Tag: Tullio Serafin
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Very Best of Maria Callas
Maria Callas was the first true “jet age” diva. She was not only a great singer but a charismatic stage actress in operatic roles. Her headline-making, tempestuous life – including romantic entanglements with tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano and shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and feuds with opera house managers – was often as dramatic as the…
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Puccini: Romance & Drama – Legendary Singers
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Puccini: Romance & Drama – Legendary Singers
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Puccini: Tosca – Callas, di Stefano, Gobbi, de Sabata — Bonus: Callas Sings Puccini Arias
“There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca than Callas’ first, with Victor de Sabata conducting and Tito Gobbi as Scarpia. Gobbi makes the unbelievably evil police chief into a genuinely three-dimensional character, and Di Stefano, as the hero Cavaradossi, was at his finest” © Penguin Guide
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Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves: Greatest Opera Choruses
“For many, Opera is not just about large sopranos and dashing tenors sharing tender moments in duets, or villainous baritones, or even erring daughters; we also relish the thrill of a fine chorus rising to an old favourite such as the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, the Aida Grand March and other noble melodies. Such…
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La Bohème (plus five bonus Puccini arias)
“most collectors will want a set with Tebaldi & Bergonzi at the height of their powers” -Penguin Guide “The wonderful bustle of the Café Momus scene can never have been so vividly captured on disc…Tebaldi sings with great beauty of voice … Bergonzi sings with sincerity and style…d’Angelo with taste and charm”
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Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera in Two Acts)
“sensitive and beautifully-paced reading finds Tebaldi at her most radiant. … her singing is consistently rich and beautiful, breathtakingly so in passages like the one where she tells Pinkerton she has changed her religion.” -Penguin Guide (3 Stars)
