Live - Metropolitan Opera, New York - 18 December 1948. Orchestra and Chorus - Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Fritz Busch / Otello - Ramón Vinay, Desdemona - Licia Albanese, Iago - Leonard Warren, Cassio - John Garris, Rodrigo - Thomas Hayward, Lodovico - Nicola Moscona, Montano - Clifford Harvuot, Emilia - Martha Lipton, Un Araldo - Philip Kinsman