NAXOS Historical PUCCINI: La bohème 8.111332-33 Time Playing 2:35:25 MONO Act 1Act 1IAct 1I I 34:22 19:05 Act 1V 25:35 Appendix: and : DuetsLove 27:25 48:58 0 ADD ! & § % - - - - - 8.111332-33 CD 11 @ * CD 2 79:02 1 ! 76:23 was Callas’s twelfth complete opera recording with La complete opera recording twelfth was Callas’s La bohème Giacomo (1858-1924) Antonino Votto PUCCINI La bohème La Chorus and Orchestra of ,Chorus and Orchestra Recorded 20th-25th August and 3rd, 20th-25th Recorded 4th and 12th September, 1956 in the Teatro alla Scala,Teatro Milan and 12th September, in the 1956 www.naxos.com Rodolfo...... Di Stefano Giuseppe Mimì ...... Marcello...... Musetta...... Colline...... Nicola Zaccaria Schaunard ...... Spatafora Manuel Scala, Milan, else.While or anywhere rôles, on stage here demanding than many less live sang it though she never Mimì and musicianship sensitive her uniquely by singing marked refined some highly Callas to showcase nonetheless allows of Musetta and, very pleasing interpretation Anna Moffo’s in the rôle cast also features mastery.The admirable rhythmic of Rodolfo, Giuseppe Di Stefano, century. of the twentieth voices one of the most beautiful lyric This 1956 recording of Puccini’s perennially popular perennially of Puccini’s This 1956 recording Reissue Producer and Restoration Engineer:Reissue Producer Obert-Thorn Mark F. material source Special thanks to Maynard Bertolet providing for photo:Cover Maria Callas (Private Collection)

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