| RECORDINGS OF R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier | (L) = Live performance | |||||||||
| Year | Label | Conductor / Orch. | Marschallin | Octavian | Sophie | Ochs | Valzacchi | Annina | Faninal | Italian Singer |
| 1939 (L) | MET (mono) | Bodansky / Metropolitan Opera | Lehmann | Stevens | Farell | List | Laufkötter | Doe | Schorr | Witte |
| 1944 | Vox (mono) | Krauss / Bavarian State Opera | Ursuleac | von Milinkovic | Kern | Weber | Reger | Willer | Hann | Klarwein |
| 1947 (L) | Discocorp (mono) | E. Kleiber / Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires | Bampton | Cavelti | Cheva;ine | List | Bandini | Palmieri | Destal | Hermida |
| 1949 (L) | Cetra (mono) | Szell / Vienna State Opera (rec. Salzburg) | Reining | Novotna | Gueden | Prohaska | Klein | Hermann | Hann | Roswaenge |
| 1950 | Acanta, Urania (m) | Kempe / Dresden State Orch. | Baumer | Lemnitz | Richter | Böhme | Sautter | Walther-Sacks | Lobel | Liebling |
| 1954 | Decca (mono) | E. Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic | Reining | Jurinac | Gueden | Weber | Klein | Rössl-Majdan | Poell | Dermota |
| 1956 | EMI | Karajan / Philharmonia Orch. | Schwarzkopf | Ludwig | Stich-Randall | Edelmann | Kuen | Meyer | Wachter | Gedda |
| 1958 | DG | Böhm / Saxon State Orch. Dresden | Schech | Seefried | Streich | Böhme | Unger | Wagner | Fischer-Dieskau | Francl |
| 1968-9 | Decca | Solti / Vienna Philharmonic | Crespin | Minton | Donath | Jungwirth | Dickie | Howells | Wiener | Pavarotti |
| 1971 | Columbia | Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic | Ludwig | Jones | Popp | Berry | Dickie | Lilowa | Gutstein | Domingo |
| 1976 | Philips | de Waart / Netherlands Philharmonia Orch. | Lear | von Stade | Welting | Bastin | Atherton | van Sante | Hammond-Stroud | Carreras |
| 1983 | DG | Karajan / Vienna Philharmonic | Tomowa-Sintow | Baltsa | Perry | Moll | Zednik | Muller-Molinari | Hornik | Cole |
| 1985 | Denon | Vonk / Dresden State Orch. | Pusar | Walther | Stejskal | Adam | Koch | Ludwig | Haunstein | König |
| 1990 | EMI | Haitink / Dresden State Orch. | Te Kanawa | von Otter | Hendricks | Rydl | Grundheber | Powell | Clark | Leech |
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| 1960 (mono) | Kultur | Karajan / Vienna Philharmonic | Schwarzkopf | Jurinac | Rothenberger | Edelmann | Ercolani | Rössl-Majdan | Kunz | Zampieri |
| 1979 | DG | C. Kleiber / Bavarian State Opera | G. Jones | Fassbaender | Popp | Jungwirth | Thaw | Wewezoe | Kusche | Araiza |
| 1985 | Home Vision | Solti / Royal Opera Covent Garden | Te Kanawa | Howells | Bonney | Haugland | Tear | Buchan | Summers | O'Neill |
| 1994 | DG | Kleiber / Vienna State Opera | von Otter | Bonney | ||||||
| 1998 | Image Entertainm. | ?? / Massimo Theatre, Palermo | Eliz. Whitehouse | Ildiko Komlosi | D. Rançatore | D.L. Williams | ||||