IL Trovatore 1953 LIVE Scala Maria Callas (D'amor sull'ali rose + Miserere)
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- El debut de la Divina en la Scala en este rol. El último año de la Giovanne Callas, con esa voz torrencial, potente, ágil y metálica; Diciembre de 1953. Una performance interesante, la misma calidad vocal que en Mexico, en íntegras condiciones casi (excepto algunos sobreagudos que habia realizado como arreglos), con arreglos interpretativos del estilo Callas los cuales la caracterizaran años posteriores (por ejemplo ver final de 'D'amor sull'ali rose).
El sonido esta mejorado, remasterizado a estéreo.
Arte puro, del mejor, y para todos!
When Maria Callas sings, she has the ability to make you think you have never heard that music before.
yes. i can hear that now!
I completely agree! I would take it even a step further. She had so much musicianship that I am tempted to think that I have never heard true MUSIC before! I enjoy many other singers! But, she touches my soul in a way that is completely unique to her! ...May you rest in peace, and thank you for the wonderful gift that you have given to the world!
She composed it
Listening to other singers performing the same songs is enjoyable, but it exponentially increases my appreciation of MC.
Callas was the greatest soprano in history. Her talent was enormous, She was, and still is, the Mount Everest of singers.
Hardly.
For me, Callas in 53/54 was at her best. Never mind the 'singing actress' tag she's labelled with, at this stage it was a breathtaking and astonishing voice. Capable of any feat. Nothing comes close
Agreed. Sutherland said those who heard Callas after 1953 didn’t hear Callas.
Once you go Callas you cannot got back. Other singers were fantastic certainly, but Callas was on her stratospheric Plantet Callas 🪐
This type of singing doesn’t exist anymore, BRAVA LA CALLAS!
Never a truer word.
Maria in quegli anni non aveva rivali, Luchino Visconti che era presente alla rappresentazione disse che nel palco vicino al suo vide una signora che aveva le lacrime agli occhi per l'emozione durante quest'aria... era Elizabeth Schwarzkopf !!!
Quegli anni erano il 1940 - 1965
@@arutysamuel-hz1knnon esageriamo….
I’m 60 years old sitting in a nice hot bath with tears streaming listening to this amazing woman. The greatest singer anywhere, ever!
I ve listened to practically all sopranos as Leonora but none did justice to the role like Maria did! Eternally DIVINA!
Rosa Ponselle😊
And it is in the small details that one perceives a musical sensitivity that is rare and incomparable, as in the recitative " . . . e tuuuuu nol sai", the flawless trills of anguish; the slow tempo, which would make other great sopranos gasp, adds to this performance's heroic artistry, and the fioriture which encompass the entire gamut of a woman's love. This isn't an aria-it's a Michelangelo sculpture.
Si! Ma dopo il dimagrimento la voce non era più quella purtroppo!
You are absolutely right. No other singer understands music as she did
Thank you for this great comment! She was and still is one incredible performer who will never be forgotten.
Since I wasn't born during the time of the composers, Callas is, without a doubt the only one who can sing with heart, mind and soul. To her, singing isn't about showing off or fame... it's speaking to the human spirit, reflecting the emotions of the characters. No one, no matter who can even be compared with this giant of the golden era. Every singer of today should be forced to sit down and listen to this...
Totally agree!
she is beyond the beyond . Grande Maria forever❤!!!!!
❤я не знаю Вас, но Ваш комментарий потрясающе точен!
The elasticity of the voice. The shaping of phrases. The freedom of the upper voice.
Unsurpassed.
Absolutely. I remember hearing her telling an interviewer that after her 1958 London Traviata certain critics remarked that she sounded "tired" in Act III. She said that she took that as a compliment because she had really struggled to find the "right voice" for the dying Violetta. And it was true, her voice changed from the exuberance of Act I to the most wonderfullly beautiful vulnerable and heartrending scene with Pere Germont in Act Ii to the broken dying Violetta in Act III, Sheer genius!
