Giuseppe Garibaldi | Giuseppe Tornatore | Giuseppe Sinopoli | Giuseppe De Santis | Giuseppe Capogrossi | Giuseppe Terragni | Giuseppe Mazzini | Giuseppe Ungaretti | Giuseppe Lignano | Giuseppe Tucci | Giuseppe Radaelli | Giuseppe Pizzardo | Giuseppe Morello | Giuseppe Marchese | Giuseppe Guarneri | Giuseppe Di Cristina | San Giuseppe Jato | Rima San Giuseppe | Giuseppe Valdengo | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | Giuseppe Soleri | Giuseppe Sergi | Giuseppe Quaglio | Giuseppe Piazzi | Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Giuseppe Parini | Giuseppe Mosca | Giuseppe Greco | Giuseppe Giusti | Giuseppe Farina |
More serious roles he recorded include the King of Egypt in two recordings of Aida with Renata Tebaldi, Mathieu in Andrea Chénier, also with Tebaldi, two recordings of the Bonze in Madama Butterfly with both Anna Moffo and Leontyne Price, and the Gessler in Rossini's Guglielmo Tell (William Tell) with Giuseppe Taddei and Rosanna Carteri.
In its early years, helping to establish the Festival as a major international event were conductors Tullio Serafin and Nicola Rescigno, singers such as Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Chiara, Giuseppe Taddei, and Rolando Panerai, and well-known directors and set designers such as Giancarlo Menotti, Dinos Giannopoulos, Spyros Evangelatos, Nikos Georgiadis, Dionyssios Fotopoulos, and Nikos Petropoulos.