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Bellini - La sonnambula | Testament SBT21417

Bellini - La sonnambula

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Label: Testament

Cat No: SBT21417

Barcode: 0749677141721

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Nicola Zaccaria
Fiorenza Cossotto
Maria Callas
Edith Martelli
Nicola Monti
Dino Mantovani
Franco Ricciardi
Coro e Orchestra della Piccola Scala di Milano

Conductor

Antonino Votto

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

La Sonnambula

Artists

Nicola Zaccaria
Fiorenza Cossotto
Maria Callas
Edith Martelli
Nicola Monti
Dino Mantovani
Franco Ricciardi
Coro e Orchestra della Piccola Scala di Milano

Conductor

Antonino Votto

About

Callas as Amina in Edinburgh

At her début in the role of Amina in 1955, Callas dominated the ensembles and, at certain moments, she showed her vocal power off with hardly concealed pride. Her powers may have diminished a little in the two and a half years that passed since that time, but in Edinburgh her interpretation of the role had significantly deepened. Her Amina is less girl, less naïve, and less imbued with echoes of her immediate predecessors in the role, Lina Pagliughi and Margherita Carosio. The Edinburgh Amina is a living young woman who is rapidly learning to deal with the larger-than-life emotions that come with the libretto. The miracle is that she makes one listen to the words, while at the same time making us look beyond the rather unbelievable and silly plot. To whom should one compare this singer? At best, she invoked a haunting image of the legendary role
creator, Giuditta Pasta. Throughout this recording, but especially in the final aria, her singing is full of unexpected shadings, colourings, pianissimi, bravura cadenzas and accents that fill any given part of a word with meaning and truth. When Callas sings, we are looking straight into Amina’s heart.
© René Seghers, 2008

The high quality tapes used as source material for this release come from a private recording made for Callas’s EMI recording producer Walter Legge, and were supplied to Testament by Legge’s widow, the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

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