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January 31, 2001 70 songs, 2 hours 38 minutes ℗ 1953 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. Digital remastering (P) 2001 by EMI Records Ltd
- Birgit Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ingrid Bjoner, James King, Bayerische Staatsopernchor, Bavarian State Orchestra & Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Geraint Evans, Hans Sotin, Otto Klemperer, Yvonne Minton, Philharmonia Orchestra, Lucia Popp, Dame Margaret Price & Luigi Alva
- Lisa Della Casa, Cesare Siepi, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Elisabeth Grummer, Fernando Corena, Gottlob Frick, Léopold Simoneau, Rita Streich, Walter Berry, Vienna Philharmonic & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera
- Carlo Bergonzi, Robert Merrill, Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Lamberto Gardelli
- Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsopernchor, Edith Mathis, Friedrich Lenz, Fritz Wunderlich, Gisela Litz, Robert Heger & Ruth-Margret Pütz