Maria Callas: Live Remastered Recordings 1949–1964 [Blu-ray]

"Maria Callas Live" - коллекционный бокс-сет от Warner Classics с наиболее полной коллекцией концертных записей великой оперной дивы Марии Каллас!

45-дисковый бокс-сет содержит 20 полных опер, 12 из которых она никогда не записывала в студии, и пять полных снятых концертов на Blu-ray. Это издание является незаменимым дополнением к "Callas Remastered" от Warner Classics - знаковой коллекции ее студийных записей.

Maria Callas Live captures the legendary soprano in action on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. Thanks to new audio remastering from the best available sources, this 45-disc set reveals Callas’ compelling genius as a singing actress with a new truthfulness and immediacy. Containing 20 complete operas – including 12 works she never recorded in the

studio – and five complete filmed recitals on Blu-ray, Maria Callas Live is the indispensable complement to Maria Callas Remastered, Warner Classics’ landmark collection of her studio recordings.

This deluxe box set comprises 42 CDs (20 complete operas) and 3 Blu-ray (5 recitals).

12 of the operas were never recorded by Callas in the studio:
Verdi: Nabucco
Verdi: I vespri siciliani
Verdi: Macbeth
Wagner: Parsifal
Donizetti: Anna Bolena
Donizetti: Poliuto
Rossini: Armida
Bellini: Il pirata
Gluck: Alceste
Gluck: Ifigenia in Tauride
Spontini: La vestale
Giordano: Andrea Chénier

The 8 other operas in the box result from performances which have made the legend of Callas on stage:

The historic performance of Verdi’s Aida (when she sang an interpolated high E flat at the end of the Triumphal Scene to ecstatic applause from the audience), La traviata (Lisbon 1958, conducted by Franco Ghione with Alfredo Kraus), her only incarnation of Rigoletto on stage, Bellini’s Norma at the height of her voice in London, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in the legendary perfomance with Karajan at Staatsoper Berlin, Cherubini’s Medea and Bellini’s La Sonnambula under Leonard Bernstein at La Scala, and the heartbreaking Puccini Tosca from Covent Garden, 1964.

Each recording in this edition has been newly remastered, using the latest audio technology, great care has been taken to assure accuracy of reproduced pitch, which has been corrected in various instances.

Some performances presented in this boxset (Nabucco, Armida, La Vestale, Alceste) were recorded under difficult technical circumstances and this remains evident in the audio quality. That being said, Warner Classics has made a conscious choice in including them, since they offer the only opportunity to hear Maria Callas in roles that she did not perform in the recording studio.

This set makes use of the best available source material, which includes tapes recently discovered by Tom Volf (director of the forthcoming film Callas in her own words) in the archives of the Italian collector, Oscar Costellacci.

As a result, Callas’s voice, as heard in the opera house and concert hall, can be experienced with unparalleled authenticity in all its stunning presence. While the imperfections inherent in vintage recordings of live productions have not disappeared, the majority of the performances in this collection can now be enjoyed in sound of unprecedented quality and fidelity.

Each of the 20 complete operas (CD) and the 3 Blu-ray recitals in the box set is presented in a digipak, and the CDs will also be available as individual releases, in physical and digital formats.

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1. Verdi: Nabucco 2CD - 0190295844462 Vittorio Gui (Gino Bechi, Amalia Pini, Gino Sinimberghi) 20/12/1949 Napoli, Teatro San Carlo
2. Wagner: Parsifal 3CD - 0190295844455 Vittorio Gui (Rolando Panerai, Africo Baldelli, Boris Christoff) 20-21/11/1950 · Rome, Auditorium della Rai - Sung in Italian
3. Verdi: I vespri siciliani 3CD - 0190295844516 Erich Kleiber (Giorgios Kokolios-Bardi, Enzo Mascherini, Boris Christoff) 26/05/1951 · Firenze, Comunale
4. Verdi: Aida 2CD - 0190295844509 Oliviero de Fabritiis (Mario del Monaco, Oralia Dominguez, Giuseppe Taddei) 03/07/1951 Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes
5. Rossini: Armida 2CD - 0190295844530 Tullio Serafin (Francesco Albanese, Mario Filippeschi, Alessandro Ziliani) 26/04/1952 · Firenze, Comunale
6. Verdi: Rigoletto 2CD - 0190295844622 Umberto Mugnai (Giuseppe di Stefano, Piero Campolonghi, Ignacio Ruffino) 17/06/1952 · Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes
7. Bellini: Norma 2CD - 0190295844639 Vittorio Gui (Mirto Picchi, Ebe Stignani, Giacomo Vaghi) 18/11/1952 · London, Royal Opera House
8. Verdi: Macbeth 2CD - 0190295844479 Victor de Sabata (Enzo Mascherini, Italo Tajo, Gino Penno) 07/12/1952 Milano, Teatro alla Scala
9. Cherubini: Medea 2CD - 0190295844608 Leonard Bernstein (Gino Penno, Maria Luisa Nache, Giuseppe Modesti) 10/12/1953 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
10. Gluck: Alceste 2CD - 0190295844554 Carlo Maria Giulini (Renato Gavarini, Paolo Silveri, Rolando Panerai) 04/04/1954 Milano, Teatro alla Scala
11. Spontini: La vestale 2CD - 0190295844523 Antonino Votto (Franco Corelli, Enzo Sordello, Nicola Rossi, Lemeni) 07/12/1954 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
12. Giordano: Andrea Chenier 2CD - 0190295844561 Antonino Votto (Mario del Monaco, Aldo Protti, Maria Amadini) 08/01/1955 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
13. Bellini: La sonnambula 2CD - 0190295844653 Leonard Bernstein (Cesare Valletti, Giuseppe Modesti, Gabriella Carturan) 05/03/1955 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
14. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor 2CD - 0190295844585 Herbert von Karajan (Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Zaccaria) 29/09/1955 · Berlin, Stadtische Oper
15. Donizetti: Anna Bolena 2 CD - 0190295844592 Gianandrea Gavazzeni (Gianni Raimondi, Nicola Rossi Lemeni, Giulietta Simionato) 14/04/1957 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
16. Gluck: Ifigenia in Tauride 2 CD - 0190295844547 Nino Sanzogno (Francesco Albanese, Anselmo Colzani, Fiorenza Cossotto) 01/06/1957 · Milano, Teatro alla Scala
17. Verdi: La traviata 2 CD - 0190295844486 (Franco Ghione, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Laura Zannini) 27/03/1958 · Lisboa, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos
18. Bellini: Il pirata 2 CD - 0190295844660 Nicola Rescigno (Pier Miranda Ferraro, Costantino Ego, Glade Peterson) 27/01/1959 · New York, Carnegie Hall
19. Donizetti: Poliuto 2CD - 0190295844578 Antonino Votto (Franco Corelli, Ettore Bastianini, Nicola Zaccaria) 07/12/1960 Milano, Teatro alla Scala
20. Puccini: Tosca 2CD - 0190295844493 Carlo Felice Cillario (Tito Gobbi) 24/01/1964 · London, Royal Opera House
21. Callas on video 3 Blu-ray 0190295804206 Callas at Covent Garden (London 1962 & 1964) / Callas in Concert (Hamburg 1959 & 1962) / Toujours (Paris 1958)