Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Herbert von Karajan
Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman, and with some keenly intelligent singing too from Gedda...
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Herbert von Karajan
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Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman, and with some keenly intelligent singing too from Gedda...
About
The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Madama Butterfly starring Maria Callas was recorded in 1955 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milano.
Contents and tracklist
- Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Lucia Danieli (mezzo-soprano), Mario Borriello (baritone), Maria Callas (soprano), Norberto Mola (director), Enrico Campi (bass), Mario Carlin (tenor), Plinio Clabassi (bass), Luisa Villa (soprano)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Herbert von Karajan
- Recorded: 1955-08-06
- Recording Venue: 1-6 August 1955 / Teatro alla Scala, Milano
Awards and reviews
2010 edition
Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman, and with some keenly intelligent singing too from Gedda as Pinkerton this is a set which has a special compulsion
