Maria Callas sings: Norma, Tosca, Butterfly, Rosina & Lakmé (Centenary 2023 // Remastered)

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Maria Callas (1923-1977) sings: Norma, Tosca, Butterfly, Rosina & Lakmé // Remastered 00:00 Album available // Bellini: Norma by Maria Callas 🎧 Qobuz cutt.ly/Tem7hfs2 Tidal cutt.ly/Xem7hIYs 🎧 Deezer cutt.ly/bem7jmfS Amazon Music cutt.ly/2em7j7sT 🎧 Napster cutt.ly/Tem7k1da KZbin Music cutt.ly/tem7kzVT 07:16 Album available // Puccini: Tosca by Maria Callas 🎧 Qobuz bit.ly/4avpY6P Tidal bit.ly/3DpkWKQ 🎧 Amazon Music amzn.to/3VVSaso Deezer bit.ly/3SBopdw 🎧 Napster bit.ly/3RSwdKX KZbin Music bit.ly/3N253wT 10:29 Album available // Puccini: Madama Butterfly by Maria Callas 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) bit.ly/488wI9a Tidal (Hi-Res) bit.ly/45W0AE4 🎧 Deezer (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/40kOjI7 Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) amzn.to/40k1Mjr 🎧 Napster (Hi-Fi) bit.ly/3RAEUbg KZbin Music (mp4) bit.ly/3shkawA 15:08 Album available // Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia by Maria Callas 🎧 Qobuz bit.ly/3RwnpJa Tidal bit.ly/3A49n93 🎧 Amazon Music amzn.to/3T5oOpZ Deezer bit.ly/3dKkuMZ 🎧 Naspter bit.ly/4ayiLmA KZbin Music bit.ly/3GbxDct 21:25 Album available // Maria Callas: 90 Opera Arias 🎧 Qobuz cutt.ly/ZexBBuzx Tidal cutt.ly/vexBBWEe 🎧 Deezer cutt.ly/kexBBNJE Amazon Music cutt.ly/jexBNamW 🎧 KZbin Music cutt.ly/HexBNmaH On December 2, 1923, Maria Kalogeropoulos, known as Callas, was born. Eighteen years later, the young soprano began a career in Athens that would take her to the top. Let's take a look back at some of the most memorable moments - joyous and sometimes painful - of the "prima donna assoluta" who died in 1977. While the young American soprano of Greek origin had made her professional debut in 1941 at the Athens National Opera, on August 2, 1947, in Italy, in the imposing Verona Arena, the curtain fell on the last act of Ponchielli's La Gioconda conducted by Tullio Serafin, Maria Callas' true mentor: the ovation that rose greeted the birth of a star. The phenomenon was soon repeated on a number of Italian opera stages, including Venice's Fenice (for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde) and above all Florence's Teatro, where she sang her starring role in Bellini's Norma for the first time. It was also in 1947 that she met Gian-Battista Meneghini, a bel canto-loving industrialist 28 years her senior, who became her impresario and married her in 1949. Although she had already sung at La Scala de Milan in 1950, replacing Renata Tebaldi in Verdi's Aida (the famous rivalry - encouraged by the press - with this other opera star is said to stem from this moment), Callas made her real debut in the Italian temple of lyric art on December 7, 1951 in Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. La Scala was to become her home, the setting for illustrious productions (from Luchino Visconti to Franco Zeffirelli), conducted by such stars as Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini and Victor Sabata, who recorded a memorable Tosca, an absolute reference in Callas' discography. Prima donna assoluta, she opened the Scala season six times, and performed there for the last time in 1962. In 1954, a new Maria Callas sang Spontini's La vestale at La Scala. After a drastic diet begun a year earlier, she lost 30 kg and became an absolute diva, performing in the greatest operas without sparing her voice. Her weight loss had an impact on her voice, but contributed to her on-stage presence and spread the word. "Since she forced opera to remember that it was also a theatrical event, parades of plump singers and plump opera singers pushing their arias to the front of the stage are no longer acceptable", wrote AFP (Agence France Presse) at the time of her death. On January 2, 1958, Maria Callas opened the opera season in Rome, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic. At the end of the first act of Norma, she claims to have lost her voice and refuses to continue. The management denounced this as a whim on the part of the shady diva, while a few whistles flew from the "henhouse" during one of her arias. Moments later, she explains herself "volubly" to the press: "At the end of the first act, I became speechless. As you can see, I can no longer speak". On January 16 in Paris, an AFP journalist interviewed an "exhausted and exhausted" diva in the gloomy atmosphere of a private room at Maxim's: "I suffered a lot on the evening of Rome", she confided. In 1959, after ten years of marriage to Meneghini, Maria Callas met Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis and separated from her husband. Nine years of passionate love followed. "Late at night, he could be seen, with Callas, in an Athenian tavern where, having taken off his jacket and untied his tie, he covered the orchestra in gold and broke, according to Greek custom, piles of plates", AFP later recounted. The romance ended in 1968, when the shipowner married Jackie Kennedy. In 1965, the diva bid farewell to opera. On February 20, she triumphed in Paris in Puccini's Tosca. The AFP journalist reports on the public's fervor for the singer, "more sensitive than ever, even if she sometimes lacks breadth". "As soon as she appeared in the church in the first act, in a pink dress, covered with a vast tango scarf, her arms laden with flowers, the applause was such that it drowned out the music and the first lines were inaudible", he writes. On May 29, she collapsed at the end of the third act. On July 5, "despite her doctor's advice", she took to the stage for the last time in London in front of Elizabeth II. In 1973, she embarked on a final international recital tour. In Paris, "bouquets rained down on the stage, accompanying ovations and Viva Maria", but critics were "less enthusiastic". "If the technique and musicality of the voice were not in question, the high notes were judged to be particularly painful", reports AFP. On September 16, 1977, Maria Callas died of a heart attack at her Paris home, aged 53. "I've just seen her on her bed. She was the very image of La Traviata as performed in 1956 at La Scala in Milan. There's not a wrinkle on her face. She looks like she's resting," testifies Michel Glotz, her former artistic director. "Article written by franceinfo Culture - Lorenzo Ciavarini Azzi (with AFP)" Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) La Traviata: Opera in three acts. 🎧 Qobuz bit.ly/3GU98ky Tidal bit.ly/3bvTA6W 🎧 Amazon Music amzn.to/3mEaXJj Deezer bit.ly/3mB7V8m 🎧 Napster bit.ly/3oLgyx1 KZbin Music bit.ly/3mB06Qc

