MRF 102  CHERUBINI: MEDEA     MARIA CALLAS / FEDORA BARBIERI / GINO PENNO / LA SCALA MILAN / LEONARD BERNSTEIN      recorded live 10th December 1953

                 CHERUBINI: MEDEA    MARIA CALLAS / GIULIETTA SIMIONATO / JON VICKERS / LA SCALA MILAN / THOMAS SCHIPPERS     recorded live 14th December 1961

Lavish 4 LP box set with 48 page booklet 'A Portrait of Medea' full of photographs (mostly of Callas) from both productions. Each performance occupies 4 LP sides, the 1953 Bernstein having red labels and the 1961 Schippers black. An interesting set in solid mono sound sure to appeal to devotees of the prima donna.

The 1961 production inspired the studio recording for Columbia under Serafin SAX 2290 - 2, featured elsewhere on available from Kingsway Hall Classics