Performer: Maria Callas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 5419766491
Release: 2023
Size: 849 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Bellini: Casta Diva (from Norma)
02. Bizet: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle ‘Habanera’ (from Carmen)
03. Rossini: La Cenerentola: Nacqui all’affanno
04. Puccini: Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)
05. Puccini: Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème)
06. Puccini: O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Verdi: La traviata, Act 1
07. “Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima” (Violetta)
08. “Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo!” (Violetta)
09. “Sempre libera” (Violetta, Alfredo)
10. Verdi: Addio del passato (from La Traviata)
11. Bellini: Ah, non credea mirarti (from La Sonnambula)
12. Puccini: In questa reggia (from Turandot)
13. Verdi: Mercè, dilette amiche ‘Bolero’ (from I Vespri Siciliani)
14. Ponchielli: Suicidio! (from La Gioconda)
15. Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino)
16. Verdi: Una macchia è qui tutt’ora (from Macbeth)
17. Donizetti: Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
18. Puccini: O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
19. Verdi: Vanne, lasciami (from Il Trovatore)
20. Puccini: Vissi d’arte (from Tosca)
21. Bizet: Près des remparts de Séville (Séguedille) (from Carmen)
22. Delibes: Lakmé, Act 2: Aria delle campanelle. “Dov’è l’indiana bruna?” (Lakmé) [Live, San Remo, 1954]
23. Rossini: Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
24. Verdi: Morrò, ma prima in grazia (from Un Ballo in Maschera)
25. Donizetti: Di quai soavi lagrime (from Poliuto)
26. Verdi: Caro nome (from Rigoletto)
27. Donizetti: Anna Bolena, Act 2: “Coppia iniqua, l’estrema vendetta” (Anna, Smeton, Percy, Rochefort, Coro) [Live, Milan, 1957]
28. Charpentier: Depuis le jour (from Louise)
29. Rossini: Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide)
30. Wagner: Mild und leise ‘Isolde’s Liebestod’ (from Tristan und Isolde)
31. Verdi: Arrigo! ah, parli a un core (from I Vespri Siciliani)
Bellini: Il pirata, Act 1
32. “Quando a un tratto il mio consorte” (Imogene, Coro, Itulbo, Adele, Gualtiero) [Live, New York, 1959]
33. “Sventurata, anch’io deliro” (Imogene, Adele, Coro) [Live, New York, 1959]
34. Massenet: Je ne suis que faiblesse…Adieu, notre petite table (from Manon)
Maria Callas is credited with changing the history of opera. Known as La Divina, she continues to fascinate as a supreme artist, but also as a woman and an icon of style. Her interpretations were as compelling for their dramatic truth as for their musical integrity. Her voice, with its extraordinary range, was as distinctive as her infallible sense for a phrase. A magnetic presence, she brought operatic heroines to vivid life, magically shaping and colouring her tone, and making insightful use of the text of the libretto.