Composer: Leoncavalli
Other participants: Giuseppe di Stefano / Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin
While Pagliacci's regular companion piece, Cavalleria rusticana, figured prominently in Callas's early career, Leoncavallo's one-acter had no place in her stage repertoire. But as Gramophone wrote of this recording: "When Callas [as Nedda] and Gobbi [as Tonio] are on the stage the drama is strikingly unfolded ...There has been [no Nedda] more urgently orpressingly feminine than Callas ... the only one to create real tension at the idea of Canio reading her thoughts; the only one to give meaning ... to her mood as the birds fly overhead; and ... the only one to greet her lover with delight.' |
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