nel 59 era ormai alla frutta, dopo circa 10 anni di vera carriera....certo ha fatto un repertorio massacrante (75 norma, 60 traviata....) però il declino è stato molto rapido, forse la tecnica non era così impeccabile, forzava nel registro acuto. C'è già vibrato largo, voce corta in alto, voce spinta a quasi gridata, insomma tutti i segni di un declino irrimediabile. Però è un mito, non solo mediatico ma anche artistico, un gusto di canto moderno ed attuale (chi la copia infatti finisce presto!)
that crack is because of a stupid phlegm, it's clear because you can hear afterwords int he note she gives next. I said stupid phlegm because I know the impotence a singer feels when you have one of those...
It must have been so hard for her to crack on the high C. You can tell all of the scrutiny she had been exposed to all her life in her eyes at that moment. I applaude her for being so honest to carry on knowing everyone heard it and still give it all she had that particular night. What an example she was and still is today. Brava Maria!
ah maria, maria!! great maria. you are so funny here... But what make a great artist is that he is a human beeing. so don´t be so severe with yourself...
@MmeFigaro Ascoltiamo oggi tanti di quei soprano patetici che la Callas é superlativa anche quando é "funny" ... questi son tempi di ceci e per chi ha vissuto quel periodo trova la lirica disperante. Con le nullità odierne non ci si spreca neppure ad essere severi, é sufficiente il compatimento.
There's a great book called "Stage Presence" by Jane Goodall in which she examines people who had that power and hold over the public. Callas is one of the artists she writes about! Riveting! Electric! We are all aware, and so was she, of her supposed vocal defects. The point is she rose above everyone warts and all. She was the consummate artist and personality of our lifetime which is why 40 years after her death she still pulls you to her. Remarkable!
@JeeRant Her look that night is beyond reproach - her hair is the shit. She was at the forefront of 60s fashion, and it was only '59. Those pale lips/dark eyes are totally hot.
i want to see her without the shawl so i can see the way she breathes. Her 1962 Carmen at Covent Garden is a great example if you want to see how she supports and breathes. At that stage in her career she was rounding her shoulders a lot for support.
This isn't quite Callas at her zeneth, but there's enough here to show why she was so unique. She has a momentary problem with the high C in the beginning, but she recoups very fast. Her genius is, of course, obvious. I wish she had included the spectacular cabaletta to this aria, with which she would have set off some explosive volleys of sound. It is obvious that by this time, she was becoming very cautious about expending her vocal resources....with good reason, unfortunately.
She is a very beautifull woman but I would never marry her for, as much as I know, she had a very complex and problematic charachter. Still, one of the greatest artist of the 2Oth century.
@Onegin65 The reason why I mentioned it was the contrast between completely agrammatical English in all the messages of this user and a sudden message in perfect English. This is off-topic. I have already explained why I think his views have no importance.
Her performances changed the standart by which all other opera singers are judged. She was born an artist and I'm still waiting for her re-encarnation.
Even after every video I have seen, from all of the best singers of the world that I idolize and admire since I was a young child- even after hearing her crack twice on both her C's- this has always been, and will probably forever remain to be for me one of the most captivating and absolutely incredible performances I have seen on record.
What excites me the most is her cracking, not itself, but the effect of it. She gets so pissed, you see it in her face. It drives her harder in the aria.
It's great to see her live in this footage of a concert. She looks beautiful and she sings marvelously as Lady Macbeth. Hers was such a flexible voice that she could sing Violetta one night and Lady Macbeth another - and those are two very different voice types!
@pursuahe ¿ Y qué mas da si se le parte la nota, aunque se le escape un poco? Después de una interpretación de este calibre, esa menudencia me resulta insignificante.
@scarlatti8 I'm sorry, cannot have great interpretation, with so many vocal problems how here they appear; for great redition a song of great quality is necessary. Unfortunately Callas here was already in decay at 35 yo
@MarcoCallas Firstly, I said nothing explicit about not liking this interpretation by Callas. I expressed a valid point of view based on my own subjective experience of this video. Fostering a plurality of perspectives is the purpose of public space such as this. I'm entitled to an opinion. If you can't handle a point of view that is different from your own without getting so emotional you can' t accept that diversity in opinion is good: well, that ain't my fault.
@pursuahe If I am not mistaken, you said that this is not a great interpretation and that, in order to have a rendition of quality, a great "song" is required (maybe you meant "voice", I do not know). Is that a "valid" point of view? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, including you; and everyone is entitled not to agree with your point of view. It is true that there are some vocal problems here, but does this compromise a great interpretation?
