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Bizet: Overture and Habanera (From the opera Carmen)
Georges Prêtre, Maria Callas & Sinfonieorchester Des Norddeutschen Rundfunks
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 1: Early Years, Maria Before La Callas
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Philharmonia Orchestra & Tullio Serafin
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 2: Metamorphosis
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Herbert von Karajan
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 4: Recording a Legend
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano & Tullio Serafin
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro (Lauretta)
Tullio Serafin, Philharmonia Orchestra & Maria Callas
Vissi d’arte (Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, November 25, 1956)
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The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 3: Prima Donna at La Scala
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Coro Cetra, Gabriele Santini & Francesco Maria Piave
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 7: The Curtain Falls
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire & Georges Prêtre
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 6: Affairs of the Heart
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Choeurs René Duclos, Paris Opera Orchestra & Georges Prêtre
The Life of Maria Callas - Chapter 8: Immortality
Maria Callas, Daniel Richards, Philharmonia Orchestra & Tullio Serafin
About Maria Callas
Artist Biography
Maria Callas is the ultimate opera icon. At the height of her powers, the American-born Greek soprano performed Puccini’s dramatic roles as convincingly as she tossed off bel canto ornamentation. Born in New York in 1923, Callas moved back to Greece in her teens and established a reputation as an obsessively dedicated music student who absorbed every sound she encountered. After performing Tosca in 1942 at the Greek National Opera—a role she reprised in the definitive recording with the tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano (1953)—she went to Italy as a rising star in heavy Verdian and Wagnerian roles. However, her success in an unexpected I puritani performance in 1949 catapulted her to fame as a bel canto soprano whose acting prowess infused the operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini with new vivacity and dimension. Callas’ voice had a range of colour that was by turns penetrating, peculiar, and even vehement on the world’s great stages; she could famously execute a diminuendo on the stratospherically high E-flat of the La sonnambula finale with ease and total control. Yet despite the grandeur of opera and Callas’ acute dramatic abilities, her musical choices were elegant and unostentatious. Through her inimitable sound, incisive musicality and resurrection of bel canto repertoire, Callas became the unrivalled operatic embodiment of emotive power.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Classical
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