I am convinced that the only reason Callas is not universally acknowledged as the greatest female dramatic vocalist is that there are people who are simply frightened by the depth of her soul-genius.
She is everyone knows she was the greatest another biopic is coming out with Angelina Jolie nobody was so famous in opera from Females and don’t worry her name is engraved in names of other geniuses very very up high there with other legends forever and they only remember those other singers to compare them to Callas
I think if Callas had recorded/performed nothing else but this aria, it would still make her the greatest soprano ever (at least among those whose voice technology has captured)
This is the proof that, unlike many people think, chest voice is the foundation of voice. The only way to get a full, limpid, warm voice and the only access to reach the high notes in a proper way, withouth screaming. There are still too many cliches about masked sound. As people feel the sound in the resonators, they think that they have to place it there, sometimes even in an exagerated way by tightening and forcing it. Just on the contrary! The vibration must resonate there naturally and the only way to do that is controlling your voice from its foundation, from the chest. When you achieve that you feel your voice floating, with an elasticity that very few people have nowadays
she is totally screaming that is why it works..she is literally doing what sopranos are taught not to do ..she is rebelling ...in order to bring it artistically
@@silverkitty2503 a) if that is screaming, I wish more sopranos where "Screaming" like that. b) "sopranos are taught not to do", ok. which sopranos? when? in which school (of singing, not actual physical schools)? c) again, if u call that screaming, don't listen to her Trocatores in the first half of the 50s (referring to a very specific high D, in act 4).
A miracle of voice, musicality, interpretation, drama, and UNDERSTANDING!.... She, and god knows she is the only one, she creates theatre when she sings... she paints people and emotions with notes and with silences... And she does it ALWAYS respecting the score AS IT IS WRITTEN, quality the makes her already unique... Just listen what she does with the very last note sung here, an E flat under the stuff... she gives it into a mezza voce chest tone, (already and achievement in itself) and she modulates it into a piano, then pianissimo sound and takes from the chest into the mask resonances.... even in that little tone at the very end of the aria, she is putting all the musical and dramatic tension needed ....What an incredible genius!
The first notes is something really extraterrestrial, such a HUGE, POWERFUL, RINGING AND CARNIVOROUS middle voice hasn't come out of any human throat till this day. And what about those hard to believe contralto low notes? Callas in her prime had a Wagnerian size instrument throughout her entire range.
A comment to match that tone that nobody ever thought they'd hear... again ;) Awesome comment. Listening to the London Farewell version with piano leads to a "was Tibaldi maybe better?"... so one listens to Tibaldi's TH-cam of this Gioconda, which is with orchestra... but fortunately this orchestral version with Callas shows itself too; so one listens to this as well. And it's certain proof that what you say is true. "[Extraterrestrial, huge, powerful, carnivorous (loved that one)... has not come out of any human throat till today]" Thumbs up!
This will never be equaled! Not one other singer even comes close. What a gift she is to all of us. There really was something superhuman about her.....personally and artistically. I miss her so much.
Perfection! This is the one aria sung by this one artist that made me be interested in real opera. Before that it was all about high notes for me. Callas' voice, musicianship, and expression have the power to change people. She has changed me for good.
Como aficionado de Ópera, tengo que reconocer, que está voz me ha impresionado, ella no tiene que demostrar nada a nadie, lo que tiene que hacer es aplicarse con su Maestro de Canto reforzando la técnica que le ha dado él, seguir cantando sin forzar su volumen y naturalidad que tiene, pues no le hace falta ya que le sobra pero que mucho. Si además sabe colocar las notas de las partituras que cante, en su posición correcta y precisa, ganará en Armónicos y de gran Longevidad vocal. (En el Cantó no todo es la voz, hay que ser un gran músico e intérprete de tu Instrumento, sabiéndolo hacer Sonar con Delicadeza, Arte e Inteligencia, esto es lo que acredita a los grandes cantantes de los mediocres. Sigue con perseverancia y humildad, ya que tus Talentos tienen un Gran Futuro, y Tranquila que vas a llegar, antes de lo que te esperas, dado que en la Ópera siempre han habido Grandes Voces con Grandes Músicos y ésto en la actualidad no abunda. Así qué te deseo muchas Felicidades y un Gran Futuro.
She sacrificed everything for her art: even her voice!! The chest voice is incredible. She sings like a lyric tenor, a mezzo, a light lyric & a dramatic soprano - all in one aria.
According to John Ardoin in his “The Callas Legacy”, the 1959 EMI/Warner studio recording is better. And it sounds like it as this has an unusual echo/reverberation. I wonder how the Naxos remastering sounds.
Christopher Cesar & Patricia Bruno....It has haunted me ever since I first heard her too!!!! Where did such a deep, huge, bigger that life voice came from???? Certainly from the heaven itself, that is...from her own heart. I will forever love you Maria...!!! May your soul rest in peace and that among the angels with my other beloved Greek you are both singing God's glory. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏
I've been listening to this woman for over 50 years and she has spoilt me for anyone else!.....as lovely as some of their voices are, if I had to choose a recording to take to a desert island this may be it..... incomparable, takes my breath away every time....only Callas!!!
