A favorite Donizetti performance from Belle Raggio

Late Callas singing Maria from “Figlia del Reggimento” a role she wisely never attempted on stage.

Despite all the surrounding frou frou in the opera, her rendition of “Convien Partir” is sublime in it’s nostalgic penetration straight to the heart. This is why Callas is musically and emotionally incomparable.

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