Maria Callas - Puccini Heroines & Lyric Arias on CD
Maria Callas - Puccini Heroines & Lyric Arias
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
Expected availability end of September 2025
Puccini-Arien aus Manon Lescaut, Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Turandot
+Arien von Cilea, Giordano, Catalani, Boito
- Artists:
- Maria Callas, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 1954
- Item number:
- 1546110
- UPC/EAN:
- 0747313327522
- Release date:
- 4.1.2008
1954 was for Callas an exceptionally busy year. As well as appearing regularly at La Scala, Milan, and elsewhere in Italy, she made her American début at the Chicago Lyric in November. Her September 1954 Watford Town Hall sessions featured on this recording were released on two albums, one devoted to Puccini arias, not without blemishes, and the second featuring a selection entitled Coloratura Lyric Arias, which remains justly famous to this day. In the two arias from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Callas' interpretation benefits from her remarkably expansive breath span. In Boito's L'altra notte Callas revolutionises performance practice: she not only correctly sings all the written notes, but she understands implicitly what the dramatic situation calls for in her treatment of the cadenzas at the end of each verse. Throughout the remarkable length of her phrases, her choice of vocal colours, her command of rubato and her dynamic range reveal much more than one had thought the music contained.
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Maria Callas: Manon Lescaut: Act II: In quelle trine morbide
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2 Maria Callas: Manon Lescaut: Act IV: Sola, perduta, abbandonata
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3 Maria Callas: Madama Butterfly: Act II: Un bel di vedremo
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4 Maria Callas: Madama Butterfly: Act Iii: Con Onor Muore - Tu, Tu Piccolo Iddio
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5 Maria Callas: La boheme: Act I: Si, mi chiamano Mimi
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6 Maria Callas: La Boheme: Act Iii: Donde Lieta Usci
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7 Maria Callas: Suor Angelica: Senza mamma
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8 Maria Callas: Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
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9 Maria Callas: Turandot: Act I: Signore, ascolta!
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10 Maria Callas: Turandot: Act II: In questa reggia
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11 Maria Callas: Turandot: Act Iii: Tu Che Di Gel Sei Cinta
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12 Maria Callas: Adriana Lecouvreur: Act I: Ecco: Respiro appena - Io son l'umile ancella
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13 Maria Callas: Adriana Lecouvreur: Act IV: Poveri fiori
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14 Maria Callas: Andrea Chenier, Act Iii: La Mamma Morta
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15 Maria Callas: La Wally, Act I: Ebben? Ne andro lontana
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16 Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele, Act Iii: L'altra Notte In Fondo Al Mare
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