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Maria Callas At La Scala

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Maria Callas in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1955-1956).

Poster for Giuseppe Verdi's Aida (1871) in 1950.
This was the unofficial debut at Teatro alla Scala for Maria Callas (as Maria Callas Meneghini) who replaced Renata Tebaldi, who suffered from indisposition, in a few shows.

Maria Callas getting ready for Aida (1950).

Maria Callas as Aida (1950).

Maria Callas with Boris Christoff (the first from the left), Eugene Conley (the second from the right) and Enzo Mascherini in the course of I vespri siciliani in 1951.

Giuseppe Verdi's I vespri siciliani (Les vêpres siciliennes, 1855), 1951-1952.

Maria Callas (Duchessa Elena), Eugene Conley (Arrigo), Boris Christoff (Procida), Enzo Mascherini (Monforte).

Conductor: Victor De Sabata.

Director: Herbert Graf.

Maria Callas rehearsing I vespri siciliani.

Maria Callas rehearsing I vespri siciliani with Eugene Conley (1951).

Maria Callas in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma in 1952.

Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1831), 1952.

Maria Callas (Norma), Gino Penno (Pollione), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Nicola Rossi Lemeni (Oroveso).

Conductor: Franco Ghione.

Director: Mario Frigerio.

Maria Callas as Norma.

Maria Callas in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail in 1952.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782), 1952.

Maria Callas (Konstanze), Giacinto Prandelli (Belmonte), Franca Duval (Blonde), Petre Munteanu (Pedrillo), Salvatore Baccaloni (Osmin).

Conductor: Jonel Perlea.

Director: Ettore Giannini.

Maria Callas as Konstanze.

Maria Callas (as Konstanze) and Franca Duval (as Blonde).

Set and costume designer Gianni Ratto, Maria Callas and Giacinto Prandelli.

Maria Callas rehearsing her role as Konstanze.

Maria Callas in Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth in 1952.

Giuseppe Verdi's Macbeth (1847), 1952.

Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Gino Penno (Macduff), Italo Tajo (Banco).

Conductor: Victor De Sabata.

Director: Carl Ebert.

Enzo Mascherini, Maria Callas, conductor Victor De Sabata and prima ballerina Violetta Elvin after Macbeth (7 December 1952).

Prima ballerina Violetta Elvin, conductor Victor de Sabata, Maria Callas and Enzo Mascherini after Macbeth (7 December 1952).

Maria Callas with prima ballerina Violetta Elvin after Macbeth.

Maria Callas with Antonio Ghiringhelli.
Antonio Ghiringhelli was appointed superintendent of Teatro alla Scala in 1948. He held this position in the 1950s and in the 1960s.

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Maria Callas.

At Teatro alla Scala, Maria Callas starred in the following operas:
-Aida, 1950;
-I vespri siciliani, 1951;
-Norma, 1952;
-Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 1952;
-Macbeth, 1952;
-La Gioconda, 1952;
-Il trovatore, 1953;
-Medea, 1953;
-Lucia di Lammermoor, 1954;
-Alceste, 1954;
-Don Carlo, 1954;
-La Vestale, 1954;
-Andrea Cheniér, 1955;
-La sonnambula, 1955;
-Il Turco in Italia, 1955;
-La traviata, 1955;
-Norma, 1955-1956;
-La traviata, 1956;
-Il barbiere di Siviglia, 1956;
-Fedora, 1956;
-Anna Bolena, 1957
-Iphigénie en Tauride, 1957;
-Un ballo in maschera, 1957-1958.
-Il pirata, 1958;
-Poliuto, 1959-1960
-Medea, 1961.

Above and in the following pictures: Maria Callas in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo (Lombardy, Northern Italy) in 1954.
Above: Maria Callas with Ugo Savarese.