Editing Maria Callas (section)

==Notable recordings==
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All recordings are in mono unless otherwise indicated. Live performances are typically available on multiple labels. In 2014, [[Warner Classics]] (formerly [[EMI Classics]]) released the ''Maria Callas Remastered Edition'', consisting of her complete studio recordings totaling 39 albums in a boxed set remastered at [[Abbey Road Studios]] in 24-bit/96&nbsp;kHz digital sound from original master tapes.

{{ external media | float = center|width=230px |audio1 = [https://archive.org/details/FridayNightAtTheOpera-22610laGioconda Callas performing] [[Amilcare Ponchielli]]'s opera ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'' with the [[RAI National Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Antonino Votto]] with [[Fedora Barbieri]], [[Gianni Poggi]], [[Paolo Silveri]], [[Giulio Neri]] in 1952]}}

* Verdi, ''Nabucco'', conducted by [[Vittorio Gui]], live performance, Napoli, December 20, 1949
* Verdi, ''Il trovatore'', conducted by Guido Picco, live performance, Mexico City, June 20, 1950. In the aria "D'amor sull'ali rosee", Callas sings Verdi's original high D flat, likewise in her 1951 San Carlo performance.
* Wagner, ''Parsifal'', live performance conducted by Vittorio Gui, RAI Rome, November 20/21, 1950 (Italian)
* Verdi, ''Il trovatore'', live performance conducted by Tullio Serafin, Teatro San Carlo, Naples, January 27, 1951
* Verdi, ''[[Les vêpres siciliennes]]'', live performance conducted by [[Erich Kleiber]], Teatro Comunale Florence, May 26, 1951 (Italian)
* Verdi, ''[[Aida]]'', conducted by [[Oliviero De Fabritiis]], live performance, [[Palacio de Bellas Artes]], Mexico City, July 3, 1951
* Rossini, ''[[Armida (Rossini)|Armida]]'', live performance, Tullio Serafin, Teatro Comunale Florence, April 26, 1952
* [[Amilcare Ponchielli|Ponchielli]], ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'', conducted by [[Antonino Votto]], studio recording for [[Cetra Records]], September 1952
* [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'', conducted by Vittorio Gui, live performance, [[Royal Opera House|Covent Garden]], London, November 18, 1952
* Verdi, ''[[Macbeth (Verdi)|Macbeth]]'', conducted by [[Victor de Sabata]], live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1952
* [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]], ''[[Lucia di Lammermoor]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, January–February 1953
* Verdi, ''Il trovatore'', live performance conducted by Votto, La Scala February 23, 1953
* Bellini, ''[[I puritani]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, March–April 1953
* [[Luigi Cherubini|Cherubini]], ''[[Médée (Cherubini)|Médée]]'', live performance conducted by Vittorio Gui, Teatro Comunale, Florence, May 7, 1953 (Italian)
* [[Pietro Mascagni|Mascagni]], ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, August 1953
* [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]], [[Tosca (1953 EMI recording)|''Tosca'' (1953 EMI recording)]], conducted by Victor de Sabata, studio recording for EMI, August 1953.<ref>Paul Gruber (ed.), ''The Metropolitan Guide to Recorded Opera'', Norton, 1993, [https://books.google.com/books?id=CsGj12DnHLYC&dq=%22de+sabata%22&pg=RA2-PA415 p. 415]</ref>
* Verdi, ''[[La traviata]]'', conducted by [[Gabriele Santini]], studio recording for Cetra Records, September 1953
* Cherubini, ''Médée'', conducted by [[Leonard Bernstein]], live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 10, 1953 (Italian)
* [[Vincenzo Bellini|Bellini]], ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, April–May 1954
* Gluck, [[Alceste (Gluck)|''Alceste'']], [[Carlo Maria Giulini]], La Scala, Milan, April 4, 1954 (Italian)
* [[Ruggero Leoncavallo|Leoncavallo]], ''[[Pagliacci]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, June 1954
* Verdi, ''[[La forza del destino]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, August 1954
* [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]], ''[[Il turco in Italia]]'', conducted by [[Gianandrea Gavazzeni]], studio recording for EMI, August–September 1954
* ''Puccini Arias'' (excerpts from ''[[Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut]]'', ''[[La bohème]]'', ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'', ''[[Suor Angelica]]'', ''[[Gianni Schicchi]]'', ''[[Turandot]]''), conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1954
* ''Lyric & Coloratura Arias'' (excerpts from Rossini's ''[[Il barbiere di Siviglia]]'', Verdi's ''[[I vespri siciliani]]'', [[Giacomo Meyerbeer|Meyerbeer]]'s ''[[Dinorah]]'', [[Arrigo Boito|Boito]]'s ''[[Mefistofele]]'', [[Leo Delibes|Delibes]]'s ''[[Lakmé]]'', [[Alfredo Catalani|Catalani]]'s ''[[La Wally]]'', [[Umberto Giordano|Giordano]]'s ''[[Andrea Chénier]]'', [[Francesco Cilea|Cilea]]'s ''[[Adriana Lecouvreur]]''), conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1954
* [[Gaspare Spontini|Spontini]], ''[[La vestale]]'', conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1954 (Italian)
* Verdi, ''La traviata'', conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini, live performance, La Scala, Milan, May 28, 1955
* ''Callas at La Scala'' (excerpts from Cherubini's ''Médée'', Spontini's ''La vestale'', Bellini's ''[[La sonnambula]]''), conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, June 1955
* Puccini, ''Madama Butterfly'', conducted by [[Herbert von Karajan]], studio recording for EMI, August 1955
* Verdi, ''Aida'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, August 1955
* Verdi, ''[[Rigoletto]]'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, September 1955
* Donizetti, ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', conducted by Herbert von Karajan, live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955