IT'S ME AGAIN... AT 28 or 29 years she, already, had that voice... THAT ASTONISHING VOICE...OH, HEAVENS!...SHE WAS REALY AN "INSTRUMENT OF DIVINE BEAUTY"..."A THING FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION"...
Tiago what beautiful words you write. Callas gets you hooked for a lifetime. I’ve been listening to her magic poetry for more than 30 yes and still makes me weep like a baby.
She was a musical genius who understood music at its deepest level....then add to that a Titanic voice capable of anything and you have Maria Callas. It is mind blowing that this same voice sang the Proch Variations.
She sounds so incredible! I just adore her chest voice! The way she sings this aria shakes me to the core! I don't know whether I should cry, or recoil in terror, or sit there agape. I believe her. It is like she really is contemplating suicide, and all I can do is sit there, frozen, and I am powerless to move, to try to save her! I wonder if this "learned helplessness" response is what she was going for. I feel so bad for Gioconda, and WITH Gioconda! Is this Callas's true genius? To carry the audience with her, and communicate so effectively that each one of us feels what her character is going through?
Well, maybe that's just part of her genius, but certainly an important part! And I agree - ”shakes me to the core” is exactly what I felt too, and no other singer comes close to that effect. Nor do their performances haunt me for days after having listened to them. No one else can convey such depths of despair, such raw pain. An immense gift, and we are so lucky to have these recordings!
I agree, but listen to Lina-Bruna Rasa's recording of Voi lo sapette and you will find it better that the one Callas did (not by a long shot of course) at least that's what i though
Oh god!!!!....... unbelievable, heard the '59 recording many many times and it blew me away, but this....gets into your very soul and breaks your heart.......we will never her the like again....ever!!!..
La voce della Callas fino al 53 (più o meno) era praticamente quasi ineguagliabile. È ahimè ovvio che non poteva che ridursi con l'uso e tutto il resto Alcuni hanno detto giustamente che molte sue colleghe hanno mantenuto la voce a buon punto sin oltre i 50. è vero, ma non avevano all'inizio i mezzi che aveva lei. Della serie: ho tantissimo e non durerà a lungo, devo sbrigarmi a cantare più che posso, poi non sarà più così
Public....realise and learn. This is is a 29 year old soprano ! Not just magnificently trained but amazingly instinctive and talented. She revolutionised opera purely through her voice.
Isn t she amazing? Sounds once heard in a lifetime (as Tito Gobbi once said). And even today the controversy rages on. Adulated and hated in the same excessive way than during her lifetime, but when it comes to Maria Callas everything is out of proportion. Her detracors would say anything to decry her (even using fecal terms) and her admirers are as adoring now than then. This woman is miracle (as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said)....
Shahrdad she wasn't so much emotional pain you could hear it in her voice and she was in her prime that's what made her so great no one else had that ability that Maria had. She died practically alone abandoned by all her so-called friends and people are still talking about her debating back and forth. Please understand she was very broken inside if she was fine and normal she never could sing like this. Just like Hedy Lamarr was tormented her entire life the fact that she lost her entire family to the Nazis tormented her her entire life because she was deeply loved growing up by her family your father loved her deeply and that's why she married so many times intelligence has nothing to do with it is that deep emotional pain that scars you for life. Not everyone is a survivor regardless of your sex.
Her approach to her music can only be described as "genius." Her technical abililities give great support to her interpretive powers. She has always had an uncanny sense of musicianship in hand with her psychological insight to the roles she performed. Brava, Maria!
'e cosi impattante la sua voce, che non ha nessuna similitudine con altre voci! che strumento vocale volcanico con una intuizione fuori seri! Che fortuna per tutti noi di averla ascoltato! 'e un miracolo della natura del 900 e ancora oggi niente ci fa vibbrare con tanta profondita! Che artista inigualabile!
In assoluto una delle più belle e folgoranti registrazioni di Maria negli anni d'oro. Un Suicidio così non lo canterà mai più, lo raffinerà, lo farà diventare più pulito, lucido. Ma come si fa a non rimanere inchiodati ad ascoltare tutta la gamma di suoni e sfumature della sua voce e, soprattutto, quel registro che da mezzosoprano scende addirittura in quello del bass-baritono, con una lentezza di canto che denota non solo una estensione vocale straordinaria ma anche un diaframma d'acciaio. Mai nessuna è arrivata a tanto. Maria, soltanto Maria.
I’ve been totally absorbed by Callas for weeks now, but this!!! There are moments in some of her arias when tears roll down my face, but with this one I find myself with my mouth wide open in amazement when she goes deep. Powerful. Amazing. Incomparable.