@MarcoCallas I like Callas, I'm not muffled fan of any singer. In my opinion this interpretation isn't great, would sees an average rendition; difficult high notes, hollow bottom, is no variation stressed words: valore, ascendivi all the same. Great it's her interpretation from RAI Turin 1952. Pity all the GREAT that we can read in post of seventy tour
@pursuahe You obviously had your previous message written by someone else, as we are back to agrammatical English (nobody prevents you from writing in Spanish) - but that is irrelevant. The people who have seriously studied music would probably strongly disagree with you and your very personal analysis. As for me, your opinion is just your opinion. Goodbye.
Surprisingly, Nilsson's recitativo is much better than Callas's. I have never really associated Nilsson much with the Italian reportoire, and I will always think of her as a Wagnerian soprano, but I think her recording of MacBeth is superb.
Please, Don`t say stupidity (you always does!)!!! ahahahahah
I love opera and always I go at theatre see them!!!
Your ignorance is so agressive! Your knowlegde about: opera, voice and Callas is a joke! ("Your ignorance make laugh! kkkk")
Callas was Soprano Sfogato! Mezzo don`t sing: Norma, Medea, Armida, Lady Macbeth, La Traviata, Anna Bolena, Lucia,Turandot, ifigenia in Tauride ... and others!
FYI, at the beginning of her career Callas sang loads of Wagner - Brunnhilde (in the Walkure), Isolde and Kundry. She also sang Konstanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. She sang all these roles in Italian. The only role she ever sang in German was in Tiefland by Eugene D'Albert.
I agree that some of the lunges are "un peu pénible" but there are so few films of her performing that I make allowances in my critique here. Her fully staged performance in 1952 at LaScala with Vittorio Gui in the pit, even with a rushed Mad Scene, is still the best performance ever (the madness within the roulades of the Brindisi in Act II is unparalleled by any singer, even Verrett). Which is not to disparage Mme. Verrett. I would step on my mother's face if she had a comeback
it is a very nice interpretation, but we know Callas has had better preformances.
Shirley verret is the best among the other Ladies.
Also, I realy like Gencer's interpretation. Her dark notes with metallic sounds was an amazing mixture to interpret Lady. Brava Verret, Brava Gencer, Brava Callas.
Right, her voice isn't good, excellent nor brillant!!
Can no-one see that she is the worst screecher of all opera singers. She breathes on her chest and doesn't use her diaphragm. She really isn't as good as everybody thinks, she has the typical western opera voice rather than the mellow Italian voice. I'm surprised her voice didn't run out sooner because of the way she sings on her throat, you can just hear the strain. Anyone who has been taught correctly will tell you this
mi hanno regalato il libro e l ho buttato, sono stufa di gente che si interessa di piu al gossip che all'arte,Se vogliono scoprire i "segreti" della Callas imparino a memoria ogni sillaba che ha cantato.
Si, hai pienamente ragione, anche se devo dire che mi interessa conoscere anche com'era veramente Maria, al di là dei Gossip, ce l'hai "Maria Callas, lettere d'amore"? mi pare uhn buon libro, anche perchè le letterer le scrisse lei : )
invece c'è un libro scritto da Nadia Stancioff sulla vita di Maria che è veramente bello e ben fatto, proprio la visione dal punto di vista di un'amica e non la solita "porcata" tipo il libro sopra citato.. Semmai voleste leggerlo, personalmente a me è piaciuto veramente tanto :)
io l'ho letto e sono sicuro che si tratti forse del libro più bello scritto sulla callas...soprattutto perché l'autrice era assistente di produzione quando è stato girato "medea" e l'ha potuta conoscere bene in quell'occasione...poi ti consiglio anche "fuoco greco" che pare un libro di gossip invece è molto più attento al lato storico che "gossipparo"...buona lettura!XD
MalvAAAAgiOOOO? Pien di misfAAAAAtti è il cooooolle della potenza e mal per lui che il piede dubitosovipone e retroceEEEEEEEeeeeee(steccca)de (Avete visto la faccia?) ->Hretroceeeeeede (e due) (era pienamente consapevole che la voce se ne stava andando) pampampampampam 2.34 Si gira e guarda il maestro,poi solleva le sopracciglia. -IEEENI t''affretta...Povera Maria :°°°°°°° Love "DI SCOZIA!!!!!......." :°°°°°°°°
si in effetti l'avevo notato, ma stava cantando con raffreddore e febbre, e poi vabè se ogni tanto si sbaglia qualche parolina, anche perchè cambia di poco se non si dicono certe consonanti nella lirica :):):);) XD, si capisce poco lo stesso, ad ogni modo si, si vede che quando fa il gorgheggio si indispone un po, la gestualità si fa un pochino più impacciata, ma cio non toglie che SIA una grandissima cantante, la più grande, per contenuto, interpretazione, personalità artistica ed altro
