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Title: Callas-more than a chirping bird
Review: I love this Sonnambula.....The reason? Callas! Callas was born to sing such stuff. Her agilita, her trills and coloratura are mesmerizing.... The timing, the pacing....WOW! No scooping (Gruberova etc.) here....fully attacked notes.... And so much sense in every note! A critic once sighed "Full of notes and empty of sense!" (On a soprano leggiero who tackled Elvira in "I puritani") True, no easy and light "beauty" here but MORE: an intelligent, brilliant portrait of a "stupid", "naive" character. I mean....Amina...not much to discover there? (Sutherland, Gruberova ETC.) Not true!!!! Listen to this recording or, even better, the live-recording from La Scala (1955) with Callas, Valletti&Bernstein. It's glorious, one of Callas' greatest recordings ever.
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