More By Artist: Maria Callas
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100 BEST OPERA
100 Best Opera Classics [6 CDs special price] Beverly Sills, Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Maria Callas, etc [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] A 6-CD collection at a special price which offers a hundred greatest operatic arias. The programme includes all the popular favourites from 'Tosca', 'La Boheme', 'Carmen' 'Norma', 'Samson et Dalila' and even selections from Wagner and Richard Strauss |
GASPARE SPONTINI
Spontini: La Vestale (complete opera remastered recorded live 1954) Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Ebe Stignani, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Teatro alla Scala, Antonino Votto [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] The central character in La Vestale, as in Norma, is a priestess who transgresses her holy vows for love. Spontini's nobly-conceived opera, composed for Paris in the Napoleonic era, brought Callas' first collaboration on a new production with the... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (Complete Opera recorded 1956) Maria Callas, Rolando Panerai, Giuseppe di Stefano, Fedora Barbieri / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, von Karajan [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "The combination of Karajan and Callas is formidably impressive. There is toughness and dramatic determination in Callas's singing, whether in coloratura or in dramatic passages." Penguin Stereo Guide |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicola Zaccaria / Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "There has never been a more compelling performance of the title-role in Rigoletto than that of Gobbi on his classic La Scala set. Callas is compellingly imaginative throughout." Penguin Stereo guide |
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
Gluck: Alceste (complete opera recorded live in 1954) Maria Callas, Enrico Campi, Giuseppe Zampieri, Paolo Silveri / [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Alceste, in 1954, was the first of two Gluck operas that Callas sang at La Scala, followed three years later by an Italian version of Iphigénie en Tauride. It was in the 1953-54 season that she rose to become 'Queen of La Scala', also singing Medea.... |
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100 Best Opera Classics Maria Callas, Roberto Alagna, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicolai Gedda, Placido Domingo, Boris Christoff, Kiri Te Kanawa, Christa Ludwi [ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 6/Mar/2006 ] This set offers 100 opera tracks, 6 CDs at a super special price! |
Various Composers
La Divina (Gatefold LP) Maria Callas [ Warner Classics / LP - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Maria Callas is credited with changing the history of opera. Known as La Divina, she continues to fascinate as a supreme artist, but also as a woman and an icon of style. |
VERDI
Arias & Mad Scenes Maria Callas [ Alto / CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] "This CD encapsulates the essence of Callas's genius. Recorded in 1958, the last year her voice was wholly reliable, every track is something to wonder at." |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (3 LP) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard / Orchestre du Théâtre National de L'Opera, Georges Pretre [ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 19/May/2023 ] Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera. |
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VINCENCO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma [complete opera] (LP) Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Christa Ludwig, Nicola Zaccaria [ Warner Classics Vinyl / 4 Vinyl Box Set - released 10/Mar/2023 ] This 1960 Norma represents Maria Callas's final complete documented version of her signature role. Seven recordings of the opera exist with Callas (1950-60), plus numerous snippets and scenes captured between 1949 and 1965. With 89 performances,... |
DONIZETTI
Anna Bolena (complete opera recorded live in 1957) Maria Callas, Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni / Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] Live Recording - La Scala, 1957 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1955) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Carlo Maria Giulini [ Warner Classics The Opera Series / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2011 ] The brand new series celebrates EMI - The Home of Opera with Giulini's legendary recording of La Traviata with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. Includes complete libretto and synopsis on a bonus CD ROM. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (Complete Opera recorded in 1956) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Anna Moffo, Nicola Zaccaria / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Callas never sang the role of Mimì on stage, but this did not prevent her recorded interpretation from being, as described by Philip Hope-Wallace in Gramophone, 'brilliantly realised … This Mimì comes alive and later haunts you in the most... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Complete Opera recorded in 1957) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulio Fioravanti / Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "In general this is Callas at her most girlish: light-voiced, lyrical and with the power to make the dramatic climaxes thrilling." MusicWeb |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera with full libretto) (Recorded 1953) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Teatro alla Scala, de Sabata [ EMI / 2 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/1995 ] "There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas's first, with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia." - Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Complete Opera) (Recorded 1953) Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi / Teatro alla Scala, de Sabata [ EMI Historical / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas's first, with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia." -Rosette Penguin Stereo Guide |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera recorded in 1964) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Andréa Guiot, Robert Massard, Nadine Sautereau / Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Towards the end of Callas's career, there were many rumours that she was planning to perform Carmen on stage. This was never to be, but Carmen became her penultimate complete recording of an opera - and her only complete recording of a French opera.... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (3 LP) Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Eugenio Fernandi, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giuseppe Nessi / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafi [ Warner Classics LP / 3 Vinyl Box Set - released 8/Sep/2023 ] "To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is the most natural piece of casting. With her Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative female" Gramophone |
PUCCINI / BIZET / DVORAK / OFFENBACH / DONIZETTI / VERDI / etc
40 Most Beautiful Arias Maria Callas, Placido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, José Cura, Angela Gheorghiu, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] Nothing stirs the soul and tugs at the heartstrings more than an inspired operatic aria. Warner Classics CD set 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL ARIAS collects forty of the most moving ones the world has known on this star-studded collection. |
MARIA CALLAS
Maria Callas - Magic Moments of Music Maria Callas (soprano) with interviews with Antonio Pappano, Rolando Villazon, Rufus Wainwright, Thomas Hampson & others [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Pappano says illuminating things about Callas's voice and what she did with it…Kristine Opolais is interesting about her acting…Tito Gobbi is his expansive self…The performance itself remains miraculous, however often you see it." BBC Music |
