Lyric And Coloratura Arias

LPA

1. Francesco Cilea - Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l’umile ancella (Act I)
2. Francesco Cilea - Poveri fiori (Act IV)
3. Umberto Giordano - La mamma morta (Act III)
4. Alfredo Catalani - Ebben? ne andrò lontana (Act I)
5. Arrigo Boito - L’altra notte in fondo al mare (Act III)

LPB

1. Gioachino Rossini - Una voce poco fa (Act I)
2. Giacomo Meyerbeer - Ombra leggera (Aria dell’ombra) (Act II)
3. Léo Delibes - Dov’è l’indiana bruna?
4. Giuseppe Verdi - Mercé, dilette amiche (Act V)

In the months following the release of the new Callas Live Remastered Edition, Warner Classics continue to release her legendary studio recitals on vinyl, using the state of the art remastering done in 2014.

Lyric and coloratura arias (1954)

As this recital amply demonstrates, Maria Callas encompassed an extraordinary range of roles. She is as convincing in the pinpoint coloratura of Lakmé’s ‘Bell Song’ (‘Her chromatic scale is beautifully done and she sails up to the region known as in alt with the greatest ease,’ said Gramophone) as in the sweeping, richly-coloured lines of Maddalena’s ‘La mamma morta’ from

Andrea Chénier, famously and movingly featured on the soundtrack of the 1993 Hollywood film Philadelphia. ‘There is great tenderness and simplicity, deep emotion, and the most lovely moulding of the vocal phrases,’ wrote Gramophone, ‘Madame Callas’s characterisations … are nothing less than superb, and altogether there is some of her finest singing yet recorded.’