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Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Luisa Villa, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Mario Carlin, Plinio Clabassi & Enrico Campi

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan

This 1955 La Scala recording, with its matchless pairing of Callas and Karajan, dates from 1955.

The Callas authority Tony Locantro contributes a wide-ranging essay that considers Callas’s Puccini roles on stage and in the studio (with the odd lawsuit along the way).

As he notes, Puccini was not a composer that Maria Callas particularly favoured in her stage repertoire, and yet two of his operas – Tosca and Turandot – played a major part in her career. In the recording studio, however, Callas showed a great affinity with Puccini’s heroines and made a number of outstanding recordings of his music, including La boh่me, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut in addition to her stage roles of Tosca and Turandot.

Callas had never sung Butterfly on stage when she made her recording, yet the studio performance shows a complete understanding of the musical and dramatic requirements of the role. She brings the character to life so vividly that one might assume that she had honed the interpretation over many performances in the theatre.

This vintage mono recording has been newly remastered to ART standard at Abbey Road.

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Vissi d’arte – The Puccini Love Songs

Vissi d’arte – The Puccini Love Songs

CD 1

Manon Lescaut

1 In quelle trine morbide (Act II) - (Manon)

2 Oh, sar๒ la pi๙ bella! (Act II) - (Manon/Des Grieux)

3 Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Act IV) - (Manon)

Manon Lescaut……………………………………………………..Maria Callas

Chevalier Des Grieux……………………………………….Giuseppe di Stefano

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Tullio Serafin

(P) 1959/1997* EMI Italiana Spa

La boh้me

4 S์. Mi chiamano Mim์ (Act I) - (Mim์)

5 Ehi! Rodolfo!...O soave fanciulla (Act I) - (Schaunard/Colline/Marcello/Rodolfo/Mim์)

6 D’onde lieta usc์ (Act III) - (Mim์)

7 Dunque ่ proprio finita? (Act III) - (Rodolfo/Mim์/Marcello/Musetta)

8 Sono andati? (Act IV) - (Mim์/Rodolfo/Schaunard/Musetta/Marcello/Colline)

Mim์………………………………………………………………..Maria Callas

Musetta………………………………………………………………Anna Moffo

Rodolfo……………………………………………………..Giuseppe di Stefano

Marcello……………………………………………………..…Rolando Panerai

Schaunard……………………………………………………. Manuel Spatafora

Colline…………………………………………………………..Nicola Zaccaria

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Antonino Votto

(P) 1958/1997* EMI Italiana SpA

Tosca

9 Mario! Mario! Mario!...Son qui (Act I) - (Tosca/Cavaradossi)

10 Mario! Mario! (Act I) - (Tosca/Scarpia)

11 Vissi d’arte (Act II) - (Tosca)

12 Senti, l’ora ่ vicina (Act III) - (Tosca/Cavaradossi)

Floria Tosca…………………………………………………………Maria Callas

Mario Cavaradossi………………………………………… Giuseppe di Stefano

Baron Scarpia…………………………………………………………Tito Gobbi

The Sacristan………………………………………………..…Melchiorre Luise

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Victor de Sabata

(P) 1953/2002*

Suor Angelica

13 Senza mamma

Sister Angelica…………………………………………………..…Maria Callas

Philharmonia Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (P) 1954/1997*

CD 2

Madama Butterfly

1 Quanto cielo!...Ancora un passo or via (Act I) - (Chorus/Butterfly/Sharpless)

2. Vieni la sera (Act I) - (Pinkerton/Butterfly/Suzuki)

3 Un bel d์ (Act II) - (Butterfly)

4 E questo? e questo? (Act II) - (Butterfly/Sharpless)

5 Una nave da guerra….Scuoti quella frondi - (Suzuki/Butterfly)

6 Con onor muore (Act II) - (Butterfly/Pinkerton)

Madama Butterfly………………………………………………….Maria Callas

Suzuki……………………………………………………..………Lucia Danieli

Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton………………………………………..Nicolai Gedda

Sharpless………………………………………………….……..Mario Borriello

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano / Herbert von Karajan

(P) 1955/2008*

Gianni Schicchi

7 O mio babbino caro

Lauretta………………………………………………………….…Maria Callas

Philharmonia Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (P) 1954/1997*

Turandot

8 Signore, ascolta (Act I) - (Li๙)

9 In questa reggia (Act II) - (Turandot/Calaf)

10 Straniero, ascolta! (Act II) - (Turandot/Calaf/Chorus/Li๙/Emperor)

11 Tu, che di gel (Act III) - (Li๙)

12 Del primo pianto (Act III) - (Turandot/Calaf/Chorus)

Princess Turandot……………………….…………………………..Maria Callas

Prince Calaf……… …………………………………………..Eugenio Fernandi

Li๙ (10)…………………………….………………….…Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Li๙ (8 & 11)…….………………………….……………………….Maria Callas

The Emperor Altoum………………………………………..…..Giuseppe Nessi

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano 9, 10 & 12

Philharmonia Orchestra 8 & 11

Tullio Serafin

(P) 1958/2008* EMI Italiana SpA except 8 & 11 (P) 1954/1997*

Recorded in co-operation with E. A. Teatro alla Scala, Milano except CD 1 track 13 and CD 2 tracks 7, 8 & 11

(P) as shown. The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by EMI Records Ltd except where otherwise stated. *Digital remastering (P) as shown by EMI Records Ltd except where otherwise stated. This compilation (P) 2008 EMI Records Ltd.

