Maria Callas Summer of 55 Lord Harwood on Maria Callas’s La Traviata 6th July 1992

The performance took place on the 28th May 1955. This was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Stage direction was by Luchino Visconti at La Scala di Stefano was Alfredo This was the first of five programmes of performances by Maria Callas from a memorable period in her career. The Earl of Harewood presented excerpts from Verdi’s opera recorded live in Luchino Visconti ’s staging at La Scala, Milan, with Callas as Violetta, Giuseppe di Stefano as Alfredo, Ettore Bastianini as Germont, and Carlo Maria Giulini conducting.