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Maria Callas - Arias from Verdi Operas (1972/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at March 1, 2024

Maria Callas - Arias from Verdi Operas (1972) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:13 minutes | 1030 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This third Verdi collection was the last recital that Callas recorded, over an extended period between 1964 and 1969. Arias from operas in her stage repertoire – Aida, Un ballo in maschera, I vespri siciliani and Il trovatore – were complemented by numbers from more rarely heard works from Verdi’s ‘galley years’: When five of the tracks from this recital were originally released as Callas by Request, Gramophone admired the way: ‘Callas revealed her matchless command of line, verbal declamation and musical insight’.

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Maria Callas - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1958/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Oct. 20, 2023

Maria Callas - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1958) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 130:09 minutes | 2,77 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

As she demonstrated in both Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia, Callas, the great tragedienne, could also turn her skills to comedy. As it happened, the 1956 La Scala production of Rossini's most popular opera did not prove a great success with audiences, but its stars - Callas, Tito Gobbi and Luigi Alva - reassembled in London the following year for this recording. Callas sang the role of Rosina at its original mezzo-soprano pitch and her version of 'Una voce poco fa' - punctuated by an unforgettable 'ma' ('but') in the cabaletta - is a miracle of both elegance and wit.

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Maria Callas - Callas at La Scala (1958/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Oct. 10, 2024

Maria Callas - Callas at La Scala (1958) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 41:51 minutes | 427 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Callas first sang at Milan's legendary La Scala for the opening of the 1951-1952 season (in Verdi's I vespri siciliani) and she became closely identified with the theatre, notably in productions directed by Luchino Visconti and his protege Franco Zeffirelli. Spontini's La vestale was staged for her there in 1954, Bellini's Lasonnambula in 1955, and her final La Scala performances came in 1962 with Cherubini's Medea. 'This wonderful record gives us… Callas at her most spell-binding and enthralling,' wrote Gramophone. 'Callas at La Scala… shows the diva at her most exciting and most beautiful'.

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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 - Sings Great Arias From French Operas (1961/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 18, 2024

Maria Callas - Sings Great Arias From French Operas (1961) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 49:44 minutes | 1,04 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Callas never sang a role in French on stage, though she had studied French repertoire as a student and one of her most famous roles, Cherubini’s Medea, had originally been written in French as Médée. From the early 1960s she made her home in Paris, where in 1961 she recorded this recital of French-language arias for both soprano and mezzo-soprano, composed in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

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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 - Mad Scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet & Il Pirata (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 6, 2024

Maria Callas - Mad Scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet & Il Pirata (1959) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 47:30 minutes | 974 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Callas did not make complete recordings of Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Bellini's Il pirata, though, as the queen of La Scala, she enjoyed triumphs in both roles in 1957-1958. The vocally and dramatically demanding final scenes of both operas feature in this recital with Ophélie's mad scene from Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, another coloratura extravaganza. When this recital first appeared in 1959, Gramophone wrote: 'This is a most remarkable record, not only for its material… but for its astonishing vividness and dramatic poetry… It has been a thing of much wonder for me'.

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Maria Callas - Mad Scenes from Anna Bolena, Hamlet & Il Pirata (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at July 6, 2024

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Maria Callas - Toujours: Paris 1958 (2015) [Blu-Ray] Music

Posted by Vilboa at May 3, 2021

Callas made her belated Paris debut with this concert at the sumptuous Paris Opéra—now known as the Palais Garnier—in 1958. It was a major social event, attended by le tout Paris, and Callas appeared on the famous stage wearing her most elegant couture and a million dollars’ worth of jewellery. She opened with Norma’s “Casta diva”, which was followed by Leonora’s plaintive aria and the gripping “Miserere” from Act 4 of Il trovatore, before she lightened the mood with “Una voce poco fa” from Il barbiere di Siviglia.

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

Posted by HDV at April 3, 2023

Maria Callas - Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1959) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 120:45 minutes | 1,27 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Each act of Puccini's episodic opera shows Manon Lescaut in a different light - from the ingénue of the first to the desperate, dying woman of the last. Though Callas never performed the role on stage, she captures every aspect of this passionate, but selfish and enigmatic character. In this particular Puccini opera, the tenor is by no means overshadowed by the soprano, and Giuseppe di Stefano duly dominates the gripping scene at Le Havre.The young Fiorenza Cossotto - a powerhouse in roles such as Amneris and Eboli - makes a cameo appearance as the Madrigal Singer.

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