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30 Aug 2022Maria Callas & Cartier
Cartier has officially launched its summer program for 2022: a virtual, immersive tour of the planet’s most desirable seaside destinations, each one with an iconic figure as inspiration.
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The Maison chose to begin its season by following the footsteps of the inimitable Maria Callas: proposing a digital trip to Mykonos inspired by a photograph of her holidaying on the legendary island. Both the Maria Callas Estate and the Maison Cartier are more than pleased for this great partnership between the two major names.
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29 Oct 2022Maria Callas - Norma - New York 1956
Callas sings for the first time at the Metropolitan, New York, in Norma.
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19 Sep 2022Maria Callas - Verdi Arias - London 1958
Callas records Verdi Arias I with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Nicola Rescigno in No.1 Studio at Abbey Road but she does not like the acoustic so the orchestra moves to Kingsway Hall after the final session on 24 September to record the Mad Scenes album scheduled to follow immediately.
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15 Sep 2022Maria Callas - Puccini Arias and Lyric and Coloratura Arias - London 1954
Callas makes her first recordings in London: Puccini Arias and Lyric and Coloratura Arias in the Watford Town Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Tullio Serafin. The Puccini Arias album is believed to be Callas’s all-time best-selling solo recital.
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12 Sep 2022Maria Callas - Medea - Milan 1957
On a let-out from her exclusive EMI contract, Callas records Medea at La Scala, Milan, under Tullio Serafin for Ricordi. The recording is released under licence in Europe by EMI and by Mercury in the USA.
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04 Sep 2022Maria Callas - La Gioconda - Milan 1959
Callas records La Gioconda for the second time. The cast includes Fiorenza Cossotto and Piero Cappuccilli with the forces of La Scala, Milan, under Antonino Votto.
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04 Sep 2022Maria Callas - Un ballo in maschera - Milan 1956
Callas records Un ballo in maschera at La Scala, Milan, under Antonino Votto with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi.
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03 Sep 2022Maria Callas - Rigoletto - Milan 1955
Callas sings Gilda in Rigoletto recorded at La Scala, Milan, under Tullio Serafin with Tito Gobbi and Giuseppe di Stefano. In February 2013, Gramophone magazine selected this as its top recommendation for Rigoletto on record.
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31 Aug 2022Maria Callas - Il turco in Italia - Milan 1954
Callas records Fiorilla in Rossini’s Il turco in Italia at La Scala, Milan, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni with Nicolai Gedda. The recording period ends on 8 September.
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20 Aug 2022Maria Callas - La bohème - Milan 1956
Callas records Mimì in La bohème at La Scala, Milan, under Antonino Votto, a role she never played on stage. The recording was completed on 3 & 4 September.
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11 Aug 2022Maria Callas - Aida - Milan 1955
Callas records Aida at La Scala, Milan, under Tullio Serafin with a cast including Richard Tucker, Fedora Barbieri and Tito Gobbi.
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10 Aug 2022Maria Callas - Tosca - Milan 1953
Callas sings Tosca in the legendary recording with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi at La Scala, Milan, conducted by Victor de Sabata, universally acclaimed as one of the finest recordings ever made.
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03 Aug 2022Maria Callas - Il trovatore - Milan 1956
Callas records Il trovatore at La Scala, Milan, under Herbert von Karajan with Giuseppi di Stefano as Manrico.
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02 Aug 2022Maria Callas - La Gioconda - Verona 1947
Callas makes her Italian début in the Arena at Verona in La Gioconda conducted by Tullio Serafin. She will perform La Gioconda 13 times during her career up to February 1953.
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01 Aug 2022Maria Callas - Madama Butterfly - Milan 1955
Callas records Madama Butterfly at La Scala, Milan, under Herbert von Karajan with Nicolai Gedda as Pinkerton.
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29 Jul 2022Maria Callas - EMI - 1969
After lengthy negotiations lasting more than one year, Callas signs an exclusive recording contract with EMI. This same contract will continue until the end of Callas’s recording career in 1969.
