Maria Callas Coppia iniqua Donizetti Anna Bolena 1957 Milano

[salstiha]

La forza Regale di una voce. Un doloroso gorgheggio senza mai un cedimento: "tacete ...tacete...cessate ... cessate...

Commovente. Immortale. Un dono irripetibile.

[CCarlosGarza]

La Número uno sigue siendo ella, Bravísima Maria. color, poder musicalidad, dramatismo, tiene todo.

[NEBESHIKU]

Canary Gruberova, Lardserrat Fatallé, La Stupida, Off-KeyAnna Netrebko wished they could sing this assoluta role like onlye Callas could; and the only way Tebaldi could sing this was if she was in one of her dreams.

[lyricaccademy]

Mitica! Insuperabile! E'l'unica che fa accapponare la pelle,Trasmette brividi incredibili.Adorabile Maria!Mezzosoprano Nicoletta Ciliento

[salstiha]

meravigliosa!!!!

[vivaverdi1]

BRAVISSIMA...............Nient­e altro da aggiungere.

[amonasro100]

we have no one who can do this like her -

she remains the one and only Anna Bolena.

[Marlifan69]

Best part is from 0:00 to 3:12!

XD

[birgitnilsson]

Bravissima SUPER MARIA! Forget Netrebko in peace.

[BEVER29]

Pionnière plus qu'idiomatique. On a, depuis, poussé plus loin l'avantage!

[Ariadne7710]

Yes, we were very lucky to have heard her live then. This and several other performances that I was fortunate enough to have seen were life shattering experiences which I will never forget.

[danawinsor]

How I envy those audience members who were able to hear Callas during those great years!

[tiaelfa]

This is wonderful! Wish I could add my own applause to those in the end of this aria. Feel like singing this character so bad, now!

[arturo8402]

Callas is the only one I've heard who doesn't scream her way through this aria. This is probably one of the most demanding mad scenes and she still sounds settled and glorious in this finale, which usually sounds frantic and forced!!

[luvxl]

Let's do some good by sending this to the Wien audiences. They do need to know how this can be sung.

[birgitnilsson]

@luvxl Great, great idea! It seems that audience does not know what it is all about.

[tonyromano1]

LA PIU GRANDE ANNA BOLENA !!!!!!!!

[orewa14]

Maria shows how it is done, as is usually the case. Wonderful.

[georgerannie]

Do it--brava.

[jgdmol4l]

were it not for the wobble at the very (top) end, this would be perfect. The agility on the runs is awesome and so are the low notes.

[Shahrdad]

@jgdmol4l If you had said this about some of the later Callas performances, I would agree, but here in 1957, she's rock solid. The coloratura is phenomenal, every single one of the many trills is true and perfect and alive, and the final high C is touched perfectly effortlessly. I don't think we'll hear singing of this greatness in our lifetimes.

[kgarmaker123]

@Shahrdad So true, and .. if you listen to a variety of the sopranos attempting this caballetta, you will find that NONE OF THEM, sing all the trills, with such accuracy.. and cleanliness. This is rock solid Callas, and exciting too.. ( she does not transpose the line up to make it more comfortable, instead, she puts out a wall of sound in the range the piece is written in.. ( she had the voice).

[numetutelare]

Lei ha reinventato questo ruolo e le altre le sono andate dietro... nonostante esistano sempère gli orecchianti!

[SuperEfexor]

Divina...

[MS77SB]

DIVINA!!!

[SONIETCHKA]

Les trilles de Callas sont de vrais trilles, les plus beaux avec ceux de Ponselle.

[abracadabranque]

Des trilles crispants mais le reste compense!

[belcantismo]

@bellini7verdi

Entiendo lo que queres decir, pero yo al contrario de ti sigo viviendo con una sola de las dos, y podes imaginarte cual de las dos... :-)

[troppofiato]

It's wonderful to hear a real dramatic soprano sing this - and one with such fantastic musicianship and expression. Callas is to this day unrivaled in this repertoire.

[bibo74166]

Voce meravigliosa grande cantante,non ci sara mai una come lei ,io non sono piu tanto giovane quindi la riicordo bene.