Me too! and it's rather illogical to har sopraos dying in full voice !!!!!
I will always say:"once you heard Callas,no one else is good enough".No one before her,no one after her.
Sono assolutamente d'accordo !. GraZIE !
Yes, but I say the same for Renata Tebaldi.
I mean the instrument is incredible, but her top register is phenomenal!
Agreed. Once you hear Callas you cannot go back.
Ricardo Lmass esagerato!!!
she is absolutely ridiculous. period. her voice was just sooooo blissful. so beautiful. so flexible. so precise. so elegant. it is no wonder people went crazy when they saw her live...i can hardly contain myself 55 years after the fact!
Her sound here is so riveting...a murky silver yet fuller and more opulent than it would be 3-4 years later. Every note is a revelation.
yes it almost sounds light and dark at the same time
That is the performance where a sobbing Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Said: That woman is a miracle!...Callas for ever!!!!
+123pailin Luchino Visconti is the one who told this story. He got Ghiringhelli to allow him to use his box, and during this aria, he heard someone sobbing behind him, although he thought he had Ghiringhelli's box alone to himself. When he looked behind him, he saw Schwarzkopf sitting with tears running down her face. She looked at him and said, "That woman is a miracle." It's on the second DVD of Callas Interviews on EMI.
+Shahrdad E Schwarzkopf said, she is a machine miracle..
😍
And Schwarzkopf was no slouch!
L'atmosfera che crea il canto della Callas in quest'aria, è qualcosa che ti solleva da terra...grandissima performance! Grazie
Brava❤😂😢
Maria è una dolente Leonora che coinvolge e emoziona in un canto pieno di pathos. La capacità di Maria di esprimere i sentimenti e la sua incredibile musicalità sono inarrivabili
in the required passages she sings note by note, she never destroys the melodic line as some sopranos of his time do ..... that unique musicality makes it unique in its time
She not he
@@pugh.joseph you have never been wrong perfect gift
Absolutamente extraordinaria. Queso D'amor sul' ali rose fa testo per qualità interpretativa, espressività, squillo, qualità delle mezze voce e pianissimi.... il fraseggio di Callas sempre trova nove orizzonti, insomma, straordinaria... tecnica superlativa, messa in voce, trilli, musicalità. Dal Miserere già non si parla perché e, credo, veramente, vocal e drammaticamente straordinario in tutta la gamma di colori e sfumature.
Leyla Gencer the Best!
La Soprano Dramatica Belcantista Maria Callas da una clase magistral de canto de esta aria de la Ópera IL Trovador. Brillante....
Nunca ha tenido rival!!!
Siempre sera la mejor de todos los tiempos ninguna soprano podra igualarla y menos superarla!!!!!
Leyla gencer
@@correasilvio2010 невозможно превзойти Богиню !!!! Снизу вверх смотреть !!!
leaving behind all the comentaries of vocal decline, etc, I think it is important to say that all artists should be considered from the viewpoint of their best, their peak, because only they achieved that! decline will come for all human beings... Joan Sutherland may have sung for longer,but nevertheless she should be juged for her beautifull singing during the late fifties and sixties... Callas is much more than all that...she "creates" voices for the rolles, and her insight is near miraculous.
3ув
@@user-hg6zf7nx7l Eto clobo ne ponimaio, Konstantin!
From what l have read about callas, people think her dramatic weight loss caused her vocal problems. Im not sure how anyone could be expected to move on stage with grace when their weight is a huge problem and she was so uncomfortable being large. She had a huge voice and from these recordings people can still appreciate her beautiful voice.
Благодарю! Невероятное исполнение, недосягаемое мастерство! Помним и любим тебя, Божественная Мария!
I have listened to Maria for over 50 years. I have this complete opera recording but have not heard it in a long time. I came across this performance again here and it only confirms my long held opinion that Maria was the consummate artist and that in my lifetime there will never be another like her. Glorious!
Joseph Palumbo .....I too have been listening and marvelling at this phenomenon for over 50 years.......truly glorious indeed!!
