Otto Gerdes

Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Beverly Sills (soprano), Paul Plishka (bass), Mirella Freni (soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), Danielle de Niese (soprano), Ettore Bastianini (baritone), Cesare Siepi (bass), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Renato Cesari (bass), Renata Scotto (soprano), Virgilio Carbonari (bass), Piero de Palma (tenor), Alfredo Giacomotti (bass), Roberto Benaglio (chorus master), Renée Fleming (soprano), Leontyne Price (soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Maria Stader (soprano), Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Deane (baritone), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Samuel Hagan (tenor), Florence Quivar (contralto), Francois Clemmons (tenor), James Vincent Pickens (tenor), Arthur Thompson (baritone), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Franz Bartolomey (cello obbligato), Samuel Ramey (bass), Vincenzo Sardinero (baritone), Claes-Håkon Ahnsjö (tenor), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), José Carreras (tenor), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Nicole Cabell (soprano), Nina Stemme (soprano), Spiro Malas (bass), Edita Gruberova (soprano), Wolfgang Brendel (baritone), Margaret Price (soprano), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Joan Carlyle (soprano), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Jaroslav Soucek (baritone), Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Natalie Dessay (soprano), Christophe Rousset (director), Joyce DiDonato (contralto), Choeur de l'Opera National de Lyon (chorus), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Régine Crespin (soprano), Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Richard Novak (bass), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor) The John Alldis Choir, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Lamberto Gardelli, James Levine, Herbert von Karajan, Sir Colin Davis, Harry Bicket, Tullio Serafin, Rafael Kubelik, William Christie, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Georg Solti, Nicola Rescigno, Fausto Cleva, Christopher Hogwood, Ferenc Fricsay, Sir Alexande

Hans Hotter (bass), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Lauritz Melchior (tenor), Leonie Rysanek (soprano), Annelies Kupper (mezzo), Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Leo Slezak (tenor), Astrid Varnay (soprano), Hertha Töpper (mezzo), Kim Borg (bass), Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Karin Branzell (contralto), Josef von Manowarda (bass-baritone), Maria Müller (soprano), Frida Leider (soprano), Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), Set Svanholm (tenor), Max Lorenz (tenor), Fritz Soot (tenor), Jess Thomas (tenor), Friedrich Schorr (bass-baritone), Theodor Scheidl (bass-baritone), James King (tenor), Thomas Stewart (bass-baritone) Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra, Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

Birgit Nilsson (Elisabeth/Venus), Wolfgang Windgassen (Tannhäuser), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Wolfram von Eschenbach), Theo Adam (Hermann), Horst R Laubenthal (Walther von der Vogelweide), Klaus Hirte (Biterolf), Friedrich Lenz (Heinrich der Schreiber), Hans Sotin (Reinmar von Zweter), Catarina Alda (Hirt) German Opera Berlin Orchestra & Chorus, Otto Gerdes

Otto Gerdes, Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Fritz Wunderlich, Berlin Philharmoniker