Interpr.: Jess Thomas, the emporer. Ingrid Bjoner, the empress. Martha Mödl, the nurse. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Barak, the dyer. Inge Borkh, The dyers's wife. Hans Hotter, the spirit-messenger. Ingeborg Hallstein, a guardin of the treshold of the temple. Georg Paskuda, appariation of a young man. Gerda Sommerschuh, the voice of the falcon. Hertha Töpper, a voice from above. Carl Hoppe, the dyers's brother, the one-eyed. Max Proebstl, the one-armed. Paul Kuen, the hunchback. Lotte Schädle. Gertrud Freedman. Brigitte Fassbaender, Irmgard Barth, voices of unborn children. Hans-Bruno Ernst, first nightwatch man. Raimund Grumbach, second nightwatch man. Carl Hoppe, third nightwatch man. Gertrud Freedman, first slave girl. Jutta Goll, second slave girl. Brigitte Fassbaender, third slave girl. Herbert Becker, violin. Oswald Uhl, cello. Bayerischer Staatsopernchor. Wolfgang Baumgart, chorus master. Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Joseph Keilberth, [Dir.]