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Maria Callas - Pure (2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at June 22, 2024

Maria Callas - Pure (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 77:54 minutes | 1,15 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Opera singers come and go, but just a few – the legends – live on. And Maria Callas was the greatest legend of them all, though not just for the wonder of her voice. She changed the way people thought about opera, but she also became famous as the glamorous celebrity who fell in love with Aristotle Onassis, leaving her elderly husband to live with him on his yacht Christina and enjoy the high life with the international jet set.

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Maria Callas - Love Duets (2022) Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 28, 2022

Maria Callas - Love Duets (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 539 MB
2:45:31 | Classical, Opera | Label: Warner Classics

The amazing success of Maria Callas was not only related to her unique voice, but also to her stunning scenic charisma. The alchemy of the magnetic duets she shared with the elite of male Italian singing, then at its apex, have contributed to the legend of the Scala evenings. This collection of the most moving duets in Italian opera features such singers as Giuseppe Di Stefano, Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and Tito Gobbi.

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Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1960/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 31, 2023

Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1960) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 166:31 minutes | 3,33 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Callas's second studio recording of La Gioconda was made in 1959, six years after her last stage performances of the role, which in 1947 has been the vehicle for her Italian debut (at the Arena di Verona).The recording came at a turning point in Callas's life - when her relationship with Aristotle Onassis led to her separation from her husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini. Writing in Gramophone in 1960, Philip Hope-Wallace said: 'I simply cannot imagine anyone getting more out of the role than she does this time…the total effect is riveting.' Joining Callas were two young Italian singers destined for great careers: the mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto as her rival, Laura, and, as the sinister Barnaba, baritone Piero Cappuccilli.

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Maria Callas - Cherubini: Medea (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Oct. 20, 2023

Maria Callas - Luigi Cherubini: Medea (1959) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 118:51 minutes | 2,11 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The role of the betrayed and finally murderous Medea became closely associated with Maria Callas. In 1969, several years after her final operatic performance, she even starred as Jason’s spurned wife – as an actress, not as a singer – in a film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. She first appeared in Cherubini’s opera in 1953 in Florence, with Vittorio Gui conducting, and later that year collaborated with Leonard Bernstein in a staging at La Scala; in 1962, the role brought her final appearances at Milan’s great opera house.

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Maria Callas - The Incomparable Callas: Favourite Arias (1987) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 18, 2024

The fame and legacy of Maria Callas are nearly unsurpassed in the modern history of opera. Her fame has transcended the usual boundaries of classical music, and she has been the inspiration for several movies, an opera, and a successful Broadway musical. Her extensive catalogue of recordings remains among the most coveted and controversial for both her fans and detractors.

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Maria Callas - Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 22, 2024

Maria Callas - Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (1957) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 131:22 minutes | 1,34 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Callas’s first stage appearances in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera came at La Scala in 1957, a year in which Milan also saw her in La sonnambula and Anna Bolena. As in this recording, made the year before, she shared Verdi’s most spectacular soprano-tenor duet (in Act II) with Giuseppe di Stefano. This was the last time Callas and Di Stefano appeared together in opera, though they reunited in the 1970s to direct I vespri siciliani in Turin and to give a series of joint concerts in Europe, the USA, Canada,South Korea and Japan. Gramophone judged this recording of Ballo to be ‘one of Callas’s most compelling assumptions’.

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Maria Callas - Puccini: Tosca (1965/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 17, 2023

Maria Callas - Puccini: Tosca (1965) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 112:23 minutes | 2,37 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Tosca was the role in which – in 1965, the year this recording was made – Callas gave her last complete performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra. This was her final complete recording of an opera, and, 12 years after her first version of Tosca, it reunited her with the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi. They were joined by Carlo Bergonzi as Cavaradossi. Gramophone praised ‘a thrilling and very complete interpretation, with scene after scene, bar after bar, brought to life by sheer intelligence and dramatic insight’.

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Maria Callas - Bizet: Carmen (1964/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Dec. 17, 2023

Maria Callas - Bizet: Carmen (1964) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 146:52 minutes | 2,94 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

‘Callas is Carmen’ proclaimed the publicity when this recording first appeared on LP in elaborate red and gold faux- leather luxury packaging with three separate booklets. It was a major coup for the record company to get Callas to record this most intriguing of all operatic roles, and its release was eagerly awaited…

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Maria Callas - The Incomparable Callas: Favourite Arias (1987) Music

Posted by tirexiss at Sept. 18, 2024

The fame and legacy of Maria Callas are nearly unsurpassed in the modern history of opera. Her fame has transcended the usual boundaries of classical music, and she has been the inspiration for several movies, an opera, and a successful Broadway musical. Her extensive catalogue of recordings remains among the most coveted and controversial for both her fans and detractors.

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Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1961/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 3, 2023

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1961) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 161:32 minutes | 3,32 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Callas first sang Bellini's Norma in 1948, when she was just 25. She went on to perform the role of the heroic, but vulnerable Druid priestess -the ultimate embodiment of bel canto - more frequently than any other. In this second studio recording her conductor was again Tullio Serafin (he originally tutored her in the role in 1948), and the venue was again La Scala - where the opera was premiered in 1831. By 1960, Callas brought a wealth of new nuance to her interpretation, and she is aptly partnered by the creamy-voiced Christa Ludwig (in a rare recording of an Italian role) and the towering Franco Corelli.

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