Ma scherzi??? è il mio MITO!!! stavo facendo un discorso diverso..le mie considerazioni nn sono dello stile caccia alla stecca in questo caso specifico..piuttosto sottolineavo il fatto che LEI ben sapeva in che condizioni vocali stava..nessuno quanto lei è mai riuscito ad avvicinarsi alla perfezione canora ed interpretativa :)
Neldi della vittOOOria io le incontrai,stupito io n'EEERa per le udite Coose quando i Nuunzi del RE mi saltaron SIIIIIIR_ di caudore?v-a-t-i-c-i-n-i-o-uscitodalleveggentistessechepredisseroun sèèèèrto al capo mio?!?!Racchiudi in cOr questo segreeeto, addio.AAAAAAAAAAAmbizioso spIIIIrto tu sei MacBeth(tto) alla grandezzaa aneli ma sarai tu ma
I know, I love her, she's my favourite singer of all time, I didn't mean it like that! I just read once that she felt bad about her ankles, and it is surprising to see her dressed like that. Sorry if you took it wrong. =)
non avevo sentito prima d'ora il mio mito sbagliare..devo dire che questo non fa che rendermi orgoglioso di essere un amante di Maria...avere ascoltato quella nota"mancante"ha riportato prepotentemente al cuore la sua immagine...siamo stregati da Maria...una dea imperfetta che si è strappata il cuore per donarcelo..è quella piccola bambina che maltrattata da tutti è diventata una principessa per incantare il mondo...grazie anche di aver sbagliato...un tuo ammiratore...
When she starts to sing it's awesome!!!! What a power, what an artist, what a voice, a diva, a woman!!!!!!!!! Bravissima Maria!!!! You'll be the first and the last!!!!
the timbre may not be for everyone...but u can tell that it is HER voice...she did not manufacture a sound, which is the norm these days (there are some great exceptions - not "famous" ones, sadly)...
No estaba en su mejor momento aquí la Callas, eso es lo de menos, para mí su gran merito es transmitir lo que canta, es decir, llegar al alma del que escuha, sólo ella y un tenor español Miguel Fleta, lo han conseguido, que empiecen a cantar y se te ponga la "carne de gallina"(por supuesto es mi opinión) No obstante para mí es esta aria la mejor es: Shirley Verret:
Shirley era fantastica in questo ruolo, ma hai mai sentito la registrazione LIVE di Maria diretta da De Sabata ai primi anni 50? E' insuperabile......
A prime example of why no one else is Callas. She delivers a performance that is arguably as good if not better than all of her other recordings, all while having a cold and imploring Rescigno for aid with only her eyes (and he delivers). On top of that she finds not only the strength to sing the part but act it as well. If this were just a recording with no liner notes no one would know the difference. Younger, healthier, sopranos with the advantage of good recording techniques don't come close
Everything is there! Absolutely everything: the right colour, the right technique, the value of the notes, the perfect fast trills in " ti daro valore", the reading of the score, the artistry, the genius, and the way of coping with a tone that didn't work....... the commitment, the musicianship, and the most extraordinary stage presence. Simply the greatest Lady Macbeth on record.... and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century
There are quite a few sopranos reading the "letter" pretty expressively.
However, the hint of a question mark at the end of the last phrase and the "dropping" of addio as a meaningless word that she just read out of habit, while she was already thinking something else... is the mark of the divine Maria Callas!!!
I can't believe the twittering about 'messing-up' - one is put in mind of spinsters spying from behind net curtains! I hate to remind these people that she was also human.
Who else could or has sung Lady Macbeth like Callas? Even the spoken introduction...even Italian singers can't summon such veracity! Callas was superb and gave herself completely to her art, surely something the 'world experts' who spend time talking about 'messing-up' might well do, if indeed they could...!
Did she mess up again at 5:09? I dont know enough to say this and that about notes...esp of Maria Callas but it seemed as if she missed the note there too...?
at that time she had a cold, she was supposed to cancel it but went on, you'll see in the barbiere also she also misses a note. but what a great performances!!! at least she didnt have to sing lakme that night!!!!
The "missed" note at 2:08 is maybe the most beautiful and moving moment of this video : Look at her disapointment and sadness, but look also how she immidiately controls her emotion, get concentrated again and "put herself together" (2:22) to be able to continue this terrible aria. This is fantastic Art. This is CALLAS !
It is so sad to see her sad there. Her voice is the only thing she has and she loses it after an excellent career at such a young age... This is the rise and fall. I wish she did not fall at such a young age...
She also looks at Rescigno and mumbles something in Italian (can't understand exactly what) at 2:35 and then she becomes again the Lady at 2:40, like in a split-of-a-second transformation.