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18 Jul 2022Maria Callas - Manon Lescaut - Milan 1957
Callas records Manon Lescaut at La Scala, Milan, conducted by Tullio Serafin. This is an opera she never performed on stage.
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15 Jul 2022Maria Callas - Margherita - Verona 1954
Callas sings Margherita in Boito’s Mefistofele at the Arena in Verona. She gives three performances.
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09 Jul 2022Maria Callas - Turandot - Milan 1957
Callas records Turandot at La Scala, Milan, conducted by Tullio Serafin
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06 Jul 2022Maria Callas - Carmen - Paris 1964
Callas records Carmen in the Salle Wagram, Paris, under Georges Prêtre with Nicolai Gedda as Don José.
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05 Jul 2022Maria Callas - Tosca - London 1965
Callas is scheduled to sing four performances of Tosca at Covent Garden. She is advised on medical grounds to withdraw but she decides to sing just once. She chooses the Royal Gala on 5 July, which turns out to be her final appearance on the operatic stage.
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27 Jun 2022Maria Callas - La Gioconda - Naples 1947
Callas arrives in Naples by ship from New York and goes the next day to Verona to begin rehearsals for La Gioconda. In Verona, she meets Giovanni Battista Meneghini, a wealthy Italian industrialist and opera lover, 28 years her senior.
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20 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Il trovatore - Mexico City 1950
Callas sings Leonora in Il trovatore in Mexico City under Guido Picco. She will go on to perform the role 20 times in her career up to November 1955 in Chicago with Jussi Björling.
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17 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Rigoletto - Mexico City 1952
Callas sings Gilda in Rigoletto under Umberto Mugnai in Mexico City with Giuseppe di Stefano. She gives two performances.
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12 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Pagliacci - Milan 1954
Callas records Nedda in Pagliacci with the forces of La Scala under Tullio Serafin with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi. This is a role she never sang on the stage.
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10 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Lucia di Lammermoor - Dallas 1952
Callas sings Lucia di Lammermoor for the first time in Mexico City under Guido Picco with Giuseppe di Stefano. She will go on to perform the role 46 times in her career up to November 1959 in Dallas.
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09 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Euridice - Florence 1951
70 years ago: Callas sings Euridice in the first ever stage performance of Haydn’s 1791 opera Orfeo ed Euridice under Erich Kleiber in the Pergola Theatre at the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence. She gives two performances.
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05 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Medea - 1969
Filming begins on a non-operatic film of the play Medea by Euripides, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Callas as Medea.
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01 Jun 2022Maria Callas - Ifigenia in Tauride - Milan 1957
Callas sings in Gluck’s Ifigenia in Tauride at La Scala, Milan, under Nino Sonzogno and directed by Luchino Visconti. She gives four performances.
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26 May 2022Maria Callas - I vespri socilliani - Florence 1951
Callas sings Elena in I vespri siciliani under Erich Kleiber in Florence. Its great success leads to her being invited to open the next season at La Scala on 7 December in the same role, which she goes on to perform 11 times up to January 1952.
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22 May 2022Maria Callas - Norma - Paris 1964
Callas appears in Paris in Norma, directed by Zeffirelli, in a spectacular staging that is to be her last new production.
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21 May 2022Maria Callas - Fedora - Milan 1956
Callas sings Fedora at La Scala, Milan, under Gianandrea Gavazzeni with Franco Corelli. She gives six performances.
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19 May 2022Maria Callas - Carmen - New York 1962
Callas sings two arias from Carmen at Madison Square Garden, New York, in a concert celebrating the 45th birthday of President Kennedy at which Marilyn Monroe sang: ‘Happy Birthday Mr President’.
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19 May 2022Maria Callas - Il pirata - Milan 1958
Callas sings Imogen in Il pirata at La Scala, Milan, under Antonino Votto with Franco Corelli. She gives five performances.
