More By Artist: Maria Callas
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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... |
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 / 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. |
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... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (Complete Opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Anna Moffo, Nicola Zaccaria / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Callas never sang the role of Mimì on stage, but this did not prevent her recorded interpretation from being, as described by Philip Hope-Wallace in Gramophone, 'brilliantly realised … This Mimì comes alive and later haunts you in the most... |
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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. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera recorded in 1953) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano. Victor de Sabata [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 5) - BBC MUSIC |
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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... |
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DONIZETTI
Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete opera) [Recorded 1953] Maria Callas / Giuseppe Di Stefano / Tito Gobbi / Raffaele Arie / Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Tullio Serafin [ EMI Classics / Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] 'Here is certainly some of the finest singing of our time, and there is one moment in the repeat of Spargi d'amaro when the voice is recorded with all the actuality of 3-dimensional sound. It is startling.' Gramophone 1954 |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Complete opera) [Recorded 1953] Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Massard / Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] 'Callas's Lucia is a great performance of the part and, especially in the Mad Scene, we hear some of the finest singing of our time. Credit is also due to Tullio Serafin for his admirable direction of the opera and to the engineers for the excellent... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Divina - Maria Callas in all her roles Maria Callas, with Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Piero Campolonghi, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani & many others [ Warner Classics / 135 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2023 ] This is the most comprehensive box of Callas recordings ever released, presenting La Divina in all 74 roles for which audio documents exist. It comprises her complete studio recordings, a collection of her best live recordings...and much more. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded 1954) Maria Callas, Jolanda Gardino, Nicolai Gedda, Piero de Palma / Milan La Scala Chorus / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "The engineers have worked miracles with the sound. Early LP pressings well dull and dry but the remasterings for CD have a presence and, almost, a brilliance that perfectly complement the exceptionally subtle and spirited performance." (Gramophone... |
BELLINI
Norma (Complete Opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas / Mario Filippeschi / Ebe Stignani / Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Chorus And Orchestra Of La Scala, Milan / Tullio Serafin [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Performances / 3 CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "The manner in which Callas colours her voice and the way she moves through the vocal register is very individual and not to every taste. If it is to yours then this Naxos realisation of the 1954 studio recording is in the best sound I have so far... |
BELLINI
Norma (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas, Mario Filippeschi, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 3 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] This is the first of Callas's two complete recordings of her signature role, the druid priestess Norma, in which she has remained unrivalled for 50 years. It captures her voice in its imposing early prime, while in the two famous duets for Norma and... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 1954) Maria Callas / Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Gianandrea Gavazzeni (Conductor) / Tullio Serafin (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 8/Aug/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. |
VERDI
Il Trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe di Stefano / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2008 ] Before Maria Callas made this August 1956 recording of Il Trovatore, at La Scala, Milan, she had been singing it often since 1950 and with notable success. Her 1953 Covent Garden performances earned golden opinions. The Times critic considered the... |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1964) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard, Nadine Sautereau / Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera - and her only complete recording of a French opera.... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Enrico Campi / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Von Karajan (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 2 CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] When EMI [Columbia/Angel] recorded Callas as Madama Butterfly in August 1955, she had not yet sung it in the theatre, nor would she ever do so at La Scala, Milan, where it was made and her career based. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (3 LP) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Nessi / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafi [ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is the most natural piece of casting. With her Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative female" Gramophone |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman" Penguin Stereo Guide |