Compilation Producer: Tony Locantro

Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi & Nicolai Gedda

This 2 CD set is one of four special albums being released by EMI Classics on 8 September 2008 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary on 22 December of the birth of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Puccini is one of today’s most popular operatic composers. His works dominate the programmes of the world’s leading opera houses, and his compositions are heard frequently on radio and television, in film soundtracks and in TV commercials.

Maria Callas is an iconic figure in the world of opera and she continues to be acclaimed as one of the greatest interpreters of the music of Puccini in living memory.

All of Puccini’s well known operas are represented, including Manon Lescaut, La boh่me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot and the less frequently performed Il trittico (Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi).

The programme covers all of Puccini’s main soprano arias as well as the principal love duets, in which Callas is joined by her regular partner on records Giuseppe di Stefano in several items as well as by Nicolai Gedda in Madama Butterfly and Eugenio Fernandi in Turandot.

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Gounod: Faust (highlights)

Gounod: Faust (highlights)

Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Ernest Blanc (baritone, Boris Christoff (bass), Liliane Berton (soprano), Rita Gorr (mezzo-soprano) & Victor Autran (baritone)

Paris Op้ra Chorus & Orchestra, Andr้ Cluytens

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Puccini: La Boh่me

Puccini: La Boh่me

Nicolai Gedda, Mirella Freni, Mario Sereni, Mario Basiola Jr., Ferruccio Mazzoli, Carlo Badioli, Paolo Montarsolo, Mariella Adani, Vittorio Pandano, Giuseppe Giuliano, Mario Rinaudo & Antonio Dellacเ

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Thomas Schippers

In his note, ‘La boh่me: A tale of two Mim์s’, Stephen Jay-Taylor tells the story. ‘This recording, notable for the youthful freshness of its twin protagonists and the airy impulse of its conducting, might well seem to be the happy product of everything proceeding according to plan. In fact, it was the end result of more than three years of deaths, defections and dismissal.’ It began in 1960 with a plan to rerecord Beecham’s classic 1956 account in stereo. But Beecham was dying and B๖jrling died, so sessions were scheduled for 1961 with Victoria de los Angeles and Franco Corelli as the principals. However, Corelli proved impossible to pin down. Then, with Gedda brought in as EMI’s all-repertoire house tenor, the apparently barren de los Angeles fell pregnant – only to do so again come the final rescheduling in 1963. This was Freni’s chance: ‘She had already made well-received debuts at Glyndebourne and Covent Garden...and the sessions proceeded without a hitch, in Olof’s exquisitely crafted, beautifully detailed stereo production. The set...met with considerable acclaim, most of it occasioned by Freni’s meltingly lovely, vernal Mim์’.

“There are many lovely things about this set - the radiant Mimi of Mirella Freni, and the ardent Rodolo of Nicolai Gedda. Schipper's conducting is interesting, but the smaller parts are weakly cast.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2007 ****

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Verdi: Rigoletto

Verdi: Rigoletto

Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Cornell MacNeil (baritone), Reri Grist (soprano), Agostino Ferrin (bass), Anna di Stasio (mezzo-soprano), Limbania Leoni (mezzo-soprano) & Ruggero Raimondi (bass)

Chorus & Orchestra of the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Francesco Molinari Pradelli

“A solid and dependable version of Verdi's classic, decently conducted and with Gedda providing a likeable Duke. Grist's Gilda is neatly done but MacNeils's jester is rough and ready.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***

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Bernstein: Candide

Bernstein: Candide

Staged and Directed by Humphrey Burton

Candide - Jerry Hadley, Cunegonde - June Anderson, Dr.Pangloss/Martin - Adolph Green, Old Lady - Christa Ludwig, Govenor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski - Nicolai Gedda, Paquette - Della Jones & Maximilian/Captain - Kurt Ollmann

London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein

From the Barbican Centre, London in December 1989

“The best of all possible Candides” (Fono Forum-Newsweek)

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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621

(Recorded without recitatives)

Nicolai Gedda, Hilde Zadek, Ira Malaniuk & Ilse Wallenstein

WDR Koln Chorus & Orchestra, Joseph Keilberth

Recorded December 1955.

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Lehแr: The Merry Widow (highlights)

Lehแr: The Merry Widow (highlights)

Anneliese Rothenberger, Nicolai Gedda & Erika K๖th

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Willi Boskovsky

EMI Encore - 3414342

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Bizet: Carmen

Bizet: Carmen

Giuletta Simionato, Nicolai Gedda, Hilde Gueden, Michel Roux, Graziella Sciutti

Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfeunde in Wien, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Recorded 1954

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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232

Agnes Giebel, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda, Hermann Prey & Franz Crass

BBC Chorus & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer

‘A truly great performance, a grand design superbly realised from start to finish. The recording gives marvellous clarity to the beauty of the playing of the New Philharmonia Orchestra and the superb singing and clear enunciation of the BBC Chorus.’ (Gramophone)

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