Puccini / Callas: Madama Butterfly

Puccini / Callas: Madama Butterfly - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Madama Butterfly

Artist:

Puccini / Callas

Label:

Warner Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

825646340996

Genre:

Classical

Sub Genre:

Opera/Operetta

Release Date:

2014-09-23

Number of Discs:

2

2014 Maria Callas re-mastered series reissue. With this Abbey Road 24-bit 96kHz re-master, engineers returned to the original master tapes, bringing new clarity & brilliance to her legendary studio recordings. A famous backstage photo was taken in Chicago after one of just three performances that Callas gave of Madama Butterfly; it shows the soprano in her Japanese costume, snarling furiously at a bailiff who had served a writ on her - the very image of the tempestuous diva. By contrast, in her recording of the role, 'it is, miraculously,' as the critic John Osborne observed, 'the 15-year old girl and not the great Callas who stands before us.' Her genius for vocal characterization finds an apt complement in Herbert von Karajan's conducting: 'a wholly sympathetic rendering [that]brings out more of the detail of the score than I have ever heard before', wrote Gramophone.

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