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La Divina (Gatefold LP) cover
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Various Composers
La Divina (Gatefold LP)
Maria Callas
[ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ]
Maria Callas is credited with changing the history of opera. Known as La Divina, she continues to fascinate as a supreme artist, but also as a woman and an icon of style.
La Divina - Maria Callas in all her roles cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Divina - Maria Callas in all her roles
Maria Callas, with Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Piero Campolonghi, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani & many others
[ Warner Classics / 135 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2023 ]
This is the most comprehensive box of Callas recordings ever released, presenting La Divina in all 74 roles for which audio documents exist. It comprises her complete studio recordings, a collection of her best live recordings...and much more.
Puccini: Turandot (3 LP) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (3 LP)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Nessi / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafi
[ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 8/Sep/2023 ]
"To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is the most natural piece of casting. With her Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative female" Gramophone
Bizet: Carmen (3 LP) cover
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (3 LP)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard / Orchestre du Théâtre National de L'Opera, Georges Pretre
[ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ]
Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera.
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP) cover
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VINCENCO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP)
Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Christa Ludwig, Nicola Zaccaria
[ Warner Classics Vinyl / 4 Vinyl Box Set - released 10/Mar/2023 ]
This 1960 Norma represents Maria Callas's final complete documented version of her signature role. Seven recordings of the opera exist with Callas (1950-60), plus numerous snippets and scenes captured between 1949 and 1965. With 89 performances,...
Drama Queen cover
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BELLINI / VERDI / CHERUBINI / DONIZETTI / ROSSINI
Drama Queen
Maria Callas (soprano)
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ]
"Drama Queen" brings together the most dramatic studio recordings ever made by Maria Callas during the course of her career.
Maria Callas - Remastered (LP) cover
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BIZET / BELLINI / PUCCINI / GIORDANO / etc
Maria Callas - Remastered (LP)
Maria Callas (soprano)
[ Warner Classics LP / LP - released 25/Feb/2020 ]
One of the 20th century's most legendary and enduring icons, Maria Callas was botha a glamorous diva and a global superstar who captivated audiences worldwide with her vivid and passionate performances.
100 Best Opera Classics [6 CDs special price] cover
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100 BEST OPERA
100 Best Opera Classics [6 CDs special price]
Beverly Sills, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, etc
[ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
A 6-CD collection at a special price which offers a hundred greatest operatic arias. The programme includes all the popular favourites from 'Tosca', 'La Boheme', 'Carmen' 'Norma', 'Samson et Dalila' and even selections from Wagner and Richard Strauss
100 Best Verdi [Six CD set] cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
100 Best Verdi [Six CD set]
Various artists including Angela Gheorghiu, Rolando Villazon, Maria Callas, Placido Domingo, Natalie Dessay & Victoria de los Angeles
[ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, performed by many of the world's leading singers, orchestras and conductors.
Rossini: Armida (complete opera recorded live in 1952) cover
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Armida (complete opera recorded live in 1952)
Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, Mario Filippeschi / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Rossini is a pillar of bel canto opera, but he was less central to Callas's art and career than Bellini and Donizetti. She performed two of his comic works - Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia - and in 1952, with her mentor Tullio Serafin...
Cherubini: Medea (complete opera recorded live in 1953) cover
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LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Medea (complete opera recorded live in 1953)
Gino Penno, Maria Callas, Maria Luisa Nache, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe Modesti, Enrico Campi / Teatro alla Scala, Leonard Bernstein
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
The character of Medea became closely associated with Maria Callas. In 1969, several years after she had left the opera stage, she even played the betrayed and finally infanticidal sorceress in a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded live in 1952) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded live in 1952)
Maria Callas, Piero Campolonghi, Giuseppe di Stefano / Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Umberto Mugnai
[ Urania / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Callas only sang Gilda in Rigoletto twice on stage, in Mexico City in 1952, and this recording was taken from the first of those performances. She brought tonal substance and deep interpretative insight to a role that had sometimes been treated by...
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954) cover
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GASPARE SPONTINI
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954)
Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
The central character in La Vestale, as in Norma, is a priestess who transgresses her holy vows for love. Spontini's nobly-conceived opera, composed for Paris in the Napoleonic era, brought Callas' first collaboration on a new production with the...
Verdi: Aida (Complete Opera recorded live Mexico, 1951) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (Complete Opera recorded live Mexico, 1951)
Maria Callas, Mario del Del Monaco, Oralia Dominguez / Fabritiis
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Aida held an important place in the earlier years of Callas's career, and in 1950 it brought her debut at La Scala, Milan, the theatre where she soon became reigning diva. That same year, she sang the role of the Ethiopian princess in Mexico City,...
Bellini: Il Pirata (complete opera remastered recorded live 1959) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Il Pirata (complete opera remastered recorded live 1959)
Maria Callas, Pier Miranda Ferraro, Costantino Ego, Chester Watson, Glade Peterson / American Opera Society, Nicola Rescigno
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
The titular character of Bellini's Il pirata is the tenor, Gualtiero, but it is the soprano, Imogene, who leaves the most powerful impression, thanks above all to her lengthy and dramatic closing scena. Il pirata had fallen into obscurity before it...
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded live in 1954) cover
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded live in 1954)
Maria Callas, Enrico Campi, Giuseppe Zampieri, Paolo Silveri /
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Alceste, in 1954, was the first of two Gluck operas that Callas sang at La Scala, followed three years later by an Italian version of Iphigénie en Tauride. It was in the 1953-54 season that she rose to become 'Queen of La Scala', also singing Medea....
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958)
Maria Callas, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Laura Zannini, Maria Cristina de Castro / Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa Franco Ghione
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Callas sang La traviata more frequently than any other opera, apart from Norma. She performed it over 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti's production at La Scala in 1955/56. Her only studio recording of the role was...
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded live in 1950) cover
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Parsifal (complete opera recorded live in 1950)
Maria Callas, Rolando Panarai, Boris Christoff, Africo Baldelli / RAI Roma, Vittorio Gui
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
In her early years as a dramatic soprano, Callas sang three Wagner roles: Isolde, Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) and Kundry in Parsifal.
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded live in 1952) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded live in 1952)
Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Mirto Picchi / Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Vittorio Gui
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
'Bellini's Norma is an epic and multi-faceted role, often considered the ultimate vocal challenge for an operatic soprano. Callas sang it on stage 92 times, more often than any other heroine, and her achievement casts a long shadow: more than 50...
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (complete opera remastered recorded live 1953) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (complete opera remastered recorded live 1953)
Maria Callas, Boris Christoff, Enzo Mascherini, Giorgio Kokolios-Bardi / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Erich Kleiber
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
"Callas is terrific in the Act 1 aria and cabaletta, as well as in the long duet with Arrigo in Act 4… Boris Christoff is magnificent as the gloomy, unforgiving Procida… Erich Kleiber… leads a vigorous performance…" (Gramophone)