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Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera live 1955) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan | |||||||||||||||||||||
  | 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: EMI Classics Catalog: Music Release date: 1998-03-17 Media: Audio CD discs number: 2 Ean: 0724356645028 Upc: 724356645028  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDsArtists:
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| This live recording of the 1955 Visconti production at La Scala is the best of the available Maria Callas Traviatas. Aside from a minor pitch problem or two, she's in great voice, coloring phrases to reveal character and investing the coloratura with variety and passion. Her "Addio del passato" is heart-breaking. She fully captures Violetta's pride and vulnerability in the scene with Germont, though her partner, Ettore Bastianini, sings insensitively, if beautifully. Giuseppe Di Stefano is all one could ask for as Alfredo. Carlo Giulini conducts a performance that delivers all the lyricism and drama of the score. The recorded sound is primitive, but in EMI's latest transfer you can listen through it to a wondrous performance. --Dan Davis |
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 Written on August 17, 2005 Summary: Callas, Incredible voice, very poor recording I was excited to hear this version of La Traviata, just to hear Callas's voice. ( I am new to opera ). She has one incredible voice, but I've heard better sound on 3 stooges re-runs. The sound is muffled, there is constant talking, coughing and hacking of people in the background. The singers sound as though they forget they are singing into microphones at times, bad dropouts. I was/am spoiled with the Sutherland, Pavarotti (London recording). I still maintain this recording is much better. Not only is the audio far superior (yes, I know it was recorded about 20 years later), there seems to be some wonderful chemistry between Sutherland and Pavarotti that shines through. All and all, I am glad I heard the recording, I just wish I borrowed it from the library and saved the $$$$$. Buy the Suth/Pav recording. Written on August 3, 2005 Summary: Verdi - La Traviata/ Callas, di Stefano, Bastianini; Giulini It is a live recording but I am sorry to say, a rather poor one! There is a graininess and shrillness to the recoding that is very disoncerting. I would love to be able to return it.  Written on March 29, 2005 Summary: THE TRAVIATA OF THE CENTURIES... This is one of the nights of the 20th century that will remain historical for as long as humans exist... It is a Legend. C M Giulini had said that this was the masterpiece of his career and it was written that "the Milan audience -so unworthy of such a performance- got a glimpse in Paradise through a keyhole" About that MAFIOSO Audience I would like to write a few words. An audience that has transformed so many times the Gentlest of Arts to a "football game" showing its true educational and cultural level no need to mention its Musical level. Should I mention that while Callas broke her Voice into a thousand pieces that night to make Violeta COME TO LIFE they threw her vegetables at the end? Who? The Italian Clacques of course. I remember, even today, in some net chatroom meeting one of those Italians who were there that night and who found that rather amusing. Well I suppose he was among those WELL PAID clacquers. The same audience had forced Mirella Freni a few years later to stop her performance in La Traviata crying, it had booed Callas in one of her MASTERPIECES as lady Macbeth, Pavaroti when he broke one of his high Cs and in later years it booed Renee Fleming while she made them the Favour of singing to their Theatre which because exactly of the Malice of those people has been transformed to a Mausoleum of memories long gone!!! Why is it that no other audience ever behaved in such a way towards Great Artists while liking second to third class Italian Singers who wouldn't be doing an International career not even in their dreams if they had not been promoted by La Scala? Well I suppose it has to do with the ancient fight of Mediocracy against Genius and Talent. I wonder how the Italian Clacques feel today that La Scala produces so rarely significant performances... If I were any of those important singers I would never again sing in a theatre that reminds more of an Arena of Beasts rather than a Temple of Art. Written on January 16, 2005 Summary: The Greatest La Traviata This recording of La Traviata is the greatest on the market today. The CD features an all-star cast, lead by an all-star conductor. Maria Callas is THE Violetta. Her voice was in near perfect condition at the ime of this recording. Her coloratura is beautifully perfect. Maria Callas's Violetta is a character that appears before your very eyes. You can actually see Violetta in every scene, espically in the Act II scene with Germont, and the end of the opera. Her "Addio del passato" can make anyone cry, and her extended scene "Sempre libera" was excellent. Giuseppe di Stefano is also in near perfect voice in this recording. His beautiful, lyric tenor voice can make Alfredo come to life. His "Libiamo, ne' lieti calici" is great. Di Stefano's other arias ("Un di felici", and Lunge da lei") are also perfect. Alfredo's father, Giorgio Germont, is portrayed brillantly by Ettore Bastianini. His smooth baritone voice adjusts to the score accurately. His highlight is the act II aria "Di provenza il mar." Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala brillantly. He accurately delivers the lyricism from the score. The Cd is the greatest recording of La Traviata available. With CDs like this available on the market, the legacy of singers like Callas, di Stefano, and Bastianini will be perserved for many years to come. Written on November 3, 2004 Summary: I don't hear Callas, but I hear Violetta! Time and time again, a great singer with the command of an immense operatic range would study and attempt to sing the role of Violetta Valery. Time and time again though, there is an incompleteness in the genius these singers exude in the singing of such an incredible opera. More often than not, I find a ton of Violettas on the market bland and unmoving. Yes, they are beautiful vocally, but is beauty simply the calibre for the execution of an opera? I don't believe so! The great Violettas of our day-Joan Sutherland, Anna Moffo, Beverly Sills, etc., have all displayed a great sense of vocal discipline in their respective performance of this Verdi opera. However, none (even with their amazing flutelike voices) have gone as far as achieving what Maria Callas had achieved in this live recording of La Traviata. Supported by the great voices of Giuseppe di Stefano and Ettore Bastianini, along with the baton of Carlo Maria Guilini, this Verdi opera surely is a classic among classics. With its excellent cast of singers, the lead soprano being the highlight of the entire recording of course, this undoubtedly should belong in the collection of a serious opera lover. The sound quality may falter in some areas, but all in all, it was a heart-wrenching performance. From the electrifying Sempre Libera (Callas' version was the best so far in years) to the depressing Addio del Passato (my favorite aria in the whole opera), no one else could have injected a myriad of colors into her voice if she were not the great Callas herself. If you really are intent in vocal beauty (in which Callas was good, by the way in this record) and dramatic intensity, add this Traviata to your collection. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1998-03-17 | 1997-08-19 | 1997-08-19 | 1997-08-19 | 1997-08-19 | 2003-12-02 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Format | - | - | - | - | - | Original recording remastered |
| Ean | 0724356645028 | 0724355629821 | 0724355630421 | 0724355628121 | 7243556295244 | 0724358564426 |
| Upc | 724356645028 | 724355629821 | 724355630421 | 724355628121 | 724355629524 | 724358564426 |
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