[@jls4382]

I took my mother to see Callas when she came to our city on her last tour. It truly was such a sad occasion. She was obviously ill and she had little control over her once magnificent instrument. I remember the audience members looking around at each other with shock and pity in our eyes. It was heartbreaking. We gave her a standing ovation anyway out of love and respect. Poor thing. She passed away just a few years later. God rest her soul. As is captured on these recordings she was breathtaking in her prime. Thank-you for posting this. 💐💐💐

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On December 2, 1923, Maria Kalogeropoulos, known as Callas, was born. Eighteen years later, the young soprano began a career in Athens that would take her to the top. Let's take a look back at some of the most memorable moments - joyous and sometimes painful - of the "prima donna assoluta" who died in 1977. While the young American soprano of Greek origin had made her professional debut in 1941 at the Athens National Opera, on August 2, 1947, in Italy, in the imposing Verona Arena, the curtain fell on the last act of Ponchielli's La Gioconda conducted by Tullio Serafin, Maria Callas' true mentor: the ovation that rose greeted the birth of a star. The phenomenon was soon repeated on a number of Italian opera stages, including Venice's Fenice (for Wagner's Tristan and Isolde) and above all Florence's Teatro, where she sang her starring role in Bellini's Norma for the first time. It was also in 1947 that she met Gian-Battista Meneghini, a bel canto-loving industrialist 28 years her senior, who became her impresario and married her in 1949. Although she had already sung at La Scala de Milan in 1950, replacing Renata Tebaldi in Verdi's Aida (the famous rivalry - encouraged by the press - with this other opera star is said to stem from this moment), Callas made her real debut in the Italian temple of lyric art on December 7, 1951 in Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. La Scala was to become her home, the setting for illustrious productions (from Luchino Visconti to Franco Zeffirelli), conducted by such stars as Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini and Victor Sabata, who recorded a memorable Tosca, an absolute reference in Callas' discography. Prima donna assoluta, she opened the Scala season six times, and performed there for the last time in 1962. In 1954, a new Maria Callas sang Spontini's La vestale at La Scala. After a drastic diet begun a year earlier, she lost 30 kg and became an absolute diva, performing in the greatest operas without sparing her voice. Her weight loss had an impact on her voice, but contributed to her on-stage presence and spread the word. "Since she forced opera to remember that it was also a theatrical event, parades of plump singers and plump opera singers pushing their arias to the front of the stage are no longer acceptable", wrote AFP (Agence France Presse) at the time of her death. On January 2, 1958, Maria Callas opened the opera season in Rome, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic. At the end of the first act of Norma, she claims to have lost her voice and refuses to continue. The management denounced this as a whim on the part of the shady diva, while a few whistles flew from the "henhouse" during one of her arias. Moments later, she explains herself "volubly" to the press: "At the end of the first act, I became speechless. As you can see, I can no longer speak". On January 16 in Paris, an AFP journalist interviewed an "exhausted and exhausted" diva in the gloomy atmosphere of a private room at Maxim's: "I suffered a lot on the evening of Rome", she confided. In 1959, after ten years of marriage to Meneghini, Maria Callas met Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis and separated from her husband. Nine years of passionate love followed. "Late at night, he could be seen, with Callas, in an Athenian tavern where, having taken off his jacket and untied his tie, he covered the orchestra in gold and broke, according