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Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Herbert von Karajan - Verdi: Il trovatore (2023) Music

Posted by delpotro at June 9, 2023

Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Herbert von Karajan - Verdi: Il trovatore (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 384 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 300 Mb | Digital booklet | 02:09:39
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Leonora, the main female character of Il trovatore, embodies like no other Verdian heroine absolute devotion and faithfulness, until her ultimate sacrifice to save her lover. One of the most tragic roles of the bel canto repertoire, it is very vocally demanding, requiring a wide ambitus and virtuosity. Having triumphed in Leonora on all world stages, Maria Callas bade farewell to the role in this stunning recorded version, conducted by Karajan and surrounded by a five-star vocal cast.

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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: Turandot (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 28, 2023

Maria Callas - Puccini: Turandot (1957/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 118:22 minutes | 1,25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

"Turandot" - Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. Recorded in July 1957 in Milan. Performers includes Maria Callas, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eugenio Fernandi, and more…

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Maria Callas - Verdi: Il Trovatore (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Sept. 24, 2024

Maria Callas - Verdi: Il Trovatore (1957) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 129:39 minutes | 1,34 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

The role of Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore was one that Maria Callas performed some 20 times in the theatre, and this recording was her leave-taking of it. Callas's Leonora was praised by the critics for its vocal and dramatic artistry. Cecil Smith in Opera magazine said: "For once we heard the trills fully executed, the scales and arpeggios tonally full-bodied but rhythmically bouncing and alert, the portamentos and long-breathed phrases fully supported and exquisitely inflected".

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Maria Callas - Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 7, 2023

Maria Callas - Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (1955) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 165:32 minutes | 1,76 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Relentlessly pursued by Fate, Leonora in La forza del destino is a haunted heroine whose passions and fears are expressed on a grand scale. Callas’s stage experience of Forza was limited to her early career in Italy – in fact, Leonora was her first Verdi role – but, as Lord Harewood, founder of Opera magazine, observed, her recorded assumption exhibited ‘an unparalleled musical sensibility and imagination and a grasp of the musico-dramatic picture which is unique’. She took her place in a powerful cast conducted by her mentor Tullio Serafin.

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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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Verdi The Complete Works [75CDs] (2016) Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Oct. 23, 2019

Decca proudly presents the Complete Works by Giuseppe Verdi in a single 75 CD box set. From the ever-popular “Aida” to the obscure “Alzira,” all 28 of Giuseppe Verdi's operas are here as well as his Sacred Works, Arias, Songs, Ballet Music, the String quartet and other rarities.

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Maria Callas - The New Sound of Maria Callas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Sept. 15, 2024

Maria Callas - The New Sound of Maria Callas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 03:29:41 minutes | 3,13 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Maria Callas wurde am 2. Dezember 1923 im New Yorker Stadtteil Washington Heights als zweite Tochter der griechischen Einwanderer George Kalogeropoulos (1881–1972) und Elmina Evangelia Dimitriadou (1894–1982) aus Meligalas geboren. Ihr älterer Bruder Vassilios war in Griechenland an Typhus gestorben. Die Eltern lebten zu diesem Zeitpunkt seit sechs Monaten in den USA.

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Maria Callas - Her Greatest Verdi Roles (2022) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Dec. 30, 2022

Maria Callas - Her Greatest Verdi Roles (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 2:05:35 | 273 / 401 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

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 as well as the successful Broadway play "Master Class." Her extensive catalogue of recordings remains among the most coveted and controversial for both her fans and detractors. Though American by birth, Callas (born Maria Anne Sofia Cecilia Kalogeropoulos) was born of Greek parents, and at age 13 her mother took her back to Greece because of financial difficulties caused by the Great Depression.

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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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