[numetutelare]

@bibo74166 Ha perfettamente ragione, la prima ad aver riscoperto veri arpeggi, trilli, scale cromatiche discendenti, morendo ed i magicoi pianissimi ad alta quota che essuno aveva la tecnica per cantare dopo le grandi del passato.

[f1a6b3]

There seems to be a curse... no soprano could sing this aria properly ever after. I am not a Callas inconditional worshiper, but it is clear that there are two arias: this one and Mozart's "Marten aller Arten" that couldn't be sung again as they should . So if one wants to hear these 2 arias well sung, one has no other way that to hear these old bad sounded recordings by Callas.

[debislo]

that sheer understanding of the music... and perfect mastery of the concept.. and total gift and Godgiven HOLD on the voice.... just made the perfect moment.

[debislo]

Des douzaines de versions plus tard... et des années passées.. rien n'égale même cette version live très vibrante et si vivante... Callas y était à son meilleur, fragile déjà mais plus que royale,,, géniale??? oui.

[juangrc906tube]

Simplemente UNICA, y absoluta. No puede concebirse que esta aria pueda ser cantada de otra manera, he aqui el secreto....ser MARIA CALLAS. es increíble tanta belleza. Gracias MARÍA, DIVINA!!!!

[motardbear15]

Soit il y a cette version complètement Dramatique et dans la plus pure tradition bel cantiste,soit il y d'autres versions (avec des variations et un suraigu final) ..Dans ce cas précis , il me semble que Callas est insurpasable quel que soit la soprano qu'on essaye de lui opposer ....Callas est à elle seule "un monde à part " ...Elle doit "le" rester ...Cela n'enlève absolument "rien" aux autres versions ...Mais elle reste "insurpasable"...

[Turand0t]

Callas is the one and only Anna Bolena. :D She's my inspiration as a singer. :)

[motardbear15]

Thank you for having that excerpt from Anna Bolena..Callas is UNIQUE in this role...Nobody can do beter than Callas....many have been trying,but very little can approach Callas here !!!!!

[reinadegrillos]

@Turand0t Bueno, está la Caballé!

Y yo adoro a la Callas, eh? pero no hay que excluir otras hermosísimas versiones!

Saludos cordiales.

[giant469]

If God were an opera singer and had to sing Anna Bolena, (s)he would sing it this way.

[FraSarn]

Aria meravigliosa, interpretazione divina...

che altro si puo' aggiungere? Nulla, direi.

[HoracioB999]

BRAVAAAAAAAAAAAAA PER SEMPRE . La Diva Divina e la vera Deesa di Opera. La sua Bolena e magnifica. VIVA LA CALLAS

[ruse63]

Unica, maravillosa,divina.......

[Faust075]

This is Bel canto ! this is how this aria has to be sung. Exactely how it was written.

[artdanks]

Now THIS is Anna Bolena!!!!!!!! BRAVA LA DIVINA!!!!

[boris1281]

Isnt she divine? Today, she is more alive than ever before, because today there is no one who can even get near the quality of her art!

[Verdiforever]

THE BEST!!!!!

[molitormel]

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[kgarmaker123]

This cabaletta, without embellishment is interesting just the way it was written. i see no reason for modern day sopranos to take such liberty with it.

[vocalandchords]

Absolutely fantastic! Absolutely brilliant technique.

[francescomerulli]

cosa c'è di più eccelso e incredibile....ho i brividi

[ezayi]

It doesn´t get better than this... BRAVISSIMA!

[MastersoftheOpera]

What a voice! Maria Callas was a marvelous bel canto singer and she set the bar high for the sopranos who took on the genre after her - Sutherland, Caballe, Sills, etc. Callas could sing anything that was Italian and dramatic. Really it all goes back to Callas and her contribution to the opera

[poupounakis]

from 2.27 at the end she is amazing!!!! oh my God....!!!

[belcantismo]

From the beginning to 2:27, too! :-)

[magicmonkichi]

@belcantismo

lol. ^_^

<3 Callas' Bolena.

[lamusicahera]

BRAVA!

THE BEST ANNA BOLENA on recordings!

NOBODY can sing it like she has done !

