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Maria Callas – Live & Alive
The Ultimate Live Collection Remastered
Maria Callas (soprano)
Maria Callas – Live & Alive
The Ultimate Live Collection Remastered
Maria Callas (soprano)
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The passion and charisma of Maria Callas, performing live on the stages of the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls, can now be experienced as never before – thanks to new audio remastering from the best available sources. These are performances that played a crucial part in creating the legend of Callas, La Divina, and which keep her thrilling art very much alive.
Contents and tracklist
- Maria Callas (soprano), Edgar Boniface (bass), Renato Cioni (tenor)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Carlo Felice Cillario
- Maria Callas (soprano), Luisa Villa (mezzo-soprano)
- RIAS Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
- Herbert von Karajan
Donizetti:
Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3
Work length16:22
This work is only available as an album download.
- Maria Callas (soprano), Mario Carlin (tenor), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Rolando Panerai (baritone)
- Teatro alla Scala, RIAS Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin
- Herbert von Karajan
"Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce! ... Ardon gli incensi" (Lucia, Raimondo, Normanno, Chorus) [Live]
Track length12:15
This track is only available as an album download.
- Maria Callas (soprano), Gabriella Carturan (mezzo-soprano), Gianni Raimondi (tenor), Luigi Rumbo (tenor), Plinio Clabassi (bass)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Maria Callas (soprano)
- Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
- Oliviero de Fabritiis
Verdi:
Aida, Act 2: "O Re, pei sacri numi ... Gloria all'Egitto" (Radamès, Amneris, Amonasro, King, Aida, Chorus, Ramfis) [Live]
Work length5:21
- Maria Callas (soprano), Giuseppe Taddei (baritone), Ignacio Ruffino (bass), Mario del Monaco (tenor), Oralia Dominguez (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Silva (bass)
- Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Coro del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
- Oliviero de Fabritiis
- Maria Callas (soprano), Giacomo Vaghi (bass)
- Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House Covent Garden
- Vittorio Gui
- Maria Callas (soprano), Alessandro Maddalena (bass), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Alvaro Malta (baritone), Laura Zanini (mezzo-soprano), Piero de Palma (tenor), Vito Susca (bass)
- Coro Sinfónica do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa, Orquestra Sinfónica do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa
- Franco Ghione
"Libiam1o, ne' lieti calici" (Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marchese, Gastone, Alfredo, Barone, Dottore) [Live]
Track length3:14
- Maria Callas (soprano)
- Orquestra Sinfónica do Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa
- Franco Ghione
Wagner:
Parsifal, WWV 111, Act 2: "Ho visto, il figlio sul materno sen" (Kundry) [Live]
Work length4:39
- Maria Callas (soprano)
- Orchestra di Roma della RAI
- Vittorio Gui
Gluck:
Ifigenia in Tauride, Wq. 37, Act 2: "O sventurata Ifigenia" (Ifigenia, Chorus) [Live]
Work length5:04
- Maria Callas (soprano), Glade Peterson (tenor), Regina Sarfaty (mezzo-soprano), Pier Miranda Ferraro (tenor)
- Orchestra of the American Opera Society, Chorus of the American Opera Society
- Nicola Rescigno
"Quando a un tratto il mio consorte" (Imogene, Chorus, Itulbo, Adele, Gualtiero) [Live]
Track length2:57
- Maria Callas (soprano), Eugenio Fernandi (tenor)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Tullio Serafin
