Bray Poor
Narrator (voice)

Julie Andrews
Self - Host / Self

Plácido Domingo
Self / Juanillo / Parsifal / Francisco Goya / Radamès

Tony Bennett
Self

Renée Fleming
Self / Blanche Dubois / Mme. de Tourvel

Geraldine Fitzgerald
Mrs.Atkins / Essie Miller / Amy Bisley / Grandmother

Blythe Danner
Alma Winemiller / Self / Nina / Narrator

John Cullum
Self / Walter / Lawyer Royall

Frederica von Stade
Self / Marquise de Merteuil / Tina / Claire Huddesen

Diahann Carroll
Self

Rue McClanahan
Josey Finn / Cora / Faye Precious

Frederick Coffin
Oswald / Lt. Maxwell / Second Guard

Joyce Ebert
Lilly Miller / Mrs. Holroyd / Ursula

Frank Langella
Konstantin Treplev / John Buchanan / The Prince of Homburg

Charles Kimbrough
Benton Arrelsford / Editor / Dr.Spiga

Len Cariou
Self

Glenn Close
Self - Host / Neighbor

Meryl Streep
Leilah / Self - Host /

James Maddalena
Guglielmo / Gideon March / Il conte d'Almaviva

Richard Kiley
Self / Introduction Narrator (voice) (uncredited)