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Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera | Warner 2564634087

Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564634087

Barcode: 0825646340873

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 20th October 2014

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Contents

Artists

Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Tito Gobbi
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan

Conductor

Antonino Votto

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Un ballo in maschera

Artists

Maria Callas
Giuseppe di Stefano
Tito Gobbi
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan

Conductor

Antonino Votto

About

Maria 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 soprano-tenor duet (in Act II) with Giuseppe di Stefano. This was the last time Callas and Di Stefano appeared together in opera, though they reunited in the 1970s to direct 'I vespri siciliani' in Turin and to give a series of joint concerts in Europe, the USA, Canada, South Korea and Japan.

Gramophone judged this recording of Ballo to be ‘one of Callas’s most compelling assumptions’.

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