The vocal problems are easy enough to discern, but the overeall performance is so powerful as to force into the shade anyone else who sings this role. Callas IS Callas, and she stands alone. Artistically and musically, she has no peers. Probably never will.
e "smarrimento" per alcuni momenti critici nell'esecuzione dell'aria stessa e rivolti al Maestro Rescigno, danno la misura di quanto la Callas abbia dato, in termini di prezzo da pagare, per la lirica. Che serva da lezione per alcune soprano di oggi che si "autoincensano" eredi della Divina. Poveraccie; non basta incidere, comodamente, e con gli ausili tecnici attuiali alcuni cd per affermare: "seguo la linea della Callas". (sic?!).
I cry!!! what power what voice...she always gave her self at every role...and in this video is so power and strong!!! inside the role!!! Callas for ever!!!
when she says the first "vieni" of "vienni t'affretta" you feel the power you need to weild when you sing this aria. you need to be "the big bitch on top" as i heard one soprano singing this role say, because it then plays in to the fact that she starts going crazy.
La Divina is more alive than ever. Today no one can match the atmosphere she can create such small simple gestures. Even the reading of the letter is charged with so much potential and dramatic energy that it is hard to forget when listening to other Lady-s. Her interpretation is of course very unique and differs majorly from what Dimitrova or Guleghina did/do in this part.
Atrévanse a decir que ni siquiera les asusta, aunque sólo sea un poco... Puro caracter, ¡es Lady Macbeth de piés a cabeza, sin miedo ni escrúpulos, manipuladora y vil a partes iguales! brava Maria, bravíssima.
La Callas is in excellent voice in this clip. Love the underlying drama being played out between she and the conductor as evidenced by her asking "Who's fault was that?" at the very beginning. Check out the look she gives him at 2:35 - PRICELESS! Ah, the Diva/Prima Donna in all her magnificence!
Indeed, La Callas needed friends on the podium as she was tormented by her own standards of what she wanted to achieve; therefore needed reassuring small interplays during the course of the evening. It is priceless to see the whole evening of this concert how often she speaks with her eyes of glory or even disappointment throughout the performance.
I wonder if she would be Callas if she hadn't been so hard on herself. I think that is the only reason of her early troubles. She drove herself mad!
She was actually suffering from a terrible cold that night, but didn't dare cancel as she knew the press would crucify her. It's remarkable she sang so well, and she did get better as the evening progressed (this was the first piece she sang). Unlike most singers, Callas rarely cancelled performances, but unfortunately for her, it made front page news when she did. The press gradually murdered her.
operfanpadova: ma che dici che era alla frutta!? ascolta bene!!!!!!!!
krampus671 2 months ago
nel 59 era ormai alla frutta, dopo circa 10 anni di vera carriera....certo ha fatto un repertorio massacrante (75 norma, 60 traviata....) però il declino è stato molto rapido, forse la tecnica non era così impeccabile, forzava nel registro acuto. C'è già vibrato largo, voce corta in alto, voce spinta a quasi gridata, insomma tutti i segni di un declino irrimediabile. Però è un mito, non solo mediatico ma anche artistico, un gusto di canto moderno ed attuale (chi la copia infatti finisce presto!)
operfanpadova 2 months ago
that crack is because of a stupid phlegm, it's clear because you can hear afterwords int he note she gives next. I said stupid phlegm because I know the impotence a singer feels when you have one of those...
violetavalery 4 months ago
solo chi cade e si risolleva è grande e la callas è stata la più grande di tutte
andrea7464 5 months ago
@andrea7464 anche britney spears cadde e si è rialzata, talento o meno, grandi donne.
SviAlex 4 months ago
2:33 means "You better not fuck up!" lmao she is so dramatic! i love it
mugrad25 6 months ago 5
There will NEVER be another Maria. Who gives a fig about a crack?
georgerannie 6 months ago 4
It must have been so hard for her to crack on the high C. You can tell all of the scrutiny she had been exposed to all her life in her eyes at that moment. I applaude her for being so honest to carry on knowing everyone heard it and still give it all she had that particular night. What an example she was and still is today. Brava Maria!
Lindow 7 months ago 3
Here she is total perfection. She IS the lady!
PEAinSwe 8 months ago
MARIA CALLAS IS THE BEST SOPRANO........
Maria67350 9 months ago 4
Opera stuka Teatr Wszystko Najwyszej Jakości Wszystko co lubie i kocham Ejan Nowakowski Kocha to.
jen1933701 10 months ago
ah maria, maria!! great maria. you are so funny here... But what make a great artist is that he is a human beeing. so don´t be so severe with yourself...