I totally agree
y tiene toda la razón
I finally understand: " THIS THING CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLD" to enchanted us for a BRIEF SPACE-TIME... At 20's SHE WAS ALREADY SPECTACULAR... HER VOICE WAS "DRAMATIC" ...I THINK THAT WITH TIME HER VOICE BECAME A "MORE SOFT TYPE OF SOPRANO"... BUT ALWAYS ASTONISHING...ALWAYS BREATHTAKING... ALWAYS "OUT OF THIS WORLD"!... ALWAYS DIVINE!...FOREVER "MARIA CALLAS" !...
Her voice is so dramatic. I've heard some roles sung by her (Turandot, Lady Macbeth, Santuzza, Medea, Nedda), and cannot hear them sung by anybody else.
A young Callas indeed , but with a mastery I have no words for ....
HER VOICE IS NOT OF THIS WORLD... IT IS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!... AND THERE ARE SO MUCH PAIN AND SO MUCH SORROW!... I'LL BE DAMNED!... I HAVE, AGAIN, MY EYES FULL OF TEARS ...IT IS NOT FAIR, MADAME!... C'EST PAS JUSTE, MADAME CALLAS!... I'LL ALLWAYS LOVE YOU VERY, VERY MUCH!...
maria engrácio, Callas was definitely from another galaxy.
There is no doubt about the most powerfull dramatic voice. When we listen for the opera and try to go beyond the voice, seeking for the acting, Callas is unique. No Verdian soprano is better served than her. She is trully a committed artist.
A singular talent with otherworldly grace. Unrepeatable.
Thank God! He Sent Callas!!! This is Beyond Beautiful!
I hear everything about Leonora here. Her fragility, her despair, her confusion, her anger, her resoluteness. Everything.
Callas was a truly a genius of tones. Every phrase and musical line is varied and dramatically emphasised to make an authentic vocal character.
Qué suerte que tengamos posibilidad de oír esta voz tan maravillosa en tan preciosa composición. La ovación que el público le brinda es parte de la música.
I've heard that argument about the loss of weight that weakened the voice. That really did not occur until late in her career, on recordings where the voice had become quite thin in the middle and a rather acrid color in the upper middle notes. I would say that like all great artists, her distinct temperament and the incredible value she placed on expression cost her voice more than any diet. When she was wafer thin she gave stunning performances (with huge sound) of Bolena, Medea, Norma.
Yes…in December 1953 she had lost the weight (lost 68 pounds) by the time of this performance. She sounds stunning and opulent in color and tone. The photos posted are 1952 or earlier.
Not to mention her unerring instinct of how to make a phrase meaningful, not just observing the composer's notations but adding something of her own soul to it, where to hold back, where to accelerate a little etc etc. these are the small details which bring meaning to both the words and the character give it life. Not just beautiful notes beautifully sang but with little life in them.
Well put!
@@liedersanger1 Not just beautiful notes beautifully sang but with little life in them s/b "beautifully sung".
Бессмертная! Божественная! Недосягаемая! Спасибо Творцу за его Великое Создание!!!!!! 20 февраля 2019г.
When I listen to early Callas I feel she was somewhere else in the universe dropping by to give us this and then gone.
I only saw her last concert and she had gone and a beautiful lady was on stage doing what she could.
I too only saw her on the last tour in Chicago. She had not gone, in my view, because what remained was her incredible ability to become a character. In five arias and a duet and dressed only a plain white gown with a red stole and no jewelry she became: 1] a Spanish royal lady-Ximene singing "Pleurez mex yeux"; 2] a French princess singing the first duet from DonCarlo; 3] a Sicilian peasant woman singing "Voi lo sapete"; 4] a great mythological musician singing "Che faro" from Orfeo ed Euridice; 5] a Spanish noble woman singing "O don fatale". She actually transformed before our eyes into each of these characters both physically and vocally even the with limited resources that remained to her. What she must have been when those resources were at their highest could only have been a miracle.
La Callas è semplicemente divina !
