Maria Callas

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

Posted by Discograf_man at June 10, 2021
Maria Callas – The Live Recitals [10CD Box Set] (2012)

Maria Callas – The Live Recitals [10CD Box Set] (2012)
EAC Rip | FLAC (*image + .cue,log) | Run Time: 09:45:39 | 2,12 Gb | Covers 269.06 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

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.
Maria Callas - The Best of Maria Callas - Her Greatest Roles (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.

Maria Callas - Love Duets (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Oct. 28, 2022
Maria Callas - Love Duets (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.

Maria Callas - Puccini Turandot (2023)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Sept. 7, 2023
Maria Callas - Puccini Turandot (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".

Maria Callas - Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2022)  Music

Posted by Rtax at Nov. 3, 2022
Maria Callas - Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2022)

Maria Callas - Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (2022
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 226 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 MB
1:12:34 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Here is a flashback on la Divina’s glory years on the Milanese stage and the legendary operas she stared in. In Pagliacci, the terrible tragedy of jealousy, she portrays the femme fatale Nedda/Colombina.
Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano & Antonino Votto - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023)

Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano & Antonino Votto - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 166:07 minutes | 803 / 380 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Warner Classics

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

Maria Callas - The Complete Studio Recordings (1949-1969) [70CD Box Set] (2007)
Classical, Vocal | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 101:42:24 min | 9.12 Gb | Scans 5.40 Mb
Label: EMI Classics | Release Year: 2007

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.
Maria Callas - The New Sound of Maria Callas (Remastered) (2016/2021)

Maria Callas - The New Sound of Maria Callas (Remastered) (2016/2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 770 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 490 Mb | 03:33:48
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

Renaissance of a voice: Maria Callas – Unforgettable arias sung by the most iconic diva of all time – remastered for the first time in high-definition sound from the original tapes, for an unprecedented sound quality that shines new light on the voice of Maria Callas. Allan Ramsay, remastering engineer at Abbey Road Studios: “With high definition, you’ll be able to experience sounds which have only been heard so far by people who were either present at Callas’s recording sessions, or who had access to the unique master tape… All we wanted to do is remove the specks of dust, as it were, and wipe the glass clean.”

Maria Callas - Maria Callas Sings Bellini (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 16, 2021
Maria Callas - Maria Callas Sings Bellini (2021)

Maria Callas - Maria Callas Sings Bellini (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 721 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 419 Mb | 03:02:36
Classical, Vocal | Label: Warner Classics

Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and, further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina ("the Divine one").

Maria Callas Live in Milan 1956 and Athens 1957 (2002)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at Jan. 5, 2023
Maria Callas Live in Milan 1956 and Athens 1957 (2002)

Maria Callas Live in Milan 1956 and Athens 1957 (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 327 Mb | Total time: 77:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 67917 2 | Recorded: 1956, 1957

Callas fans prefer her "live" recordings to studio outings for their extra charge of intensity, whether the singer's on the operatic stage or in concert, as she is on this disc, which is part of a series of new reissues from EMI. The first four items derive from a 1956 Radio Italiana program; the final six from her first concert in Greece after an absence of 12 years. Of course, Callas fans will want every scrap of salvaged recorded material they can find, but this will hold interest for anyone interested in the Callas phenomenon and great singing. Not that she's in prime voice here, but she never fails to thrill and enlighten.