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2023-12-02 14:00:49
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A broadcast of the 1953 recording featuring Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Tito Gobbi conducted by Tullio Serafin in celebration of the Callas centennial
2023-11-27 15:17:20
Maria Callas, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: November 27, 2023. Maria Callas. We’re a bit early, but next Sunday is the 100th anniversary of Maria Callas, La Divina, as she was known worldwide: she was born on December 2nd of 1923. It feels very strange that’s already been a century since her birth, as her presence is felt as strongly today as on the day she died in 1977: her instantly recognizable voice could be heard on classical music radio stations, on streaming services, on YouTube and (still) on CDs. The means have changed – back then it was LPs that people were buying and listening to – but she’s as adored as ever. Her Casta Diva alone has been heard on YouTube about 35 million times. Callas was so closely associated with Italian opera – Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini – that she seemed Italian, but in fact was American, of Greek […]
2023-11-03 10:00:56
On this night in 1924 Tullio Serafin made his Met debut conducting Elisabeth Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli in Aida.
2023-09-18 14:36:19
Several Conductors, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 18, 2023. Several conductors. We missed a lot of anniversaries while exploring the music of the transitional period between the Renaissance and early Baroque. Today we’ll get back to a group of conductors. First, Karl Böhm, one of the most successful of them. Böhm was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz, Austria. His career took off in the 1920s, with some help from Bruno Walter; in 1927 Böhm was appointed the chief musical director in Darmstadt, and in 1931 he took the same position at the prestigious Hamburg Opera. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and Böhm took over the Dresden Semper Opera, after Fritz Busch, the previous director, went into exile. Böhm was a friend of Richard Strauss and conducted several premiers of his operas. In 1938 Böhm appeared at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1943 took over […]
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