200th anniversary of Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden October 8, 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Dresden State Opera Chorus.

1935–1939 The earliest recordings featuring opera choruses under the baton of general music director Karl Böhm

1942–1944

The earliest magnetic tape recordings of complete opera scenes under the baton of general music director Karl Böhm and Kurt Striegler

1943–1945

The earliest magnetic tape recordings featuring opera choruses under the baton of general music director Karl Elmendorff and kapellmeister Kurt Striegler

1948–1950

Magnetic tape recordings from Dresden Radio featuring general music director Joseph Keilberth and kapellmeister Ernst Richter

1950–1952

Magnetic tape recordings from Dresden Radio featuring general music director Rudolf Kempe

1963 to the present

Recordings by Broadcasting of the GDR and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk with Rudolf Neuhaus, Hans Vonk, Fabio Luisi and Constantin Trinks

Artists

Christel Goltz (soprano), Josef Hermann (baritone), Jan Rittel (baritone), Elisabeth Höngen (alto), Kurt Böhme (bass), Helena Rott (vocals), Elfriede Trötschel (soprano), Elfriede Weidlich (soprano), Gottlob Frick (bass), Mathieu Ahlersmeyer (vocals), Heinrich Pflanzl (baritone), Karl Wessely (tenor), Marta Fuchs (soprano), Margarete Teschemacher (soprano), Karl Erb (tenor), Lorenz Fehenberger (vocals), Irma Beilke (soprano), Marie-Luise Schilp (alto), Arno Schellenberg (baritone), Hans Hopf (tenor), Kurt Wessely (vocals), Maria Cebotari (soprano), Horst Weber (vocals), Bernd Aldenhoff (tenor), Erich Zimmermann (tenor), Werner Faulhaber (bass), Edith Hellriegel (vocals), Eva Fleischhauer (vocals), Kate Hofgen (vocals), Helmut Schindler (vocals), Boris Gregoryewitsch (vocals), Sieglinde Goßmann (vocals), Karl-Heinz Thomann (vocals), Savjol Prokofjewitsch Dikoj (vocals), Marfa Ignatjewna Kaban (vocals), Emilie Walter-Sacks (soprano), Gudrun Wüstemann (vocals), Erich Siebenschuh (vocals), Christian Pötzsch (vocals), Eleonore Elstermann (soprano), Nelly Ailakowa (soprano), Karl Friedrich Hölzke (tenor), Karl Wüstemann (vocals), Johannes Kemter (tenor), Günter Dressler (bass), Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano), Peter Schreier (tenor), Theo Adam (bass), Elisabeth Wilke (mezzo-soprano), Reinhart Ginzel (tenor), Gunther Emmerlich (bass), Andrea Ihle (soprano), Roberto Scandiuzzi (bass), Tichina Vaughn (mezzo-soprano), Christoph Pohl (baritone), Marjorie Owens (soprano), Tilmann Rönnebeck (bass), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Timothy Oliver (tenor), Michael Eder (bass), Torsten Ralf (tenor), Charlotte Margiono (soprano), Jard van Nes (alto), Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Rinat Shaham (mezzo-soprano), Yosep Kang (tenor), René Pape (bass), Saxon State Opera Chorus, Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden, MDR Rundfunkchor, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Dresden Symphony Chorus, Singakademie Dresden, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Czech Philharmonic Choir, Brno, Czech National Choir Prague, Dresdner Kammerchor, Karl Böhm, Kurt Striegler, Karl Elmendorff, Joseph Keilberth, Ernst Richter, Rudolf Kempe, Rudolf Neuhaus, Heinz Rögner, Hans Zimmer, Hans Vonk, Fabio Luisi, Constantin Trinks, Herbert Blomstedt, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Myung-Whun Chung, Christian Thielemann