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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Zaccaria / [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Lucia di Lammermoor - like La sonnambula - had become associated with light-voiced sopranos, so when Callas took on the title role in the early 1950s she proved revelatory with her combination of visceral power, technical refinement and... |
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... |
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... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 1959) Maria Callas, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Piero Cappuccilli, Bernard Ladysz / Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2014 ] In the six years that had passed since 1953, and her first recording of Lucia di Lammermoor, Callas's voice had maybe become less robust, but her singing had become still more perceptive. As Gramophone said: 'Mme Callas has refined her interpretation... |
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. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Nicola Rossi-Lemen, Nicolai Gedda / Milan La Scala Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra [ Naxos Historical / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] Callas's Fiorilla is the tenth complete opera recording she made, the only one for EMI [Columbia/Angel] that she undertook of a then unknown work, and which she would later sing at La Scala, Milan. |
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... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (complete opera recorded in 1957) Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria Callas / La Scala Orchestra and Chorus / Serafin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Transferred by the award-winning Mark Obert-Thorn, this 1957 recording of Manon Lescaut with Callas singing the title rôle and Di Stefano as des Grieux, was one of Callas's last complete recordings at La Scala, Milan. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete opera) (Recorded August 1953) Franco Calabrese (bass) Maria Callas (soprano) Dario Caselli (bass) Alvaro Cordova (tenor) Tito Gobbi (baritone) /Milan La Scala / Victor De Sabata [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "This new remastering is streets ahead of the others; it irons out the sourness and surface noise of the original, without adding the implausible sheen and reverberance of previous transfers" - The Times (London) |
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) |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
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PUCCINI
The Great Operas: Legendary performances [13 CDs] Jussi Bjorling, Victoria de los Angeles, Giseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopfr, Robert Merrill [ Regis Records / 13 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] Regis presents a 13-CD wallet box of Puccini's greatest operas. The performances are of legendary status featuring such artists as Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano and Jussi Bjorling. The... |
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Callas in Concert - The Hologram Tour Maria Callas (soprano) with various singers & conductors [ Warner Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2018 ] Official Hologram Tour soundtrack, featuring legendary Callas recordings |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Poliuto (complete opera remastered recorded live 1960) Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ettore Bastianini, Nicola Zaccaria / Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Donizetti's rarely-performed Poliuto, based on a play by the great French dramatist Corneille, opened La Scala's season in 1960 and marked Callas's return to the iconic Milanese theatre after an absence of two seasons. |
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Maria Callas
The Essential Collection [ Avid / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2009 ] |
Maria Callas
The Incomparable - Double LP [ Vinyl Passion / 2 LP - released 20/Jun/2014 ] |
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Maria Callas
La Divina [ Not Now / 2 CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] |
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Maria Callas
La Divina [ Not Now Music / 3 CD - released 14/May/2010 ] |
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Maria Callas - Live (Remastered Recordings 1949-1964) - 42 CD + 3 Blu-Ray Maria Callas, Renata Scotto, Mirto Picchi, Miriam Pirazzini, Giuseppe Modesti / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 45 CD Box Set - released 18/Sep/2017 ] Each recording in this edition has been newly remastered, using the latest audio technology, great care has been taken to assure accuracy of reproduced pitch, which has been corrected in various instances. |
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Maria Callas
A Portrait [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 2/May/2005 ] |
