Maria Callas Remastered: The Complete Studio Recordings (1949-1969)
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Maria Callas Remastered: The Complete Studio Recordings (1949-1969)
Maria Callas (soprano) with Richard Tucker, Carlo Tagliabue, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, etc
[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 69 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 February 2018
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69CD super-deluxe box set containing 26 complete operas and 13 recital albums in original jackets.
Libretti and Sung Texts on CD-ROM.
132 Page Hardback Book.
Although Maria Callas died, aged just 53, as long ago as September 1977, she remains an icon: as a supreme singing actress; as a celebrity, and as a woman of great style and elegance. The epitome of the operatic diva, the American-born Greek soprano is recognised as a singer who defined, and even redefined, opera in the 20th century and she has never lost her place among the world's top-selling classical artists. With the release of CALLAS REMASTERED: The Complete Studio Recordings, opera lovers will now be able to hear her as never before.
Warner Classics is now the guardian of Maria Callas's official recorded catalogue, and this 69-CD deluxe box set contains all the studio recordings that she made for both EMI/Columbia and the Italian label Cetra between 1949 and 1969. Each recording has been painstakingly remastered in 24-bit/96kHz sound at Abbey Road Studios, using the original tapes, and the entire collection has been curated with the greatest of care. The 26 complete operas and 13 recital albums contained in the box will also be made available as separate releases.
Conceived as a true collector's edition, CALLAS REMASTERED presents each individual opera or recital CD in its original artwork. It also contains a 132-page hardback book with essays, a biography and chronology, rarely-seen photos and reproductions of revealing letters written by Maria Callas, Walter Legge and other EMI executives. The opera librettos and aria texts are provided on a CD-ROM.
"Dip in almost anywhere...and you will find that amazing voice throbbing with emotion in a recording legacy that must be placed among the 20th century's great treasures. These studios recordings...have been remastered before, but never with the cutting-edge technology applied here. Flaws in the original tapes, when Callas's voice was too much for the microphones, have been digitally removed. The result is thrilling." The Times
"Callas largely overcame developing vocal problems to give this blazing Leonora, with Tucker at his most ardent and Serafin's sturdy support." BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 ***** (on La Forza Del Destino)
Tracks:
Bellini:
I Puritani
1953
Maria Callas (Elvira), Giuseppe di Stefano (Arturo), Rolando Panerai (Riccardo), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Giorgio), Angelo Mercuriali (Bruno), Carlo Forti (Gualtiero Valton), Aurora Cattelani (Enrichetta)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
La Sonnambula
1957
Maria Callas (Amina), Nicola Monti (Elvino), Eugenia Ratti (Lisa), Fiorenza Cossotto (Teresa), Nicola Zaccaria (Rodolfo), Giuseppe Morresi (Alessio), Franco Ricciardi (Notaro)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Norma
1954Maria Callas (Norma), Mario Filippeschi (Pollione), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Oroveso), Paolo Caroli (Flavio), Rina Cavallari (Clotilde)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Norma
1960
Maria Callas (Norma), Christa Ludwig (Adalgisa), Franco Corelli (Pollione), Nicola Zaccaria Oroveso), Edda Vincenzi (Clotilde), Piero De Palma (Flavio)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Bizet:
Carmen
1964
Maria Callas (Carmen), Nicolai Gedda (Don José), Andréa Guiot (Micaëla), Robert Massard (Escamillo), Nadine Sautereau (Frasquita), Jane Berbié (Mercédès), Jean-Paul Vauquelin (Le Dancaïre), Jacques Pruvost (Le Remendado), Claude Cales (Moralès), Jacques Mars (Zuniga)
Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Chœurs René Duclos & Chœurs d'enfants Jean Pesneaud, Georges Prêtre
Cherubini:
Medea
1957
Maria Callas (Medea), Renata Scotto (Glauce), Mirto Picchi (Giasone), Miriam Pirazzini (Neris), Giuseppe Modesti (Creonte)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Donizetti:
Lucia di Lammermoor
1953
Maria Callas (Lucia), Nicolai Gedda (Edgardo), Robert Massard (Enrico)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin
Lucia di Lammermoor
1959
Maria Callas (Lucia), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Edgardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico), Bernard Ladysz (Raimondo), Leonard Del Ferro (Arturo), Margreta Elkins (Alisa), Renzo Casellato (Normanno)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin
Leoncavallo:
I Pagliacci
1954
Maria Callas (Nedda), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Rolando Panerai (Silvio), Nicola Monti (Beppe)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Mascagni:
Cavalleria Rusticana
1953
