Puccini: Turandot
Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin
With Callas, the character seems so much more believably complex than with others, and this 1957 recording is one of her most thrillingly magnetic performances on disc. Schwarzkopf provides...
Puccini: Turandot
Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin
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With Callas, the character seems so much more believably complex than with others, and this 1957 recording is one of her most thrillingly magnetic performances on disc. Schwarzkopf provides...
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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Turandot was recorded in 1957 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
Contents and tracklist
- Pinuccia Perotti (soprano), Elisabetta Fusco (soprano), Piero de Palma (tenor), Mario Borriello (bass-baritone), Giulio Mauri (bass), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Eugenio Fernandi (tenor), Maria Callas (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Giuseppe Nessi (tenor), Nicola Zaccaria (bass)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Tullio Serafin
- Recorded: 1957-07-15
- Recording Venue: 9 - 13 & 15 July 1957 / Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Awards and reviews
2010 edition
With Callas, the character seems so much more believably complex than with others, and this 1957 recording is one of her most thrillingly magnetic performances on disc. Schwarzkopf provides a comparably characterful and distinctive portrait as Liu...Serafin's masterly conducting exactly matches the characterfulness of Callas and Schwarzkopf
