Maria Callas: Hamburg Concert 1959

Synopsis: Maria Callas in concert performance in Hamburg of excerpts from works that she sang at La Scala, Milan. The programme is: ‘Tu che invoco’ from Spontini’s La Vestale; ‘Nel di della vittoria’ from Verdi’s Macbeth; ‘Une voce poca fa’ from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia; ‘Toi qui sus le néant’ from Verdi’s Don Carlo) and ‘O s’io potessi’ from Bellini’s Il Pirata. The Norddentscher Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester is conducted by Nicola Rescigno.
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Video
Year of release: 1985
Recording date: 15 May 1959
Duration: 68 mins

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Maria Callas

Notes: Also available from amazon.com as MARIA CALLAS IN CONCERT - HAMBURG 1959 and 1962 released on DVD in 1999.
General: An Internet Movie Database user comment reads: ‘Lady Macbeth has always been my favourite Callas role but by ‘59 her thin voice was no longer up to the challenge. She is still utterly convincing as the Lady but her instrument betrays her. The first C cracks hopelessly and the entire scene exhausts her’.

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