Walhall

Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Richard Tucker (Edgardo), Frank Guarrera (Enrico), Nicola Moscona (Raimondo), Thelma Votipka (Alisa), Charles Anthony (Arturo) & Robert Nagy (Normanno)

Chorus & Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, Silvio Varviso

Rudolf Schock (Idomeneo), Waldemar Kmentt (Idamante), Hildegard Hillebrecht (Ilia), Christel Goltz (Elettra), Eberhard Waechter (Arbace) & Kurt Böhme (Nettuno)

Vienna State Opera, Karl Böhm

Theo Adam (Philipp II), Martin Ritzmann (Don Carlos), Rudolf Jedlicka (Posa), Gerhard Frei (Grand Inquisitor), Ludmila Dvorakova (Elisabeth), Hedwig Müller-Bütow (Eboli), Sylvia Pawlik (Tebaldo), Jutta Vulpius (Voice from Above)

Staatskapelle Berlin, Franz Konwitschny

Leonie Rysanek (Aida), Jean Madiera (Amneris), Hans Hopf (Radames), George London (Amonasro), Gottlob Frick (Ramfis)

Vienna State Opera, Rafael Kubelik

Karl Hammes (Giovanni), Georg Hann (Leporello), Julius Patzak (Ottavio), Hedwig Jungkurth (Elvira), Maria Reining (Anna), Gertrude Kallam (Zerlina) & Hans Ducrue (Masetto)

Joseph Keilberth

Victoria de los Angeles (Mélisande), Theodor Uppman (Pelléas), George London (Golaud), Giorgio Tozzi (Arkel), Regina Resnik (Geneviève), Mildred Allen (Yniold) & Clifford Harvuot (Le Médécin)

Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Jean Morel

Evangelos Markelos (Don Fernando), Costantino Ego (Don Pizarro), Giuseppe Zampieri (Florestan), Martha Mödl (Leonore), Dezsö Ernster (Rocco), Zoe Vlachopoulou (Marzelline) & Aristos Pantzinakos (Jaquino)

Orchestra of the Athens Festival, Jascha Horenstein

George London (Giovanni), Fernando Corena (Leporello), Eleanor Steber (Donna Elvira), Margaret Harshaw (Donna Anna), Eugene Conley (Don Ottavio), Nadine Conner (Zerlina), Lorenzo Alvary (Masetto) & Luben Vichegonov (Commendatore)

Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Max Rudolf

Astrid Varnay (Sieglinde), Ramon Vinay (Siegmund), Hans Hotter (Wotan) & Martha Mödl (Brünnhilde)

Joseph Keilberth

Sándor Konya (Lohengrin), Leonie Rysanek (Elsa), Astrid Varnay (Ortrud), Ernest Blanc (Telramund), Keith Engen (King Henry) & Eberhard Waechter (herald)

André Cluytens