This outstanding collection of studio recitals provides fascinating insights into Maria Callas’s career and her unique artistry and musicality.

Encompassing the core operatic repertoire for which she was most revered, as well as roles that she never sang on stage, these recitals demonstrate Callas’s exceptional versatility – from bel canto to verismo, dramatic mad scenes to impeccably sung coloratura – and form an integral part of her recorded legacy.

The great value of these recitals is magnified by the new transfers made at Abbey Road Studios in 2014, using 24-bit 96kHz remastering.

Contents:
CD 1 The First Recordings [24.04]
CD 2 Puccini Arias [45.03]
CD 3 Lyric & Coloratura Arias [48.53]
CD 4 Callas at La Scala [41.54]
CD 5 Verdi Arias I [49.30]
CD 6 Mad Scenes [47.33]
CD 7 Callas à Paris I [49.46]
CD 8 Callas à Paris II [43.53]
CD 9 Verdi Arias II [39.59]
CD 10 Mozart, Beethoven & Weber [44.29]
CD 11 Rossini & Donizetti Arias [39.54]
CD 12 Verdi Arias III [50.16]
CD 13 The Callas Rarities 1953–1961 [63.20]
CD 14 The Callas Rarities 1962–1969 [53.28]

With Arturo Basile • Franco Corelli • John Lanigan • Georges Prêtre • Nicola Rescigno • Joseph Rouleau • Duncan Robertson • Tullio Serafin • Monica Sinclair • Antonio Tonini • Alexander Young