Don Fernando - Hans Braun, Don Pizarro - Ferdinand Frantz, Florestan - Hans Hopf, Leonore - Leonie Rysanek, Rocco - Ludwig Weber, Marzelline - Elizabeth Lindermeier, Jaquino - Murray Dickie. December 22, 1957, Rome.

May-July/November 1957 - Leonie Rysanek (Leonore), Ernst Hafliger (Florestan), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Don Pizarro), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Irmgard Seefried (Marzelline), Friedrich Lenz (Jaquino), Keith Engen (Don Fernando) - Chorus of Bavarian State Opera,