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. Her interpretations were as compelling for their dramatic truth as for their musical integrity. Her voice, with its extraordinary range, was as distinctive as her infallible sense for a phrase. A magnetic presence, she brought operatic heroines to vivid life, magically shaping and colouring her tone, and making insightful use of the text of the libretto.

Artists

Maria Callas (soprano), Francesco Albanese (tenor), Nicola Monti (tenor), Margreta Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Tito Gobbi (baritone), Alberto Herrera (baritone), Carlos Sagarmínaga (tenor), Franscisco Alonso (bass), Gabriella Carturan (mezzo-soprano), Gianni Raimondi (tenor), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Glade Peterson (tenor), Pier Miranda Ferraro (tenor), Regina Sarfaty (mezzo-soprano), Teatro alla Scala, Chœurs René Duclos, Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Télévision française, Athens Festival Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes de México, Coro Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Chorus of the American Opera Society, Orchestra of the American Opera Society, Tullio Serafin, Georges Prêtre, Nicola Rescigno, Gabriele Santini, Antonino Votto, Georges Sebastian, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Umberto Mugnai, Alfredo Simonetto, Erich Kleiber