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This 1956 Ballo is very exciting and has a wonderful performance by Giuseppe di Stefano at its center. His ardency, beautiful tone, pointed delivery, and
This Met broadcast of Verdi’s Falstaff from 1949 has a great deal to recommend it. Judging by the copious amount of audience laughter, the production
Recorded in 1953 and 1954 respectively, these recordings of Cav and Pag remain the most compelling on discs, despite boxy, occasionally distorted sound. Maria Callas
Here is Giuseppe di Stefano, pictured on the original album cover as Canio in Pagliacci despite the fact that he’s not heard here in that
Yes, it’s the Callas Tosca yet again, this time reissued in EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century series, and it’s still the one version that
The recordings in this collection cover the period between 1947 and 1958 (you have to presume that the 1981 copyrights to a Fanciulla aria and
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
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
Like others in EMI’s recent issues of complete opera recordings featuring Maria Callas, this December 1957 Un Ballo has long been available on numerous LP
The sound is quite bad (but better than in some transfers of this performance I’ve encountered), conductor Umberto Mugnai leads routinely and slashes the score
