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Maria Callas - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Maria Callas - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 139:02 minutes | 1,34 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

A famous backstage photo was taken in Chicago after one of just three performances that Callas gave of Madama Butterfly; it shows the soprano in her Japanese costume, snarling furiously at a bailiff who had served a writ on her - the very image of the tempestuous diva. By contrast, in her recording of the role, 'it is, miraculously,' as the critic John Osborne observed, 'the 15-year old girl and not the great Callas who stands before us.' Her genius for vocal characterization finds an apt complement in Herbert von Karajan's conducting: 'a wholly sympathetic rendering [that]brings out more of the detail of the score than I have ever heard before', wrote Gramophone.

On 7 April 1935 a girl calling herself Nina Foresti appeared on New York radio within ‘Major Bowes Amateur Hour’, and sang ‘Un bel dì vedremo’ from Madama Butterfly. As Callas was said to have appeared on this programme, John Ardoin, after extensive listening, reported that Foresti’s speaking (but not singing) voice bore ‘an astonishing resemblance’ to Callas’s. Nicholas Petsális-Diomídis, historian of Callas’s young Greek years, is totally unconvinced. Either way Callas’s involvement with the role of Cio-Cio-San continued at sporadic intervals with a duet when a student, a recording of the two main arias in 1954, this taping of the whole opera under Karajan in Milan in June 1955, three stage performances in Chicago in November 1955, a clutch of concerts including ‘Tu? tu? piccolo iddio!’ in the summer of 1963 and work on several scenes (including Pinkerton’s aria) in masterclasses in 1972–3.

The work (and interest) for Callas in this role was clearly to defy age (and culture) and to present the Japanese child bride for real. She achieved this (in the complete recording) so completely that first critics were worried by or even hostile at the sheerly different sound Callas produced throughout Act I – risking a child’s lighter timbre even on full-out fortissimo phrases – and at carefully selected parts of the remainder of the opera. Was this vocal acting or a theatre of the voice carried too far? As John Steane wrote, ‘it is, miraculously, the 15-year-old girl and not the great Callas who stands before us’.

These ‘selected parts’ include a careful study of ‘Un bel dì’ in which passages are the progressively disillusioned, frightened adult, and others are the still hopeful child, and a similar varying of tone in Butterfly’s attempts to cheer up herself and Suzuki later in Act II. Walter Legge was able to second these intentions from his prima donna with Karajan’s meticulously drilled and intentionally restrained conducting and Nicolai Gedda’s suave, ambivalent (and rather non-Italianate) Pinkerton.

Tracklist:

01 - Act 1: "E soffitto…e pareti" (Pinkerton, Goro)
02 - Act 1: "Questa è la cameriera" (Goro, Pinkerton, Suzuki, Sharpless)
03 - Act 1: "Dovunque al mondo" (Sharpless, Pinkerton, Chorus)
04 - Act 1: "Quale amania vi prende!" (Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
05 - Act 1: "Ah! Ah! quanto cielo!…Ancora un passo or via" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Chorus)
06 - Act 1: "Gran ventura" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
07 - Act 1: "L'imperial Commissario" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
08 - Act 1: "Vieni, amor mio!" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Goro)
09 - Act 1: "Ieri son salita tutta sola" (Butterfly, Goro, Comissario, Sharpless, Official Registrar, Chorus)
10 - Act 1: "Ed eccoci in famigila" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro, Bonzo, Chorus)
11 - Act 1: "Viene la sera" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Suzuki)
12 - Act 1: "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia" (Butterfly, Pinkerton)
13 - Act 1: "Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino" (Pinkerton, Butterfly)
14 - Act 2: "E izaghi e Izanami" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
15 - Act 2: "Un bel di vedremo" (Butterfly)
16 - Act 2: "C'è Entrate" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Butterfly)
17 - Act 2: "Non lo sapete insomma" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Goro, Yamadori)
18 - Act 2: "A voi però giurerei fede costante" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Goro, Yamadori)
19 - Act 2: "Or a noi" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
20 - Act 2: "E questo? e questo?" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
21 - Act 2: "Che tua madre dovrà" (Butterfly)
22 - Act 2: "Io scendo al piano" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
23 - Act 2: "Vespa! Rospo maledetto!" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Goro)
24 - Act 2: "Una nave da guerra" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
25 - Act 2: "Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
26 - Act 2: "Or vienmi ad adornar" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
27 - Act 2: Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)
28 - Act 2: "Oh eh! Oh eh! Oh eh!" (Chorus)
29 - Act 2: "Già il sole!" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
30 - Act 2: "Povera Butterfly!" (Suzuki, Sharpless, Pinkerton)
31 - Act 2: "Io so che alle sue …Oh! l'amara fragranza" (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
32 - Act 2: "Addio, fiorito" (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
33 - Act 2: "Gllielo dirai?…Premetto" (Kate, Suzuki, Butterfly)
34 - Act 2: "Che vuol da me?" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate)
35 - Act 2: "Come una mosca prigioniera" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
36 - Act 2: "Con onor muore" (Butterfly, Pinkerton)

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica.
Recorded August 1-6, 1955, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy.
Newly Remastered from the Original Master tapes at Abbey Road Studios, London, U.K.

Performers:
Maria Callas, soprano (Butterfly)
Nicolai Gedda, tenor (Pinkerton)
Mario Borriello, baritone (Sharpless)
Lucia Danieli, mezzo soprano (Suzuki)
Renato Ercolani, tenor (Goro)
Mario Carlin, tenor (Yamadori)
Plinio Clabassi, bass (Lo zio Bonzo)
Enrico Campi, bass (Il commissario imperiale)
Luisa Villa, mezzo soprano (Kate Pinkerton)

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. Conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Chorus master: Norberto Mola.

Analyzed: Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (1-2)
Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (3)
Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (4)
Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Luisa Villa, Mario Borriello, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (5)
Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Luisa Villa, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (6)
Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Nicolai Gedda, Renato Ercolani, Plinio Clabassi, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (7)
Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (8-13)
Maria Callas, Lucia Danieli, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (14)
Maria Callas, Mario Borriello, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (15)
Maria Callas, Mario Borriello, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Herbert von Karajan, Nicolai Gedda / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (16)
Maria Callas, Mario Borriello, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (17-18)
Maria Callas, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Mario Carlin, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (19-20)
Maria Callas, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (21)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (22-23)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Enrico Campi, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (24)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan, Lucia Danieli / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (25)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (26-28)
Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (29)
Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (30-31)
Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (32)
Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (33-34)
Nicolai Gedda, Mario Borriello, Renato Ercolani, Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (35)
Nicolai Gedda, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan / Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) (36)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -12.12 dB -29.43 dB 3:09 27-Act 2: Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)
DR8 -0.42 dB -14.05 dB 7:31 28-Act 2: "Oh eh! Oh eh! Oh eh!" (Chorus)
DR11 -2.38 dB -19.01 dB 2:49 30-Act 2: "Povera Butterfly!" (Suzuki, Sharpless, Pinkerton)
DR11 -3.43 dB -18.78 dB 4:15 02-Act 1: "Questa è la cameriera" (Goro, Pinkerton, Suzuki, Sharpless)
DR12 -3.93 dB -23.24 dB 5:41 34-Act 2: "Che vuol da me?" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate)
DR11 -2.96 dB -20.73 dB 2:14 33-Act 2: "Gllielo dirai?…Premetto" (Kate, Suzuki, Butterfly)
DR10 -2.10 dB -17.55 dB 5:33 10-Act 1: "Ed eccoci in famigila" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro, Bonzo, Chorus)
DR10 -2.07 dB -17.62 dB 7:21 14-Act 2: "E izaghi e Izanami" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
DR8 -0.61 dB -13.90 dB 2:30 24-Act 2: "Una nave da guerra" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
DR9 -1.66 dB -15.86 dB 5:14 25-Act 2: "Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
DR11 -2.40 dB -20.01 dB 5:10 26-Act 2: "Or vienmi ad adornar" (Suzuki, Butterfly)
DR10 -6.78 dB -22.24 dB 2:01 29-Act 2: "Già il sole!" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
DR12 -1.15 dB -20.04 dB 2:53 35-Act 2: "Come una mosca prigioniera" (Butterfly, Suzuki)
DR11 -0.26 dB -16.56 dB 1:59 23-Act 2: "Vespa! Rospo maledetto!" (Butterfly, Suzuki, Goro)
DR8 -2.72 dB -17.36 dB 1:43 22-Act 2: "Io scendo al piano" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
DR7 -3.48 dB -14.86 dB 3:00 05-Act 1: "Ah! Ah! quanto cielo!…Ancora un passo or via" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Chorus)
DR12 -3.81 dB -21.96 dB 6:09 19-Act 2: "Or a noi" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
DR8 -2.97 dB -15.43 dB 2:25 20-Act 2: "E questo? e questo?" (Butterfly, Sharpless)
DR10 -3.44 dB -17.66 dB 1:52 17-Act 2: "Non lo sapete insomma" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Goro, Yamadori)
DR12 -3.96 dB -20.62 dB 3:32 18-Act 2: "A voi però giurerei fede costante" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Goro, Yamadori)
DR14 -5.89 dB -23.63 dB 3:33 16-Act 2: "C'è Entrate" (Butterfly, Sharpless, Butterfly)
DR12 -2.53 dB -18.67 dB 3:42 06-Act 1: "Gran ventura" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
DR8 -0.30 dB -13.47 dB 2:29 07-Act 1: "L'imperial Commissario" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
DR11 -1.68 dB -17.47 dB 5:05 09-Act 1: "Ieri son salita tutta sola" (Butterfly, Goro, Comissario, Sharpless, Official Registrar, Chorus)
DR11 -3.99 dB -19.96 dB 3:20 11-Act 1: "Viene la sera" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Suzuki)
DR9 -2.95 dB -16.51 dB 3:37 12-Act 1: "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia" (Butterfly, Pinkerton)
DR9 -2.33 dB -15.99 dB 7:29 13-Act 1: "Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino" (Pinkerton, Butterfly)
DR7 -0.57 dB -11.86 dB 5:22 36-Act 2: "Con onor muore" (Butterfly, Pinkerton)
DR12 -2.92 dB -21.31 dB 2:38 08-Act 1: "Vieni, amor mio!" (Butterfly, Pinkerton, Goro)
DR8 -1.33 dB -14.44 dB 4:44 15-Act 2: "Un bel di vedremo" (Butterfly)
DR9 -2.57 dB -16.22 dB 3:32 21-Act 2: "Che tua madre dovrà" (Butterfly)
DR9 -2.72 dB -15.49 dB 4:16 03-Act 1: "Dovunque al mondo" (Sharpless, Pinkerton, Chorus)
DR8 -1.86 dB -13.80 dB 4:02 31-Act 2: "Io so che alle sue …Oh! l'amara fragranza" (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
DR8 -0.74 dB -13.52 dB 1:56 32-Act 2: "Addio, fiorito" (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
DR8 -2.10 dB -14.52 dB 4:02 04-Act 1: "Quale amania vi prende!" (Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro, Chorus)
DR9 -3.05 dB -16.93 dB 2:12 01-Act 1: "E soffitto…e pareti" (Pinkerton, Goro)
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Number of tracks: 36
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1342 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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