Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

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This set comes from live performances at La Scala in the mid-1950s when the diva was at the height of her powers. Callas gives here an even more vital performance than on her studio recorded... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 2nd Jan 2008
Catalogue No: RRC2079
Label: Regis
Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

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Antonietta Stella, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini, Maria Callas, Giulietta Simionato, Eugenia Ratti, Giuseppe Morresi, Antonio Cassinelli, Marco Stefanoni, Angelo Mercuriali, Antonio Ricci, Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Gianandrea Gavezzeni, Gianandrea Gavezzini

Prelude

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Act I, "Posa in pace"

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Act I, "S'avanza il Conte"

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Act I, "La Rivedrà nell' estasi"

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Act I, "Ill cenno mio di là con essi attendi"

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Act I, "Alla vita che t'arride"

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Act I, "Il primo giudice"

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Act I, "Volta la terrea"

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Act I, "Ogni cura si dono al diletto"

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Act I, "Zitti...Re dell'abisso, affrettati"

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Act I, "Arrivo il primo!"

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Act I, "Su, fatemi largo"

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Act I, "Rallegrati omai"

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Act I, "Che v'agiti cosi?"

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Act I, "Della città all' occaso"

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Act I, "Consentimi, o Signore"

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Act I, "Figlia d'averno"

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Act I, "Di' tu se fedele"

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Act I, "Chi voi siate, l'audace parola"

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Act I, "È scherzo od è follia"

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Act I, "Finisci il vaticino"

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Act II, Prelude

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Act II, "Ecco l'orrido campo"

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Act II, "Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa"

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Act II, "Teco io sto"

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Act II, "Non sai tu che se l'anima mia"

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Act II, "Oh, qual soave brivido"

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Act II, "Ahimé s'appresa alcun"

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Act II, "Odi tu come fremono cupi"

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Act II, "Seguitemi"

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Act II, "Ve', se di notte"

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Act III, "A tal colpa è null ail pianto"

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Act III, "Morro, ma prima in grazia"

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Act III, "Alzati!"

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Act III, "Eri tu che macchiavi"

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Act III, "Siam soli. Udite"

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Act III, "Dunque l'onta di tutti sol una"

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Act III, "D'una grazia vi supplico"

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Act III, "Il messagio entri"

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Act III, "Ah! Di che fulgor, che musiche"

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Act III, "Forse la soglia attinse"

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Act III, "Ma se m'è forza perderti"

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Act III, "Ah! dessa è la"

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Act III, "Fervono amori e danze"

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Act III, "Saper vorreste"

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Act III, "Fervono amori e danze"

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Act III, "Ah! perché fuggite"

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Act III, "E tu ricevi il mio!"

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Act III, "Ella è pura. in braccio a morte"

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Love Duet. Teco io sto

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2010

This set comes from live performances at La Scala in the mid-1950s when the diva was at the height of her powers. Callas gives here an even more vital performance than on her studio recorded set. It was Callas's particular genius to find exactly the appropriate mode of expression for every role she tackled. Here we have Callas the tormented, guilty wife. But she also gives us a hundred different individual inflections to reflect the emotion of the moment: indeed, as John Steane points out in one of his illuminating notes, it's often a small aside that reveals as much about the character she's portraying s a big set-piece.
The context of an evening in the theatre makes this a more arresting, vivid interpretation on all sides than its studio counterpart of a year earlier, with Gianandrea Gavazzeni galvanising his fine cast to great things. As the late John Ardoin put it in his study of Callas's recordings: 'The La Scala performance is sung with more vivid colours, with accents more etched and a general intensification of Verdi's drama.' Here the sound picture is appreciably superior to that on earlier live sets which capture Callas in other roles at La Scala.
The irresistible Di Stefano is the soul of vital declamation as Riccardo. Ettore Bastianini's forthright Renato, the only role he sang in London and one of his best in an all too short career, and Giulietta Simionato's classic Ulrica are also huge assets. Other roles are filled with house singers of the day. An unbeatable set.

…. Ettore Bastianini’s forthright Renato, the only role he sang in London and one of his best in an all too short career, and Giulietta Simionato’s classic Ulrica are huge assets

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

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