| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Cast
(Tannhäuser, Elisabeth,
Venus, Wolfram,
Landgrave, Walther)
!Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra
!Label |
| 1930
|Sigismund Pilinszky,
Maria Müller,
Ruth Jost-Arden,
Herbert Janssen,
Ivar Andrésen,
Geza Belti-Pilinszky
|Karl Elmendorff,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Paris Version
|Audio CD: Naxos,
Cat: 8.110094-95 |
| 1941
|Lauritz Melchior,
Kirsten Flagstad,
Kerstin Thorborg,
Herbert Janssen,
Emanuel List,
John Dudley
|Erich Leinsdorf,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus,
Paris Version
|Audio CD: Immortal Performances,
Cat: IPCD 1101-3 |
| 1942
|Lauritz Melchior,
Helen Traubel,
Kerstin Thorborg,
Herbert Janssen,
Alexander Kipnis,
John Garris
|George Szell,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus,
Paris Version
|Audio CD: Immortal Performances,
Cat: IPCD 1053-3 |
| 1954
|Ramon Vinay,
Margaret Harshaw,
Astrid Varnay,
George London,
Jerome Hines,
Brian Sullivan
|George Szell,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
|Audio CD: Sony Classical,
Cat: 886443900868 |
| 1955
|Wolfgang Windgassen,
Gré Brouwenstijn,
Herta Wilfert,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Josef Greindl,
Josef Traxel
|André Cluytens,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(featuring Paris Bacchanale)
|Audio CD: Orfeo d'Or,
Cat: C 643 043 D |
| 1960
|Hans Hopf,
Elisabeth Grümmer,
Marianne Schech,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Gottlob Frick,
Fritz Wunderlich
|Franz Konwitschny,
Berlin State Opera orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(reverts to Paris for small section in Act II)
|Audio CD: EMI,
Cat: CMS 7 63214 2 |
| 1961
|Wolfgang Windgassen,
Victoria de los Ángeles,
Grace Bumbry,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Josef Greindl,
Gerhard Stolze
|Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(featuring Paris Bacchanale)
|Audio CD: Orfeo d'Or,
Cat: C 888 143 D |
| 1962
|Wolfgang Windgassen,
Anja Silja,
Grace Bumbry,
Eberhard Wächter,
Josef Greindl,
Gerhard Stolze
|Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(featuring Paris Bacchanale)
|Audio CD: Philips,
Cat: 434 607-2 |
| 1963
|Hans Beirer,
Gré Brouwenstijn,
Christa Ludwig,
Eberhard Wächter,
Gottlob Frick,
Waldemar Kmentt
|Herbert von Karajan,
Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus,
Paris Version
|Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon,
Cat: 457682 |
| 1968
|Wolfgang Windgassen,
Birgit Nilsson,
Birgit Nilsson,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,
Theo Adam,
Horst Laubenthal
|Otto Gerdes,
Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(reverts to Paris for small section in Act II)
|Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon,
Cat: 471 708-2 |
| 1970
|René Kollo,
Helga Dernesch,
Christa Ludwig,
Victor Braun,
Hans Sotin,
Werner Hollweg
|Georg Solti,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
Vienna State Opera chorus,
Paris Version
(reverts to Dresden for small section in Act II)
|Audio CD: Decca,
Cat: 470 810-2 |
| 1978
|Spas Wenkoff,
Dame Gwyneth Jones,
Dame Gwyneth Jones,
Bernd Weikl,
Hans Sotin,
Robert Schunk
|Colin Davis,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Dresden Version
(featuring Paris Bacchanale)
|DVD: DG,
Cat: 073 4446 |
| 1985
|Klaus König,
Lucia Popp,
Waltraud Meier,
Bernd Weikl,
Kurt Moll,
Siegfried Jerusalem
|Bernard Haitink,
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dresden Version
|Audio CD: EMI,
Cat: CMS 7 47296 8 |
| 1988
|Plácido Domingo,
Cheryl Studer,
Agnes Baltsa,
Andreas Schmidt,
Matti Salminen,
William Pell
|Giuseppe Sinopoli,
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Royal Opera House chorus,
Paris Version
|Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon,
Cat: 427 625-2 |
| 2001
|Peter Seiffert,
Jane Eaglen,
Waltraud Meier,
Thomas Hampson,
René Pape,
Gunnar Gudbjörnsson
|Daniel Barenboim,
Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra,
Berlin State Opera chorus,
Dresden Version
(uses Paris Version of Act I, minus ballet sequence)
|Audio CD: Teldec,
Cat: 8573 88064-2 |
| 2014
|Peter Seiffert,
Ann Petersen,
Marina Prudenskaya,
Peter Mattei,
René Pape,
Peter Sonn
|Daniel Barenboim,
Staatskapelle Berlin,
Berlin State Opera chorus,
Dresden Version
(uses Paris Version of Act I, Scene I, including ballet sequence)
|DVD: Bel Air Classiques,
ASIN: B0168HCVM8 |
| 2010
|Stig Fogh Andersen,
Tina Kiberg,
Susanne Resmark,
Tommi Hakala,
Stephen Milling,
Peter Lodahl
|Friedemann Layer,
Royal Danish Opera,
Royal Danish Orchestra and chorus,
|2 DVD: DECCA,
cat: 074 3390 |
| 2020
|Stephen Gould,
Lise Davidsen,
Elena Zhidkova,
Markus Eiche,
Stephen Milling
|Valery Gergiev,
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus,
Tobias Kratzer, stage director
|DVD: Deutsche Grammophon,
Cat:735760 |