New York, Metropolitan Opera. March 12, 1949 (live). Dir. Fritz Reiner. Luba Velich (Salome), Herbert Janssen (Johanaan), Frederick Jagiel (Herod), Kerstin Torborg (Herodias), Brian Sullivan (Narrabot), Herta Glatz (Page), Deje Ernster, Emery Darcy (2 Nazarenes), Jerome Hines, Philip Kinsman (2 soldiers), Osaya Hawkins (Cappadocian), Inge Mansky (Slave), Leslie Shabay, Thomas Hayward, Alessio De Paolis, Paul Franke, Gerhard Pehner (5 Jews). – Record with a big bonus!