Ai raggione vechio amico !
Un fenomeno della natura!
Sono pienamente d'accordo
Finalmente una cantante che le piace 😉
Maurizio Mancini
Ma non è vero!
Adoro più di 40 soprani !
Vai sul mio canale buon divertimento !
il vecchio
She was called La Divina -- listening to this magnificent performance of Aria from Trovatore leaves no doubt the term La Divina is right on!
In an interview for the French TV in 1969, Visconti talked about this Trovatore production at La Scala. He said : "I arrived in Milan for business. I didn.t have tickets for La Scala so Ghiringhelli invited me in his private box. His box is on the side, almost on the stage. Maria was singing and I had this strange feeling to be on the stage and she, being in the audience. I didn't notice that there was a woman standing behind me. At the end of the aria, I turned around, and I saw her. She was in tears, really crying... It was Elisabeth Schwartzkopf. "
Faust075 very beautiful worlds
Faust075
I think this is when Schwarzkopf looked at Visconti and said, "This woman is a miracle." th-cam.com/video/m0AoJ7ldIcs/w-d-xo.htmlm47s
They truly respected each others' art. And while their voices are not the most sculpted tonal beauty, they... Callas and Schwartrzkopf are the best of their era. Thanks for the post!
Absolument unique et incomparable .Aucune cantatrice n'a jamais atteint ce niveau dans cet air si difficile ! C'est de la perfection : toutes les notes ,les trilles parfaits , les nuances piano ,forte dans les aigus .Des graves sonores et des vocalises parfaites et précises : un miracle .Milanov peut aller se rhabiller .
Avez-vous déjà entendu Rosa Ponselle chanter il trovatore?
@@larasu540 oui elle a une voix admirable ,voire bien plus belle que Callas , surtout à l'octave basse .Cependant Callas fait preuve d'une intelligence musicale supérieure dans l'interprétation ,et pour ma part ,je la préfère ( mais c'est personnel !).
@@eberlinpascal2837 L'interpretation de Callas, c'est unique. Je cherche une vivant Interprete un petit peux comme elle.
divina nell'espressività.
crescendi , diminuendi, filati e improvvisi colori pieni di volume e aggressività erano per lei realizzabili senza fatica . la sua magnifica tecnica le consentiva appunto di servirsi della sua voce come se la plasmasse ogni secondo con le sue mani....
grandissima Maria
le persone hanno poca memoria e, pur avendo potuto godere del talento eccelso di una artista come Maria, alcuni ricordano di lei solo quello che di negativo ha avuto negli ultimi anni di attività artistica . Maria è passata sul mondo artistico come una magica meteora che ha lasciato abbagliati e rapiti tutti coloro che sapevano cosa fosse il bel canto e quanta intelligenza occorresse per saperlo gestire in maniera divina.
un poeta oramai poco studiato, manzoni, ha detto di napoleone una cosa eccezionale.... nui chiniam la fronte al massimo fattor che volle in lui, del creator suo spirito più vasta orma stampar..... è tutto valido anche per la callas,,,, e io non sono un bigotto! c'è gente che ama parlare solo in forma di critica negativa della nostra immensa maria, lasciateli dire: quod nullum est nullum producit effectum
+Bruna Marini, grazie per il bellissimo commento.
+Poet4you1 sono pienamente d'accordo. Grazie.
+Federico Castaldi esattamente dello stesso parere.
This is pure magic.
Maria-Prima Donna Assoluta
prima e pur troppo ultima Donna Assoluta
There are sopranos and there is Callas.
@@pugh.joseph Yes you are right Joey. Again: There are sopranos including Sondra Radvonosky and There is Maria Callas.
@@AndreSantos-rb3dn Music is subjective. The greatest sopranos are Maria Callas, Sondra Radvonosky, Renee Fleming and Joan Sunderland
@@pugh.joseph I'm sorry Joey but Sandra Radvonosky ,Renee Fleming and others there's nothing to be compared to Callas. Maria Callas is the greatest opera singer ever in history. She was a genius and a genius cannot be duplicated. She was a superhuman she transcended. I could go on here and write 100 lines to talk about Callas but there's no need.
