List of notable sopranos
Contemporary Operatic Sopranos
- June Anderson
- Kathleen Battle
- Hildegard Behrens
- Barbara Bonney
- Tatiana Borodina
- Fiorenza Cedolins
- Patrizia Ciofi
- Eliane Coelho
- Diana Damrau
- Natalie Dessay
- Daniela Dessì
- Mariella Devia
- Renée Fleming
- Barbara Frittoli
- Angela Gheorghiu
- Edita Gruberová
- Soile Isokoski
- Sumi Jo
- Emma Kirkby
- Catherine Malfitano
- Karita Mattila
- Aprile Millo
- Nelly Miricioiu
- Anna Netrebko
- Jessye Norman
- Hasmik Papian
- Andrea Rost
- Ruth Ann Swenson
- Dawn Upshaw
- Violeta Urmana
- Sylvie Valayre
- Deborah Voigt
20th-century and Historic Operatic Sopranos
- Victoria de los Angeles
- Montserrat Caballé
- Maria Callas
- Lina Cavalieri
- Ileana Cotrubaş
- Régine Crespin
- Lella Cuberli
- Lisa Della Casa
- Helge Dernesch
- Emmy Destinn
- Cristina Deutekom
- Ghena Dimitrova
- Marie-Cornélie Falcon
- Geraldine Farrar
- Kirsten Flagstad
- Mirella Freni
- Amelita Galli-Curci
- Mary Garden
- Leyla Gencer
- Hilde Gueden
- Barbara Hendricks
- Gundula Janowitz
- Maria Jeritza
- Gwyneth Jones
- Sena Jurinac
- Raina Kabaivanska
- Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre
- Lotte Lehmann
- Jenny Lind
- Maria Malibran
- Nellie Melba
- Zinka Milanov
- Anna Moffo
- Grace Moore
- Birgit Nilsson
- Magda Olivero
- Giuditta Pasta
- Adelina Patti
- Lily Pons
- Rosa Ponselle
- Lucia Popp
- Leontyne Price
- Margaret Price
- Elisabeth Rethberg
- Katia Ricciarelli
- Mado Robin
- Anneliese Rothenberger
- Leonie Rysanek
- Sylvia Sass
- Bidu Sayão
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
- Renata Scotto
- Luciana Serra
- Anja Silja
- Beverly Sills
- Elisabeth Söderström
- Antonietta Stella
- Teresa Stratas
- Rita Streich
- Joan Sutherland
- Renata Tebaldi
- Kiri Te Kanawa
- Luisa Tetrazzini
- Gabriella Tucci
- Astrid Varnay
- Virginia Zeani