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Newly restored photos from the La Scala Archive of Victor de Sabata with Callas, Tebaldi, Toscanini, Olivier

ByGramilano 11 November 20176 July 2024

La Scala remembers the great conductor Victor de Sabata with an exhibition in the theatre foyer (which opens tomorrow, Sunday 12 November) and Riccardo Chailly has chosen to dedicate Andrea Chénier to his memory, which is the opera which opens the theatre’s season on 7 December. De Sabata first arrived at La Scala in the…

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Interview with Virginia Zeani at 90 “My brain believes that I’m eternally young”

ByGramilano 20 October 20152 August 2026

Interview with the soprano Virginia Zeani for her 90th birthday on her roles, her voice, her tenors, and her loves.

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Callas Remastered: as you’ve never heard her before on 69 cds

ByGramilano 16 July 20147 July 2024

Warner Classics now holds the key to the Maria Callas official recordings treasure chest. Recently that key was taken out, and the original masters were carefully removed and transferred to computers for high-definition remastering. Carefully is the right word, for just placing the tapes on the machines caused some splicing to come apart at the original edit points….