03:40 is... just ... sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo vehement And quite a daring variation, ornamenting such a sweeping chest-voice passage
María Callas en Suicidio es realmente espeluznante! Nadie podría preparar ese final tan dramático como Ella. Empieza como 3 compases antes a preparar su voz más oscura llegando a un final que te deja la emoción de la su tragedia!! Brava María,come sei Grande in quest'aria.
Listen mortals! She is Maria Callas! One of the greatest voices of opera and perhaps the most versatile soprano who has known the genre. Unique woman, of a temperament capable of giving a "not" at the same Aristotle Onassis and able to challenge the unions to work for their long hours of rehearsal. Those who have known agree on something that does not produce any other singer: Everyone left with their mouths open! She is the Diva!
Callas at her best is quite simply untouchable. Let’s face it, she was a .phenomenon, as was Sutherland in a different way and it’s quite likely there will never again be opera singers of this standard simply because they lack the correct training today even if they possess naturally great voices.
No one has ever trained like Callas. Giulini said she lived like a monk (until she met Onassis). There are many accounts by other singers in productions with Callas who said she always wanted rehearsals to go longer and longer than anyone else wanted.
Escuchen mortales! Ella es María Callas! Una de las voces mas grande de la ópera y quizás, la soprano mas versátil que haya conocido el género. Mujer única, de un temperamento capaz de darle un "no" al mismo Aristóteles Onassis y capaz de desafiar a los sindicatos a la hora de trabajar por sus largas horas de ensayo. Quienes la han conocido coinciden en algo que no produce ninguna otra cantante. A todos dejó con la boca abierta! Ella es la Diva!
A true form of art, Callas created her own style, form, and dimension of opera singing. As to why, to this day, her music remains in its unique form, a gold standard of opera. Her art is the truth.
A zseni közel 70 év után is zseni, pótolhatatlan tehetség, Ő maga a zene, az érzelem , a drámaiság és micsoda technika , félelmetes ahogy " liftezik " ez az isteni hang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS WAS THE REAL CALLAS!!! This is the sound that created the legend of callas this is why she became thee diva of the century and for many a opening door to the majestic world of opera
Los comentarios aquí en su mayoría son excelentes, es una delicia leerlos. Solo agrego que ella supo transmitir con su voz y su interpretación, su ser más profundo , lo que corría por sus venas, la tragedia, el drama humano. Saludos cordiales.
Spectacular indeed, everything from top to bottom is flawless, flawless interpretation, flawless execution, flawless tone, I prefer Birgit Nilsson's B5 with diminuendo but Callas B5 is so full of power, it makes everything shake.
She's a superhero her poeer was her voice. She could blow all other singers away. She could beat 50 mariah careys 20 whitney houstons 1 tebaldi 1 tetrazini 1 sutherland 1 ponslle 1 price
Maravillosa interpretación, a lo que , nos tiene acostumbrados la "EGREGIA MARÍA CALLAS" ¿Coincidencia? la letra de esta aria , escrita creo que de su puño y letra, apareció dentro de su misal, en su mesita de luz, el día en que la encontraron muerta. Armando Nazareno Cerutti
Des notes de poitrine à tomber !! C'est extraterrestre .Comment cette même femme a pu en même temps chanter les contre Mi de Lakme et les mi Bémol de Somnambulla ? Un prodige unique .
Maria vive la tragedia di Gioconda fino in fondo è la esprime con la voce potente delle interpretazioni tragiche!Impressionanti i toni bassi a cui arriva. La voce aumenta di volume come avesse un microfono in gola e a volte hanno un tono tenorile.Una Gioconda insuperabile.
Well, Maria said she was wonderfully happy during her years with Onassis. The type of happiness she certainly never had before. Who are we to deny her that? And before that, she had to work non-stop like a slave to keep her difficult voice in condition. I doubt she would have kept up that level of training past 40 even without Onassis.
Time goes by and everytime I come back to this video I still cannot believe how she could sing like this. That cheap phrase "no words can describe" becomes real here. Its a cliche, but what can one do? Its unexplainable lol
SHIIIII !... HOW I LOVE MADAME CALLAS!... "THE LAST GODESS OF THE OLIMPIC HEAVEN!... SHE WAS, IS AND WILL BE ETERNAL AS LONG BEAUTY EXISTS IN THIS WORLD"... AND THIS WORLD EXISTS..............................................
Wow! It was genuine. Method acting to the CORE. There is quite simply no other way that Maria Callas could have communicated Gioconda's pain to this extent! ...I had a musical inspiration yesterday. There is a pop song that I think is very much about BREAKING the cycle of abuse and resentment. In this song, the singer belts, or carries chest voice up. I've come to the realization that I WILL always sound like an opera singer. Now, musically, the two songs communicate very different things! Gioconda is contemplating suicide because she has lost people who are very dear to her. I may be projecting, but I think that The Voice Within is about how the choice to forgive people when they let you down CAN give you "the strength that will guide your way." But, Maria Callas WAS belting as only she could have done so! I think I just decided. I want to sing The Voice Within with how Maria Callas sang Suicidio as my musical inspiration...
