Verdi La traviata (1953 - Santini) - (Mono Remastered) Maria Callas

• 1 Verdi: La traviata: Prelude 04:37
• 2 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Dell'invito trascorsa e gia l'ora (Chorus, Violetta, Flora, Marquis, Gaston, Baron) 05:12
• 3 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Libiamo ne'lieti calici (Alfredo, Violetta, Chorus) 03:12
• 4 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Che e cio? (Chorus, Violetta, Alfredo) 02:37
• 5 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Un d? felice, eterea (Alfredo, Violetta) 03:31
• 6 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Ebben? Che diavol fate? (Gastone, Violetta, Alfredo) 01:30
• 7 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Si ridesta in ciel l'aurora (Flora, Gastone, Baron, Doctor, Marquis, Chorus) 01:51
• 8 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: E strano! E strano! (Violetta) 01:20
• 9 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Ah fors'e lui (Violetta) 03:01
• 10 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Follie! Follie! Delirio vano e questo! (Violetta, Alfredo) 01:06
• 11 Verdi: La traviata, Act 1: Sempre libera (Violetta, Alfredo) 04:02
• 12 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Lunge da lei per me non v'ha diletto!.... (Alfredo, Annina) 02:00
• 13 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: De'miei bollenti spiriti (Alfredo, Annina) 02:09
• 14 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Annina, donde vieni?....O mio rimorso! (Alfredo, Annina, Violetta, Germont) 04:36
• 15 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Pura siccome un angelo (Violetta, Germont) 01:47
• 16 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Non sapete quale affetto (Violetta, Germont) 02:22
• 17 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Un di, quando le veneri (Violetta, Germont) 02:45
• 18 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Ah! Dite alla giovane (Violetta, Germont) 04:25
• 19 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Imponete...Non amarlo ditegli (Violetta, Germont) 01:11
• 20 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Morr? La mia memoria (Germont, Violetta) 03:30
• 21 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Dammi tu forza, o cielo! (Violetta, Annina, Alfredo) 01:47
• 22 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Che fai?...Nulla (Violetta, Annina, Alfredo) 02:33
• 23 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Ah, vive sol quel core (Alfredo, Giuseppe, Germont) 02:24
• 24 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Di Provenza il mar, il suol (Alfredo, Giuseppe, Germont) 04:51
• 25 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Avram lieta di maschere la notte (Flora, Marquis, Doctor) 01:03
• 26 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Noi siamo zingarelle (Chorus, Flora, Marquis, Doctor) 02:53
• 27 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Di Madride noi siam mattadori (Chorus, Gastone, Flora, Doctor, Marquis) 03:05
• 28 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Alfredo! Voi! (Flora, Gastone, Doctor, Marquis, Chorus, Alfredo, Violetta, Baron) 04:43
• 29 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Invitato a qui seguirmi (Violetta, Alfredo, Chorus) 02:36
• 30 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Ogni suo aver tal femmina (Alfredo, Gaston, Baron, Doctor, Marquis, Chorus) 01:38
• 31 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Di sprezzo degno s? stesso rende (Germont, Alfredo, Flora, Gaston, Baron, Doctor, Marquis, Chorus) 01:53
• 32 Verdi: La traviata, Act 2: Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core (Violetta, Flora, Germont, Gaston, Baron, Doctor, Marquis, Chorus, Alfredo) 04:34
• 33 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Prelude 04:40
• 34 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Annina?...Comandate? (Violetta, Annina, Doctor) 04:38
• 35 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Teneste la promessa....Attendo - ne a me giungon mai!....Addio, del passato (Violetta, Annina, Doctor) 01:52
• 36 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Addio, del passato (Violetta) 03:27
• 37 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Largo al quadrupede (Chorus) 00:46
• 38 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Signore!...Che t'accadde? (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo) 02:01
• 39 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Parigi, o cara, noi lasceremo (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo) 04:09
• 40 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Ah, non piu, a un tempio (Annina, Violetta, Alfredo) 01:58
• 41 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Ah! gran Dio! Morir s? giovine (Violetta, Alfredo) 01:49
• 42 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Ah Violetta!...Voi, signor! (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo, Annina, Doctor) 02:00
• 43 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Prendi, quest'e l'immagine (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo, Annina, Doctor) 01:00
• 44 Verdi: La traviata, Act 3: Se una pudica vergine (Violetta, Germont, Alfredo, Annina, Doctor) 03:37
• Total Runtime 02:02:41

Info for Verdi La traviata (1953 - Santini) - (Mono Remastered)

Violetta, the most complex and fully-rounded of Verdi’s heroines, was one of the roles that defined Maria Callas as an artist. She performed it more than 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti’s production at La Scala in 1955/56. It is often said that the role demands a different kind of voice for each act, and, when she made this recording for the Cetra label in 1953, Callas offered youthful, ringing power complemented by coloratura prowess and the capacity for great delicacy.More than 60 years on, her characterisation, in its subtlety and truth, still sets the standard for La traviata.

Maria Callas, soprano (Violetta)
Francesco Albanese, tenor (Alfredo)
Ugo Savarese, baritone (Germont)
RAI Chorus and Orchestra Turin
Gabriele Santini, conductor

Digitally remastered

Maria Callas
was born to a Greek family in New York in 1923. Her vocal training took place in Athens, where her teacher was the coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, who had sung with Enrico Caruso and Feodor Chaliapin. After early performances in Greece, Callas’s international career was launched in 1947 when she performed the title role in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda at the Arena di Verona in Italy.

Her voice defied simple classification and her artistic range was extraordinary. In her early twenties she sang such heavy dramatic roles as Gioconda, Turandot, Brünnhilde and Isolde, but over the course of her career her most famous roles came to be: Bellini’s Norma and Amina (La sonnambula); Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata); Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena, Cherubini’s Medea and Puccini’s Tosca. Though her timbre was not always conventionally beautiful, Callas’s musicianship and phrasing were in a class of their own. She brought characters to vivid life with her skill in colouring her tone and making insightful use of the text.

She is credited with changing the history of opera: by placing a perhaps unprecedented emphasis on musical integrity and dramatic truth, and by transforming perceptions – and reviving the fortunes – of the bel canto repertoire, particularly Bellini and Donizetti.

The 1950s marked the height of Callas’s career. Its base lay in the opera houses of Italy, and she became the prima donna assoluta of Milan’s legendary La Scala – notably in the productions of Luchino Visconti – but her operatic appearances also encompassed London’s Royal Opera House, the New York Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, and the opera houses of Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Lisbon, and, in the early 1950s, Mexico City, São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.

From 1959, when she started a life-changing love affair with the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, her performing career slowed down and her voice became more fragile. Her final stage performances came in 1965, when she was only 42.

There were many plans for a return to the stage – and for further complete recordings – but they never reached fruition, though in 1974 she gave a series of concerts in Europe, North America and Japan with the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano; he had partnered her frequently in the opera house and in the studio, not least in the 1953 La Scala Tosca under Victor de Sabata, considered a landmark in recording history. Callas died alone in her Paris apartment in September 1977.

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