Verdi - La Traviata
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Label: ICA Classics
Cat No: ICAC5006
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 31st January 2011
Contents
Artists
Maria CallasCesare Valletti
Mario Zanasi
Covent Garden Chorus
Covent Garden Orchestra
Conductor
Nicola RescignoWorks
La TraviataArtists
Maria CallasCesare Valletti
Mario Zanasi
Covent Garden Chorus
Covent Garden Orchestra
Conductor
Nicola RescignoAbout
Peter Heyworth in the Observer commented, ‘it was a performance of outstanding distinction and musicality, full of details that illuminated again and again the part as though for the first time’. Opera News said, ‘there must have been many Verdi lovers who felt at last that they had come face to face with Violetta herself...’
In his book The Callas Legacy, John Ardoin was very enthusiastic about the performance, including Mario Zanasi's Germont: ‘Zanasi’s intrinsic musicality combined with Callas’s wealth of insights to bring the lengthy second act scene between Germont and Violetta to a living realisation. This duet is a study in contrasts, tensions and releases on the highest expressive level’.
Of Callas herself, Ardoin went on to say ‘it is in the final Act that Callas makes the tragedy of Violetta most immediate. The opening recitatives and “Addio del passato” are from another world…Callas’ Violetta is summed up in the strain “Se una pudica vergine” sung in a half-lit legato of breathtaking eloquence’.
Ardoin praised the conductor Nicola Rescigno who ‘brings sanity and song to the performance and was remarkably at one with Callas in the ends she sought’.
This recording, drawn from private tapes, has been remastered by Paul Baily using ICA’s Ambient Mastering process which has enhanced and widened the sound considerably. Here is his description: “Our Ambient Remastering process creates a sense of space and width to a mono, or very narrow stereo, recording. No artificial reverberation is added in this process, so that it remains faithful to the natural acoustic of the original”.
Cast:
- Violetta: Maria Callas
- Alfredo Germont: Cesare Valletti
- Giorgio Germont: Mario Zanasi
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
20 June 1958
Mono/ICA Ambient Mastering Process
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