Callas era un monstruo.. era perfección esas notas bajas y esos agudos wow y que hablar de los demás adornos.. lo máximo era Callas.. ya nadie pudo igualarla..
MY GOODNESS...WHY DO I FILL MY EYES FULL OF TEARS EVERYTIME I SAW AND LISTEN THE VIDEOS OF "THIS ...WHAT? WONDER CREATURE?...DIVINE CREATURE?... EMBODIMENT OF BEAUTY?"... WHAT IS MADAME CALLAS ?!...
Never has there been a more compelling, more commanding, more fervent, more dramatically glorious voice.
I am convinced that the only reason Callas is not universally acknowledged as the greatest female dramatic vocalist is that there are people who are simply frightened by the depth of her soul-genius.
She is everyone knows she was the greatest another biopic is coming out with Angelina Jolie nobody was so famous in opera from Females and don’t worry her name is engraved in names of other geniuses very very up high there with other legends forever and they only remember those other singers to compare them to Callas
Es que es MARÍA CALLAS, nadie ha pasado el tiempo como ellaS
Volvemos, ella tuvo una voz y presentación para todo.... hasta para cuando las mezzo la odiaron...
Несравненная, неповторимая, недосягаемая навсегда !!!
When she sings the Low, dark chest notes, it’s like a Black Hole- it sucks out all light in the Universe, nothing is Blacker. She is Nature.
Nature is about the absence of light.
I think if Callas had recorded/performed nothing else but this aria, it would still make her the greatest soprano ever (at least among those whose voice technology has captured)
I have said this before and I will say it again. Callas is the greatest soprano who ever lived. La Divina.
Oh please.
Eternal❤
@@liedersanger1
"Please" what? You think this is an outlandish statement?
This is the proof that, unlike many people think, chest voice is the foundation of voice. The only way to get a full, limpid, warm voice and the only access to reach the high notes in a proper way, withouth screaming. There are still too many cliches about masked sound. As people feel the sound in the resonators, they think that they have to place it there, sometimes even in an exagerated way by tightening and forcing it. Just on the contrary! The vibration must resonate there naturally and the only way to do that is controlling your voice from its foundation, from the chest. When you achieve that you feel your voice floating, with an elasticity that very few people have nowadays
sharing your comments. I hope that is ok
that what any earnest singer should strive for ofcourse.....you dont hear that powerful chest voice in (mezzo) soprano so often anymore nowadays
Cierto, muy cierto
she is totally screaming that is why it works..she is literally doing what sopranos are taught not to do ..she is rebelling ...in order to bring it artistically
@@silverkitty2503 a) if that is screaming, I wish more sopranos where "Screaming" like that. b) "sopranos are taught not to do", ok. which sopranos? when? in which school (of singing, not actual physical schools)? c) again, if u call that screaming, don't listen to her Trocatores in the first half of the 50s (referring to a very specific high D, in act 4).
46,962 views? Why does it only show my views?
A miracle of voice, musicality, interpretation, drama, and UNDERSTANDING!.... She, and god knows she is the only one, she creates theatre when she sings... she paints people and emotions with notes and with silences...
And she does it ALWAYS respecting the score AS IT IS WRITTEN, quality the makes her already unique...
Just listen what she does with the very last note sung here, an E flat under the stuff... she gives it into a mezza voce chest tone, (already and achievement in itself) and she modulates it into a piano, then pianissimo sound and takes from the chest into the mask resonances.... even in that little tone at the very end of the aria, she is putting all the musical and dramatic tension needed ....What an incredible genius!
The first notes is something really extraterrestrial, such a HUGE, POWERFUL, RINGING AND CARNIVOROUS middle voice hasn't come out of any human throat till this day. And what about those hard to believe contralto low notes? Callas in her prime had a Wagnerian size instrument throughout her entire range.
chosentenore a bel canto size...a true sfogato...vastly more demanding than anything Wagner could ever possibly conceived...
A comment to match that tone that nobody ever thought they'd hear... again ;) Awesome comment. Listening to the London Farewell version with piano leads to a "was Tibaldi maybe better?"... so one listens to Tibaldi's TH-cam of this Gioconda, which is with orchestra... but fortunately this orchestral version with Callas shows itself too; so one listens to this as well. And it's certain proof that what you say is true. "[Extraterrestrial, huge, powerful, carnivorous (loved that one)... has not come out of any human throat till today]" Thumbs up!
chosentenore and this was in 1952 at the height of her prime.
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You mean Tebaldi?
For God’s sake, cannot be that hard to spell it right?
Carnivorous cavernous, actually.
This will never be equaled! Not one other singer even comes close. What a gift she is to all of us. There really was something superhuman about her.....personally and artistically. I miss her so much.
