Maria Callas’s most outstanding Adalgisa, out of all she partnered with, was Fiorenza Cossotto.
Legendary comet Elena Suliotis takes the title role in this 1968 performance of Catalani’s Loreley.
Currently on Unnatural Acts of Opera, the ravishing Loreley by Alfredo Catalani in a performance from La Scala in 1968. Heading the cast is perhaps the definitive “meteoric” diva, Elena Suliotis. La Cieca remembers as a tiny child seeing this late ’60s photo of La Suliotis and thinking that she had to be the most…
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