | 1735 | 1750 |
| Tesi, Tramentini Vittoria | 1690 | 1719 | 1749 | 1775 |
| Durastanti, Margherita | 1695 | 1720 | 1734 | ? |
| Carestini, Giovanni | 1705 | 1721 | 1758 | 1758 |
| Farinelli (Carlo Broschi) | 1705 | 1722 | 1762 | 1782 |
| Borosini, Francesco | 1695 | 1723 | ? | ? |
| Caffarelli, Gaetano Majorano | 1703 | 1724 | 1750 | 1783 |
| Fenton, Lavinia (Duchess of Bolton) | ? | 1726 | 1731 | 1760 |
| Fabri, Annibale | 1697 | 1729 | ? | 1760 |
| Gizziello, Gioacchino Conti | 1714 | 1729 | 1753 | 1761 |
| Monticelli, Angelo Maria | 1710 | 1730 | ? | 1764[{326}] |
| Beard, John | 1717 | 1736 | 1767 | 1791 |
| Raff, Anton | 1714 | 1738 | 1779 | 1797 |
| Amorevoli, Angelo | 1716 | 1741 | ? | 1798 |
| Guarducci, Tommasso Toscano | 1720 | 1745 | 1771 | ? |
| Guadagni, Gaetano | 1725 | 1747 | 1784 | 1797 |
| Gabrielli, Caterina | 1730 | 1747 | 1780 | 1796 |
| Mingotti, Regina | 1728 | 1748 | 1787 | 1807 |
| Ciprandi, Ercole | 1738 | 1754 | 1763 | 1790 |
| Arnould, Madeleine Sophie | 1744 | 1757 | 1778 | 1803 |
| Calori, Angiola | 1732 | 1758 | 1783 | 1790 |
| Tenducci, Giusto Fernandino | 1736 | 1758 | 1791 | 1800 |
| Catley, Anne | 1745 | 1762 | 1784 | 1789 |
| Amici, Anna Lucia de | 1740 | 1763 | 1789 | ? |
| Manzuoli, Giovanni | 1725 | 1764 | 1771 | ? |
| Ranzzini, Venanzio | 1747 | 1765 | 1810 | |
| Pacchierotti, Gasparo | 1744 | 1769 | 1796 | 1821 |
| Ansani, Giovanni | 1750 | 1770 | 1800 | 1815 |
| Allegranti, Madalena | ? | 1771 | 1799 | ? |
| Rubinelli, Giovanni Battista | 1753 | 1771 | 1800 | 1829 |
| Mara, Gertrude Elizabeth | 1749 | 1771 | 1800 | 1833 |
| Lebrun, Francesca | 1756 | 1771 | 1790 | 1791 |
| Davies, Cecilia | 1752 | 1773 | 1791 | 1836 |
| Marchesi, Luigi | 1755 | 1774 | 1806 | 1829 |
| Cavalieri, Katharina | 1761 | 1775 | 1793 | 1801 |
| Saint Huberty, Antoinette Cécile | 1756 | 1777 | 1789 | 1812 |
| Solié, Jean Pierre | 1755 | 1778 | 1812 | |
| Kelly, Michael | 1764 | 1779 | 1826 | 1826 |
| Banti, Brigitta Giorgi | 1759 | 1779 | ? | 1806 |
| Adamberger, Valentin | 1743 | 1780 | ? | 1804 |
| Babbini, Matteo | 1754 | 1780 | 1802 | 1816 |
| Crouch, Mrs. Anna Maria | 1763 | 1780 | 1800 | 1805 |
| Garat, Pierre Jean | 1764 | ? | 1814 | 1823 |
| Storace, Ann Selina | 1766 | 1780 | 1808 | 1817 |
| Sestini, Giovanna | ? | 1783 | 1791 | ? |
| Crescentini, Girolamo | 1766 | 1783 | 1812 | 1846 |
| Incledon, Charles Benjamin | 1763 | 1784 | 1826 | 1826 |
