Verdi: Aida

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Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Tullio Serafin

One of the legendary moments in Callas’s  career came in 1950 in Mexico City, when she interpolated a stupendous top E flat at the end  of the Triumphal Scene in Act II of Aida. In this recording under Serafin she abided by the score, but still prompted Gramophone to speak of her ‘fascinating art and prodigious personality’, observing the way she was ‘rapt in imaginative intensity in the significance of the words’.

Aida: Maria Callas

Radamès: Richard Tucker

Amneris: Fedora Barbieri

Amonasro: Tito Gobbi

Ramfis: Giuseppe Modesti

Il re d’Egitto - The King of Egypt: Nicola Zaccaria

Una sacerdotessa - A Priestess: Elvira Galassi

Un messaggero - A Messenger: Franco Ricciardi