*If chest voice is wrong, I don't want to be right.*
nice
Goldenthroat86..........I agree 1000%...
goldenthroat86 I’m in love with this comment! 😂
Callas' middle register is the glory of her art, the most amazing sound ever produced by a soprano in recorded history
@@paullewis2413 not only her middle range. Her high notes were the most cavernous as well!
Perfection! This is the one aria sung by this one artist that made me be interested in real opera. Before that it was all about high notes for me. Callas' voice, musicianship, and expression have the power to change people. She has changed me for good.
she is the best that ever lived!
I totally agree!!
Como aficionado de Ópera, tengo que reconocer, que está voz me ha impresionado, ella no tiene que demostrar nada a nadie, lo que tiene que hacer es aplicarse con su Maestro de Canto reforzando la técnica que le ha dado él, seguir cantando sin forzar su volumen y naturalidad que tiene, pues no le hace falta ya que le sobra pero que mucho. Si además sabe colocar las notas de las partituras que cante, en su posición correcta y precisa, ganará en Armónicos y de gran Longevidad vocal. (En el Cantó no todo es la voz, hay que ser un gran músico e intérprete de tu Instrumento, sabiéndolo hacer Sonar con Delicadeza, Arte e Inteligencia, esto es lo que acredita a los grandes cantantes de los mediocres.
Sigue con perseverancia y humildad, ya que tus Talentos tienen un Gran Futuro, y Tranquila que vas a llegar, antes de lo que te esperas, dado que en la Ópera siempre han habido Grandes Voces con Grandes Músicos y ésto en la actualidad no abunda. Así qué te deseo muchas Felicidades y un Gran Futuro.
Me too!!!!!
She sacrificed everything for her art: even her voice!! The chest voice is incredible. She sings like a lyric tenor, a mezzo, a light lyric & a dramatic soprano - all in one aria.
Excelent your coment. That's thru
But i think she's coloratura...
@@auroramenzel1111 dramatic soprano who trained her voice with 19th century bel canto techniques
@@MichaelDG2023 but some people say she's coloratura. Like this th-cam.com/video/rr60WFW-AFM/w-d-xo.html
Así es , muy bien comentado.
Probably heard this 100 times and it still floors me EVERY TIME!!
There is always a note a breath a colour you missed...
According to John Ardoin in his “The Callas Legacy”, the 1959 EMI/Warner studio recording is better. And it sounds like it as this has an unusual echo/reverberation. I wonder how the Naxos remastering sounds.
Fra le tenebre... Unique sound: we not only heard but also see the Darkness
True. This sentence hunted me since I've heard it for the first time. It is just perfect.
Christopher Cesar & Patricia Bruno....It has haunted me ever since I first heard her too!!!! Where did such a deep, huge, bigger that life voice came from???? Certainly from the heaven itself, that is...from her own heart. I will forever love you Maria...!!! May your soul rest in peace and that among the angels with my other beloved Greek you are both singing God's glory. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏🙏
Not only do we hear and see the darkness ...but it envelops us as well. Simply a stunning performance!
Leyla Gencer
@@correasilvio2010 Overrated.
I've been listening to this woman for over 50 years and she has spoilt me for anyone else!.....as lovely as some of their voices are, if I had to choose a recording to take to a desert island this may be it..... incomparable, takes my breath away every time....only Callas!!!
Rudolf Bing said the exact same thing. That once you heard her in a part, you didnt have any interest in hearing anyone else.
this is divine. how could she perfectly do those powerful high notes and low notes and do those lyric high notes?! the best opera singer. ever.
Because that is what great technique allows one to do.
This is the voice and recording that got me hooked on opera, 45 years on, still incomparable.
Virginia Wai ME TOO!! On an LP my parents gave me for Christmas. 53’ Gioconda on one side- Traviata on the other. I was hooked at 14-53 years ago!!!
IT'S ME AGAIN... AT 28 or 29 years she, already, had that voice... THAT ASTONISHING VOICE...OH, HEAVENS!...SHE WAS REALY AN "INSTRUMENT OF DIVINE BEAUTY"..."A THING FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION"...
This is not even possible. Hard to believe, in fact i would not believe it was real had I not known Callasfor the past decade.
Tiago Dalla Vecchia that's why she was called La Divina
There was Callas, then the rest.
Tiago what beautiful words you write. Callas gets you hooked for a lifetime. I’ve been listening to her magic poetry for more than 30 yes and still makes me weep like a baby.
She was a musical genius who understood music at its deepest level....then add to that a Titanic voice capable of anything and you have Maria Callas. It is mind blowing that this same voice sang the Proch Variations.
She sounds so incredible! I just adore her chest voice! The way she sings this aria shakes me to the core! I don't know whether I should cry, or recoil in terror, or sit there agape. I believe her. It is like she really is contemplating suicide, and all I can do is sit there, frozen, and I am powerless to move, to try to save her! I wonder if this "learned helplessness" response is what she was going for. I feel so bad for Gioconda, and WITH Gioconda! Is this Callas's true genius? To carry the audience with her, and communicate so effectively that each one of us feels what her character is going through?
