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PONCHIELLI La Gioconda
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 2hr 46:10
La Gioconda - Maria Callas
Laura Adorno - Fiorenza Cossotto
La Cieca - Irene Companeez
Alvise Badoero - Ivo Vinco
Enzo Grimaldo - Pier Miranda Ferraro
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Antonino Votto
NB The earlier 1952 mono version of this recording is also available on Pristine PACO216
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 0:35
Manon Lescaut - Maria Callas
Chevalier des Grieux - Giuseppe di Stefano
Lescaut - Giulio Fioravanti
Geronte di Ravoir - Franco Calabrese
Edmondo - Dino Formichini
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Tullio Serafin
PUCCINI La Bohème
Studio Recording · 1956
Total duration: 1hr 45:23
Maria Callas - Mimì
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Rodolfo
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Antonino Votto, conductor
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Studio recording · 1955
Total duration: 2hr 18:18
Maria Callas - Butterfly
Nicolai Gedda - Pinkerton
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
PUCCINI Tosca
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 1hr 47:58
Maria Callas Tosca
Giuseppe di Stefano Cavaradossi
Tito Gobbi Scarpia
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conductor Victor de Sabata
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
Stereo studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 9:58
Rosina - Maria Callas
Il conte d'Almaviva - Luigi Alva
Figaro - Tito Gobbi
Bartolo - Fritz Ollendorff
Basilio - Nicola Zaccaria
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
conducted by Alceo Galliera
ROSSINI Il Turco in Italia
Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 1hr 52:57
Fiorilla - Maria Callas
Selim - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Narciso - Nicolai Gedda
Geronio - Franco Calabrese
Zaida - Jolanda Gardino
Albazar - Piero de Palma
Il poeta - Mariano Stabile
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Chorus Master: Vittore Veneziani
conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni
VERDI Aïda
Studio recording, 1955
Total duration: 2hr 24:40
Maria Callas - Aïda
Richard Tucker - Radamès
Fedora Barbieri - Amneris
Tito Gobbi - Amonasro
Giuseppe Modesti - Ramfis
Nicola Zaccaria - Il re d'Egitto
Elvira Galassi - Una sacerdotessa
Franco Ricciardi - Un messaggero
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
VERDI Il Trovatore
Studio recording, 1956
Total duration: 2hr 9:37
Maria Callas - Leonora
Rolando Panerai - Il Conte Di Luna
Fedora Barbieri - Azucena
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Manrico
Nicola Zaccaria - Ferrando
Coro e Orchestra de Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Herbert von Karajan
VERDI La Forza del Destino
Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 2hr 45:00
Donna Leonora - Maria Callas
Don Alvaro - Richard Tucker
Don Carlo di Vargas - Carlo Tagliabue
Il Padre Guardiano - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Preziosilla - Elena Nicolai
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
VERDI La Traviata
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 2hr 2:07
Violetta Valéry - Maria Callas (soprano)
Alfredo Germont - Francesco Albanese (tenor)
Giorgio Germont - Ugo Savarese (baritone)
Coro Cetra
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Conductor Gabriele Santini
VERDI Rigoletto
Studio recording, 1955
Total duration: 1hr 57:57
Rigoletto - Tito Gobbi
Gilda - Maria Callas
Duca di Mantova - Giuseppe di Stefano
Sparafucile - Nicola Zaccaria
Tullio Serafin, conductor
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan