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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 bohème, 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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Daniela Dessí (Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-san), Fabio Armiliato (B.F.Pinkerton), Juan Pons (Sharpless), Rossana Rinaldi (Suzuki), Maria cioppi (Kate Pinkerton), Luca Casalin (Goro), Marco Camastra (Yamadori), Riccardo Zanellato (Bonzo), Salvatore Ferrari (Yakuside), Stefano la colla (The Registrar), Marco Camastra (The Imperial Commissioner), Sandra Mellace (Cio-Cio-san’s mother), Alessandra Meozzi (Cio-Cio-san’s aunt), Elena Borin (Cio-Cio-san’s cousin), Raul Fruzza (Sorrow) & Monique Arnaud (Dream Weaver) Orchestra and Chorus CittàLirica, Placido Domingo & Directed by Stefano Monti Dynamic are delighted to present a magnificent production of one of Puccini’s most unforgettable operas Madama Butterfly coupled with their 2008 CD and DVD catalogue. This 2004 production was recorded at the prestigious Puccini Festival which takes place every year in Torre del Lago, Viareggio, Italy. Featuring a great international cast, it is conducted by well renowned tenor Placido Domingo. |
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Victoria de los Angeles, John Lanigan, Barbara Howitt, Geraint Evans, David Tree, Michael Langdon, Joyce Livingstone, David Allen, Ronald Firmager & Harry Gawler The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & The Covent Garden Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe Recorded on 2 May 1957 (mono) Victoria de los Angeles first sang Cio-cio-san at Covent Garden in 1951 under Warwick Braithwaite. The Times review said, "Her voice has a luscious bloom to it, inherently ideal for the music in which Puccini clothes his gentle heroines.” As a reviewer for Opera wrote in June 1957, “the promise of a Madama Butterfly with Victoria de los Angeles had whetted everyone’s expectations, and the event fulfilled them.” He continued “Her typically “instrumental” purity of timbre, so surely controlled, implied the right virginal simplicity, and the radiant confidence of “Un bel dì” very properly won an ovation. Her tone clove the orchestra at its loudest without apparent effort, never straining, always rich and cherished.” | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Renata Scotto (Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (Lieut. Pinkerton), Anna di Stasio (Suzuki) & Rolando Panerai (Sharpless) Sir John Barbirolli | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi & Maria Huder Rome Opera Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni (recorded 1954) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (B. F. Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Paolo Washington (The Bonze), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (The Imperial Commissioner), Oscar Nanni (Yakuside) Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Tullio Serafin recorded 1958 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Yasuko Hayashi, Hak-Nam Kim, Peter Dvorsky, Giorgio Zancanaro Chor und Orchester der Mailänder Scala, Lorin Maazel, stage direction by Keita Asari Subtitles in German & English | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Rolando Panerai, Anna di Stasio Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sir John Barbirolli | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Renata Tebaldi (Madama Butterfly), Carlo Bergonzi (B. F. Pinkerton), Fiorenza Cossotto (Suzuki), Enzo Sordello (Sharpless), Angelo Mercuriali (Goro), Paolo Washington (The Bonze), Lidia Nerozzi (Kate Pinkerton), Michele Cazzato (Prince Yamadori), Virgilio Carbonari (The Imperial Commissioner), Oscar Nanni (Yakuside) Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Elfriede Trötschel, Karl Friedrich, Kurt Gester, Gisela Litz Hessian Radio Orchestra & Chorus, Kurt Schröder | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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