December 14, 1946 (live) Metropolitan Opera. Dir. Fritz Busch. Irene Jessner (Field Marshal), Emanuel List (Oks), Rize Stevens (Octavian), Frederick Lechner (Faninal), Elinor Stiber (Sophie), Thelma Votipka (Marianne), Alessio De Paolis (Valzacchi), Herta Glatz (Annina), Lorenzo Alvari (Police Commissioner), Emery Darcy (majordomo of the Field Marshal), Anthony Marlowe (majordomo of the Faninal), Gerhard Pehner (Notary), Leslie Shabai (innkeeper), Kurt Baum (singer), Maxine Stellman, Irene Jo