Well, maybe that's just part of her genius, but certainly an important part! And I agree - ”shakes me to the core” is exactly what I felt too, and no other singer comes close to that effect. Nor do their performances haunt me for days after having listened to them. No one else can convey such depths of despair, such raw pain. An immense gift, and we are so lucky to have these recordings!
@@veramayer9571 Absolutely! Agreed 100%
Il n'y a pas de mots pour dire une telle perfection, Maria est simplement prodigieuse.
Amongst the most amazing musical sounds to come out of the human voice- and they were all sang by Callas.
I agree, but listen to Lina-Bruna Rasa's recording of Voi lo sapette and you will find it better that the one Callas did (not by a long shot of course) at least that's what i though
imagine all this repertoire without Callas having been there to sing it -- fortunately an enormous, unknown, loss
@@filipp721 I will go hear Rasa, willing to learn. Many comments are interesting to discover versions that I don't know.
Dimitrova too
Montserrat Caballe's Maria Stuarda, Vissi d'arte, signore ascolta, and etc. Caballe pinned Maria Stuarda as her own.
Oh god!!!!....... unbelievable, heard the '59 recording many many times and it blew me away, but this....gets into your very soul and breaks your heart.......we will never her the like again....ever!!!..
La voce della Callas fino al 53 (più o meno) era praticamente quasi ineguagliabile.
È ahimè ovvio che non poteva che ridursi con l'uso e tutto il resto
Alcuni hanno detto giustamente che molte sue colleghe hanno mantenuto la voce a buon punto sin oltre i 50. è vero, ma non avevano all'inizio i mezzi che aveva lei.
Della serie: ho tantissimo e non durerà a lungo, devo sbrigarmi a cantare più che posso, poi non sarà più così
I was frozen. Powerless to move from her first note... There will NEVER be another like her!
Prima donna assoluta!! Perfecta y sobrehumana!!!
This is divine, incandescent singing. We poor mortals should listen on our knees and gasp in wonder. No other singer can possibly compare...
Public....realise and learn. This is is a 29 year old soprano ! Not just magnificently trained but amazingly instinctive and talented. She revolutionised opera purely through her voice.
Callas set the bar so high that no modern singer can ever match her.
I love her voice!!!
sharing your comments. I hope that is ok.
29 years........god bless.........what a talent
Senza dubbio il periodo migliore, è durato pochi anni un miracolo senza eguali queste registrazioni ci fanno venire i brividi Callas una per sempre
Dal 1947 al 1953 la Callas poteva fare quello che voleva con la voce, e lo fece ai massimi livelli.
I don't want to listen to anyone but MARIA CALLAS.
Realmente estremece, que voz. La adoro.
Her cavernous low notes!! Flood of tears!
Isn t she amazing? Sounds once heard in a lifetime (as Tito Gobbi once said). And even today the controversy rages on. Adulated and hated in the same excessive way than during her lifetime, but when it comes to Maria Callas everything is out of proportion. Her detracors would say anything to decry her (even using fecal terms) and her admirers are as adoring now than then. This woman is miracle (as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said)....
+123pailin She makes everyone else singing this sound trivial and contrived. She IS Gioconda.
Shahrdad she wasn't so much emotional pain you could hear it in her voice and she was in her prime that's what made her so great no one else had that ability that Maria had. She died practically alone abandoned by all her so-called friends and people are still talking about her debating back and forth. Please understand she was very broken inside if she was fine and normal she never could sing like this. Just like Hedy Lamarr was tormented her entire life the fact that she lost her entire family to the Nazis tormented her her entire life because she was deeply loved growing up by her family your father loved her deeply and that's why she married so many times intelligence has nothing to do with it is that deep emotional pain that scars you for life. Not everyone is a survivor regardless of your sex.
Her approach to her music can only be described as "genius." Her technical abililities give great support to her interpretive powers. She has always had an uncanny sense of musicianship in hand with her psychological insight to the roles she performed. Brava, Maria!
Calllas in "Suicidio"! Mammia mia che brava. Un piacere ascoltarla!
Absolutely amazing. Her chest voice is so vital in this. Her highs are so piercing and intense, she had it all.
'e cosi impattante la sua voce, che non ha nessuna similitudine con altre voci! che strumento vocale volcanico con una intuizione fuori seri! Che fortuna per tutti noi di averla ascoltato! 'e un miracolo della natura del 900 e ancora oggi niente ci fa vibbrare con tanta profondita! Che artista inigualabile!
amazing best gioconda ever
Have you heard Ghena Dimitrova's version?
@@kgjhskgskgskgskdgfsk Not even close.
