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This CD features a series of arias each sung by two tenors–a very entertaining and enlightening exercise. If I had to generalize, I’d say that
Maria Callas sang many times in Mexico early in her international career, normally in under-rehearsed productions, mostly with dreadful conductors (Umberto Mugnai, Guido Picco), and
This collection meets Maria Callas in 1949, when she was as much daredevil as soprano, with a fearlessness and indeed recklessness that is astonishing. The
This CD does in fact contain Giuseppe di Stefano’s first recordings (made in Lausanne in 1944), but it also includes some selections from ’47, a
The three excerpts sung here by Callas are from Puritani, Tristano e Isotta, and Norma, all recorded in the studio in 1949, and all the
Here’s the layout: Callas sings an aria and then another famous soprano in the Public Domain sings it. What we learn is that Galli-Curci is
This is made up of a concert or three that took place in San Francisco in October, 1950. At the time, Giuseppe di Stefano’s voice