@@AndreSantos-rb3dn it is my opinion
@@AndreSantos-rb3dn You define hyperbole.
She did not spare herself, even singing Wagner. She gave it all.
Maria non finirai mai di commuoverci con la tua sublime arte canora. Grazie.
@Shahrdad I am not remotely surprised at either Visconti or Schwarzkopf reacting like that. My own reactions at the few live performances i attended were similar and I was in my teens then. In Traviata in 1958 at ROH by the end we were all sobbing, but in act II just before "Ah dite alla giovine" there was the most eerie silence. You could hear a pin drop. By the end of the aria we were all in tears. The voice was only half of it. The other half was how she used it and her supreme musicianship.
30 years old and HER VOICE WAS ASTONISHING, OVERWHELMING AND, ALSO, HER INTERPRETATION... People that made that noise in the audience MUST BE "BEASTS"... THEY SHOULD BE QUIET AND IN ABSOLUTE SILENCE BECAUSE THEY WERE LISTEN A VOICE DIVINE... A VOICE FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION... "INSUPERABILE"( I Agree with Mr or Miss Pravilad as HE or SHE wrote 3 days ago).
You are confusing two different concerts, madame. This one is not the one La divina was interrupted by her rival’s fans.
A cada palabra le da el significado correspondiente, no es solo una cantante, es una artista. Sus ligados, su color, su intensidad en el decir, su técnica, sus pianisimos, sus agudos tajantes, en fin. La mejor entre las mejores. Me emociona escucharla, no es necesario verla, su espíritu esta entre nosotros para disfrutar su arte incomparable. Saludos
Luchino Visconti recalled sitting in Ghiringhelli's box at La Scala and watching this perfomance, and during this aria, he heard a woman crying behind him. When he turned around, he saw Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sitting behind him with tears streaming down her face. She looked at him and said "That woman is a miracle." So very true.
What a wonderful story!
Thank you!
So many wonderful things, it's hard to know where to start. Everyone knows the sad story of the vocal decline and it's little short of tragic. But what you are left with is miracles like this, which are all the more remarkable when you know what comes later.
For me It's the combination of complete vocal control allied to breathtaking musical insight and a sovereign sense of the style. But there's something else as well. It's all used to show who this character and what she is facing. All those fleeting moments of hope, despair and everything in between. It's a kind of vocal hyper-realism. All at the service of Verdi's music and captured by the microphone. Simply remarkable.
Светлая память великой Марии Каллас.
Let us never forget that it is a live performance, showing Callas at her highest level
VERY BEAUTIFULL.....DIVA FOREVER!!!
Грандиозно! Гневные, темные краски в "Miserere"...воистину - Божественная!
Anyone with reservations about Callas should hear this sample of her voice and her art!
Sublime voice! Everytime I sing D'amor sull'ali rosee it’s impossible for me not to be inspired by the great Maria. There's always a bit of her in every note I play
Maria Callas:Her Bel canto and coloratura are so beautiful!! A Force of Nature! Magnificent! ORIGINAL AND UNIQUE! Absolutely pleasant! A delight to my heart, soul, and ears!!!!!!!
Miraculous...The one and only...Callas of course
Listening to this affects my breathing. Everything inside of my being becomes deeper: more intense. I cannot even begin to imagine hearing this live. The power in that voice, that post Mexico City Aida voice....that post 1952 Armida voice. What a true spendor it is. Tears help...but only slightly.
I feel a tightness in my chest, my breathing become shallow, as if I am suffering from angina.
Su tratamiento de esta aria, es muy personal , no solamente canta , no, vive el personaje con tal intensidad que lo invita a uno a ver en Leonora una persona que sufre intenso amor imposible ,al que quiere salvar aun a costa de su vida, podrán cantar muy bien otras sopranos esta aria , pero María en este arte siempre será única es un Don, recordando al Poeta español.
