Maria Callas – The Best of Maria Callas – Her Greatest Roles (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - The Best of Maria Callas - Her Greatest Roles (2023) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz] Download

On December 2, 2023, the world will celebrate the 100th birthday of Maria Callas. To mark the occasion, Warner Classics will release a comprehensive box set on September 22, 2023 and numerous digital releases and LPs throughout the year. Known as La Divina, Maria Callas continues to fascinate as an outstanding artist, but also as a woman and style icon. Dramatic gestures and musical authenticity are the unmistakable characteristics of her interpretations. Equally unique is the extraordinary range of her voice, her timbre magical. All this combines to create an aura with which Maria Callas embodies the heroines of opera and makes her the epitome of the prima donna. Maria Callas is not only considered the greatest soprano of all time – she was the most famous woman in the world. Callas’ early fame, her temperament, her marriage to the industrialist Meneghini and her affair with the Greek shipowner Onassis dominated the headlines of the press worldwide for years. She herself became one of the tragic-romantic heroines that she inimitably embodied on stage. For millions of fans around the world who still adore Maria Callas today, there can only be one! Maria Callas is a myth that was created during her lifetime and an exceptional figure who is still as present today as she was then. LA DIVINA – Maria Callas in all her roles is the most comprehensive box set of Callas recordings ever released. It presents the singer in all 74 roles for which sound documents exist. The deluxe box contains her complete studio recordings, an extensive collection of her live recordings, the master classes she gave at the Juilliard School, videos and a bonus CD with world premieres: alternative takes and working sessions of studio recordings from the 1960s.

Tracklist:

1-01. Maria Callas – Madama Butterfly, Act 2: “Un bel dì vedremo” (Butterfly) (04:34)
1-02. Maria Callas – Norma, Act 1: “Casta diva” (Norma, Coro) (05:40)
1-03. Maria Callas – La traviata, Act 1: “È strano! È strano!” (Violetta) (01:20)
1-04. Maria Callas – La traviata, Act 1: “Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima” (Violetta) (03:00)
1-05. Maria Callas – La traviata, Act 1: “Follie! Follie! Delirio vano è questo!” (Violetta) (01:06)
1-06. Maria Callas – La traviata, Act 1: “Sempre libera” (Violetta, Alfredo) (04:01)
1-07. Maria Callas – La traviata, Act 3: “Addio, del passato” (Violetta) (01:51)
1-08. Maria Callas – Carmen, Act 1: Habanera. “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” (Carmen, Chœur) (04:29)
1-09. Maria Callas – Carmen, Act 1: Séguedille. “Près des remparts de Séville” (Carmen, José) (04:32)
1-10. Maria Callas – Carmen, Act 2: “Les tringles des sistres tintaient” (Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès) (04:27)
1-11. Maria Callas – Andrea Chénier, Act 3: “La mamma morta” (Maddalena) (04:52)
1-12. Maria Callas – Tosca, Act 2: “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca) (03:00)
1-13. Maria Callas – Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 1: “Una voce poco fa” (Rosina) (06:19)
1-14. Maria Callas – Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 1: “Dunque io son” (Figaro, Rosina) (05:06)
1-15. Maria Callas – Rigoletto, Act 1: “Addio speranza ed anima” (Duca, Gilda) (00:51)
1-16. Maria Callas – Rigoletto, Act 1: “Gualtier Maldè!” – “Caro nome” (Gilda, Borsa, Ceprano, Marullo) (07:26)
1-17. Maria Callas – Cavalleria rusticana: “Voi lo sapete, o mamma” (Santuzza, Mamma Lucia) (06:10)
1-18. Maria Callas – Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: “Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte e bruna” (Lucia, Alisa) (04:05)
1-19. Maria Callas – Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: “Quando rapito in estasi” (Lucia, Alisa) (03:59)
1-20. Tullio Serafin – Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: “Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento!” (Coro, Raimondo) (03:14)
1-21. Maria Callas – Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: “Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce!” – “Ardon gli incensi” (Lucia, Raimondo, Normanno, Coro) (11:51)
1-22. Maria Callas – Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: “Spargi d’amaro pianto” (Lucia, Raimondo, Coro, Enrico) (04:08)
1-23. Maria Callas – I pagliacci, Act 1: “Qual fiamma avea nel guardo” – “Hui! Stridono lassù” (Nedda) (04:37)
1-24. Maria Callas – La bohème, Act 1: “Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì” (Mimì, Rodolfo) (04:54)
1-25. Maria Callas – La bohème, Act 1: “Ehi! Rodolfo!” – “O soave fanciulla” (Schaunard, Colline, Marcello, Rodolfo, Mimì) (04:58)
1-26. Maria Callas – La Gioconda, Op. 9, Act 4: “Suicidio!” (Gioconda) (04:12)
1-27. Maria Callas – Aida, Act 1: “Su! Del Nilo al sacro lido” (Re, Ramfis, Coro, Aida, Radamès, Amneris, Messaggero) (02:56)
1-28. Maria Callas – Aida, Act 1: “Ritorna vincitor!” (Aida) (06:42)
1-29. Maria Callas – Aida, Act 4: “Qual gemito!” (Radamès, Aida) (02:34)
1-30. Maria Callas – Aida, Act 4: “Vedi? Di morte I’angelo” – “Immenso Fthà” (Radamès, Aida, Coro) (01:41)
1-31. Maria Callas – Aida, Act 4: “O terra addio” (Aida, Radamès, Coro, Amneris) (04:55)
1-32. Maria Callas – Tristano ed Isotta, Act 3: Morte d’amore. “Dolce e calmo” (Isotta) (07:43)
1-33. Maria Callas – Un ballo in maschera, Act 2: “Ma dall’arido stelo divulsa” (Amelia) (05:12)
1-34. Maria Callas – Il turco in Italia, Act 1: “Bella Italia, alfin ti miro” (Selim, Fiorilla) (02:39)
1-35. Maria Callas – Il turco in Italia, Act 1: “Serva… Servo” (Selim, Fiorilla) (03:36)
1-36. Maria Callas – Mefistofele, Act 3: “L’altra notte in fondo al mare” (Margherita) (07:27)
1-37. Maria Callas – La forza del destino, Act 1: “Me, pellegrina ed orfana” (Leonora) (03:43)
1-38. Maria Callas – La forza del destino, Act 4: “Pace, pace mio Dio!” (Leonora) (06:20)
1-39. Maria Callas – Manon Lescaut, Act 2: “In quelle trine morbide” (Manon) (02:55)
1-40. Maria Callas – Manon Lescaut, Act 4: “Sola, perduta, abbandonata” (Manon) (05:52)
1-41. Maria Callas – La sonnambula, Act 2: “Oh! Se una volta sola” (Amina, Rodolfo, Teresa, Coro) (03:36)
1-42. Maria Callas – La sonnambula, Act 2: “L’anello mio” (Amina) (01:55)
1-43. Maria Callas – La sonnambula, Act 2: “Ah! non credea mirarti” (Amina, Elvino) (04:43)
1-44. Maria Callas – Turandot, Act 2: “In questa reggia” (Turandot, Calaf, Coro) (06:19)
1-45. Maria Callas – Turandot, Act 2: “Straniero, ascolta! Nella cupa notte” (Turandot, Calaf, Coro) (02:27)
1-46. Maria Callas – Turandot, Act 2: “Guizza al pari di fiamma” (Turandot, Imperatore, Coro, Liù, Calaf) (02:19)
1-47. Maria Callas – Turandot, Act 2: “Gelo che ti dà foco” (Turandot, Calaf, Coro) (02:24)
1-48. Tullio Serafin – Turandot, Act 2: “Gloria, o vincitore!” (Coro) (01:00)
1-49. Maria Callas – Turandot, Act 2: “Figlio del cielo!” (Turandot, Emperor, Coro, Calaf) (02:54)
1-50. Maria Callas – Il pirata, Act 2: “Oh! S’io potessi” – “Col sorriso d’innocenza” (Imogene) (17:08)
1-51. Maria Callas – Iphigénie en Tauride, Wq. 46, Act 2: “Ô malheureuse Iphigénie !” (Iphigénie) (04:33)
1-52. Maria Callas – La vestale, Act 2: “O Nume tutelar” (Giulia) (02:31)
1-53. Maria Callas – Macbeth, Act 1: “Nel dì della vittoria” – “Vieni! T’affretta” (Lady Macbeth) (07:48)
1-54. Maria Callas – Nabucco, Act 2: Scena. “Ben io t’invenni” – Aria. “Anch’io dischiuso un giorno” (Abigaille) (09:09)
1-55. Maria Callas – Don Carlo, Act 5: “Tu che le vanità” (Elisabetta) (10:44)
1-56. Maria Callas – I Puritani, Act 2: “O rendetemi la speme” – “Qui la voce sua soave mi chiamava” (Elvira, Giorgio, Riccardo) (10:00)
1-57. Maria Callas – Orphée et Eurydice, Wq. 41, Act 4: “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice” (Orphée) (04:28)
1-58. Maria Callas – Il trovatore, Act 1: “Tacea la notte placida” – “Di tale amor” (Leonora) (06:05)
1-59. Maria Callas – I vespri siciliani, Act 4: “Arrigo! ah, parli a un core” (Elena) (04:32)
1-60. Maria Callas – Suor Angelica: “Senza mamma” (Angelica) (05:33)