| Bassi, Luigi | 1766 | 1784 | 1815 | 1825 |
| Vogl, Johann Michael | 1768 | ? | ? | 1840[{327}] |
| Schröder-Devrient, Wilhelmine | 1804 | 1821 | 1847 | 1860 |
| Billington, Mrs. Elizabeth (née Weichsel) | 1768 | 1784 | 1809 | 1818 |
| Saint Aubin, Jeanne Charlotte Schroeder | 1764 | 1786 | 1818 | 1850 |
| Dickons, Mrs. (née Poole) | 1770 | 1787 | 1822 | 1833 |
| Braham, John | 1774 | 1787 | 1852 | 1856 |
| Bertinotti, Teresa | 1776 | 1788 | 1823 | 1854 |
| Lazzarini, Gustavo | 1765 | 1789 | 1802 | ? |
| Crivelli, Gaetano | 1774 | 1793 | 1829 | 1836 |
| Grassini, Josephine | 1773 | 1794 | 1817 | 1850 |
| Pellegrini, Felice | 1774 | 1795 | 1829 | 1832 |
| Catalani, Angelica | 1779 | 1795 | 1828 | 1849 |
| Campenhout, François van | 1780 | 1797 | 1827 | 1848 |
| Siboni, Giuseppe | 1780 | 1797 | 1818 | 1839 |
| Velluti, Giovanni Battista | 1781 | 1800 | 1829 | 1861 |
| Tacchinardi, Niccolo | 1776 | 1804 | 1831 | 1850 |
| Galli, Filippo | 1783 | 1804 | 1830 | 1853 |
| Colbran (Rossini), Isabella Angela | 1785 | 1806 | 1824 | 1845 |
| Forti, Anton | 1790 | 1807 | ? | 1859 |
| Rubini, Giovanni Battista | 1795 | 1807 | 1844 | 1854 |
| Garcia, Manuel del Popolo Vicente | 1775 | 1808 | 1828 | 1832 |
| Davide, Giovanni | 1789 | 1810 | 1841 | 1851 |
| Fodor-Mainvielle, Josephine | 1793 | 1810 | 1833 | ? |
| Pisaroni, Benedetta Rosamunda | 1793 | 1811 | 1829 | 1872 |
| Stephens, Catherine | 1794 | 1812 | 1835 | 1882 |
| Lablache, Luigi | 1794 | 1812 | 1856 | 1856 |
| Begnis, Giuseppe de | 1793 | 1813 | ? | 1849 |
| Begnis, Signora Claudine Ronzi de | 1800 | 1819 | ? | 1853 |
| Brighenti, Mme. Maria | 1792 | 1814 | 1836 | ? |
| Camporese, Violanti | 1785 | 1816 | 1829 | ? |
| Pasta, Giuditta | 1798 | 1816 | 1850 | 1865 |
| Donzelli, Domenico | 1790 | 1816 | 1841 | 1873 |
| Boccabadati, Luigia | ? | 1817 | ? | 1850 |
| Tamburini, Antonio | 1800 | 1818 | 1859 | 1876 |
| Damoreau, Laure Cinthie Montalant | 1801 | 1819 | 1846 | 1863 |
| Sontag, Henriette (Countess Rossi) | 1805 | 1820 | 1854 | 1854 |
| Curioni, Alberico | 1790 | 1815 | ? | ? |
| Nourrit, Adolphe | 1802 | 1821 | 1839 | 1839[{328}] |
| Schröder-Devrient, Wilhelmine | 1804 | 1821 | 1847 | 1860 |
| Frischer-Achten, Frau | 1805 | 1821 | 1856 | 1896 |
| Unger, Caroline | 1805 | 1821 | 1840 | 1877 |
| Caradori-Allan, Maria Caterina Rosalbina | 1800 | 1822 | 1846 | 1865 |
| Paton, Mary Anne | 1802 | 1822 | 1844 | 1863 |
| Duprez, Gilbert | 1806 | 1825 | 1842 | 1896 |
