Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci was one of four rôles Callas never sang in the theatre. In the November 1955 issue of Opera, Harold Rosenthal writes of this 1954 recording, “I think that Serafin has made this set into the definitive Pagliacci.The freshness of the music, which after all has become very hackneyed, is one of the joys of the set; another is the Nedda of Callas which is a most convincing characterisation. Her scene with Tonio is one of the most vivid pieces of operatic acting I can recall…”. With a menacing Tonio from Tito Gobbi and characteristically uninhibited conducting from Tullio Serafin, the recording remains to this day one of the classics of the gramophone.