* Bellini, ''Norma'', conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1955
* Verdi, ''Il trovatore'', conducted by Herbert von Karajan, studio recording for EMI, August 1956
* Puccini, ''La bohème'', conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, August–September 1956. Like her recordings of ''Pagliacci'', ''Manon Lescaut'' and ''Carmen,'' this was her only performance of the complete opera, as she never appeared onstage in it.
* Verdi, ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'', conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, September 1956
* Rossini, ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', conducted by [[Alceo Galliera]], studio recording for EMI in stereo, February 1957
* Bellini, ''La sonnambula'', conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI, March 1957
* Donizetti, ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, live performance, La Scala, Milan, April 14, 1957
* Gluck, ''[[Iphigénie en Tauride]]'', La Scala Milan, conducted by [[Nino Sanzogno]], June 1, 1957 (Italian)
* Bellini, ''La sonnambula'', conducted by Antonino Votto, live performance, Cologne, July 4, 1957
* Puccini, ''Turandot'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, July 1957
* Puccini, ''Manon Lescaut'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI, July 1957.
* Cherubini, ''Médée'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for Ricordi in stereo, September 1957 (Italian)
* Verdi, ''Un ballo in maschera'', conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, live performance, La Scala, Milan, December 7, 1957
* Verdi, ''La traviata'', conducted by [[Franco Ghione]], live performance, Lisbon, March 27, 1958
* Verdi, ''La traviata'', conducted by [[Nicola Rescigno]], live performance, London, June 20, 1958; considered by many critics to be Callas's most notable recording of Verdi's famous opera. Music critic [[John Ardoin]] wrote that in this performance "Callas' use of her voice to expressive ends amounts to an amalgamation of the best in previous ''Traviatas''. For even though her voice betrays her at times, her intellect and spirit have now conquered the part in a manner that outdistances all others."<ref name="ardoin"/>{{rp|p=135}}
* ''Verdi Heroines'' (excerpts from ''Nabucco'', ''[[Ernani]]'', ''Macbeth'', ''[[Don Carlo]]''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1958
* ''Mad Scenes'' (excerpts from ''Anna Bolena'', Bellini's ''[[Il pirata]]'' and [[Ambroise Thomas]]'s ''[[Hamlet (opera)|Hamlet]]''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1958
* Cherubini, ''Médée'' conducted by Nicola Rescigno, live performance at the Dallas Civic Opera November 6, 1958; considered to be Callas's most notable performance of Cherubini's opera. (Italian)
* Donizetti, ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI in stereo, March 1959
* Ponchielli, ''La Gioconda'', conducted by Antonino Votto, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1959
* Bellini, ''Norma'', conducted by Tullio Serafin, studio recording for EMI in stereo, September 1960
* ''Callas à Paris'' (excerpts from Gluck's ''Orphée et Eurydice'', ''Alceste'', Thomas's ''[[Mignon]]'', [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]'s ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'', [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]]'s ''[[Carmen]]'', [[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]'s ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson and Delilah]]'', [[Jules Massenet|Massenet]]'s ''[[Le Cid (opera)|Le Cid]]'', [[Gustave Charpentier|Charpentier]]'s ''[[Louise (opera)|Louise]]''), conducted by [[Georges Prêtre]], studio recording for EMI in stereo, March–April 1961
* ''Callas à Paris II'' (excerpts from Gluck's ''Iphigénie en Tauride'', [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]'s ''[[La damnation de Faust]]'', Gounod's ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'', Bizet's ''[[Les pêcheurs de perles]]'', Massenet's ''[[Manon]]'', ''[[Werther]]''), conducted by Georges Prêtre, studio recording for EMI in stereo, May 1963
* ''Mozart, Beethoven, and Weber'' (excerpts from Mozart's ''[[The Marriage of Figaro|Le nozze di Figaro]]'', ''[[Don Giovanni]]'', Weber's ''[[Oberon (Weber)|Oberon]]''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, December 1963 – January 1964
* ''Rossini and Donizetti Arias'' (excerpts from Rossini's ''[[La Cenerentola]]'', ''[[Semiramide]]'', ''[[William Tell (opera)|Guglielmo Tell]]'', Donizetti's ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'', ''[[Lucrezia Borgia (opera)|Lucrezia Borgia]]'', ''[[La fille du régiment|La figlia del reggimento]]''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, December 1963 – April 1964
* ''Verdi Arias'' (excerpts from ''[[Aroldo]]'', ''Don Carlo'', ''[[Otello]]''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, December 1963 – April 1964
* Puccini, ''[[Tosca]]'', conducted by [[Carlo Felice Cillario]], live performance, London, January 24, 1964
* Bizet, ''Carmen'', conducted by Georges Prêtre, studio recording for EMI in stereo, July 1964. It is her only performance of the role, and her only performance of the complete opera; she never appeared in it onstage. The recording used the [[recitative]]s added after Bizet's death. Callas's performance caused critic [[Harold C. Schonberg]] to speculate in his book ''The Glorious Ones'' that Callas perhaps should have sung mezzo roles instead of simply soprano ones.
* Puccini, ''Tosca'', conducted by Georges Prêtre, studio recording for EMI in stereo, December 1964.
* ''Verdi Arias II'' (excerpts from ''[[I Lombardi alla prima crociata|I Lombardi]]'', ''[[Attila (opera)|Attila]]'', ''[[Il corsaro]]'', ''Il trovatore'', ''I vespri siciliani'', ''Un ballo in maschera'', ''Aida''), conducted by Nicola Rescigno, studio recording for EMI in stereo, January 1964 – March 1969