I really wanted to post Victoria de los Angeles‘ Met performance of Elisabeth, but this recording is a more than acceptable substitute.

Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser

Bayreuther Festspiele
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
23 July 1961

Tannhäuser – Wolfgang Windgassen
Elisabeth – Victoria de los Angeles
Wolfram – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Venus – Grace Bumbry
Hermann – Josef Greindl
Walther – Gerhard Stolze
Heinrich – Georg Paskuda
Biterolf – Franz Crass
Reinmar – Theo Adam
Ein Hirt – Else-Margrete Gardelli