More By Artist: Maria Callas
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded 1956) Maria Callas, Rolando Panerai, Giuseppe di Stefano, Fedora Barbieri / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, von Karajan [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "The combination of Karajan and Callas is formidably impressive. There is toughness and dramatic determination in Callas's singing, whether in coloratura or in dramatic passages." Penguin Stereo Guide |
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. |
PUCCINI / BIZET / VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Maria Callas at Covent Garden: London 1962 & 1964 Maria Callas (soprano) / Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden [ EMI Classics DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] These are the only professional video recordings of Callas in performance on stage. The DVD contains footage of Callas performing arias in concert. Even without staging and costumes, she demonstrates her mesmerising stage presence. |
MARIA CALLAS
Maria Callas - Magic Moments of Music Maria Callas (soprano) with interviews with Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon, Rufus Wainwright, Thomas Hampson & others [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Pappano says illuminating things about Callas's voice and what she did with it…Kristine Opolais is interesting about her acting…Tito Gobbi is his expansive self…The performance itself remains miraculous, however often you see it." BBC Music |
BELLINI / BIZET / CATALANI / CILEA / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / etc
Maria Callas: Pure Maria Callas (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] One of the 20th century's most legendary and enduring icons, Maria Callas was both a glamorous diva and a global superstar who captivated audiences worldwide with her vivid and passionate performances. This disc features Callas in a glittering... |
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BELLINI / PUCCINI / BIZET / CATALANI / VERDI / CILEA / GLUCK / etc
The New Sound of Maria Callas [3 CD set] Maria Callas (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 3 CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Maria Callas - Unforgettable arias sung by the most iconic diva of all time - remastered for the first time in high-definition sound from the original tapes, for an unprecedented sound quality that shines new light on the voice of Maria Callas. Allan... |
ROSSINI / DONIZETTI / BELLINI / SPONTINI
Sings Bel Canto Maria Callas (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors [ ALTO / CD - released 12/Mar/2012 ] Works by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaspare Luigi Spontini |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicola Zaccaria / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "There has never been a more compelling performance of the title-role in Rigoletto than that of Gobbi on his classic La Scala set. Callas is compellingly imaginative throughout." Penguin Stereo guide |
PACHELBEL / BEETHOVEN/ CHOPIN / BIZET / GRIEG / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Best-Loved Classics Volume 6 Thomas Allen (baritone) Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) Maria Callas (soprano) Montserrat Caballe (soprano) & others [ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Jun/1988 ] The perfect introduction to the world's most popular classics with recordings drawn from the vast EMI catalogue. |
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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. |
BELLINI / PUCCINI / VERDI / etc.
Very Best of Maria Callas: 14 Classic Arias Maria Callas (soprano) [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] |
VERDI / PUCCINI / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI / MOZART / etc
Maria Callas - The Studio Recitals Maria Callas (soprano) with Franco Corelli, Georges Pretre, Joseph Rouleau, Tullio Serafin, Monica Sinclair, etc [ Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 25/Jan/2018 ] This outstanding collection of studio recitals provides fascinating insights into Maria Callas's career and her unique artistry and musicality. Encompassing the core operatic repertoire for which she was most revered, as well as roles that she never... |
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... |
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. |
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VERDI
Aida [recorded live in 1953] Maria Callas, Kurt Baum, Giulietta Simionato, Jess Walters / Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "it was in many ways a performance that outshines all [Callas's] studio recordings, with the stage atmosphere well caught. Barbirolli too is a winningly warm and sympathetic Verdian" (Penguin) |
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... |
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,... |
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] While Pagliacci's regular companion piece, Cavalleria rusticana, figured prominently in Callas's early career, Leoncavallo's one-acter had no place in her stage repertoire. But as Gramophone wrote of this recording: 'When Callas [as Nedda] and Gobbi... |
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... |