In assoluto una delle più belle e folgoranti registrazioni di Maria negli anni d'oro. Un Suicidio così non lo canterà mai più, lo raffinerà, lo farà diventare più pulito, lucido. Ma come si fa a non rimanere inchiodati ad ascoltare tutta la gamma di suoni e sfumature della sua voce e, soprattutto, quel registro che da mezzosoprano scende addirittura in quello del bass-baritono, con una lentezza di canto che denota non solo una estensione vocale straordinaria ma anche un diaframma d'acciaio. Mai nessuna è arrivata a tanto. Maria, soltanto Maria.
Cierto.
This is perfection. As perfect as a human being can get.
Said Callas: Music is so enormous. It envelops you in a state of agony and torment.
That's the most beautiful profoundly deep heavy dark cavernous chest voice I have ever heard.
I’ve been totally absorbed by Callas for weeks now, but this!!!
There are moments in some of her arias when tears roll down my face, but with this one I find myself with my mouth wide open in amazement when she goes deep.
Powerful. Amazing. Incomparable.
Stupenda, meravigliosa, bravissima, senza paragoni l'unica in questa opera ❤
Vero, e l'elenco delle opere in cui ha lasciato un'impronta indelebile è lungo.
la Dea greca .
divina .
Oui à cela près que la Gioconda n'est ni "une déesse grecque" ni "divine".
@@mariobarbov9605 infatti parlava della cantante, non della Gioconda.
03:40 is... just ... sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo vehement
And quite a daring variation, ornamenting such a sweeping chest-voice passage
María Callas en Suicidio es realmente espeluznante! Nadie podría preparar ese final tan dramático como Ella. Empieza como 3 compases antes a preparar su voz más oscura llegando a un final que te deja la emoción de la su tragedia!! Brava María,come sei Grande in quest'aria.
Listen mortals! She is Maria Callas! One of the greatest voices of opera and perhaps the most versatile soprano who has known the genre. Unique woman, of a temperament capable of giving a "not" at the same Aristotle Onassis and able to challenge the unions to work for their long hours of rehearsal. Those who have known agree on something that does not produce any other singer: Everyone left with their mouths open! She is the Diva!
Now that's a miracle.
tanti anni fa' mi avvicinai alla lirica ascoltando questo brano e ne rimasi folgorato...
Callas at her best is quite simply untouchable. Let’s face it, she was a .phenomenon, as was Sutherland in a different way and it’s quite likely there will never again be opera singers of this standard simply because they lack the correct training today even if they possess naturally great voices.
No one has ever trained like Callas. Giulini said she lived like a monk (until she met Onassis).
There are many accounts by other singers in productions with Callas who said she always wanted rehearsals
to go longer and longer than anyone else wanted.
What an incredible low register...A unique voice!!!!
Escuchen mortales! Ella es María Callas! Una de las voces mas grande de la ópera y quizás, la soprano mas versátil que haya conocido el género. Mujer única, de un temperamento capaz de darle un "no" al mismo Aristóteles Onassis y capaz de desafiar a los sindicatos a la hora de trabajar por sus largas horas de ensayo. Quienes la han conocido coinciden en algo que no produce ninguna otra cantante. A todos dejó con la boca abierta! Ella es la Diva!
A true form of art, Callas created her own style, form, and dimension of opera singing. As to why, to this day, her music remains in its unique form, a gold standard of opera. Her art is the truth.
My Lord what A Voice !!!!
Maria, I'm listening to you..I'm crying..I won't tell you anything more ... because you understood me ... I know it ...
This aria by Maria Callas is still unsurpassed, will it ever?
A zseni közel 70 év után is zseni, pótolhatatlan tehetség, Ő maga a zene, az érzelem , a drámaiság és micsoda technika , félelmetes ahogy " liftezik " ez az isteni hang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best La Gioconda in all of the history until today time..only Callas could do it. All the others are in behind to try to do there best !
impressionante! La Callas super-umana!
wow what a timbre....what a spectacular color of voice through high, middle and low register....equally powerful...stupendous
THIS WAS THE REAL CALLAS!!! This is the sound that created the legend of callas this is why she became thee diva of the century and for many a opening door to the majestic world of opera
HYPNOTIC! I feel, allways, my eyes full of tears... MY GOODNESS...IT IS NOT FAIR, MADAME CALLAS!.............
All that can be said is: O M G!!!!! Way beyond phenomenal!!!!!!!!!
This technique was INSINE
Θεία φωνη, σε πηγαινειι στον κοσμο των θεων !!!! Δεν θα ξαναυπηρξει αυτο το θαυμα !!!!!
She proved in million ways that perfection exists … it was only once and forever
Indeed!
this is WOOOOW!!!!! god bless her...
The greatest and most versatile female vocalist of recorded music.
This became my favorite aria ever because of her.
Me also- a fav, but only if sung by Callas. 🎶
Los comentarios aquí en su mayoría son excelentes, es una delicia leerlos. Solo agrego que ella supo transmitir con su voz y su interpretación, su ser más profundo , lo que corría por sus venas, la tragedia, el drama humano. Saludos cordiales.
true... this is the best rendition ever from every singer in the world borned or to be borned...even herself. Period.