Incredible woman.voice, just unsurpassable, a gift to the music world and
all us dreamers, the Greek godess.. listen to Norma, then all Verdi.
María LA MAS GRANDE ENTRE LAS GRANDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
E poi nel 1953 Maria era onnipotente! Semplicemente meravigliosa!
She is a goddess here. The portamenti, the control, the trills, the control, the color, the emotion. Sigh. La Divina indeed.
Bellissimo quadro e perfetto restauro del suono, grazie infinite.
Riccardo buona anche la interpretazione di Antonella Banaudi....introvabile
@@claudiosalemme633 in effetti non so proprio chi possa essere. Mettila su YT.
Ric Antonella Banaudi con Pavarotti, Leo Nucci, Shirley Verret, Zubin Mehta, Decca 1990. Avevo ascoltato la sua "d'amor sull'ali rose" su FB ma non riesco più a rintracciarla. So che la Banaudi ha avuto una breve carriera dovuta a problemi di reflusso. Comunque dal cast è stato sicuramente un buon Trovatore.
YT non FB
trovata. su YT cerca Antonella Banaudi "d'amor sull'ali rose" si vede la copertina del 33 giri Decca con la foto di Pavarotti.....
Les trilles de la Callas....Des vrais trilles verdiens.... Le grand art!
You are absolutely right. Callas "created" a different "voice" for each role she sang. I remember after her "Traviata" in London in 1958 one of the critics wrote that he thought Callas sounded tired towards the end of the performance, whereupon Callas replied that she took that as a compliment because she had struggled to find the "right voice" for the dying Violetta, and his comment meant that she had succeeded
VIVA LA CALLAS!
Opera begins and ends with you Maria and that's the truth and the truth is the truth whether you want to believe it or not it's still the truth. Amen
Absolutely...! Never better said. La Divina for ever...
I couldn't agree more. It's as obvious and indisputable as anything can be. End of story.
+Έλενα Παπανικολάου Her recordings still outsell every other Opera Stars and her approach for stage and singing truth is copied from her to this day and forever will be copied. I always laugh out loud at the imbeciles who remark her voice was "Ugly". To listen to her Sonnambula alone is a tour of heaven given by GOD. I listened to her Liebestod recently and was in awe of her dramatic life in the interpretation, but really that was her bread and butter, interpretation....
Dios te salve María Callas...
MrQbenDanny
I love this, Amazing lushness and beauty.
A tecnologia mantem a Maria Callas conosco até hoje, ou seja, tornou-a imortal. Assim podemos apreciar o seu portentoso talento e sua maravilhosa voz por todo o tempo. Callas sensacional, maravilhosa...
The difference between Callas and other top sopranos is that she created each character with the appropriate "voice" rather than sing it in the most beautiful voice she possibly could which is what everyone else does. Listen to her voice in "Sonnambula" "Medea" "Lucia" "Armida" "Traviata" and you will see how different each one is from the other. That is part of her genius!!
Absolutely!! In addition to that singular way of performing she also could provide the impression of being the character physically. In medieval terms, she had the original meaning of "glamour" which is to be able to appear to be what you want there to be. I saw her in her last tour at the Lyric in Chicago. Even with a somewhat diminished voice [not the shreds that some say was what was left] and only a piano and dressed in a plain white gown with a red stole she was able to change, even before she sang a note, into the characters she was singing. I have never experienced, in almost 60 years of opera and theater going any other performer who so completely became the person she wanted us to experience. It was remarkable.
Callas will remain a must for ever...What I have to say is that it pays of handsomelly to come back to her recordings... Every time we understand the opera in question a lot better if we pay attention at what she does, the way she sees the rolle, etc...here there will be never a decline...She was ahead of us, and many many generatons will listen to her legacy and wonder !
Great artist...not only great singer... that is not enough for her...BRAVA ! ! !
MARAVILLOSA, DIVINA, ÚNICA!!!!!
