Maria Callas

The Unknown Recordings vol. 2

Concerts, Rarities and Interviews 1958-1977
Live Recordings
70 min. (mono)
DVN-4

FREE EXTRA MATERIAL: click here
• Liner notes in English
• Lyrics
• Interviews translations into English
• 5 videos (4.29 min.)
• 40 photographs
• 9 newspaper reviews (scans)
• Hand program (scan)

Sound Restoration © 1997 Divina Records
Restored and remastered by Pablo Berruti

CONCERTS AND RARITIES
1 • Introduction 
[0.36]
2 • L’amour est un oiseau rebelle [4.04]
3 • Près des remparts de Séville [2.02]
CARMEN, G. Bizet
Charles Wilson, piano
John F. Kennedy’s Birthday Concert
Madison Square Garden, N.Y., 19 May 1962

4 • Bel raggio lusinghier [5.24]
SEMIRAMIDE, G. Rossini
5 • Casta diva [7.09]
6 • Ah! bello a me ritorna [2.35]
NORMA, V. Bellini
7 • Ben io t’invenni…
Anch’io dischiuso un giorno
 [8.10]
NABUCCO, G. Verdi
8 • Quando m’en vo’ 
[3.21]
LA BOHÈME, G. Puccini

9 • Tu? tu? piccolo Iddio! [2.57]
MADAMA BUTTERFLY, G. Puccini
Philarmonia Orchestra, G. Prêtre
Royal Festival Hall, London, 31 May 1963

10 • Casta diva (recitative excerpts) [2.17]
NORMA, V. Bellini
L’Opéra orchestra, G. Prêtre
L’Opéra, Paris, May 1964 (dress rehearsal)

11 • Callas dueting with her poodle [1.25]
From Lord Harewood´s interview
36 Av. G. Mandel (Callas’ falt), Paris, April 1968
12 • Im wunderschönen Monat Mai [1.04]
DICHTERLIEBE, R. Schumann (Op. 48, No. 1)
Private concert, Paris, 1976

13 • Deh, non m’abbandonar (excerpts) [1.15]
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, G. Verdi
Vasso Devetzi, piano
36 Av. G. Mandel (Callas’ flat), Paris, August 1977

INTERVIEWS
14 • Paris, Ritz Hotel [1.22]
16 December 1958, in French

15 • Frankfurt [0.19]
14 May 1959, in German & English
16 • Amsterdam [1.32]
9 July 1959, in Dutch & English
17 • Athens [8.15]
August 1960, in Greek
18 • Berlin [1.10]
16 May 1963, in German & English
19 • London [2.37]
BBC, 24 April 1966, in English
20 • Paris, Callas’ flat  [10.43]
30 September 1968, in French
With Jacques Bourgeois
21 • Südwestfunk [1.20]
13 November 1973, in English