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 Maria Callas - Rehearsal In Dallas 1957
Release Date: 11/05/2002 
Label:  Emi Classics   Catalog #: 67921   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Giuseppe VerdiVincenzo BelliniGaetano DonizettiWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:  Maria Callas
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Mono 
Length: 1 Hours 13 Mins. 

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Notes & Reviews   Works on This Recording  
This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic and includes liner notes.
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Most special of all in this series is the Dallas rehearsal disc. Time lost for the listener (who cannot hear the muttered conversations between soloist and conductor) is doubtless gain for the audience: this is a down-to-work session, and, for her part, Callas gives all attention to the job in hand. It’s hard to say for sure, but my feeling is that we get from her here something extra. Work was what she liked, and here she is freed from the nagging consciousness of reputation and judgemental ears. I’ve not made the comparisons, but was strongly persuaded that I’d never heard her sing ‘Ah! Fors’è lui’ so well. Then they work at Anna Bolena and Lady Macbeth, ending with, in Italian, ‘Martern aller Arten’. There are fascinating perspectives of sound, and from time to time some really glorious singing.

The Entführung aria also features in the San Remo concert, which Callas shared with Gigli (no duets, alas). Here, she is in fuller, fresher voice, a voice which she displays to amazing effect in florid arias from Dinorah and Armida. This is perhaps doubly astonishing as we have just heard how she was singing two years earlier in Rome: the Macbeth and Nabucco arias are magnificent indeed, but the cost of such singing must surely have been equally prodigious.

-- John Steane, Gramophone [12/2002, reviewing a series of reissued Callas rarities, which also includes Maria Callas - Live In Rome 1952 & San Remo 1954, Maria Callas - Live In London 1958 & 1959, and Maria Callas - Live In Milan 1956 & Athens 1957]

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1.  La traviata: Ah, fors' è lui...Sempre libera by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1853; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 7 Minutes 35 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
2.  I puritani: Qui la voce sua soave by Vincenzo Bellini
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1835; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 13 Minutes 38 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
3.  Anna Bolena: Piangete voi?...Al dolce guidami castel natio by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1830; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 9 Minutes 43 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
4.  Anna Bolena: Suon festivo by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1830; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 1 Minutes 37 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
5.  Anna Bolena: Coppia iniqua, l'estrema vendetta by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1830; Italy 
Date of Recording: 11/20/1957 
Venue:  State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, Texas 
Length: 9 Minutes 58 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
6.  Macbeth: Vieni, t'affretta! by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1847/1865; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 10 Minutes 8 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
7.  Anna Bolena: Qual mesto suon by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1830; Italy 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 7 Minutes 10 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
8.  Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K 384: Martern aller Arten by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:  Maria Callas (Soprano)
Conductor:  Nicola Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Period: Classical 
Written: 1782; Vienna, Austria 
Date of Recording: 1957 
Venue:  Dallas, Texas 
Length: 13 Minutes 36 Secs. 
Language: Italian 
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