Verdi: Macbeth
Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Italo Tajo (Banco), Gino Penno (Macduff), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro)
Teatro alla Scala, Victor de Sabata
Verdi: Otello
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, Licia Albanese, Ramon Vinay, Nicola Moscona, John Garris, Thomas Hayward, Leonard Warren, Clifford Harvuot, Philip Cinsman & Martha Lipton
"The Busch set has to rank among the most satisfying performances of this work ever available on disc, up there with the almost contemporaneous (1947) Toscanini and the Serafin of some ten years later (just reissued), not entirely to forget the pre-war Met rendering under Panizza with Martinelli as the Moor, in inferior sound...the mono sound is true, in good balance with no distortions of the voices, on a par in fact with the Toscanini, and it is with the older conductor's fiery, elemental, definitive reading that Busch's deserves to be compared." - Gramophone