Awards
- 1950: Lilli Lehmann Medal, Mozarteum International Foundation, Salzburg
- 1959: 1. "Orfeo d'Oro", Mantua (?)
- 1969: Orphée d'or recording award from the Académie du disque lyrique in Paris
- 1961: Edison Award, Amsterdam
- 1961: Awarded the title Deutsche Kammersängerin
- 1964: Honorary member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
- 1967: Stockholm television award for best European soprano Stockholmer
- 1971: Hugo-Wolf Medal
- 1974: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1982: Mozart Medal of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- 1983: Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and title of Kammersängerin
- 1986: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- 1991: UNESCO Mozart Medal
- 1992: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to music
- 2002: Honorary medal from the city of Vienna
- 2012: Voted into Gramophone Hall of Fame
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