Maria Callas At La Scala

Maria Callas as Lady Macbeth.

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.

Recorded on 7th December 1952 (1952-1953 Season opening).

Maria Callas as Medea.

Luigi Cherubini's Medea (Médée, 1797), 1953.

Maria Callas (Medea), Gino Penno (Giasone), Fedora Barbieri (Neris), Giuseppe Modesti (Creonte).

Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.

Director: Margarete Wallmann.

Act I.


Acts II and III.

Recorded on 10th December 1953.

Maria Callas as Alceste.

Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste (1767), 1954.

Maria Callas (Alceste), Renato Gavarini (Admeto), Paolo Silveri (Gran Sacerdote), Paolo Panerai (Apollo), Giuseppe Zampieri (Evandro), Silvio Maionica (Tanato).

Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.

Director: Margarete Wallmann.

Recorded on 4th April 1954.

Maria Callas as Giulia.

Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale (1807), 1954.

Maria Callas (Giulia), Franco Corelli (Licinio), Ebe Stignani (Gran Vestale), Nicola Rossi Lemeni (Sommo Sacerdote), Enzo Sordello (Cinna).

Conductor: Antonino Votto.

Director: Luchino Visconti.

Recorded on 7th December 1954 (1954-1955 Season opening).

Maria Callas as Maddalena.

Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier (1896), 1955.

Maria Callas (Maddalena), Mario Del Monaco (Andrea Chénier), Aldo Protti (Gérard).

Conductor: Antonino Votto.

Director: Mario Frigerio.

Recorded on 8th January 1955.

Maria Callas as Donna Fiorilla.

Gioachino Rossini's Il Turco in Italia (1814), 1955.

Maria Callas (Donna Fiorilla), Nicola Rossi Lemeni (Selim), Cesare Valletti (Don Narciso), Jolanda Gardino (Zaida).

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli.

Maria Callas as Violetta.

Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata (1853), 1955.

Maria Callas (Violetta Valery), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Alfredo), Ettore Bastianini (Germont).

Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.

Director: Luchino Visconti.

Maria Callas as Norma.

Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1831), 1955-1956.

Maria Callas (Norma), Mario Del Monaco (Pollione), Giulietta Simionato (Adalgisa), Nicola Zaccaria (Oroveso).

Conductor: Antonino Votto.

Director: Margarete Wallmann.

Recorded on 7th December 1955 (1955-1956 Season opening).

Maria Callas as Rosina.

Gioachino Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816), 1956.

Maria Callas (Rosina), Tito Gobbi (Figaro), Luigi Alva (Almaviva), Melchiorre Luise (Don Bartolo), Nicola Rossi Lemeni (Don Basilio).

Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.

Director: Carlo Piccinato.

Act I.


Act II.

Recorded on 16th February 1956.

Maria Callas as Anna Bolena.

Gaetano Donizetti's Anna Bolena (1830), 1957.

Maria Callas (Anna Bolena), Gianni Raimondi (Percy), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna Seymour), Nicola Rossi Lemeni (Enrico VIII), Plinio Clabassi (Lord Rocheford).

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

Director: Luchino Visconti.

Maria Callas as Amelia.

Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), 1957-1958.

Maria Callas (Amelia), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Giulietta Simionato (Ulrica), Eugenia Ratti (Oscar).

Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.

Director: Margarete Wallmann.

Act I.


Act II.


Act III.

Recorded on 7th December 1957 (1957-1958 Season opening).

Maria Callas as Paolina.

Gaetano Donizetti's Poliuto (1848), 1959-1960.

Maria Callas (Paolina), Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Ettore Bastianini (Severo), Nicola Zaccaria (Callistene).

Conductor: Antonino Votto.

Director: Herbert Graf.

Recorded on 7th December 1959 (1959-1960 Season opening).