Puccini: Turandot (1957 - Serafin) - Callas Remastered Maria Callas

• Puccini: Turandot, Act 1
• 1Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Popolo di Pekino! (Mandarin, Crowd, Liu)02:50
• 2Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Padre! Mio Padre! (Calaf, Liu, Crowd, Timur)01:28
• 3Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Perduta la battaglia (Calaf, Liu, Timur, Crowd)01:09
• 4Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Gira la cote! Gira! (Crowd, Executioner's men)02:32
• 5Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Perche tarda la luna? (Crowd)03:46
• 6Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: La, sui monti dell'est (Boys)01:13
• 7Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: O giovinetto! (Crowd, Calaf, White Priest)05:08
• 8Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Figlio, che fai? (Timur, Calaf, Liu, Crowd)01:36
• 9Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Fermo! che fai? T'arresta! (Ministers, Ping, Pong, Pang, Calaf)01:52
• 10Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Silenzio, ola! (Handmaids, Ping, Pang, Pong, Calaf)01:20
• 11Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Guardalo, Pong! (Ping, Pang, Pong, Timur)00:58
• 12Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Non indugiare! (Ghosts, Calaf, Ping, Pong, Pang, Timur)02:11
• 13Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Signore, ascolta! (Liu)02:26
• 14Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Non piangere, Lui! (Calaf, Liu, Timur)02:16
• 15Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: Ah! per i/ultima volta! (Timur, Liu, Ministers, Calaf, Chorus)02:33
• Turandot, Act 2
• 16Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Ola, Pang! Ola, Pong! (Ping, Pang, Pong)01:26
• 17Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: O Cina, o Cina (Ping, Pang, Pong)02:06
• 18Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Ho una casa nell'Honana (Ping, Pang, Pong)03:16
• 19Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: O mondo, pieno di pazzi innamorati! (Ping, Pang, Pong, Chorus)01:10
• 20Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Addio, amore! (Ping, Pang, Pong)02:52
• 21Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Noi si sogna (Ping, Pang, Pong)00:25
• 22Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Gravi, enormi ed imponenti (Crowd)04:21
• 23Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Un giuramento atroce mi costringe (Emperor, Calaf)03:15
• 24Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Diecimilia anni al nostro imperatore! (Crowd, Mandarin, Boys)03:04
• 25Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: In questa reggia (Turandot, Crowd, Calaf)06:19
• 26Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Straniero, ascolta!....Nella cupa notte (Turandot, Calaf, Wise Men)02:28
• 27Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Guizza al pari di fiamma (Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Liu, Calaf, Wise Men)02:19
• 28Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Gelo che ti da foco (Turandot, Calaf, Wise Men, Crowd)02:24
• 29Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Gloria, o vincitore (Crowd)01:01
• 30Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Figlio del cielo! (Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Calaf)02:54
• 31Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Tre enigmi m'hai proposto! (Calaf, Emperor)02:07
• 32Puccini: Turandot, Act 2: Ai tuoi piedi ci prostriam (Crowd)02:30
• Turandot, Act 3
• 33Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Cosi comanda Turandot (Heralds, Distant voices)03:21
• 34Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Nessum dorma! (Calaf, Voices, Chorus)02:53
• 35Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Tu che guardi le stelle (Ping, Pang, Pong, Calaf)03:48
• 36Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Principessa divina! (Turandot, Calaf, Liu, Ping, Crowd)02:44
• 37Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Quel nome! (Turandot, Calaf, Liu, Timur, Ping)01:22
• 38Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: L'amore?...Tanto amore, segreto e inconfessato (Turandot, Liu, Ping, Calaf, Crowd)03:19
• 39Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Tu, che di gei sei cinta (Calaf, Liu, Timur, Ping)05:32
• 40Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Liu...bonta (Timur, Ping, Pang, Pong, Crowd)02:58
• 41Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Principessa di morte! (Calaf, Turandot)03:20
• 42Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Che e mai di me? (Turandot, Calaf, Chorus)03:14
• 43Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Del primo pianto, si....La mia gloria (Turandot, Calaf)05:09
• 44Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: Diecimilia anni al nostro Imperatore! (Crowd, Turandot)03:26
• Total Runtime01:58:21

Info zu Puccini: Turandot (1957 - Serafin) - Callas Remastered

Callas sang the role of Turandot 24 times on stage, in the late 1940s. It was the role originally planned for her US debut, but the opera company went bankrupt and the performances (scheduled for Chicago in 1947) never took place. She brings unusual subtlety to Puccini’s icy princess, while Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – more readily identified with Fiordiligi and the Marschallin – is surprise casting as the self-sacrificing Liù.

„To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos, as Turandot, is - on record at least - the most natural piece of casting...one of the most thrillingly magnetic of all her recorded performances.“ (Gramophone)

Maria Callas, soprano (Turandot)
Eugenio Fernandi, tenor (Calaf)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano (Liù)
Mario Borriello, baritone (Ping)
Renato Ercolani, tenor (Pang)
Piero De Palma, tenor (Pong)
Nicola Zaccaria, bass (Timur)
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor (L'imperatore Altoum)
Giulio Mauri, baritone (Un mandarino)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan
Tullio Serafin, conductor

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Maria Callas
was born to a Greek family in New York in 1923. Her vocal training took place in Athens, where her teacher was the coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, who had sung with Enrico Caruso and Feodor Chaliapin. After early performances in Greece, Callas’s international career was launched in 1947 when she performed the title role in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda at the Arena di Verona in Italy.

Her voice defied simple classification and her artistic range was extraordinary. In her early twenties she sang such heavy dramatic roles as Gioconda, Turandot, Brünnhilde and Isolde, but over the course of her career her most famous roles came to be: Bellini’s Norma and Amina (La sonnambula); Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata); Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena, Cherubini’s Medea and Puccini’s Tosca. Though her timbre was not always conventionally beautiful, Callas’s musicianship and phrasing were in a class of their own. She brought characters to vivid life with her skill in colouring her tone and making insightful use of the text.

She is credited with changing the history of opera: by placing a perhaps unprecedented emphasis on musical integrity and dramatic truth, and by transforming perceptions – and reviving the fortunes – of the bel canto repertoire, particularly Bellini and Donizetti.

The 1950s marked the height of Callas’s career. Its base lay in the opera houses of Italy, and she became the prima donna assoluta of Milan’s legendary La Scala – notably in the productions of Luchino Visconti – but her operatic appearances also encompassed London’s Royal Opera House, the New York Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, and the opera houses of Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Lisbon, and, in the early 1950s, Mexico City, São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.

From 1959, when she started a life-changing love affair with the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, her performing career slowed down and her voice became more fragile. Her final stage performances came in 1965, when she was only 42.

There were many plans for a return to the stage – and for further complete recordings – but they never reached fruition, though in 1974 she gave a series of concerts in Europe, North America and Japan with the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano; he had partnered her frequently in the opera house and in the studio, not least in the 1953 La Scala Tosca under Victor de Sabata, considered a landmark in recording history. Callas died alone in her Paris apartment in September 1977.

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