Aida Extreme

Decca, THE Opera Company, has always invested infinite energy and enormous care in its productions, pairing unrivalled casts with its unequalled technical skill and legendary sound. Decca Classics is proud to continue its Hardback Opera Series of go-to performances incorporating true 24-bit audio with two reference recordings of R. Strauss with casts led by Birgit Nilsson and also Leontyne Price’s legendary recording of Verdi’s Aida – all three performances are conducted by Sir Georg Solti

Conference Proceedings is a culmination of research results, papers and the theory related to all the three major areas of computing, i.e., Theoretical Computer Science, Systems and Software, and Intelligent Systems. Helps budding researchers, graduates in the areas of Computer Science, Information science, Electronics, Telecommunication, Instrumentation, Networking to take forward their research work based on the reviewed results in the paper, by mutual interaction through E-mail contacts in the proceedings.

Though he would forever be hailed as The King Of Italian Horror, director Mario Bava brought his stunning visual style to virtually every genre of international cinema. In these eight movies from the latter half of his legendary career, Il Maestro turned his extraordinary eye to extreme gothic horror, mod murder mystery, spaghetti western satire, a sex comedy inspired by Rashomon, the gore shocker that single-handedly created the 'body-count' craze, and two distinctly different versions of his surreal macabre classic. Each disc has been transferred from original European vault elements to complete the definitive celebration of one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.

Maria Callas, soprano américaine d'origine grecque, est née à New York le 2 décembre 1923. Icône même de la diva, tant par la réussite exceptionnelle de sa vie professionnelle que par sa vie privée mouvementée, « la Callas » marquera profondément l'art lyrique du siècle dernier en bouleversant l'approche dramatique du jeu d'acteur.

Among those singers who, in the mid-20th century, stepped onto the opera stages of the world and into the shoes of the legendary generation of singers of the 30s and 40s, bass-baritone George London was an exception. His voice, with its inimitable and balanced timbre in all registers, was virtually peerless. London was a true bass-baritone whose voice, even in the extreme reaches, could maintain its dark tone thanks to a sensitive style and articulation and a wide-ranging expressive ability. His international career was brought to an abrupt and premature end in the 1960s. During an operation, one of his vocal cords was damaged and his voice never regained its force and beauty. While in Munich during a tour of Europe, London suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. He died in New York in 1985. This album of recordings from the Bavarian broadcast archive features the legendary bass-baritone at the height of his career in the 1950s.