Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete opera recorded in 1954)
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RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (Complete opera recorded in 1954)
Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Rolando Panerai / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 10 November 2014
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While Pagliacci's regular companion piece, Cavalleria rusticana, figured prominently in Callas's early career, Leoncavallo's one-acter had no place in her stage repertoire. But as Gramophone wrote of this recording: 'When Callas [as Nedda] and Gobbi [as Tonio] are on the stage the drama is strikingly unfolded … There has been [no Nedda] more urgently or pressingly feminine than Callas … the only one to create real tension at the idea of Canio reading her thoughts; the only one to give meaning … to her mood as the birds fly overhead; and … the only one to greet her lover with delight.'
