Puccini: Madama Butterfly

EMI: 4563982

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Label:

EMI

Catalogue No:

4563982

Discs:

2

Release date:

8th March 2010

Barcode:

5099945639821

Medium:

CD
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly


Maria Callas (Butterfly), Nicolai Gedda (Pinkerton), Mario Borriello (Sharpless), Lucia Danieli (Suzuki)

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Herbert von Karajan

CD - 2 discs

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The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Madama Butterfly starring Maria Callas was recorded in 1955 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milano.

Penguin Guide

2010 edition

***

“Callas's view, aided by superbly imaginative and spacious conducting from Karajan, gives extra dimension to the Puccinian little woman, and with some keenly intelligent singing too from Gedda as Pinkerton this is a set which has a special compulsion”

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