Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
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Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai
Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe Zampieri, Luisa Vila
RIAS-Simphonie-Orchester
Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala
dir: Herbert von Karajan
Divina Record DVN-19 (digital download)
Live recording, Städtische Oper Berlin, September 29, 1955
Remastered from BJR collection master tapes
[flac & digital booklet]
For those who requested more Divina recordings, here you have Lucia. As in the case of Norma, the beautiful digital libretto also has many photographs, a silent video, the newspapers reviews, the original program and lots of information.
As far as I Know the Warner release of this performance also has an excellent sound because it seems to come from another source in very good condition. But I also read online that the whole mad scene has better sound in this Divina release.
Concerning BJR archive:
It's a private pressings of material from Maria Callas released in the early 1970's. Recorded direct from acetates and 1st generation reel tapes of live recordings. Thought to be the best audio recordings of the original material that was then later utilized and re-edited for EMI and Angel reissues. The B.J.R. archives and all original recordings were given to Divina Records to be released in the near future.
"The first half of the collection was directly given to me by Santiago Rodríguez and Charles Johnson during my visit to NY in October 2008.
Santiago Rodríguez was overcome by the cancer that he had been suffering from and sadly passed away in early June 2009. Because of his illness he was unable to fulfill his wish to transfer to Divina Records all of the Callas material from his considerable archives.
I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Jon C. Harding of Philadelphia, a close friend of many years of Santiago and Charles. Jon, fully aware of Santiago's final wishes and with complete familiarity of the BJR archives, spent time sorting through the large library of material. He was able to locate the remaining original master tapes used to produce several of the outstanding BJR recordings of Callas performances as well as additional tapes and acetates of Callas performances not published. Because of Jon's kind efforts, Santiago's wishes have been fulfilled and we are now in possession of all of the BJR material on Maria Callas.
The newly received material will be released on the Divina Records label in the near future." Pablo D. Berruti - Buenos Aires, August 16, 2009
Nicola Zaccaria, Giuseppe Zampieri, Luisa Vila
RIAS-Simphonie-Orchester
Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala
dir: Herbert von Karajan
Divina Record DVN-19 (digital download)
Live recording, Städtische Oper Berlin, September 29, 1955
Remastered from BJR collection master tapes
[flac & digital booklet]
For those who requested more Divina recordings, here you have Lucia. As in the case of Norma, the beautiful digital libretto also has many photographs, a silent video, the newspapers reviews, the original program and lots of information.
As far as I Know the Warner release of this performance also has an excellent sound because it seems to come from another source in very good condition. But I also read online that the whole mad scene has better sound in this Divina release.
Concerning BJR archive:
It's a private pressings of material from Maria Callas released in the early 1970's. Recorded direct from acetates and 1st generation reel tapes of live recordings. Thought to be the best audio recordings of the original material that was then later utilized and re-edited for EMI and Angel reissues. The B.J.R. archives and all original recordings were given to Divina Records to be released in the near future.
"The first half of the collection was directly given to me by Santiago Rodríguez and Charles Johnson during my visit to NY in October 2008.
Santiago Rodríguez was overcome by the cancer that he had been suffering from and sadly passed away in early June 2009. Because of his illness he was unable to fulfill his wish to transfer to Divina Records all of the Callas material from his considerable archives.
I wish to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Jon C. Harding of Philadelphia, a close friend of many years of Santiago and Charles. Jon, fully aware of Santiago's final wishes and with complete familiarity of the BJR archives, spent time sorting through the large library of material. He was able to locate the remaining original master tapes used to produce several of the outstanding BJR recordings of Callas performances as well as additional tapes and acetates of Callas performances not published. Because of Jon's kind efforts, Santiago's wishes have been fulfilled and we are now in possession of all of the BJR material on Maria Callas.
The newly received material will be released on the Divina Records label in the near future." Pablo D. Berruti - Buenos Aires, August 16, 2009