{"product_id":"maria-callas_mozartbeethovenweber-63-64_2014_war","title":"Mozart\/Beethoven\/Weber 63-64","description":"Exceptional reissue meticulously restored in 24-bit\/96Hz, produced by Abbey Road Studios from the original tapes. Maria Callas had discovered, indignant, that her artistic director at EMI, Walter Legge, had chosen his wife, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, for the recording of Verdi's Missa da Requiem - which dictated the release of this recital of Austro-German arias (composed nonetheless on Italian and English texts). \"If your wife can sing my repertoire, then I can sing hers,\" Callas declared. In reality, the soprano completed her program of arias (mainly) from the Schwarzkopf repertoire (Donna Elvira, Countess Almaviva) with one of Donna Anna's arias and scenes extracted from operas by Beethoven and Weber - pieces to which she had dedicated herself during her studies in Athens. (She had sung the role of Leonore in Fidelio at the age of 21 in Greece). \"This record shows Callas's voice in the same exciting freshness as Tosca at Covent Garden (1964)\" wrote Gramophone. \"Callas's personality has never appeared with such intensity. The tigress is fiercer than ever, and in a certain sense, more exciting than ever. Her sparkling eyes seem to pierce through us, and make us shiver... This is a record likely to ignite and excite her admirers.\"","brand":"Maria Callas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57783204643160,"sku":null,"price":20141020.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/maria-callas_mozartbeethovenweber-63-64_2014_war","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}