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15 May 2022Maria Callas - Musikhalle, Hamburg 1959
As part of a German tour, Callas gives a concert in the Musikhalle, Hamburg, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. A video recordings is available on DVD 4 92246 9 Maria Callas in Concert.
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07 May 2022Maria Callas - Medea - Milan 1953
Callas sings Medea in Florence under Vittorio Gui. She will go on to give 31 performances during her career up to June 1962 at La Scala, Milan.
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02 May 2022Callas à Paris II (1963) - Maria Callas Remastered
Callas records Callas à Paris II in the Salle Wagram, Paris, under Georges Prêtre.
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26 Apr 2022Maria Callas – Rossini: Armida (1952, Florence) – Callas Live Remastered
Callas sings the fiendishly difficult leading role in Rossini’s Armida in Florence under Tullio Serafin. She gives three performances.
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23 Apr 2022The Pure collection - Limited-edition Red Translucent Vinyl
Remastered recordings of Maria Callas singing opera favorites – has never been more dazzling than in this limited-edition red translucent vinyl, now also featuring the iconic aria "Il dolce suono" from Lucia di Lammermoor.
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23 Apr 2022Bellini: Norma (1954) - Maria Callas Remastered
Callas records Norma for the first time with the forces of La Scala in Milan conducted by Tullio Serafin. The cast includes Mario Filippeschi and Ebe Stignani. The sessions finish on 3 May 1954.
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21 Apr 2022Callas marries Giovanni Battista Meneghini
21 April 1949
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Callas marries Giovanni Battista Meneghini in Verona and sails that night on her own for Argentina to sing at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. -
17 Apr 2022Maria Callas - La Forza del destino - Trieste 1948
Callas sings Leonora in La forza del destino in Trieste under Mario Parenti. She gives a total of six performances during her career up to May 1954.
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14 Apr 2022Maria Callas - Anna Bolena - Milan 1957
Callas sings Anna Bolena at La Scala, Milan. This production is one of the high points of the bel canto revival that Callas instigated at La Scala. She gives 12 performances in total.
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12 Apr 2022Maria Callas - Don Carlo - Milan 1954
Callas sings Elisabetta in Don Carlo at La Scala, Milan, under Antonino Votto. She gives five performances.
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04 Apr 2022Maria Callas - Alceste - Milan 1954
Callas sings Gluck’s Alceste at La Scala, Milan, under Carlo Maria Giulini. She gives four performances.
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02 Apr 2022Maria Callas - Die Entführung - Milan 1952
Callas sings Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in Italian) at La Scala, Milan, under Jonel Perlea. This is her only Mozart role. She gives four performances.
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09 Nov 2018The Maria Callas Room
Discover the many facets of La Divina’s voice, personality and art in the Maria Callas Room – on audio and video … individual tracks, recital albums, playlists, complete operas and landmark box sets.
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07 Oct 2018Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe dies at 85 - The Washington Post
In her almost unlimited repertoire, she starred in 90 opera roles with nearly 4,000 stage performances. Opera singer Maria Callas is once said to have answered “Only Caballe ...” when asked once who she considered a worthy successor.
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14 Sep 2018Official Hologram Tour soundtrack, featuring legendary Callas recordings, released 14 September
‘I don’t know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.’ –Maria Callas
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A new generation of opera lovers can experience the larger-than-life diva Maria Callas perform live in a worldwide concert tour, in the form of a three-dimensional hologram. BASE Hologram has captured Callas at the height of her powers with innovative technology and finely-honed stagecraft for a unique and compelling show: Callas in Concert — The Hologram Tour.
