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Article: The Complete Puccini Studio Recordings.
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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MARIA CALLAS
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VIS D'ARTE: THE PUCCINI LOVE SONGS
MARIA CALLAS
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Maria Callas's name is indelibly linked to Puccini's--particularly after her first recording of Tosca (with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi) became one of the first landmark recordings of the LP era. But according to Callas chronicler and biographer John Ardoin, she often spoke with "disdain" about the role of Tosca and the music of Puccini in general. Yet while she may have seen the 19th century world of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi as her true realm, she nonetheless left a series of memorable Puccini studio ...