Aida [recorded live in 1953]

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Aida [recorded live in 1953]
Maria Callas, Kurt Baum, Giulietta Simionato, Jess Walters / Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli

[ Testament / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 1 January 2009

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"it was in many ways a performance that outshines all [Callas's] studio recordings, with the stage atmosphere well caught. Barbirolli too is a winningly warm and sympathetic Verdian...Simionato is a superb Amneris, searingly powerful...[Sutherland sounds] very distant but perfectly identifiable."
(Penguin)