Puccini: Turandot
Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Giuseppe Nessi (Altoum), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Mario Borriello (Ping), Renato Ercolani (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Giulio Mauri (Un mandarino), Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin
Puccini: Turandot
Maria Callas (Turandot), Eugenio Fernandi (Calaf), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Liù), Giuseppe Nessi (Altoum), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur), Mario Borriello (Ping), Renato Ercolani (Pang), Piero De Palma (Pong), Giulio Mauri (Un mandarino), Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Tullio Serafin
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Callas and Turandot
“To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is the most natural piece of casting. With her Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative female. […] With her the character seems so much more believably complex than with others. […] The conducting is so vivid that the limitations of the 1957 mono sound hardly seem to matter.”
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- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Giulio Mauri (baritone), Eugenio Fernandi (tenor), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Mario Borriello (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Elisabetta Fusco (soprano), Pinuccia Perotti (soprano), Renato Ercolani (baritone)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Tullio Serafin
- Mario Borriello (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Giuseppe Nessi (tenor), Eugenio Fernandi (tenor), Maria Callas (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Tullio Serafin
- Eugenio Fernandi (tenor), Mario Borriello (baritone), Piero de Palma (tenor), Renato Ercolani (tenor), Maria Callas (soprano), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Renato Ercolani (baritone)
- Teatro alla Scala
- Tullio Serafin