Maria Callas (Santuzza), Giuseppe di Stefano (Turiddu), Rolando Panerai (Alfio), Anna Maria Canali (Lola), Ebe Ticozzi (Lucia)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Ponchielli:
La Gioconda
1952
Maria Callas (La Gioconda), Gianni Poggi (Enzo), Paolo Silveri (Barnaba), Fedora Barbieri (Laura), Giulio Neri (Alvise), Maria Amadini (La Cieca), Piero Poldi (Zuàne), Armando Benzi (Isèpo), Piero Poldi (Un Pilota)
RAI Chorus & Orchestra Turin, Antonino Votto
La Gioconda
1959
Maria Callas (La Gioconda), Pier Miranda Ferraro (Enzo), Piero Cappuccilli (Barnaba), Fiorenza Cossotto (Laura), Ivo Vinco (Alvise), Irene Companeez (La Cieca), Leonardo Monreale (Zuàne), Carlo Forti (Un Cantore), Renato Ercolani (Isèpo), Carlo Forti (Un Pilota)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Puccini:
La Bohème
1956
Maria Callas (Mimi), Giuseppe di Stefano (Rodolfo), Rolando Panerai (Marcello), Anna Moffo (Musetta), Nicola Zaccaria (Colline), Manuel Spatafora (Schaunard), Franco Ricciardi (Parpignol), Carlo Badioli (Alcindoro/Benoit)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Tosca
1953
Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Angelotti), Melchiorre Luise (Il Sagristano), Angelo Mercuriali (Spoletta), Dario Caselli (Sciarrone), Alvaro Cordova (Un pastore), Dario Caselli (Un carceriere)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Victor de Sabata
Turandot
1957
Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Mario Borriello (Ping), Renato Ercolani (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Giuseppe Nessi (L'imperatore Altoum), Giulio Mauri (Un mandarino)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Madama Butterfly
1955
Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki), Renato Ercolani (Goro), Mario Carlin (Yamadori), Plinio Clabassi (Lo zio Bonzo), Enrico Campi (Il commissario imperiale), Luisa Villa (Kate Pinkerton)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Herbert von Karajan
Manon Lescaut
1957
Maria Callas (Manon Lescaut), Giuseppe di Stefano (Des Grieux), Giulio Fioravanti (Lescaut), Franco Calabrese (Geronte), Dino Formichini (Edmondo), Fiorenza Cossotto (Madrigal singer)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Tosca
1964/5
Maria Callas (Tosca), Carlo Bergonzi (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Giorgio Tadeo (Il Sagristano), Leonardo Monreale (Angelotti), Renato Ercolani (Spoletta), Ugo Trama (Sciarrone), David Sellar (Un pastore), Leonardo Monreale (Un carceriere)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre
Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia
1957
Maria Callas (Rosina), Tito Gobbi (Figaro), Luigi Alva (Almaviva), Fritz Ollendorf (Bartolo), Nicola Zaccaria (Basilio), Gabriella Carturan (Berta), Mario Carlin (Fiorello)
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Alceo Galliera
Il Turco in Italia
1954
Maria Callas (Donna Fiorilla), Nicolai Gedda (Don Narciso), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Selim), Jolanda Gardino (Zaida), Franco Calabrese (Don Geronio), Mariano Stabile (Il poeta Prosdocimo), Piero De Palma (Albazar)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Verdi:
Aida
1955
Maria Callas (Aida), Richard Tucker (Radamès), Fedora Barbieri (Amneris), Tito Gobbi (Amonasro), Giuseppe Modesti (Ramfis)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Rigoletto
1955
Maria Callas (Gilda), Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Giuseppe di Stefano (Il Duca), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone), William Dickie (Marullo), Renato Ercolani (Borsa), Giuse Gerbino (Giovanna), Carlo Forti (Il Conte di Ceprano), Elvira Galassi (La Contessa di Ceprano)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Il Trovatore
1956
Maria Callas (Leonora), Giuseppe di Stefano (Manrico), Giuseppe di Stefano (Azucena), Rolando Panerai (Il Conte di Luna), Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando), Luisa Villa (Ines), Renato Ercolani (Ruiz), Giulio Mauri (Un vecchio zingaro), Renato Ercolani (Un messo)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Herbert von Karajan
Un ballo in maschera
1956
Maria Callas (Amelia), Giuseppe di Stefano (Riccardo), Tito Gobbi (Renato)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
La Traviata
1953
Maria Callas (Violetta), Francesco Albanese (Alfredo), Ugo Savarese (Germont)
RAI Chorus and Orchestra Turin, Gabriele Santini
La forza del destino
1954
Maria Callas (Leonora), Richard Tucker (Don Alvaro), Carlo Tagliabue (Don Carlo), Plinio Clabassi (Il Marchese di Calatrava), Elena Nicolai (Preziosilla), Renato Capecchi (Fra Melitone), Rina Cavallari (Curra), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Padre Guardiano), Gino Del Signore (Mastro Trabuco), Dario Caselli (Un Chirurgo/Un Alcalde)
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
Plus: 13 recital discs:
Puccini Arias (1954)
Rossini and Donizetti Arias (1963/4)
Verdi Arias Vol. 1 (1958)
Mad Scenes (1958)
Lyric and coloratura arias (1954)
Callas at La Scala (1955)
Mozart, Beethoven & Weber (1963/4)
Callas a Paris Vol. 1 (1961)
Verdi Arias Vol. II (1964)
The First Recordings (1949)
The Callas Rarities (1953-1969)
Callas a Paris Vol. 2
Verdi Arias Vol. 3