Richard Bonynge said that the pre-diet Callas voice was "Colossal", and that it poured out of her the way Flagstad's did. When di Stefano first heard her, he said "She sings like a man," and others (I forget who) said that she sings like an orchestra. There must have been something about her voice that had people make such comments.
Shahrdad
Called herself said she thought the voice was too heavy before the diet.
@Nicholas Ennos Huh?
Nicholas you are really too much to make such a ridiculous comment!
Shahrdad, si come un orchestra me l'ha detto una volta mio fratello. Non avevo capito però mi ha detto senti tutti colori nella sua voce somigliano a tutti i diversi strumenti dell'orchestra ! La sua voce svane totalmente fra l'orchestra come se fosse una osmosi sonore ! Penso che si può così sentire, vero ?
Simply unique. My husband was moved to tears by her voice and so am I to this day. Goose pimples galore
Que técnica, que temperamento, que expresión, que arte! La mejor en la historia.
I just sent this link to one of my equally musically-obsessed friends with the title, Now I can die happily. What a privilege to be able to see/hear the great Callas. As a lirico spinto myself, I cut my weight in half, from 300 pounds to less than 150. Because I am fortunate to have good vocal technique, there has been no deterioration in my voice. When it's done as I did it with diet (Paleo) and daily workout, it is not easy. But, oh so worth it.
***** I had not heard that anecdote before but it's certainly a possibility. I used to hear the seductive Siepi practicing when I went for my coaching lesson (with Elda Ercole) at the Ansonia in Manhattan. What delicious memories.
***** I knew Mr. Siepi, and we talked about Callas a fair bit, and he never said anything about the iodine shots. His son and I were were very good friends from college. However, Pia Meneghini writes about that incident. Her husband was Maria's personal physician. She wrote that Callas found Swiss doctors who injected iodine into her thyroid, and she could not put any weight back on, even though she knew she had gotten too thin. She also writes that Callas herself concocted the tapeworm story as a ruse. Kudos to you Marly for dropping the weight and getting healthier. As Renee Fleming said, dropping weight for a lighter voice singer isn't that much of a problem, but dropping weight for a heavy-voiced singer such as Callas or Voigt, especially if they use the weight for support, is definitely a big problem.
Marly Harris Didn't Siepi have the most luscious voice? And in the opera house, it was absolutely colossal. I remember hearing him in his later career, and when he went for the low notes, the audience just gasped. And he was such a kind, sweet, generous man, as was his wife. And a typical Italian, he didn't like it if I didn't eat enough at dinner. He used to say, "Mangia mangia. Eat more. I don't like cheap guests!" As you said, delicious memories.
Thank you so much for putting this up, Maria is easily my all-time favorite singer and her performance of this first aria is what first got me into opera. Amazing performance!
Ella es incomparable, una voz inteligente que te mantiene al la expectativa.
divina, nel senso più sacro della parola!
grazie di essere stata, anzi di essere perchè vivi fra noi per sempre.
sol chi non lascia eredità d'affetti poca speme ha nell'urna.
tu hai dato amore immenso all'arte esprimendolo con la tua voce e con il tuo studio
Gracias Emiliano !Callas ,con sua indimenticabile voce e interpretazione ,un vero fenomeno musicale.. Gracias !
Divina fin dall' inizio!
A miracle indeed!!! How blessed we are to have the magnificent art of Madame Callas preserved! Simply the greatest operatic artist of the 20th century in my humble opinion.
Cela fait 57 ans que je l'écoute et que la voix de Callas est la seule à me donner le frisson!
The most exquisite, elegant , and superb refinement in Bel Canto, that´s why I adore CALLAS!!. Fortissimi intertwined with high pianissimi in a perfect musical line with absolute legato has no possible comparison with other performances! Performances of this caliber are out of this world!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The art of art
Minute 6:18 a perfect, extremely precise trill with a full coverage of thick metallic, dramatic core...which other singer is able to pull that off??? OK, that alone is supernatural but on top of that she pulls off the entire trill in messa di voce! The woman was nuts!!!