BASE Hologram has partnered with Warner Classics, the sole guardian of La Divina’s recorded legacy, to curate the official soundtrack and playlist of the tour. The Callas in Concert album mirrors the program and encores of the stage show, with her original iconic recordings, re-mastered in 24-bit/96kHz sound at Abbey Road Studios. (For The Hologram Tour, a team of highly experienced sound engineers isolated the voice of Callas so that her hologram incarnation could once again take the stage with a live orchestra.) The recital includes many of the arias in which she proved her prowess on stage and in the studio, and in which she remains unrivalled today: Bellini’s Casta Diva, Puccini’s Vissi d’Arte, Bizet’s L’Amour est un oiseau rebelle, among others. -
07 Dec 2017Callas again opens La Scala’s season!
Back in 1993, Callas’s recording of the aria ‘La mamma morta’ heightened the impact of the Tom Hanks film Philadelphia. Now it has been chosen by La Scala, Milan to promote the live TV broadcast of the theatre’s new production of Andrea Chénier, which opens its 2017-18 season on December 6th. One of Callas’ complete 1955 performances of the opera at La Scala features in the Warner Classics box set Maria Callas: Live.
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02 Dec 2017Multiple views on Callas
Mille e una Callas (1001 Callases) is a collection of some 40 essays, edited by Luca Aversano and Jacopo Pellegrini. It offers a fascinating variety of views on Callas, her art and her legacy – from personal reminiscences to philosophical analysis.
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13 Nov 2017
“A diva for all time”
The highly-respected Dutch magazine Luister includes insights from Bertrand Castellani of Warner Classics in an article about the box set Maria Callas: Live, entitled “Spectacular remasterings”.
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06 Nov 2017
Callas for Christmas
“A definitive live Callas” is the headline in The New York Times Gift Guide as Michael Cooper, the newspaper’s Classical Music & Dance Reporter, recommends Warner Classics’ box set Maria Callas: Live for “the Callas cultist”.
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14 Sep 2017Callas symposium at La Scala, Milan
Held at La Scala to mark the 40th anniversary of Callas’s death, a public symposium features Eliana de Sabata – daughter of Victor de Sabata, who conducted Callas’s La Scala recording of Tosca – and baritone Rolando Panerai, who performed frequently with Callas.
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15 Sep 2017Maria Callas Live: Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964
Warner Classics has released a 42-CD box set of Callas’ live recordings, all in remastered sound. Among the 20 complete operas in the collection are 12 that Callas never recorded in the studio.
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15 Sep 2017Callas exhibition at La Scala, Milan
Splendid stage costumes worn by Callas at La Scala form the focus of an exhibition at the museum in Milan’s legendary opera house. (Runs until 31.01.18)
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20 Oct 2017
Better than ever before
El País, one of Spain’s most important newspapers, discusses Warner Classics’ box set Maria Callas: Live, observing that the recordings have ever sounded better than they do in these remasterings.
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13 Oct 2017
“This set is a must-have”
The November 2017 edition of the UK magazine Opera Now runs a full-page feature on Warner Classics’ box set, Maria Callas: Live, concluding: “This set is a must-have not just for Callas fans, but for any serious opera lover.”
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20 Sep 2017
Setting a new standard
Writing in the Italian magazine Classic Voice, Elvio Giudici praises Warner Classics’ box set Maria Callas: Live."The sound has been restored with such sophistication by Studio Art et Son in partnership with Studio Circé … that it defies comparison.”
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19 Sep 2017
Closer to the Callas legend
“A veil has been lifted,” says the German magazine Oper! on hearing the remastered recordings in Warner Classics’ box set Maria Callas: Live. After Callas Remastered in 2014, “another small miracle has been achieved, bringing us a little closer to the legend that is Maria Callas.”
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16 Sep 2017
Revelatory remasterings
The German public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, listening to Warner Classics’ box set Maria Callas: Live, finds the remastered sound revelatory. “In these lovingly restored recordings, Callas’ achievement becomes especially evident: this is vocal art for eternity.”
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13 Sep 2017
A transformational influence
Discussing Warner Classics’ box set, Maria Callas: Live, the influential French magazine Télérama writes: “We continue to be amazed by the creativity of a diva who transformed the world of opera.”
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