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My first Callas: Madama Butterfly, (well, actually my second)

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.


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Topic - My first Callas: Madama Butterfly, (well, actually my second) - jdaniel@jps.net 21:04:58 07/20/12 (14)

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