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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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ROSSINI / GOUNOD / BIZET / VERDI / PONCHIELLI / etc
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 |
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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 ] |
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CHERUBINI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / SPONTINI / VERDI / etc
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 ] |
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Maria Callas
Various: Arias [ Profil / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] |
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Maria Callas
Various: Maria Callas - Love S [ Profil / CD - released 5/Apr/2010 ] |
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VERDI
Arias & Mad Scenes Maria Callas [ Alto / CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] "This CD encapsulates the essence of Callas's genius. Recorded in 1958, the last year her voice was wholly reliable, every track is something to wonder at." |
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GIUSEPPE 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... |
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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... |
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GIOCOMO PUCCINI
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... |
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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... |
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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 |