Valiano Natali

Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Raffaele Arié, Valiano Natali, Anna Maria Canali, Gino Sarri, Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin – Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (1953/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:50:24 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics

Maria Callas’s first studio recording of Lucia is often nominated as one of the great sets in the history of recording. It was made in Florence in February 1953 following live performances at that city’s opera house (although with a largely different cast and conductor). It was the soprano’s first recording with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi – both to become regular and valued colleagues – and with Tullio Serafin (already a regular collaborator). It was also the first of producer Walter Legge’s projected series of major Italian operas under Callas’s recently agreed new contract with Columbia.

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