MmeFigaro 11 months ago
@MmeFigaro Ascoltiamo oggi tanti di quei soprano patetici che la Callas é superlativa anche quando é "funny" ... questi son tempi di ceci e per chi ha vissuto quel periodo trova la lirica disperante. Con le nullità odierne non ci si spreca neppure ad essere severi, é sufficiente il compatimento.
numetutelare 7 months ago
I'd really loved to be in the audience there, just looking at and listening to such perfection
gomongio 11 months ago
i give 20 years of my life to see that
tomclaudetom 11 months ago
before she open the mouth for singing she is the personnage incredible i have never seen that in my life i love you maria
tomclaudetom 11 months ago
how she learn the letter........she is great
tomclaudetom 11 months ago
There's a great book called "Stage Presence" by Jane Goodall in which she examines people who had that power and hold over the public. Callas is one of the artists she writes about! Riveting! Electric! We are all aware, and so was she, of her supposed vocal defects. The point is she rose above everyone warts and all. She was the consummate artist and personality of our lifetime which is why 40 years after her death she still pulls you to her. Remarkable!
Paddy818 11 months ago
I love how she reads the letter!!!!!
JennyzaS 11 months ago
What does she say to the maestro?
distefano13069609 1 year ago
Infinita ... <3
Lirico96 1 year ago
Gorgeous... nessuna come Lei
gomongio 1 year ago 6
she.is.the.voice.of.god
callasfan100 1 year ago 2
Oh, geez. That hairdo is doing NOTHING for her.
JeeRant 1 year ago
@JeeRant Her look that night is beyond reproach - her hair is the shit. She was at the forefront of 60s fashion, and it was only '59. Those pale lips/dark eyes are totally hot.
gustopheles 1 year ago 3
i want to see her without the shawl so i can see the way she breathes. Her 1962 Carmen at Covent Garden is a great example if you want to see how she supports and breathes. At that stage in her career she was rounding her shoulders a lot for support.
belcunto 1 year ago
What it was on 2:07? Too weak voice for this aria, maybe age?
oncelostmain 1 year ago
@oncelostmain She had a cold during this performance.
VivaMariaCallas 1 year ago
@oncelostmain Maybe it was that she had a cold...
JennyzaS 11 months ago
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@oncelostmain Maybe it was that she had a cold...
JennyzaS 11 months ago
i want to comment something at the spesific video...
i am a callas-fan but i should recognize that she made 2 cracks in the all aria....
tazkorinthos 1 year ago
@tazkorinthos
yes, captain obvious!
SirParsifal87 1 year ago
DIVA at :10-:14
musoph21 1 year ago
I would give one day's pay to know what she tells the conductor at 0:06...
Gobbi2007 1 year ago 4
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Elisabetha611 1 year ago
This isn't quite Callas at her zeneth, but there's enough here to show why she was so unique. She has a momentary problem with the high C in the beginning, but she recoups very fast. Her genius is, of course, obvious. I wish she had included the spectacular cabaletta to this aria, with which she would have set off some explosive volleys of sound. It is obvious that by this time, she was becoming very cautious about expending her vocal resources....with good reason, unfortunately.
Zva26 1 year ago 4
Thank you very much for sharing :)
YaelBerman 1 year ago
She is a very beautifull woman but I would never marry her for, as much as I know, she had a very complex and problematic charachter. Still, one of the greatest artist of the 2Oth century.
castorp278 1 year ago
@Onegin65 The reason why I mentioned it was the contrast between completely agrammatical English in all the messages of this user and a sudden message in perfect English. This is off-topic. I have already explained why I think his views have no importance.
MarcoCallas 1 year ago
dios que forma de cantar unica que voz increible una macbeth sin tantas cualidades vocales sino interpretativas
rhapsodyaaa 1 year ago
Her performances changed the standart by which all other opera singers are judged. She was born an artist and I'm still waiting for her re-encarnation.
Kalegoropoulos 1 year ago
Callas was that rare opera singer who connects on an emotional level with an audience.
Kalegoropoulos 1 year ago
Fancy meeting this lady MacBeth in a dark street at night?
Porkolty 2 years ago
Even after every video I have seen, from all of the best singers of the world that I idolize and admire since I was a young child- even after hearing her crack twice on both her C's- this has always been, and will probably forever remain to be for me one of the most captivating and absolutely incredible performances I have seen on record.
What excites me the most is her cracking, not itself, but the effect of it. She gets so pissed, you see it in her face. It drives her harder in the aria.
Rozenzeit 2 years ago 4
it excites you that she isn't professional enough to not acknowledge when something goes wrong?
Greatheil 1 year ago
It's great to see her live in this footage of a concert. She looks beautiful and she sings marvelously as Lady Macbeth. Hers was such a flexible voice that she could sing Violetta one night and Lady Macbeth another - and those are two very different voice types!
