And as on the current recording, the works of Verdi have played a key role. Since their first performance together in the 2010 Paris production of Werther, they’ve often appeared side-by-side in various stage productions. The recording sessions took place in May 2021 in Rome, here is the l ink to the making of video. Accompanied by the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, they present duets they’ve sung together on stage, plus works specially chosen for the album. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: Insieme, meaning “together” in Italian, to be released October 7 on Sony Classical.
On stage they’re usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. Since all of those would long since have acquired public domain status in the EU, I would expect there may be a number of "Callas sings Tosca" sets out there, with varying degrees of performance and recording quality.Now available: "Insieme", the good friends' first duet album Considering that practically everything Callas did was recorded, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a number of her performances from that time did get taped, either as radio air checks or simple bootlegs. But it's clear, with good, solid tonality and dynamic range against a reasonably-silent background unsurprising, since EMI's Walter Legge was considered somewhat of a fanatic in moving forward the art of recorded sound in the post-war mono era. But, from the few times I've heard it - to be honest, Tosca is far from my favorite opera - it didn't sound "bad." Sure, it's in mono, and doesn't benefit from the greater ease and detail that well-produced stereo can provide large-scale classical music. Click to expand.That's the critical consensus, the most-celebrated version of Tosca is a mono recording with Callas, the one you mention above.
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