FOR THIS THE SOPRANO HAVE TO BE LIKE AN PANTHER OR LION : hungry to sing this difficult tessitura and a little more than angry : THIS IS TRAGEDY!

BRAVA!

BRAVA!

[JessyeNormanFan]

I agreen100% with

SteveODonnell25 . No one has performed this role as well as Callas did.

[SteveODonnell25]

With this performance, she set a standard for this role that no one will probably exceed. This type of singing does not exist today.

[pirocagrande]

You are right, mainly with the technique that is being taught today so the students can sing until they are 110. At universities they make dramatic voices sing Mozart to "tame" them down in volume and size=castrating a potential dramatic or who know voices on this level. Most teachers today cannot (do not know how) to deal with a dramatic voice, they freak out, they think it is gonna ruin their vocal chords etc... it's too sad. I cannot hear anyone today but the golden age ones! SAD but true!

[JoanNilson]

Thus is simply phenomenal. I adore Gencer, Sutherland, Caballe and SIlls - but Callas here is a woman possessed. SHE IS BOLEYN! - And those trills!!!! They're not a vocal exercise - they are part of Anna's human tragedy: her descent into death as she ascends the scaffolding to her execution. Every time I hear this recording, I'm drained! It's as if she has channeled Anna! VIVA CALLAS!! Unica e divina!

[primohomme]

Anna Bolena, Norma, Armida, Medea, Lady Macbeth, Abigaille, etc...were written for Maria's voice (or her fach...the assoluta a.k.a. soprano sfogato).

[rob76bo]

I think that Maria Callas has given the character of Anna a musical and artistic greatness hardly surmountable.

[Lindow]

I just listened to about five other famous sopranos do this piece. None even came close to this. And now I'm wondering why I didn't go straight to Maria...

[DIVOTENOR]

Love it! Love it! Love it!

[LingaChakra]

best Anna Bolena. Spellbinding Callas exposed with her best facets

[proudens]

just perfect!!!!!!!!!!!

[galehout]

rispetto alla versione in studio, la voce si libra nello spazio con tutta la ricchezza delle sue vibrazioni. La Regina è stanca, ma il suono vola sopra di lei con un misto di leggerezza e forza, dolcezza e isteria, che le sopravvive

[rob76bo]

Poetico! I agree with you!

[morachioli1]

Grazie Divina Callas, per aver riportato in vita con il tuo canto tanto struggente, questa regina inglese, la stessa Anna Bolena ti sarebbe grata per averla resa immortale con questa tua interpretazione indimenticabile!

[papagena100]

BRAVISSIMA MARIA CALLAS!!!!! Je suis tellement heureuse de pouvoir entendre la vrai Anna Bolena!!!! Mille fois BRAVA et MERCI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[MAPIAKALLAS]

NOW WE CAN LISTEN TO A REAL BEL CANTO E d'agilità here maria callas is not only singing but her drama is great a real anna bolena thank you

brava maria

[yes4albert]

This is Maria's role. Something beyond genius. Where did this woman's spirit come from? The 19th century?

[kgarmaker123]

YOu know, great artists sometimes say they tap into something beyond.. akin to channeling. makes you wonder.

[Arsace83]

Mi fa impazzire!!!che interpretazione,che impeto,Arte pura!!

[poupounakis]

the best....and Gencer in this aria was very very good...

[SiChiamaMina]

Non ci sono Sutherland, non ci sono Tebaldi, non ci sono altre cantanti a noi conosciute che abbiano mai solo avvicinato le incredibili performance vocali ed interpretative del Genio incomparabile della Musica chiamato Maria Callas!

[MisterPapageno]

@SiChiamaMina E tanto meno l'attuale acclamata a furor di media Anna Netrebko, perché è solo una speculazione mediatica quella creatasi intorno a lei prima della sua Bolena viennese, un porcata micidiale sotto ogni lato.

[3F93]

@MisterPapageno La Netrebko non è un soprano, è un incidente di percorso.

