Maria Callas - Callas à Paris: More Arias from French Opera (2014) [Hi-Res]

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Artist: Maria Callas
Title: Callas à Paris: More Arias from French Opera
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical, Opera
Quality: FLAC (tracks) 24bit / 96kHz
Total Time: 00:43:49
Total Size: 893 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Act 2: "O malheureuse Iphigénie!" (Iphigénie) (4:33)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
02. "D'amour l'ardente flamme" (Marguerite) (8:15)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
Les Pêcheurs de perles
03. 'The Pearl Fishers', Act 2: "Ma voila seule......Comme autrefois" (Leïla) (6:02)
Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Manon
04. Act 2: "Je ne suis que faiblesse... Adieu, notre petite table" (Manon) (3:23)
05. Act 3: "Suis-je gentille ainsi? ... Je marche sur tous les chemins" (Manon) (2:52)
Werther
06. Act 3: "Werther! Qui m'aurait dit la place... Des cris joyeux" (Charlotte - Air des lettres) (7:06)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Faust
07. Act 3: "Il était un Roi de Thulé...O Dieu!que de bijoux...Ah! je ris" (Marguerite - Jewel Song) (11:36)

As in her first Callas à Paris recital, recorded two years previously, the diva performs arias of diverse weight, colour and mood – from the darker tones of Berlioz’s Marguerite to the brilliant ‘Jewel Song’ of Gounod’s Marguerite, and from the mezzo-ish melancholy of Massenet’s Charlotte to the soprano coquetry of the same composer’s Manon. ‘Simply as an artist,’ wrote Gramophone in its review of the recital, ‘in her sense of line, her feeling for a word, her command of colour and her mastery of the whole complex art of interpretation – [Callas] is so far ahead of all other contemporary singers, and of all but the greatest past singers, too, that she almost spoils us for the rest.’

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