MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mad Scenes (recorded in 1958)
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VINCENZO BELLINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI / AMBROISE THOMAS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mad Scenes (recorded in 1958)
Maria Callas (soprano) / Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno, with Monica Sinclair, Joseph Rouleau, etc
[ EMI Classivs / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 October 1997
Callas did not make complete recordings of Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Bellini's Il pirata, though, as the queen of La Scala, she enjoyed triumphs in both roles in 1957-1958. The vocally and dramatically demanding final scenes of both operas feature in this recital with Ophélie's mad scene from Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, another coloratura extravaganza. When this recital first appeared in 1959, Gramophone wrote: 'This is a most remarkable record, not only for its material … but for its astonishing vividness and dramatic poetry … It has been a thing of much wonder for me.'
"She shone for all too brief a while in the world of opera, like a vivid flame attracting the attention of the whole world, and she had a strange magic which was all her own. I always thought she was immortal - and she is"
- Tito Gobbi in My Life
Tracks:
Bellini:
Oh! s'io potessi dissipar le nubi (from Il Pirata)
Col sorriso d'innocenza (from Il Pirata)
Donizetti:
Piangete voi? ... Al dolce guidami castel natio (from Anna Bolena)
Thomas, Ambroise:
A vos jeux, mes amis (from Hamlet)