[belcantismo]

@3F93 Suvvia, adesso non esageriamo! Considero la Netrebko per ciò che è: una brava cantante, volendo si può dire che canta anche bene. Ma come tutte le "dive" e "divette" dei nostri giorni, tutto finisce lì. Manca infatti tutto il resto. Ho avuto modo di sentire alcune arie dall'ultima Anna Bolena da Vienna. Che dire? Bisogna proprio strapparsi da dentro "IL" riferimento assoluto, e convincersi che l'Opera di Donizetti in mano alla Netrebko sia un'altra cosa. Pure bravina, ma dov'è l'anima?

[3F93]

@belcantismo La Netrebko ha un timbro che a me sinceramente piace molto, e notare che io normalmente non sono un fan dei lirici, ma non riesco ad apprezzarla! Sembra che canti in una classe di scuola, l'interpretazione e le emozioni non sa neanche cosa siano. Spesso è calante, ma soprattutto si ostina a cantare cose che proprio non fanno per lei, specialmente la coloratura che le esce malissimo, forzata e imprecisa! In più è irritante l'attenzione che i media continuano a darle...

[3F93]

@belcantismo Cioè, le ho sentito cantare cose come la Casta Diva, la scena della pazzia di Lucia e il d'Oreste, d'Aiace di Mozart che fanno venire i brividi, ma sicuramente non di piacere...

[MisterPapageno]

@3F93 C'è da dire che però è peggiorata, ed ora non si può proprio permettere un repertorio belcantista a meno di vergognose sforbiciate come successo a Vienna!

[Arbus2]

Impresionante.-

[pasielu]

Grazie Callas

[hwhap13]

This was intense and great. You should people listen also to Beverly Sills singing this. I'm not saying it's better/worse than Maria's -- just it's different and as good as it possibly can be sung.

[kgarmaker123]

Sills is very very good too, I agree.

[quakercub]

I agree wholeheartedly!!! Sills owned Donzetti's 3 Queens while she was singing. Callas' greatness lies in her ability to get at the heart of the music in the way that sopranos of the 19th century did. Magnificant!!!!

[sicuro75]

Listening to this Anna and then the Sutherland version i couldn't believe the over inflated comments peaple where giving Sutherland. They seem to put her on this elaborate pedestool all the time even when she obviously stinks it's sickening and so phony.

[willthrillws]

You are sooooooo right Sutherland is not good in this role at all!

[gomongio]

Maria Callas, the best sopran ever..... even with her "dreadful voice" as I read above...

I'd like to have seen her at least once but I wasn't ever thought to be born. She is DIVINE

[boris1281]

It is not just about the voice, it's is the emotion that this voice mediates. This is not simply a vocal perfection, this is the most tremendous feeling, which opera should actually be. Maria, with you art is forever gone!

[Frufrucucu]

Anyone would kill to have half the voice she had. If you can do better, you may judge. If not, shut your longgionisti pine hole and don't waste your own time.

[ptichkagulnara]

brava,maria,brava!!!

[belcantomania]

DIVINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!­!Grazie Maria!Senza di te la lirica sarebbe morta.

[vitruvio2]

nessuno mai come Maria...la migliore,la più sensibile..la sua voce:il più bello degli Stradivari..a volte aspro,a volte angelico..sempre intenso e comunicativo.

[frine1947]

Concordo al 1000 per 1000. Grandissima Maria, unica, ineguagliabile. Indimenticabile.

[cherubino57]

No entiendo muy bien las declaraciones de la señora Rysanek pero quiero decir que esta voz no tiene nada de equivocado siendo el riferimento principal para los sopranos de todos tiempos. Gracias Maria Callas!

[Orfeus80]

Brava! A great night for Callas. A role that suited her voice and skills. I wish she'd done Elisabetta too.

[ekateri28]

bravo Maria

[Caskader]

I love her, definitely one of the most exciting vocal performers of all time!

[JessyeNormanFan]

What a performance! Callas was unstoppable as Anna and, I would add, remains incomparable in this role. I never tire listening to the La Scala performance on CD with Guillieta Simionato as Giovanna. Viva Callas!

[Rossalita]

THE BEST STIL !!!

[ioSonoCallas]

Callas dans Bolena c'est unique au monde, elle est immense, et c'est le véritable point de départ de la "Donizetti renaissance"!!!

