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Maria Callas - Bellini: I Puritani (1953/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Aug. 7, 2022

Maria Callas - Bellini: I Puritani (1953) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 142:05 minutes | 1,39 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Until she achieved a triumph in the delicate coloratura role of Elvira in I puritani - in Venice in 1949 under the tutelage of maestro Tullio Serafin - Maria Callas had been making her name in dramatic roles, such as the epically scaled title role in Die Walküre, which she had been singing just days before. Her success in Bellini's final opera set her firmly on the path to bel canto supremacy. Joining her as Arturo in this 1953 recording is one of her best-loved colleagues, the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano.

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Maria Callas - The Best of Maria Callas - Her Greatest Roles (2023) Music

Posted by Rtax at Sept. 21, 2023

Maria Callas - The Best of Maria Callas - Her Greatest Roles (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 736 MB
4:49:05 | Classical, Opera | Label: Warner Classics

Maria Callas was born to a Greek family in New York in 1923. Her vocal training took place in Athens, where her teacher was the coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, who had sung with Enrico Caruso and Feodor Chaliapin. After early performances in Greece, Callas’s international career was launched in 1947 when she performed the title role in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda at the Arena di Verona in Italy. Her voice defied simple classification and her artistic range was extraordinary. In her early twenties she sang such heavy dramatic roles as Gioconda, Turandot, Brünnhilde and Isolde, but over the course of her career her most famous roles came to be: Bellini’s Norma and Amina (La sonnambula); Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata); Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena, Cherubini’s Medea and Puccini’s Tosca. Though her timbre was not always conventionally beautiful, Callas’s musicianship and phrasing were in a class of their own. She brought characters to vivid life with her skill in colouring her tone and making insightful use of the text.

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Maria Callas - Maria Callas: 50 Most Beautiful Opera Arias (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at July 10, 2022

Maria Callas - Maria Callas: 50 Most Beautiful Opera Arias (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96.0 kHz | Time - 04:13:40 | 2.61 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

What a fantastic download. Firstly, the voice of Maria Callas, in this sample of her work there are so many contrasting emotions, love, joy, happiness, sadness, anger, regret etc. Secondly the range of operas that this selection opens up, there are 43 operas represented, from the familiar: Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca to the less familiar Medea, Un Ballo Maschero, Ernani to the unknown (to me) Il Pirata, La Vestale, Le Pardon de Peomel. So it alerts your ears to new possibilities. Thirdly the soundscape is good excellent orchestras the Philharmonia and La Scala being the most represented and excellent conductors Serafin and Pretre together with Resigno, Votto, Karajan etc. Lastly the generosity, over 4 hours of good music.

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Maria Callas – The Live Recitals [10CD Box Set] (2012) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at June 10, 2021

MARIA CALLAS is regarded as one of the greatest divas of all time, whose recordings are standards by which all subsequent performances are judged. The 10-CDs of Live Recordings capture her on some of the greatest nights of her career and contain an interview by American Opera commentator Edward Downes. This recital performance are an invaluable addition to Callas s recorded legacy and show yet another side of this unique diva, whose vocal achievements stand unrivalled today and probably for all time. The eye-catching clamshell box are a collectors delight.

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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 - 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 - Puccini Turandot (2023) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 7, 2023

Maria Callas - Puccini Turandot (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:58:01 | 291 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

"This is not a good recording": this is how the well-known Viennese theater critic Karl Löbl judges this old Legge production from July 1957, which was originally edited by the EMI. The conductor seems "too good for him", Maria Callas, according to his impression, "obviously does not feel comfortable vocally in this part" and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf "does not fit in with the rest of the ensemble".

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

Posted by HDV at Jan. 13, 2022

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 - 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 - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at July 14, 2023

Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano & Antonino Votto - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 166:07 minutes | 3,25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The character of Gioconda is one of the most tragic in the whole history of Italian opera: an altruistic cantatrice who sacrifices everything, to the death, to secure the escape of the man she loves with her rival. Who was better suited than Maria Callas to assume such a role? La Gioconda, the only opera by Ponchielli that has not fallen into neglect, is a stunning transitional work between Verdian romanticism and verismo. La Divina particularly liked this opera.

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