Maria Callas Remastered – The Complete Studio Recordings
This 69-CD deluxe box set contains all the studio recordings that Maria Callas made for both EMI/Columbia and the Italian label Cetra between 1949 and 1969 (26 complete operas and 13 recital albums). Each recording has been painstakingly remastered in 24-bit/96kHz sound at Abbey Road Studios using the original tapes, on Bowers & Wilkins 802 Diamond speakers, and the entire collection has been curated with the greatest of care.
Conceived as a true collector’s edition, CALLAS REMASTERED presents each individual opera or recital CD in its original artwork. It also contains a 136-page hard-back book with essays, a biography and chronology, rarely-seen photos and reproductions of revealing letters written by Maria Callas, Walter Legge and other EMI executives. The opera librettos and aria texts are provided on a CD-ROM.
"The recording now sounds like a million dollars...Restoring to us the sound of the voice as it would have been heard in the studio,” -Gramophone
“A beacon illuminating the mysterious but indispensable art of Maria Callas…You couldn't ask for better than what Warner Classics has done with Maria Callas – The Studio Recordings Remastered.” - The New York Observer
| 1 The First Recital 8-10 XI.1949 |
| 2-4 Ponchielli: La Gioconda 6-10 IX.1952 |
| 5-6 Donizetti: Lucia di Lamermoor 29-30 I & 3-4, 6 II.1953 |
| 7-8 Bellini: I Puritani 24-30 III.1953 |
| 9 Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana 16-25 VI & 3-4 VIII.1953 |
| 10-11 Puccini: Tosca 10-21 VIII.1953 |
| 12-13 Verdi: La traviata IX.1953 |
| 14-16 Bellini: Norma 23 IV & 3 V.1954 |
| 17 Leoncavallo: Pagliacci 12-17 VI.1954 |
| 18-20 Verdi: La Forza del destino 17-24 VIII.1954 |
| 21-22 Rossini: Il Turco in Italia 31 VIII & 8 IX.1954 |
| 23 Puccini Arias 15-18 IX.1954 |
| 24 Lyric and coloratura arias 17-18 & 20-21 IX.1954 |
| 25 Callas at la Scala 9-12 VI.1955 |
| 26-27 Puccini: Madama Butterfly 1-6 VIII.1955 |
| 28-29 Verdi: Aida 10-12, 16-20 & 23-24 VIII.1955 |
| 30-31 Verdi: Rigoletto 3-16 IX.1955 |
| 32-33 Verdi: Il trovatore 3-9 VIII.1956 |
| 34-35 Puccini: La bohème 20-25 VIII & 3-4 IX.1956 |
| 36-37 Verdi: Un ballo in maschera 4-9 IX.1956 |
| 38-39 Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia 7-14 II.1957 |
| 40-41 Bellini: La sonnambula 3-9 III.1957 |
| 42-43 Puccini: Turandot 9-13 & 15 VII.1957 |
| 44-45 Puccini: Manon Lescaut 18-27 VII.1957 |
| 46-47 Cherubini: Medea 12-19 IX.1957 |
| 48 Verdi Arias (1) 19, 21 & 24 IX.1958 |
| 49 Mad Scenes 24-25 IX.1958 |
| 50-51 Donizetti: Lucia di Lamermoor 16-21 III.1959 |
| 52-54 Ponchielli: La Gioconda 4-11 IX.1959 |
| 55-57 Bellini: Norma 5-12 IX.1960 |
| 58 Callas à Paris (1) 28-31 III & 4-5 IV.1961 |
| 59 Callas à Paris (2) 2-8 V.1963 |
| 60 Mozart, Beethoven and Weber 6-23 XII.1963 & 8 I.1964 |
| 61 Verdi Arias (2) 17-21 XII.1963 & 20-21 II.1964 |
| 62 Rossini and Donizetti Arias 4-23 XII.1963 & 13-24 IV.1964 |
| 63-64 Bizet: Carmen 6-20 VII.1964 |
| 65-66 Puccini: Tosca 3-4, 7-12, 14 XII.1964 & 19 I.1965 |
| 67 Verdi Arias (3) 1964, 1965, 1969 |
| 68-69 The Callas rarities 1953-1969 |