to Greek custom, piles of plates", AFP later recounted. The romance ended in 1968, when the shipowner married Jackie Kennedy. In 1965, the diva bid farewell to opera. On February 20, she triumphed in Paris in Puccini's Tosca. The AFP journalist reports on the public's fervor for the singer, "more sensitive than ever, even if she sometimes lacks breadth". "As soon as she appeared in the church in the first act, in a pink dress, covered with a vast tango scarf, her arms laden with flowers, the applause was such that it drowned out the music and the first lines were inaudible", he writes. On May 29, she collapsed at the end of the third act. On July 5, "despite her doctor's advice", she took to the stage for the last time in London in front of Elizabeth II. In 1973, she embarked on a final international recital tour. In Paris, "bouquets rained down on the stage, accompanying ovations and Viva Maria", but critics were "less enthusiastic". "If the technique and musicality of the voice were not in question, the high notes were judged to be particularly painful", reports AFP. On September 16, 1977, Maria Callas died of a heart attack at her Paris home, aged 53. "I've just seen her on her bed. She was the very image of La Traviata as performed in 1956 at La Scala in Milan. There's not a wrinkle on her face. She looks like she's resting," testifies Michel Glotz, her former artistic director. "Article written by franceinfo Culture - Lorenzo Ciavarini Azzi (with AFP)" ❤ Join us on our WhatsApps fanpage (our latest album preview): bit.ly/3Mraw1r 🔊 Discover our new website: www.classicalmusicreference.com/ 🔊 Download CMRR's recordings in High fidelity audio (QOBUZ): bit.ly/370zcMg 🔊 Follow us on Spotify: spoti.fi/3016eVr ❤ If you like CMRR content, please consider membership at our Patreon or Tipeee page. Thank you :) www.patreon.com/cmrr // en.tipeee.com/cmrr

[@cathyb1273]

At my mother's funeral I played this exact Vicci D’arte as it was one of her favorite air from Tosca and Callas. First time hearing the famous Lakmé’s Air des Clochettes in italian.... It surprised me 😊

[@ahrwin]

Maria Callas mit einer Stimme, welche die Menschen über unendliche Generationen begeistern wird.

[@helenandrews7109]

I am still most appreciative of your work! Many thanks.

[@parkch1123]

Oh my Love ..... Maria Callas ............ !!!! ..Lakme

[@notaire2]

Was für eine kräftige, dramatische und vor allem wunderschöne Stimme! Zweifellos eine der zehn besten Opernsängerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert! Danke fürs wertvolle Onlinestellen und wünsche Ihnen frohe Weihnachten!

[@manolis.799]

The one and only. Thank you!

[@ИльяЗакриевский-с4р]

На высшем уровне... Как впрочем и всегда

[@404void]

Will these be available on Apple Classical?

[@classicalmusicreference]

no, sorry but Warner editions are very good too

[@404void]

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[@tacizettinkocabulluk]

toscanini was right about her..

[@kallasmarker3319]

What do you mean? Toscanini was not a very good conductor. Serafín was a million times better than him.

[@tacizettinkocabulluk]

@@kallasmarker3319 toscanini is up there with the likes of furtwangler, karajan, bohm etc. tullio serafin is a nobody. who listens to him now? 😂

[@kallasmarker3319]

@@tacizettinkocabulluk 🤣🤣🤣 You're definitely deaf dahling. He had absolutely no idea how to accompany singers. He was painfully metronomical and his tempo was always prestissimo. Everybody knows why he was "made" famous. Serafin understood singers, tempo and rubato. Tosconino didn't know any of that. I can tell that you're very lost and you don't know anything about great singing and conducting. Poor thing!

[@tacizettinkocabulluk]

@@kallasmarker3319 I'm sure you also think callas is a great bel canto singer.

[@ER1CwC]

Ridiculous, hyperbolic statements flying around from all sides in this thread.

[@rosebud3971]

Is this auto-tuned?

[@classicalmusicreference]

And you, are you auto-tuned?

[@manolis.799]

What a silly question

[@mathemadician8609]

What an insult.