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[] Maria Callas; Lance, Gobbi. Orch. and Ch. of Opera de Paris, Sebastian. 1958. EMI Classics DVD 7243 4 92503 9 0
When Maria Callas stepped onstage at the Salle Garnier on December 19, 1958, television cameras were there to capture the historic moment and broadcast it live throughout Europe. Once widely available on various VHS versions, the tape of that performance has been scarce for many years now, and it's good to have it back in a new format. The program consisted of a series of arias for the first half, and Act II of Tosca, fully staged, for the second. This is a new version, a sort of documentary of the evening, entitled "La Callas ... Toujours." It considerately spares us the dullish orchestral interludes that separated Callas's star turns ...