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My first Callas: Madama Butterfly, (well, actually my second)
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Posted on July 20, 2012 at 21:04:58 | ||
but found the sound of her famous Tosca just too limiting. Butterfly is another story. And I'm not a Callas fanboy. Don't really know the girl. Picked up the UK Columbia box set and had a listen. Was a little worried after her first distant entrance, voice "adjusted" to sound like a 15 year old girl, (would Ashcroft have Pinkerton arrested as well as all of us listeners?), which Freni does so gloriously for Karajan II (ZZZZZzzzzz) and Sinopoli. Afterwards Callas ain't so bad. What I found really amazing was Karajan the Young. What fabulous conducting: the transparency, the lushness, and climaxes whipped up to such a (controlled) frenzy that one would think Furtwangler was at the helm. I've never listened the a Butterfly which went by so quickly. |
First should be the Tosca with deSabata. (NT), posted on July 22, 2012 at 13:48:29 | |
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Yes, I must listen to it again. Imprinted on Sinopoli's with Freni, hard to break, posted on July 22, 2012 at 15:08:28 | |
from that one. |
Not for me., posted on July 22, 2012 at 17:46:21 | |
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The Callas/deSabata is sui generis. |
No. Yes., posted on July 24, 2012 at 13:13:08 | |
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Still own lots but never play 'em. I have a few of the Audio Clinic series. |
sound on youtube isn't good, you're right, posted on July 22, 2012 at 12:13:01 | |
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but what a beautiful performance |