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Various: Platinum Collection [3 CD set]
Maria Callas (soprano) / Various conductors
[ EMI / 3 CD Box Set - released 7/Nov/2005 ]
The greatest collection of Callas recordings in one amazing set.
Verdi Heroines cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi Heroines
Maria Callas (soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Nicola Rescigno
[ EMI Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2007 ]
"Classic Callas recordings, which should be in every opera lover's collection" Penguin Guide
Verdi Arias I [Verdi Heroines] cover
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VERDI
Verdi Arias I [Verdi Heroines]
Maria Callas (soprano) / Phiharmonia Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 4/Feb/2015 ]
This recital brings together three operas from the earlier years of Verdi's career (Nabucco, Ernani and Macbeth) and one of his greatest mature masterpieces (Don Carlo). Callas sang all of them on stage apart from Ernani, and Lady Macbeth proved a...
Bellini: I Puritani (Complete opera recorded April 1953 ) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (Complete opera recorded April 1953 )
Maria Callas, Aurora Cattelani, Carlo Forti, Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
Until she achieved a triumph in the delicate coloratura role of Elvira in I puritani - in Venice in 1949 under the tutelage of maestro Tullio Serafin - Maria Callas had been making her name in dramatic roles, such as the epicallyscaled title role in...
Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) cover
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PUCCINI
Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5)
Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / aris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
Tosca was the role in which - in 1965, the year this recording was made - Callas gave her last complete performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra. This was her final complete recording of an...
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5)
Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre
[ Warner Classics Legendary Opera Recordings / 2 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2016 ]
This Tosca was Maria Callas's final studio recording of a complete opera. In 1965, 12 years after her first recording of the opera (made in Milan Victor de Sabata) she was reunited in Paris with the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi. Both singers bring new...
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded live 1955) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded live 1955)
Maria Callas, Cesare Valletti, Giuseppe Modesti, Gabriella Carturan / Teatro alla Scala, Leonard Bernstein
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850)
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera recorded in 1957) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera recorded in 1957)
Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eugenio Fernandi / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ]
"This 1957 recording is one of her most thrillingly magnetic performances on disc." Penguin Stereo Guide
Bellini: La Sonnambula (Complete opera recorded in 1957) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (Complete opera recorded in 1957)
Maria Callas / Fiorenza Cossotto / Nicola Zaccaria / Nicola Monti / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Antonino Votto (Conductor)
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
"Callas does not appear to ever strain for a note. Her voice is always agile and flexible, with an upper register that is forceful but transparent. Callas always retains her lyric sweetness, She sings with nearly perfect evenness through passages of...
La Sonnambula (Complete opera recorded in 1957) [with arias by Cherubini & Spontini] cover
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BELLINI
La Sonnambula (Complete opera recorded in 1957) [with arias by Cherubini & Spontini]
Maria Callas / Fiorenza Cossotto / Nicola Zaccaria / Nicola Monti / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Antonino Votto (Conductor)
[ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ]
"Worth buying: economically, artistically and historically" (MusicWeb March 2009)
La Gioconda (Complete Opera recorded in 1959) cover
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PONCHIELLI
La Gioconda (Complete Opera recorded in 1959)
Maria Callas, Pier Miranda Ferraro, Piero Cappuccilli, Fiorenza Cossotto / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Antonino Votto
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
"Maria Callas gave one of her most vibrant, most compelling, most totally inspired performances on record in the title role." Penguin Stereo Guide
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1953) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1953)
Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, Ugo Savarese / RAI Chorus and Orchestra Turin, Gabriele Santini
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
Violetta, the most complex and fully-rounded of Verdi's heroines, was one of the roles that defined Maria Callas as an artist. She performed it more than 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti's production at La Scala in...
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1953) cover
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VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1953)
Maria Callas / Francesco Albanese / Ugo Savarese / Turin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gabriele Santini
[ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ]
Maria Callas first sang Violetta in January 1951 at the Teatro Communale in Florence. In the next three seasons Callas sang the role at Bergamo, Parma, Mexico City, Verona, Venice and Rome.
Verdi: Nabucco (complete opera remastered recorded live 1949) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Nabucco (complete opera remastered recorded live 1949)
Maria Callas, Gino Bechi, Amalia Pini, Gino Sinimberghi / Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, Vittorio Gui
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
The temperament-filled role of Abigaille in Nabucco is notorious for its extreme vocal demands, but the young Callas - just 26 when she performed the role at Naples' Teatro San Carlo - conquers it confidently and commandingly. Her astonishing...
Cherubini: Medea (Complete opera recorded live 1957) cover
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LUIGI CHERUBINI
Cherubini: Medea (Complete opera recorded live 1957)
Maria Callas, Renata Scotto, Mirto Picchi, Miriam Pirazzini, Giuseppe Modesti / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 18/Nov/2014 ]
The role of the betrayed and finally murderous Medea became closely associated with Maria Callas. In 1969, several years after her final operatic performance, she even starred as Jason's spurned wife - as an actress, not as a singer - in a film...
Donizetti: Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded live in 1957) cover
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded live in 1957)
Maria Callas, Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Gianni Raimondi / Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2018 ]
Callas's Anna Bolena at La Scala in 1957 was one of the absolute highlights of her extraordinary career. The performances brought new life to a bel canto opera that had long fallen out of favour. The central role was ideally suited to her talents and...
Cavalleria rusticana (complete opera recorded in 1953) cover
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MASCAGNI
Cavalleria rusticana (complete opera recorded in 1953)
Maria Callas / Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (Conductor)
[ Naxos Historical / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ]
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana was the third complete opera recording for EMI [Columbia/Angel] that Callas took part in, and the second under the aegis of La Scala, Milan.
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MASCAGNI
Cavalleria rusticana (complete opera recorded in 1953)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Anna Maria Canali, Ebe Ticozzi / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 10/Dec/2014 ]
In 1939, as a 15-year-old student in Athens, Maria Callas made her stage debut in the demanding role of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana. Five years later she sang it professionally with the Greek National Opera Company. In 1953, when she was already...
La Boheme (Complete opera recorded in 1956) [with opera arias sung by Rosanna Carteri] cover
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PUCCINI
La Boheme (Complete opera recorded in 1956) [with opera arias sung by Rosanna Carteri]
Maria Callas / Giuseppe di Stefano / Rolando Panerai / Nicola Zaccaria / Anna Moffo / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Antonino Votto (Conductor)
[ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ]
This 1956 recording of Puccini's perennially popular La bohème was Callas's twelfth complete opera recording with La Scala, Milan, though she never sang it live on stage here or anywhere else.
Un ballo in maschera [A Masked Ball] (recorded 1956) cover
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VERDI
Un ballo in maschera [A Masked Ball] (recorded 1956)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ]
Callas's first stage appearances in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera came at La Scala in 1957, a year in which Milan also saw her in La sonnambula and Anna Bolena. As in this recording, made the year before, she shared Verdi's most spectacular...