There are some rare moments in life when pure beauty can actually scare you. Listen to Callas singing this area and you will understand what I mean.
Yes! Put my feelings into words right there
Spectacular indeed, everything from top to bottom is flawless, flawless interpretation, flawless execution, flawless tone, I prefer Birgit Nilsson's B5 with diminuendo but Callas B5 is so full of power, it makes everything shake.
Simply the best Gioconda ever.
MI DIOSA!! LA ONCEAVA MUSA!! ÚNICA, INIGUALABLE, LA INCOMPARABLE.. FOR EVER MY CALLAS!!
inarrivabile, gigantesca Gioconda.
Oggi si esaltano per la matrioska, e va beh, chi si contenta gode.
She's a superhero her poeer was her voice. She could blow all other singers away. She could beat 50 mariah careys 20 whitney houstons 1 tebaldi 1 tetrazini 1 sutherland 1 ponslle 1 price
Maria Callas is the Gold Standard for this aria!
Maravillosa interpretación, a lo que , nos tiene acostumbrados la "EGREGIA MARÍA CALLAS" ¿Coincidencia? la letra de esta aria , escrita creo que de su puño y letra, apareció dentro de su misal, en su mesita de luz, el día en que la encontraron muerta. Armando Nazareno Cerutti
Des notes de poitrine à tomber !! C'est extraterrestre .Comment cette même femme a pu en même temps chanter les contre Mi de Lakme et les mi Bémol de Somnambulla ? Un prodige unique .
I prefer nillsons B5 ? Don’t forget this is aria and art your can’t pick and choose like tomatoes in a grocery shop lol
@@MissAlexia ok miss .That's your point of wiew .
Maria vive la tragedia di Gioconda fino in fondo è la esprime con la voce potente delle interpretazioni tragiche!Impressionanti i toni bassi a cui arriva. La voce aumenta di volume come avesse un microfono in gola e a volte hanno un tono tenorile.Una Gioconda insuperabile.
Troppo Grande! Maria era una VOCE non paragonabile! UNICA IMMENSA!❤
DAMN YOU ONASSIS!
Well, Maria said she was wonderfully happy during her years with Onassis. The type of happiness
she certainly never had before.
Who are we to deny her that? And before that, she had to work non-stop like a slave to keep her difficult
voice in condition. I doubt she would have kept up that level of training past 40 even without Onassis.
Time goes by and everytime I come back to this video I still cannot believe how she could sing like this.
That cheap phrase "no words can describe" becomes real here. Its a cliche, but what can one do? Its unexplainable lol
SHIIIII !... HOW I LOVE MADAME CALLAS!... "THE LAST GODESS OF THE OLIMPIC HEAVEN!... SHE WAS, IS AND WILL BE ETERNAL AS LONG BEAUTY EXISTS IN THIS WORLD"... AND THIS WORLD EXISTS..............................................
Rimango attonito ogni volta che la sento, come se fosse la prima volta
Fabulous aria Callas does it justice 100percent
Her sound was so rich and fullsome in the those early years and of course her musicality made everything she sang come to life. Thanks again
Senza paragoni Medea, la Gioconda, Norma, Aida e Machbeth lei é stupenda meravigliosa bravissima e l'unica
i agree with all the comments shown. . the greatest artist of this or any centurey
I love this song. It took awhile to get used to it but
Wow! It was genuine. Method acting to the CORE. There is quite simply no other way that Maria Callas could have communicated Gioconda's pain to this extent! ...I had a musical inspiration yesterday. There is a pop song that I think is very much about BREAKING the cycle of abuse and resentment. In this song, the singer belts, or carries chest voice up. I've come to the realization that I WILL always sound like an opera singer. Now, musically, the two songs communicate very different things! Gioconda is contemplating suicide because she has lost people who are very dear to her. I may be projecting, but I think that The Voice Within is about how the choice to forgive people when they let you down CAN give you "the strength that will guide your way." But, Maria Callas WAS belting as only she could have done so! I think I just decided. I want to sing The Voice Within with how Maria Callas sang Suicidio as my musical inspiration...
Callas era un monstruo.. era perfección esas notas bajas y esos agudos wow y que hablar de los demás adornos.. lo máximo era Callas.. ya nadie pudo igualarla..
MY GOODNESS...WHY DO I FILL MY EYES FULL OF TEARS EVERYTIME I SAW AND LISTEN THE VIDEOS OF "THIS ...WHAT? WONDER CREATURE?...DIVINE CREATURE?... EMBODIMENT OF BEAUTY?"... WHAT IS MADAME CALLAS ?!...
La Divina. A Goddess. That was Callas, and always will be. Never equalled.
100 years ago today, happy centennial La Divina ❤❤
The Great Servant of Art…La Divina!
Incredible in every respect!
Sublime. In «dentro l’avel» è un Contralto, neppure un Mezzo.
It makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up straight amazing what phenomenal voice.