More By Artist: Maria Callas
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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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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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,... |
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... |
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) Maria Callas, Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Live Recording - La Scala, 1957 |
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... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Warner Classics The Opera Series / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2011 ] The brand new series celebrates EMI - The Home of Opera with Giulini's legendary recording of La Traviata with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. Includes complete libretto and synopsis on a bonus CD ROM. |
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... |
