Cavalleria rusticana / Pietro Mascagni ; Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor ; Maria Callas, soprano ; Rolando Panerai, baritone ; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano ; Ebe Ticozzi, alto ; Tullio Serafin, conductor ; Milan La Scala Orchestra ; Milan La Scala Chorus) -- Pagliacci / Ruggero Leoncavallo ; Ruggero Leoncavallo (Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor ; Maria Callas, soprano ; Rolando Panerai, baritone ; Tito Gobbi, baritone ; Nicola Monti, tenor ; Tullio Serafin, conductor ; Milan La Scala Orchestra ; Milan La Scala Chorus).
Maria Callas, soprano ; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano (1st work) ; Ebe Ticozzi, alto (1st work) ; Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicola Monti (2nd work), tenors ; Rolando Panerai, Tito Gobbi (2nd work), baritones ; Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano ; Tullio Serafin, conductor.
Event
Recorded June 16-25 and Aug. 3-4, 1953, Basilica di Santa Euphemia, Milan (1st work); and June 12-17, 1954, Teatro alla Scala, Milan (2nd work).