Agree~I am not as knowledgeable than you, but I know how unique she was, how amazing Callas was. But like my former vocal coach, they always said Callas have bad technique ~ Well ~ I just keep silent all the time. And worship her alone
Morgan Alan thats rubbish. She had the most perfect technique of all. Not perfect, but nearer to it than anyone. People who are on a almost supernatural top get criticized the most.
Poor lifestyle choices has nothing to do with technique. Callas made bad decision but her technique was absolutely perfect, especially during her prime from 1947 to 1955.
chosentenore ...... totally reckless (Medea) and an absolute musical and vocal genius......give me nuts every time lol!...
Callas's passion into her career made her a true real artist. Her uniqueness is irreplaceable.
This woman is a miracle, really! Bashers, out!
Callas te dejaba extasiado escuchándola...no se puede hacer otra cosa que entregarse a su voz y abandonar todo en ese instante. Maravillosa, pasional, sanguínea y única.
You are absolutely right. She had the ability to create the complete character of whichever role she was singing and make it believable and alive using only her voice. Another fantastic example is Ophelie's mad scene from Ambroise Thomas's "Hamlet". Her voice expresses Ophelie's fragility and instability to perfection. It is a miracle of coloratura singing at its most expressive!
Maria Callas was stunningly beautiful as her Amazing voice and Her ability to express the emotions in every single note She was singing and -this is why She sung as She did ! She lived and expressed the characters emotions as singing and performing and Callas was deeply emotionally associated and attached to her characters roles - as was saying ...she give herself fully to each performance - it means ...emotionally - Opera is Drama and all about deep humans emotions and Maria was able to captured those deep emotions as nobody else - its was her deep sensitivity and her personal feelings and ofcourse Callas great talent !!!
My Momm loved her and we were listen to Maria on TV but I love her voice and performances and can feel her singing now as Im mature and can feel Her amazing voice and the emotions in it - I have experienced strong energy current striking through out my legs and travelling up in my head !! And then heat in my body as the results.
That how powerful and emotionally charged Maria Callas's voice was and still is recorded and thanks to God and people that did it :):):)
For ever greatfull ...
Qui la Callas è il " non plus ultra!" Che meraviglia! Che emozione!
absolutely stunning. No one has ever matched her in music making
Assolutamente vera e grande in ogni frase musicale! Lei non cantava solamente, lei era dentro alla musica! Un fenomeno che si è mostrato al mondo tramite la musica, tramite la tecnica e attraverso quelle singole note che molte altre cantanti hanno eseguito bene ma senza cuore, senza perdersi nella loro tessitura! Lei perdeva la sua identità e acquisiva l'identità musicale del personaggio che stava interpretando. Semplicemente magnifica!
Bellissimo commento.. Profondissimo
Davvero un bellissimo commento
che dire .... emozione senza fine...
" Lei perdeva la sua identità e acquisiva l'identità musicale del personaggio che stava interpretando".
- Ha detto benissimo.
Addirittura completava quello che il compositore avrebbe voluto dire come se stesse in comunicazione con lui al di là dello spazio e del tempo.
SI, CALLAS ,CALLAS e basta.
Absolutely unsurpassable.....!!!! Insuperábile!!!!!! Hats off....to Mme. Callas.....!!!!!
Pravilad
There is a wonderful story that during this aria at one of these performances a woman's sobbing was heard in one of the boxes. It was Elizabeth Schwartzkopf unable to believe what she was hearing!
Schwarzkopf
That story was told by the Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti in an interview back in the sixties. He had been invited to one of Callas's performances in Trovatore at La Scala. At the end of the aria Visconti heard a woman crying behind him. He turned around and realized the woman was Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
Those chest tones in the Miserere are overpoweringly genius.
Assolutamente magnifica! Nessuna mai potrà cantare come lei! Una voce sovrumana, una delizia ascoltarla!!!
No one like her ....she is whomever she sings.... great Artist!!!
Gran trovador con una maria en plenitud de facultades
The greatest - even in death