Callas: Mad Scenes
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Label: Warner
Cat No: 2564634014
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 22nd September 2014
Contents
Works
Il PirataArtists
Maria Callas (soprano)Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor
Nicola RescignoWorks
Il PirataArtists
Maria Callas (soprano)Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor
Nicola RescignoAbout
Maria Callas did not make complete recordings of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena and Bellini’s Il pirata, though, as the queen of La Scala, she enjoyed triumphs in both roles in 1957–1958. The vocally and dramatically demanding final scenes of both operas feature in this recital with Ophélie’s mad scene from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, another coloratura extravaganza.
When this recital first appeared in 1959, Gramophone wrote: ‘This is a most remarkable record, not only for its material … but for its astonishing vividness and dramatic poetry … It has been a thing of much wonder for me.’
Recorded 1958
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