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Balfe's operas were sung by some of the most distinguished international vocalists of the nineteenth century:
- Maria Malibran
- Giulia Grisi
- Giovanni-Battista Rubini
- Luigi Lablache
- Giorgio Ronconi
- Eugenia Garcia
- Italo Gardoni
- Antonio Giuglini
- Antonio Tamburini
- Emma Albertazzi
- Italo Campanini
- Catherine Hayes
- Christine Nilsson
- Pasquale Brignoli
- Marietta Piccolomini
- Paul Barroilhet
- Giovanni Belletti
- Marietta Alboni
- Filippo Coletti
- Maria Nau
- Pauline Viardot-Garcia
- Marie Roze
- Rosine Stoltz
- Sophie Cruvelli
- Celestine Galli-Marie
- Lina Roser-Balfe (Balfe's wife)
British, Irish, and American singers of the period who performed Balfe's works
Sims Reeves, Charles Santley, Clara Louise Kellog, Louisa Pyne, Lucy Escott, Mary Ann Paton-Wood, Charlotte Birch, Anna Bishop, Rosalie Durand, William Harrison, Elizabeth Poole, Jane Shirreff, Leslie Crotty, Anne Thillon, P. Parepa-Rosa, Tom Karl, John Templeton, W. H. Weiss, Alwina Valleria, Edward Seguin, Georgina Hodson, Elizabeth Rainforth, Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Romer, Victorie Balfe, Henry Phillips, T. Aynsley Cook, Barton McGuckin, Joseph O' Mara, and even the composer, Michael W. Balfe sang principal baritone roles in two of his own operas in London!
Last modified 9 May 2007