[RARE RECORDING] Maria Callas "Sola perduta abbandonata" (Carnegie Hall, 5/3/1974)

The Great Maria Callas Live in Carnegie Hall at her 1st Concert on 5 March 1974! It comes from a very rare out of print LP!! I have the complete concert in very bad sound...but this is in Great InHouse sound for 1974!! Callas in not in good voice! She was recovering from a cold! What many of those in the audience did not realize was how close the concert had come once again to being canceled, this time because of the death of Sol Horok, the impresario who sponsored the evening, and because of the emotional toll his death was taking on Miss Callas, an old friend. Mr. Hurok had died in the afternoon, and, at first, the news was kept from Miss Callas. As she appeared before the audience she apologized for her “emotion and fatigue.” She gave a fully Dramatic Performance of the aria!!