| Production | ||
| Company | Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus | |
| Conductor | James Levine | |
| Director | Guenther Schneider-Siemssen | |
| Stage Production | Otto Schenk | |
| Producer | Polygram Records, 1991 | |
| Cast | ||
| Siegfried | Siegfried Jerusalem | |
| Der Wanderer | James Morris | |
| Mime | Heinz Zednik | |
| Alberich | Ekkehard Wlaschiha | |
| Fafner | Matti Salminen | |
| Erda | Birgitta Svenden | |
| Brünnhilde | Hildegard Behrens | |
| Forest Bird | Dawn Upshaw | |
| Comments | |
| Executive Producer: Peter Gelb; Video Director: Brian Large; Audio Producer: Jay David Saks; Costume Designer: Rolf Langenfass; Lighting Designer: Gil Wechsler. | |
| This New York Metropolitan Opera production of Siegfried was shown on PBS-TV in the summer of 1990. It is a "traditional" production with realistically designed sets, following the directions (with some modifications) that Wagner himself had written. | |