To name a few: Among the female singers are Erna Berger, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Grümmer, Pilar Lorengar, Christa Ludwig, Gwyneth Jones, Lucia Aliberti, Anna Netrebko and Angela Gheorghiu, male singers include Josef Greindl, Hans Hotter, Hermann Prey, Piero Cappuccilli, Renato Bruson, Fritz Wunderlich, James King, René Kollo, Peter Seiffert, Neil Shicoff, Placido Domingo, Rolando Villazon and Roberto Alagna. It is impossible to mention all the soloists who appear on the recordings. Since then, the composer Pfitzner has been followed by conductors such as Ferenc Fricsay, Karl Böhm, Eugen Jochum, Heinrich Hollreiser, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann and Donald Runnicles. Eduard Möricke, Ignatz Waghalter and the composer and conductor Hans Pfitzner marks the starting point of the recording series.
Many of the live recordings were originally produced by radio or (in later times) TV stations, the studio recordings were produced in sound- and film studios in Berlin. You will find live recordings as well as studio recordings. The discography of Deutsche Oper Berlin includes over 200 CDs and DVDs and takes you on a journey through time encompassing over 100 years of the history of the opera house on Berlin’s Bismarckstrasse.