| Gras, Mme. Julie Aimèe Dorus | 1807 | 1825 | 1851 | 1896 |
| Malibran, Maria Felicita | 1808 | 1825 | 1836 | 1836 |
| Badiale, Cesare | 1800 | 1827 | 1865 | 1865 |
| Brambilla, Marietta | 1807 | 1827 | ? | ? |
| Templeton, John | 1802 | 1828 | 1852 | |
| Staudigl, Joseph | 1807 | 1827 | 1856 | 1861 |
| Grisi, Giulia | 1812 | 1829 | 1861 | 1869 |
| Albertazzi, Emma | 1814 | 1830 | 1846 | 1847 |
| Seguin, Arthur Edward Shelden | 1809 | 1831 | ? | 1852 |
| Ronconi, Giorgio | 1810 | 1831 | 1874 | 1890 |
| Bishop, Mme. Anna | 1814 | 1831 | ? | 1884 |
| Persiani, Fanny | 1812 | 1832 | 1858 | 1867 |
| Stoltz, Rosina | 1815 | 1832 | 1849 | ? |
| Loewe, Johanna Sophie | 1815 | 1832 | 1848 | 1866 |
| Frege, Mme. (Livia Gerhard) | 1818 | 1832 | ? | 1847 |
| Moriani, Napoleone | 1806 | 1833 | 1847 | 1878 |
| Novello, Clara Anastasia | 1818 | 1833 | 1860 | |
| Shaw, Mary (Mrs. Alfred Shaw) | 1814 | 1834 | 1843 | 1876 |
| Poole, Elizabeth | 1820 | 1834 | 1870 | |
| Pischek, Johann Baptist | 1814 | 1835 | 1863 | 1873 |
| Nau, Maria Dolores Benedicta Josephina | 1818 | 1836 | 1856 | |
| Sequin, Mrs. (Ann Childe) | 1818 | 1836 | 1889 | |
| Castellan, Jeanne Anaïs | 1819 | 1836 | 1859 | |
| Tichatschek, Joseph Alois | 1807 | 1837 | 1870 | 1885 |
| Fraschini, Gaetano | 1815 | 1837 | 1870 | |
| Viardot-Garcia, Pauline | 1821 | 1837 | 1870 | |
| Mario, Chevaliere di Candia | 1812 | 1838 | 1867 | 1883 |
| Belletti, Giovanni | 1813 | 1838 | 1863 | |
| Roger, Gustave Hyppolite | 1815 | 1838 | 1859 | 1879 |
| Frezzolini, Erminia | 1818 | 1838 | 1853 | 1884[{329}] |
| Thillon, Anna | 1819 | 1838 | 1856 | |
| Lind-Goldschimidt, Jenny | 1820 | 1838 | 1870 | 1887 |
| Harrison, William | 1813 | 1839 | ? | 1868 |
| Reeves, John Sims | 1822 | 1839 | 1891 | |
| Gardoni, Enrico | 1821 | 1840 | 1874 | 1882 |
| Rudersdorff, Mme. Herminie | 1822 | 1840 | 1872 | 1882 |
| Tamberlik, Enrico | 1820 | 1841 | 1877 | 1889 |
| Saiuton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen | 1821 | 1841 | 1870 | 1885 |
| Formes, Karl | 1810 | 1842 | ? | 1889 |
| Weiss, Willoughby Hunter | 1820 | 1842 | 1867 | |
| Alboni, Marietta | 1823 | 1843 | 1871 | 1894 |
| Reichardt, Alexander | 1825 | 1843 | 1857 | |
| Wagner, Johanna | 1828 | 1844 | 1861 | 1894 |
| Ander, Aloys | 1821 | 1845 | 1864 | 1864 |
| Gassier, Edouard | 1822 | 1845 | 1871 | |
| Hayes, Catharine | 1825 | 1845 | 1857 | 1861 |