[laurentius76]

Exactement!! Et on ne s'en lassera jamais de cette Anna Bolena!!!

[ioSonoCallas]

Merci beaucoup laurentius76 pour l'intérêt et le soutien que tu portes à mes commentaires.

[artdanks]

Callas will always be my all time favorite. Period. Viva La Divina!

That being said, I still also have to say that I also love Sills in this opera as well. TOTALLY different from La Callas, and yet still magificent it its own right.

[saverioorlando]

I was at La Scala april 57,Maria with Giulietta Gavazzeni and Visconti had a triumph.

[pedoni5]

I had the fortune to talk in person with Leonie Rysanek who attended a Callas Bolena at LaScala and Miss Rysanek told me that when Callas started to sing, Ghiringelli looked at her (Rysanek) both in the same box, because La Callas was in dreadful voice

[belcantismo]

If this was a "dreadful" voice, I thank God to create it!

[Gibichung]

In concur with Belcantismo. If this is "dreadful" voice (pedoni dixit), I cannot imagine how would this have sounded being Callas in good voice.

[ubedajils]

All the sopranos will be in their knees for singing like this , with the half of this "dreadful voice".

[pirocagrande]

Rysanek and HER NAME are 7 feet down the ground...Callas is ALIVE as if she HERSELF WERE!!! The biggest selling opera singer until NOW! As anybody else, she had good and bad days...Look up Rysanek "trying" to sing MEDEA...GOSH..sometimes she's so strained she cannot even VIBRATE in the top notes!

[billyguns2]

Perfect Bel Canto style, phenomenal inner rhythymic pulse, fabulous dramatic intention, flawless pronunciation, thrilling forward motion and incredible phrasing with awesome dynamic gradations, and this is a live performance! Few singers get to me the way this woman does, and she has been dead for thirty years!

[NotNellie]

Yup - forward motion - a superb description of her dynamics. Eventually one feels that she is in charge of the music, the conductor and showing the composer how it should be done!! Tremendous. Astute contribution from you, Billyguns, thanks.

[boris1281]

Maria! No one can ever come close to your perfection! This phrase, these adorations, this timbre - the one and only perfection in this art!

[janejones11]

My absolute favorite rendition of this cabaletta! I've never heard anyone bring such passion and contrasting emotions to this music.

[xema2005]

What can we say? Nothing, One can just listen and be hypnotized by her magic...10/10!!! Maria, You're the greatest!!

[Shahrdad]

All those who have heard this scene, but never with all the trills, there is this cabaletta to listen to. Every trill is done flawlessly, in full-voice, and full of the drama it's meant to convey. She will remain untouchable in this repsertoire.

[Gigglingatagas]

Shimmering, perfect portamenti and unafraid to dig into the chest: this is the Callas I love and worship. She is supremely untouchable in this repertoire!!

[javierdetelleria]

Maria, eres la más grande! A ti no te voto porque tu perteneces a otra esfera

[csmjr91090]

Wow! Yet another triumph for Maria! She is so amazing! There isn't anyone who can (nor will there probably ever be) match this type of singing. She is truly the greatest! Thanks for posting this video, and I love your choice of pictures! Brava Maria!!!

[csmjr91090]

Wow! I am speechless! That was awesome! I just love how Maria sings and how she is always so expressive. That is why she is the greatest! Thanks for posting this and I love your choice of pictures, Maria is so beautiful!

[ariodante76]

Sacred fire from the holy temple of La Divina.

[dugbin]

Truly, one of La Divina's finest and greatest. This type of singing is, in fact gone.

[dugbin]

Yes, truly. This is one of her greatest performances and greatest triumphs.

[VivaMariaCallas]

One of Maria's greatest performances! This type of singing simply does not exist anymore.

[Elisabetta611]

My fave Donizetti cabaletta sung by my fave soprano! Heaven itself!

[xafnndapp]

Grazie belcantismo!

Preferisco MOLTO di piu' questa versione (anche se un po' lentina...) che quella dell'anno successivo!

GRANDISSIMA Maria!

Chissa' come mai non fece il MI bemolle che ancora aveva quell'anno?...