MastersoftheOpera 2 years ago
She chrack at 02:07
pursuahe 2 years ago
@pursuahe ¿ Y qué mas da si se le parte la nota, aunque se le escape un poco? Después de una interpretación de este calibre, esa menudencia me resulta insignificante.
scarlatti8 2 years ago
@scarlatti8 I'm sorry, cannot have great interpretation, with so many vocal problems how here they appear; for great redition a song of great quality is necessary. Unfortunately Callas here was already in decay at 35 yo
pursuahe 2 years ago 2
@pursuahe Please write again the same text. You may then realize that you are missing the whole musical point.
MarcoCallas 1 year ago
@MarcoCallas Firstly, I said nothing explicit about not liking this interpretation by Callas. I expressed a valid point of view based on my own subjective experience of this video. Fostering a plurality of perspectives is the purpose of public space such as this. I'm entitled to an opinion. If you can't handle a point of view that is different from your own without getting so emotional you can' t accept that diversity in opinion is good: well, that ain't my fault.
pursuahe 1 year ago
@pursuahe If I am not mistaken, you said that this is not a great interpretation and that, in order to have a rendition of quality, a great "song" is required (maybe you meant "voice", I do not know). Is that a "valid" point of view? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, including you; and everyone is entitled not to agree with your point of view. It is true that there are some vocal problems here, but does this compromise a great interpretation?
MarcoCallas 1 year ago
@MarcoCallas I like Callas, I'm not muffled fan of any singer. In my opinion this interpretation isn't great, would sees an average rendition; difficult high notes, hollow bottom, is no variation stressed words: valore, ascendivi all the same. Great it's her interpretation from RAI Turin 1952. Pity all the GREAT that we can read in post of seventy tour
pursuahe 1 year ago
@pursuahe You obviously had your previous message written by someone else, as we are back to agrammatical English (nobody prevents you from writing in Spanish) - but that is irrelevant. The people who have seriously studied music would probably strongly disagree with you and your very personal analysis. As for me, your opinion is just your opinion. Goodbye.
MarcoCallas 1 year ago
@MarcoCallas Adiós, que Dios confunda MarcoCallas
pursuahe 1 year ago 3
Yes, you're right, she does. However, overall she is great.
AliciaDupres 1 year ago
you are right....
tazkorinthos 1 year ago
Surprisingly, Nilsson's recitativo is much better than Callas's. I have never really associated Nilsson much with the Italian reportoire, and I will always think of her as a Wagnerian soprano, but I think her recording of MacBeth is superb.
venetianformula 2 years ago
HAAA CALLAS #1
kuintesa 2 years ago
Listen to that note at 1:56 and how it is executed. Callas was a master!
gray70 2 years ago
DanBarthy...... WOW.... you're a real YouTube connoisseur. If you wanna talk with me, first you have to see an opera on stage.
And YES, Callas was a Mezzo but certainly not the best.
Cry me a river..........Samba-buffoon!
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
Neanderthal,
Please, Don`t say stupidity (you always does!)!!! ahahahahah
I love opera and always I go at theatre see them!!!
Your ignorance is so agressive! Your knowlegde about: opera, voice and Callas is a joke! ("Your ignorance make laugh! kkkk")
Callas was Soprano Sfogato! Mezzo don`t sing: Norma, Medea, Armida, Lady Macbeth, La Traviata, Anna Bolena, Lucia,Turandot, ifigenia in Tauride ... and others!
Grow up!
DanBarthy 2 years ago
The best?
YOUR best soprano cannot sing Mozart, Strauss, Wagner....etc. Your comment is ridiculous.
dormondis 2 years ago
FYI, at the beginning of her career Callas sang loads of Wagner - Brunnhilde (in the Walkure), Isolde and Kundry. She also sang Konstanze in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio. She sang all these roles in Italian. The only role she ever sang in German was in Tiefland by Eugene D'Albert.
jonbaum 2 years ago
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sbocaj007 2 years ago
THE BEST EVER!!! SOPRANO!!!
DIVAWON 2 years ago 2
LA Diva! No one can match her! Maria, you are still so much alive with your perfection!
boris1281 2 years ago 3
I want to go back to that time when she was still alive.
medic944 2 years ago 27
@medic944 me too!!!
Orfeo68 1 year ago
@medic944 yes me too
Nacidodelmar 7 months ago
Genius of music. I just love her passion and technique.
saigoners 2 years ago 3
A gift from God.
bacersaci 2 years ago
She's an angel.
medic944 2 years ago
I agree that some of the lunges are "un peu pénible" but there are so few films of her performing that I make allowances in my critique here. Her fully staged performance in 1952 at LaScala with Vittorio Gui in the pit, even with a rushed Mad Scene, is still the best performance ever (the madness within the roulades of the Brindisi in Act II is unparalleled by any singer, even Verrett). Which is not to disparage Mme. Verrett. I would step on my mother's face if she had a comeback
sillyboydeux 2 years ago
Best ever what?