| Formes, Theodora | 1826 | 1846 | 1864 | |
| Borghi, Adelaide | 1829 | 1846 | 1870 | |
| Bosio, Angiolina | 1830 | 1846 | 1859 | 1859 |
| Cruvelli, Jeanne Sophie Charlotte | 1826 | 1847 | 1855 | |
| Burde-Ney, Jenny | 1826 | 1847 | 1886 | |
| Pyne, Louisa Fanny | 1832 | 1847 | 1868 | ? |
| Cabel, Marie Josephe (née Dreulette) | 1827 | 1849 | 1877 | 1885 |
| Carvalho, Mme. Marie Caroline Félix | 1827 | 1849 | 1882 | 1895 |
| Niemann, Albert | 1831 | 1849 | 1887 | |
| Tietiens, Therese Caroline Johanna | 1831 | 1849 | 1877 | 1877 |
| Nantier-Didier, Constance Betsy Rosabelle | 1831 | 1850 | 1867 | |
| Stockhausen, Julius | 1826 | 1848 | 1870 | |
| Faure, Jean Baptiste | 1830 | 1852 | ||
| Piccolomini, Maria | 1836 | 1852 | 1863 | |
| Parepa-Rosa, Euphrosine de Boyesku | 1836 | 1852 | 1873 | 1874 |
| Bettini, Alessandro | 1830 | 1853 | ||
| Wachtel, Theodor | 1823 | 1854 | 1893 | |
| Sedie, Enrico Delle | 1826 | 1854 | 1870 | [{330}] |
| Phillips, Adelaide | 1833 | 1854 | 1881 | 1882 |
| Wilt, Marie | 1834 | 1857 | 1878 | 1891 |
| Nicolini, Ernest Nicolas | 1834 | 1855 | 1878 | 1898 |
| Betz, Franz | 1835 | 1856 | ||
| Rokitansky, Victor F. von | 1836 | 1856 | 1871 | |
| Peschka-Leutner, Mme. Minna | 1839 | 1856 | 1890 | |
| Giuglini, Antonio | 1826 | 1857 | 1862 | 1865 |
| Fancelli, Giuseppe | 1836 | ? | ? | 1889 |
| Santley, Charles | 1834 | 1857 | ||
| Marimon, Marie | 1839 | 1857 | 1884 | |
| Artôt, Mme. Marguerite Josephine D. M. | 1835 | 1857 | 1887 | |
| Naudin, Emilio | 1823 | 1858 | 1880 | |
| Whitney, Myron W. | 1836 | 1858 | 1897 | |
| Galli-Marié, Mme. Celestine | 1840 | 1859 | ||
| Lucca, Pauline | 1841 | 1859 | 1884 | |
| Patti-Nicolini, Mme. Adelina | 1843 | 1859 | ||
| Trebelli-Bettini, Mme. Zelia | 1838 | 1859 | 1892 | |
| Sherrington, Mme. Lemmens | 1834 | 1860 | ||
| Scaria, Emil | 1838 | 1860 | 1884 | 1886 |
| Krauss, Marie Gabrielle | 1842 | 1860 | ? | |
| Foli, Allan James (Foley) | 1841 | 1861 | ||
| Agnesi, Louis Ferdinand Leopold | 1833 | 1861 | 1871 | |
| Capoul, Joseph Victor Amédée | 1839 | 1861 | 1895 | |
| Patti, Carlotta | 1840 | 1861 | 1880 | 1889 |
| Kellogg, Clara Louise | 1842 | 1861 | 1882 | |
| Murska, Ilma di | 1836 | 1862 | 1878 | 1889 |
| Kraus, Dr. Emil | 1840 | 1889 | ||
| Henschel, Georg | 1850 | 1862 | ||
| Nilsson, Christine | 1843 | 1864 | 1888 | |
| Materna, Amalie (Frau Friedrich) | 1847 | 1864 | 1894 | |
| Patey, Janet Monach | 1842 | 1865 | 1894 | |
