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Pleurez, pleurez mes yeux... - [17 Aug 2009]
I've seen/heard Madame Butterfly many times (fully stage, concert form, and recordings), sung by other good, principal singers; none of them comes close to how great this one is. Callas elevates Cio-Cio San and the opera to an ideal (my ideal) form of...
by other good, principal singers; none of them comes close to how great this one is. Callas...
www.amazon.com/review/R27V1NC0COMD...
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Does one need another Butterfly? - [01 Jun 2009]
For myself I can only say that this set is one of the most engrossing, moving, stirring, tear-jerking, etc. etc. sets I've ever heard. What that means is I was focusing on the story, not on Callas' singing or Von Karajan's conducting or anything else....
jerking, etc. etc. sets I've ever heard. What that means is I was focusing on the story...
www.amazon.com/review/R1M85OD65...
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Medea as a Butterfly - [08 Jun 2008]
While working on the PARALLEL PERSPECTIVES Archives page, I started thinking about Maria Callas & her rather bizarre, non-singing role in the equally bizarre 1970's Pier Passolini film MEDEA--and noticed this CD of Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY. I must...
& her rather bizarre, non-singing role in the equally bizarre 1970's Pier Passolini...
www.amazon.com/review/R3G5OVGZD...
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Stick with the Plot - [08 Feb 2007]
Puccini.
Up there with Mozart when it comes to tearing the heart out of your soul.
Maria Callas - what a sexy women - no wonder that rich Greek fella courted her. She is a diamond, a truly wonderful opera singer. No, she is better than that. Maria...
Callas - what a sexy women - no wonder that rich Greek fella courted her. She is a diamond...
www.amazon.com/review/RXTQ2UPTXZV...
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Stick with the Plot - [08 Feb 2007]
Puccini. Up there with Mozart when it comes to tearing the heart out of your soul. Maria Callas - what a sexy women - no wonder that rich Greek fella courted her. She is a diamond, a truly wonderful opera singer. No, she is better than that. Maria Callas...
- what a sexy women - no wonder that rich Greek fella courted her. She is a diamond, ...
www.amazon.com/review/RXTQ2UPTXZV...
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Callas, an over-rated soprano - [22 Dec 2006]
Nicolai Gedda as B.F Pinkerton is brilliant, a true showman in the role and a brilliant tenor full-stop. Callas on the other was not good at Cio-Cio San, in fact she was terrible.
It truly shows the difference between the two lead roles vocal technique...
full-stop. Callas on the other was not good at Cio-Cio San, in fact she was terrible.
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www.amazon.com/review/R1HMLG1M9...
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Callas, an over-rated soprano - [22 Dec 2006]
Nicolai Gedda as B.F Pinkerton is brilliant, a true showman in the role and a brilliant tenor full-stop. Callas on the other was not good at Cio-Cio San, in fact she was terrible. It truly shows the difference between the two lead roles vocal technique...
full-stop. Callas on the other was not good at Cio-Cio San, in fact she was terrible. It...
www.amazon.com/review/R1HMLG1M9...
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It's a SHOCK! - [20 Dec 2005]
It's a SHOCK how Callas interpreted "Madama Butterfly" It's close to perfect. Must listen for opera lovers!
for opera lovers!
www.amazon.com/review/RQLK5FSOK...
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Perhaps The Best Recorded "Madama Butterfly" - [06 Sep 2005]
There are many "Butterfly" recordings out there that are excellent in their own right but this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting on paper, Callas does an astonishing job with the title role, which...
this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting...
www.amazon.com/review/R366S1U2BPGIRR...
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Perhaps The Best Recorded "Madama Butterfly" - [06 Sep 2005]
There are many "Butterfly" recordings out there that are excellent in their own right but this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting on paper, Callas does an astonishing job with the title role, which...
this recording deserves a category of excellence all it's own. What almost looks like mis-casting...
www.amazon.com/review/R366S1U2BPGIRR...
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