Brayer, Whore, Mezzo.........? WHAT? you NOOB!
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
Yes, you are a Neanderthal !
Your ignorance make laugh! kkkk
Callas mezzo?!
DanBarthy 2 years ago
In questa esibizione c'è l'unica stecca della grande Callas
87KenShiro87 2 years ago
Si, ma chi se ne frega? : )
doremicde 2 years ago
She is among the best ever.
walking90087 2 years ago
She's the best among the best...
saigoners 2 years ago 4
it is a very nice interpretation, but we know Callas has had better preformances.
Shirley verret is the best among the other Ladies.
Also, I realy like Gencer's interpretation. Her dark notes with metallic sounds was an amazing mixture to interpret Lady. Brava Verret, Brava Gencer, Brava Callas.
mali2327 2 years ago
What's wrong?
And why you are so combative?
The opera world admit Callas as a good Mezzo but what she has to do with sopranos?
Do you know she's a soprano? Grow up and learn!
If you come back with intelligence and knowledge we laugh about you!!!!
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
There are good sopranos, exellent sopranos, brillant sopranos and Maria Callas the MEZZO!!!
Her high tones are only acceptable for heavy metall.
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
Yes, and your words are only acceptable for your happy farm of donkey and pig-with respect for donkey and pig XD-
doremicde 2 years ago 2
Well, the mezzo enhance with stange beauty and powerful emotion.
BoysForPele1989 2 years ago
Absurd comment.
Operataurus 2 years ago
woow!
tobobba 2 years ago
There are good sopranos, excellent sopranos, brilliant sopranos and Maria Callas.
charlesbonares 2 years ago 46
Yes, I totally agree
doremicde 2 years ago
That is as true as if I should have said it myself. You have understood something very vital. ;) Thumbs up for you!
Turand0t 2 years ago
@charlesbonares
Right, her voice isn't good, excellent nor brillant!!
Can no-one see that she is the worst screecher of all opera singers. She breathes on her chest and doesn't use her diaphragm. She really isn't as good as everybody thinks, she has the typical western opera voice rather than the mellow Italian voice. I'm surprised her voice didn't run out sooner because of the way she sings on her throat, you can just hear the strain. Anyone who has been taught correctly will tell you this
Elisabetha611 1 year ago
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@Elisabetha611
How it is possible that she doesn't use her diaphragm? Don't be ridiculous!
SirParsifal87 1 year ago
@Elisabetha611
Ghuleghina, stop it. We know it is you:):)
Still, Callas is la Divina and you, my dear can't sing this:):):)
..or anything for that matter
Verret could and Ghena could
And did
Period
lozkhris 1 year ago
@Elisabetha611 rubbish
callasfan100 1 year ago
what is happening here? what is she singing of?
sweetnessglyc 2 years ago
il commento di sotto è per @Markos91able
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
certo...in presenza della Callas nn stiamo a sentire la voce..ma a guardare le caviglie............andate a comprare il libro di signorini....
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
Si, in effetti hai proprio ragione, ma la mia era solo curiosità nei confronti di quel commento balengo, ma concordo con te
doremicde 2 years ago
balengo?...questa è da Littizzetto XD
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
Nono, però mi sta molto simpatica e mi piace dire Balengo ahahahah
doremicde 2 years ago
ahahah, anche tu hai un brutto parere su signorini? : )
doremicde 2 years ago
mi hanno regalato il libro e l ho buttato, sono stufa di gente che si interessa di piu al gossip che all'arte,Se vogliono scoprire i "segreti" della Callas imparino a memoria ogni sillaba che ha cantato.
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago 2
Si, hai pienamente ragione, anche se devo dire che mi interessa conoscere anche com'era veramente Maria, al di là dei Gossip, ce l'hai "Maria Callas, lettere d'amore"? mi pare uhn buon libro, anche perchè le letterer le scrisse lei : )
doremicde 2 years ago
invece c'è un libro scritto da Nadia Stancioff sulla vita di Maria che è veramente bello e ben fatto, proprio la visione dal punto di vista di un'amica e non la solita "porcata" tipo il libro sopra citato.. Semmai voleste leggerlo, personalmente a me è piaciuto veramente tanto :)
nadopera90 2 years ago
io l'ho letto e sono sicuro che si tratti forse del libro più bello scritto sulla callas...soprattutto perché l'autrice era assistente di produzione quando è stato girato "medea" e l'ha potuta conoscere bene in quell'occasione...poi ti consiglio anche "fuoco greco" che pare un libro di gossip invece è molto più attento al lato storico che "gossipparo"...buona lettura!XD
permea 2 years ago
2:09, si dimostra la più grande. La Callas chiede scusa con gli occhi e i gesti. Quanti lo avrebbero fatto?
ginlemon29 2 years ago 2
Καικιλία Σοφία Άννα Μαρία Καλογεροπούλου.
caramuster 2 years ago
Even diminished, she can deliver one of the most electrifying Macbeth of the history... THIS is genius of singing !
