Margherita Carosio
Margherita Carosio was one of the major singing stars in Italy before the outbreak of the Second World War. Initially trained by her father, composer and opera coach Natale Carosio, she made her public debut in concert at age 14 and her operatic debut at 16 in the role of Lucia di Lammermoor. Carosio was already an established name by the time she was 19, the year she sang opposite Feodor Chaliapin in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at Covent Garden. This was one of Carosio's few appearances outside Italy, however, and although her repertoire was extensive, Carosio was associated most readily with high-lying, coloratura roles: Mimi, Violetta, Musetta, and Konstanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio to name a few. Among the roles she created for the first time was that of Egloge in Mascagni's opera Nerone at La Scala in 1935. Between 1937 and 1941, Carosio appeared in three Italian opera movies; so impressed was MGM in Hollywood that they offered Carosio a contract, which she declined.
After the war, Carosio was able to perform at Covent Garden again and make what were probably her best recordings for EMI; she had also recorded prolifically earlier for Parlophon and Ultraphon. Ironically, Carosio is best remembered for an engagement that she did not sing; indisposed, she dropped out of a January 1949 production of I Puritani only to be replaced by her understudy, Maria Callas, who went on to captivate the entire opera world in short measure. Unruffled, Carosio sang for another decade, and in 1953 created the title role in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amelia al ballo at La Scala; her recording of the work was one of her last. After her retirement in 1959, Carosio wrote criticism for local newspapers in Genoa. Living into the twenty-first century, Carosio outlived Callas and practically all of her own contemporaries.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Donizetti: L'élixir d'amour (Mono Version)
Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Gabriele Santini
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1954
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
L'âge d'or de la Scala de Milan (Mono Version)
Ninon Vallin, Conchita Supervia, Margherita Carosio
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1962
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ottorino Respighi - La Campana Sommersa
Margherita Carosio, Umberto Borsò, Franco Capuana, Orchestra di Milano della Rai
Opera - Released by G.O.P. on 13 okt. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Menotti: Amelia al ballo (Mono Version)
Margherita Carosio, Giacinto Prandelli, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano, Nino Sanzogno
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1900
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Donizetti & Bellini: Airs d'opéras (Mono Version)
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1952
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
École italienne de chant (Mono Version)
Aureliano Pertile, Margherita Carosio, Margherita Salvi
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1959
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Lebendige Vergangenheit - Margherita Carosio
Klassiek - Released by Preiser Records on 10 aug. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Menotti: Amelia Al Ballo
Margherita Carosio, Rolando Panerai, Giacinto Prandelli
Opera - Released by Urania on 1 jan. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Airs de La bohème & La traviata (Mono Version)
Opera - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1952
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Gian Carlo Menotti: Amelia al Ballo [Opera Buffa in One Act] (1954)
Margherita Carosio, Rolando Panerai, Giacinto Prandelli
Klassiek - Released by Classical Moments on 8 mrt. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Margherita Carosio
Vocale muziek (wereldlijk en religieus) - Released by PnR on 1 jan. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo