Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (complete opera recorded in 1954)

Callas's Fiorilla is the tenth complete opera recording she made, the only one for EMI [Columbia/Angel] that she undertook of a then unknown work, and which she would later sing at La Scala, Milan. She had sung it first at the Eliseo, Rome in 1950, in its first revival in more than ninety years: half-a-century ago the majority of Rossini's operas were unfamiliar and rarely if ever performed, save for Il barbiere di Siviglia and Guglielmo Tell, and an occasional L'Italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola. Sessions took place at La Scala at the end of August and beginning of September 1954.

CD also features additional Maria Callas recordings