| Vogl, Heinrich | 1845 | 1865 | ||
| Vogl, Theresa Thoma | 1846 | 1865 | ||
| Roze, Marie | 1846 | 1865 | ||
| Nachbaur, Franz | 1835 | 1865 | ||
| Lloyd, Edward | 1845 | 1866 | ||
| Adams, Charles R. | 1848 | 1866 | 1879 | [{331}] |
| Scalchi, Sophia | 1850 | 1866 | ||
| Brandt, Marianne | 1842 | 1867 | 1893 | |
| Cary, Annie Louise | 1846 | 1867 | 1882 | |
| Lehmann, Lilli | 1848 | 1868 | ||
| Hauck, Minnie | 1852 | 1868 | 1886 | |
| Vaucorbeil, Anna Sternberg | 1845 | 1869 | 1873 | 1898 |
| Heilbron, Marie | 1849 | 1869 | 1886 | |
| Karl, Thomas | 1847 | 1870 | 1890 | |
| Maurel, Victor | 1845 | 1869 | ||
| Gayarre, Giuliano | 1848 | 1873 | 1890 | |
| Del Puente, Parquale | ? | 1870 | ||
| Schott, Anton | 1846 | 1870 | ||
| Sucher, Rose (Hasselbeck) | 1850 | 1870 | ||
| Albani, Marie L. C. E. Lajeunnesse(Mrs. Ernest Gye) | 1850 | 1870 | ||
| Sterling, Antoinette | 1851 | 1871 | ||
| Campanini, Italo | 1846 | 1871 | 1890 | 1896 |
| Valleria, Alwina Lohmann | 1848 | 1871 | ||
| Pappenheim, Mme. Eugenie | ? | 1872 | ||
| Abbott, Emma (Mrs. Wetherell) | 1850 | 1872 | 1891 | |
| Malten, Thérèse | 1855 | 1873 | ||
| McGuckin, Barton | 1852 | 1874 | ||
| Belocca, Anna di | 1854 | 1874 | ||
| Reicher, Hedwig | 1853 | 1874 | 1883 | |
| Shakespeare, William | 1849 | 1875 | ||
| Thursby, Emma | 1857 | 1875 | ||
| Gaylord, Mrs. Julia | 1852 | 1875 | 1894 | |
| Reszke, Josephine de | 1855 | 1875 | 1884 | 1890 |
| Litta, Marie | 1856 | 1876 | 1883 | 1883 |
| De Reszke, Jean | 1852 | 1874 | ||
| De Reszke, Edouard | 1855 | 1876 | ||
| Klafsky, Katharina | 1855 | 1896 | ||
| Gerster, Etelka | 1856 | 1876 | 1887 | |
| Fursch-Madi, Mme | ? | 1876 | 1894 | |
| Sembrich, Marcella | 1858 | 1877 | ||
| Van Zandt, Marie | 1861 | 1879 | 1898 | |
| Bispham, David Scull | 1857 | 1880 | ||
| Nordica, Giglia (Lillian Norton) | 1856 | 1880 | [{332}] | |
| L'Allemand, Pauline | 1862 | 1880 | ||
| Nevada, Emma (Wixom) | 1862 | 1880 | ||
| Plançon, Pol | 1860 | 1881 | ||
| Juch, Emma | 1863 | 1881 | ||
| Calvé, Emma (Roquer) | 1866 | 1882 | ||
| Russell, Ella | 1862 | 1882 | ||
| Van Dyk, Ernest Marie Hubert | 1861 | 1883 | ||
| Engel, Marie | ? | 1887 | ||
| Melba, Nellie (Mitchell) | 1864 | 1887 | ||
| Ternina, Milka | ? | 1888 | ||
| Eames, Emma | 1867 | 1888 | ||
| Sanderson, Sybil | 1865 | 1889 | ||
| Davies, Ffrançon | ? | 1890 | ||
| Delna, Marie | 1875 | 1892 | ||
| Brema, Marie | ? | 1892 |