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Maria Callas sings Puccini: Complete EMI recordings | EMI 2158942

Maria Callas sings Puccini: Complete EMI recordings

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Label: EMI

Cat No: 2158942

Barcode: 5099921589423

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 15

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th September 2008

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Artists

Maria Callas

Artists

Maria Callas

About

Puccini is one of today’s most popular operatic composers. His works dominate the programmes of the world’s leading opera houses and his compositions are heard frequently on radio and television, in film soundtracks and in TV commercials.

Maria Callas is an iconic figure in the world of opera and she continues to be acclaimed as one of the greatest interpreters of the music of Puccini in living memory.

All of Callas’s studio recordings of Puccini operas are included here: Manon Lescaut, La bohème, Tosca (both versions), Madama Butterfly and Turandot. These are all recorded with the forces of La Scala, Milan, except the second Tosca which was made in Paris.

Also included is the famous recital of Puccini Arias that Callas recorded in London in 1954 on which she sings both of Liù’s arias from Turandot (‘Signore, ascolta’ and ‘Tu che di gel sei cinta’), as well as Turandot’s great solo ‘In questa reggia’.

The set also contains, as a bonus, the live recording of Tosca made at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in January 1964 when Callas made her triumphant return to the operatic stage after an absence of several years, in a magnificent new production of Tosca directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Contents: (in chronological order of recording)
All recordings Mono except the second studio Tosca

Tosca – Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano & Tito Gobbi 2 CDs)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Victor de Sabata
(Recorded August 1953)

Puccini Arias (1 CD)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Tullio Serafin
(Recorded September 1954)

Madama Butterfly – Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda & Lucia Danieli (2 CDs)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Herbert von Karajan
(Recorded August 1955)

La bohème – Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano & Anna Moffo (2 CDs)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Antonino Votto
(Recorded August-September 1956)

Turandot – Maria Callas, Eugenio Fernandi & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (2 CDs)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Tullio Serafin
(Recorded July 1957)

Manon Lescaut – Maria Callas & Giuseppe di Stefano (2 CDs)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Tullio Serafin
(Recorded July, 1957)

Tosca – Maria Callas, Renato Cioni & Tito Gobbi (2 CDs)
Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden  / Carlo Felice Cillario
(Live recording 21 January 1964)

Tosca – Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi & Tito Gobbi (2 CDs)
Chœurs du Théâtre National de l’Opéra
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire / Georges Prêtre
(Recorded December 1964)

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