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100 Best Opera Classics [6 CDs special price] cover
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100 BEST OPERA
100 Best Opera Classics [6 CDs special price]
Beverly Sills, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, etc
[ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
A 6-CD collection at a special price which offers a hundred greatest operatic arias. The programme includes all the popular favourites from 'Tosca', 'La Boheme', 'Carmen' 'Norma', 'Samson et Dalila' and even selections from Wagner and Richard Strauss
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954) cover
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GASPARE SPONTINI
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954)
Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
The central character in La Vestale, as in Norma, is a priestess who transgresses her holy vows for love. Spontini's nobly-conceived opera, composed for Paris in the Napoleonic era, brought Callas' first collaboration on a new production with the...
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1960) cover
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1960)
Maria Callas, Christa Ludwig, Franco Corelli, Nicola Zaccaria / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 3 CD - released 18/Nov/2014 ]
Callas first sang Bellini's Norma in 1948, when she was just 25. She went on to perform the role of the heroic, but vulnerable Druid priestess - the ultimate embodiment of bel canto - more frequently than any other. In this second studio recording...
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded live in 1954) cover
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CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded live in 1954)
Maria Callas, Enrico Campi, Giuseppe Zampieri, Paolo Silveri /
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Alceste, in 1954, was the first of two Gluck operas that Callas sang at La Scala, followed three years later by an Italian version of Iphigénie en Tauride. It was in the 1953-54 season that she rose to become 'Queen of La Scala', also singing Medea....
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958) cover
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958)
Maria Callas, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Laura Zannini, Maria Cristina de Castro / Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa Franco Ghione
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ]
Callas sang La traviata more frequently than any other opera, apart from Norma. She performed it over 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti's production at La Scala in 1955/56. Her only studio recording of the role was...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Callas Effect cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Callas Effect
Maria Callas (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors
[ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Jan/2012 ]
"memorable artistry is evident everywhere - utterly exemplary in its musical intelligence, stirring in its interpretative eloquence. The technique dazzles in marvellously expressive trills...and everywhere, of course, the uniquely penetrating...
Forever Callas - a film by Franco Zeffirelli DVD cover
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Maria Callas
Forever Callas - a film by Franco Zeffirelli DVD
[ Shock DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2005 ]
In this loving tribute to Maria Callas, Zeffirelli imagines what could have happened at the end of her life at the age of 53.
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Maria Callas
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Passion Callas - a film by Gerald Caillat
[ EMI DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/1997 ]
A rare glimpse of a truly enigmatic artist. Maria Callas is the greatest opera singer the world has ever known, and this fascinating DVD provides new insights into both Callas the performer and Maria the woman. Includes rare interview footage of...
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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."
Bizet: Carmen (3 LP) cover
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GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (3 LP)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard / Orchestre du Théâtre National de L'Opera, Georges Pretre
[ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ]
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.
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP) cover
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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,...
Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded live in 1957) cover
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Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) cover
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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.
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (Highlights recorded in 1955)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Carlo Maria Giulini
[ EMI Classics / CD - released 10/Jul/1990 ]
"Callas's intensity here has powerful support from Giulini, who builds the orchestral crescendos with overwhelming passion." Gramophone
Puccini: La Boheme (Complete Opera recorded in 1956) cover
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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...
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Complete Opera recorded in 1957) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Complete Opera recorded in 1957)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulio Fioravanti / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ]
"In general this is Callas at her most girlish: light-voiced, lyrical and with the power to make the dramatic climaxes thrilling." MusicWeb
Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera recorded in 1953) cover
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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
Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera) (Recorded 1953) cover
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera) (Recorded 1953)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Teatro alla Scala, de Sabata
[ EMI Historical / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ]
"There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas's first, with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia." -Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1964) cover
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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....
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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