Featured artists:
Tito Gobbi, Tullio Serafin, Raffaele Arie, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
This Lucia di Lammermoor was the first complete recording that Callas made under the aegis of Walter Legge for EMI/Columbia – and also her first recording with Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi and her mentor Tullio Serafin. She had made her role debut as Lucia the previous year (1952), bringing tragic stature to the archetypal fragile bel canto heroine. Gramophone described her recorded performance as ‘certainly some of the finest singing of our time’.
