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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 - 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 - 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 - The Callas Rarities (1997/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Jan. 27, 2024

Maria Callas - The Callas Rarities (1997) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 116:49 minutes | 2,14 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

The tracks on this album were recorded over a period of no less than 16 years. The earliest, the two versions of Donna Anna's 'Non mi dir', date from 1953, and were intended to test microphone placings before Callas made her first commercial recording for EMI: Lucia di Lammermoor. The latest, the Verdi arias recorded with Nicola Rescigno in 1964-1965 and 1969, were never approved for release by the soprano. When Callas Rarities was first released in 1993, Gramophone wrote: 'Each item, each phrase almost, has something to be said about it: the whole collection makes essential listening'.

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Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1953/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 14, 2023

Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1953) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 160:26 minutes | 1,71 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

It was as Ponchielli's long-suffering ballad singer, La Gioconda, that Callas made her Italian debut, in 1947 at the Arena di Verona, and it proved crucial to her career. Five years later, La Gioconda became her first studio recording of a complete opera. It showcases both the dark-hued splendour of her voice at this period - she was still in her twenties - and her inimitable intensity and insight.

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Maria Callas - The Complete Studio Recordings (1949-1969) [70CD Box Set] (2007) [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 11, 2021

It's pretty simple-this boxed set contains EVERYTHING La Divina recorded in the studio, including newly-licensed and newly-remastered material! That's the first 69 CDs; the 70th CD is a CD-ROM containing the tracklists and photos. And the set comes inside a hardcover slipcase containing a color booklet packed with even more photos of this most photogenic of opera singers. As for the contents, well, again, it's EVERYTHING she did in the studio.

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

Posted by HDV at May 22, 2024

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Maria Callas - Bellini: La Sonnambula (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 5, 2023

Maria Callas - Bellini: La Sonnambula (1957) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 120:56 minutes | 1,24 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Like Lucia di Lammermoor and Elvira (I puritani), Amina, the gentle heroine of La sonnambula,was a role that had become associated with light-voiced coloratura sopranos. Callas brought both a new substance and subtlety to the role when Luchino Visconti staged it for her at La Scala in 1955. This recording was made two years later, when the production was revived.

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