*** 4x 180g Vinyl LP ***

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, Norma is Callas’s most performed part; certainly no other 20th-century diva is more closely associated with the role, and no-one since has even remotely eclipsed Callas in the perception of opera lovers.

Countless moments, too numerous to catalogue here, raise this Callas Norma to the level of genius. From a haunting ‘Casta Diva’ to a final scene of incomparable grandeur and sweep, in every startlingly brilliant detail, Callas is Norma.

Cast:
- Norma: Maria Callas
- Pollione: Franco Corelli
- Adalgisa: Christa Ludwig
- Oroveso: Nicola Zaccaria
- Flavio: Piero de Palma
- Clotilde: Edda Vincenzi

Recorded: 5-12.IX.1960, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Recorded in cooperation with E.A. Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Producers: Walter Legge & Walter Jellinek
Balance engineer: Robert Gooch
Remastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road Studios