Der Rosenkavalier discography
Year Cast ( Marschallin , Octavian , Sophie , Ochs , Italian singer ) Conductor Opera house and orchestra Label
1933 Lotte Lehmann , Maria Olszewska , Elisabeth Schumann , Richard Mayr , ? ? Robert Heger Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus Naxos Historical Cat : 8.110191-92 ( abridged version )
1944 Viorica Ursuleac , Georgine von Milinkovič , Adele Kern , Ludwig Weber , Franz Klarwein Clemens Krauss Munich State Opera Vox Records Cat : OPSX 140 ( Concert Version )
1949 Eleanor Steber , Rise Stevens , Erna Berger , Giuseppe di Stefano , Emanuel List Fritz Reiner Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus ( Recording of a performance at Met , 2 December 1949 ) LYS Cat : 425-427
1954 Maria Reining , Sena Jurinac , Hilde Gueden , Ludwig Weber , Anton Dermota Erich Kleiber Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera Chorus Naxos Historical Cat : 8.111011-13
1955 Maria Reining , Sena Jurinac , Hilde Gueden , Kurt Böhme , Karl Terkal Hans Knappertsbusch Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna State Opera Chorus RCA Cat : 69431
1956 Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Christa Ludwig , Teresa Stich-Randall , Otto Edelmann , Nicolai Gedda Herbert von Karajan Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus EMI Cat : 77357
1968/69 Régine Crespin , Yvonne Minton , Helen Donath , Manfred Jungwirth , Luciano Pavarotti Sir Georg Solti Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Decca Cat : 475 9988
1969 Christa Ludwig , Tatiana Troyanos , Edith Mathis , Theo Adam , Anton de Ridder Karl Böhm Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ( Live recording of a performance at the Salzburg Festival ) Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 445 338-2
1971 Christa Ludwig , Dame Gwyneth Jones , Lucia Popp , Walter Berry , Plácido Domingo Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Sony Cat : M3K 42546
1976 Evelyn Lear , Frederica von Stade , Ruth Welting , Jules Bastin , José Carreras Edo de Waart Rotterdam Philharmonic Decca Cat : 473 361-2 . For full details , see Der Rosenkavalier ( Edo de Waart recording )
1984 Anna Tomowa-Sintow , Agnes Baltsa , Janet Perry , Kurt Moll , Vinson Cole Herbert von Karajan Vienna Philharmonic Deutsche Grammophon Cat : 423850
1990 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , Anne Sofie von Otter , Barbara Hendricks , Kurt Rydl , Richard Leech Bernard Haitink Staatskapelle Dresden EMI Cat : 358618-2
2009 Renée Fleming , Sophie Koch , Diana Damrau , Frank Hawlata , Jonas Kaufmann Christian Thielemann Münchner Philharmoniker Decca
Audio
This is a select list of recordings of Der Rosenkavalier, a three-act opera by Richard Strauss with a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The work was first performed at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden on 26 January 1911 under the direction of Max Reinhardt.