Verdi: La traviata (1953 - Santini) - Callas Remastered
9/19/2014, 44 Tracks, 2:02:48
Featuring
Gabriele Santini
Alberto Albertini
Ede Marietti Gandolfo
Maria Callas
Mariano Caruso
Mario Zorgniotti
Francesco Albanese
Ines Marietti
Ugo Savarese
Tommaso Soley
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Coro Cetra
Giuseppe Verdi
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Recording & Production
This recording was newly remastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road Studios in 2014.
Performer Biography
Maria Callas, the soprano singing Violetta, performed La traviata 63 times, making it her second most performed opera in the theatre.
Interpretation
Maria Callas's recorded Violettas fall into three chronological categories, with the early 1951-53 recordings being youthful and vocally robust.
Interpretation
This studio recording, though an early Callas Violetta, follows 25 stage performances of the role, revealing insights gathered during that time.
Interpretation
The final recordings of Maria Callas's Violetta from 1958 present a 'ghost-like waif,' with a voice of such fragility in the final scene as to be almost alarming.
Interpretation
By 1955-56, Maria Callas's Violetta was slim and glamorous, frail in the final act, with a still vigorous but somewhat scaled-down voice.
Recording & Production
This 1953 recording of La traviata by Maria Callas is her only studio effort among seven complete recorded documents of her Violetta performances.
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