PonselleLover 2 years ago
4:38 "che TARDI" e guarda il maestro :-( :°°°°
5:09 ...Poi qui è tagliato...quando partono gli applausi si gira dal maestro e fa nono con la testa....
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
MalvAAAAgiOOOO? Pien di misfAAAAAtti è il cooooolle della potenza e mal per lui che il piede dubitosovipone e retroceEEEEEEEeeeeee(steccca)de (Avete visto la faccia?) ->Hretroceeeeeede (e due) (era pienamente consapevole che la voce se ne stava andando) pampampampampam 2.34 Si gira e guarda il maestro,poi solleva le sopracciglia. -IEEENI t''affretta...Povera Maria :°°°°°°° Love "DI SCOZIA!!!!!......." :°°°°°°°°
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
si in effetti l'avevo notato, ma stava cantando con raffreddore e febbre, e poi vabè se ogni tanto si sbaglia qualche parolina, anche perchè cambia di poco se non si dicono certe consonanti nella lirica :):):);) XD, si capisce poco lo stesso, ad ogni modo si, si vede che quando fa il gorgheggio si indispone un po, la gestualità si fa un pochino più impacciata, ma cio non toglie che SIA una grandissima cantante, la più grande, per contenuto, interpretazione, personalità artistica ed altro
doremicde 2 years ago
Ma scherzi??? è il mio MITO!!! stavo facendo un discorso diverso..le mie considerazioni nn sono dello stile caccia alla stecca in questo caso specifico..piuttosto sottolineavo il fatto che LEI ben sapeva in che condizioni vocali stava..nessuno quanto lei è mai riuscito ad avvicinarsi alla perfezione canora ed interpretativa :)
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
Nono, ma avevo capito, anche il mio nn era un rimprovero
doremicde 2 years ago
Neldi della vittOOOria io le incontrai,stupito io n'EEERa per le udite Coose quando i Nuunzi del RE mi saltaron SIIIIIIR_ di caudore?v-a-t-i-c-i-n-i-o-uscitodalleveggentistessechepredisseroun sèèèèrto al capo mio?!?!Racchiudi in cOr questo segreeeto, addio.AAAAAAAAAAAmbizioso spIIIIrto tu sei MacBeth(tto) alla grandezzaa aneli ma sarai tu ma
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
Wobbled!
yodavidnavarro 2 years ago
I think it's the first and last time she's seen on stage with a dress that shows her ankles...lol but i love the shawl.
Marvellous as usual!!!
sweetnessglyc 2 years ago 2
you shoul talk about her voice..her emotions..not about ankles or shawl..
she was a singer not a model...
Markos91able 2 years ago
I know, I love her, she's my favourite singer of all time, I didn't mean it like that! I just read once that she felt bad about her ankles, and it is surprising to see her dressed like that. Sorry if you took it wrong. =)
sweetnessglyc 2 years ago
Why?
doremicde 2 years ago
why what?...????
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
Perchè non avrebbe mai più indossato un vestito che le mostrasse le caviglie?
doremicde 2 years ago
because she thought her ankles were too big.... =)
sweetnessglyc 2 years ago
non avevo sentito prima d'ora il mio mito sbagliare..devo dire che questo non fa che rendermi orgoglioso di essere un amante di Maria...avere ascoltato quella nota"mancante"ha riportato prepotentemente al cuore la sua immagine...siamo stregati da Maria...una dea imperfetta che si è strappata il cuore per donarcelo..è quella piccola bambina che maltrattata da tutti è diventata una principessa per incantare il mondo...grazie anche di aver sbagliato...un tuo ammiratore...
Markos91able 2 years ago 2
Mahhhh vuoi far rimescolare il brodo primordiale delle sue ceneri nel mar egeo????????? nn è una donna da fotoromanzoooooooo hahahahahahah
FirefoxWhite 2 years ago
When she starts to sing it's awesome!!!! What a power, what an artist, what a voice, a diva, a woman!!!!!!!!! Bravissima Maria!!!! You'll be the first and the last!!!!
doremicde 2 years ago 4
Lo peor que tiene Maria Callas es: los "callistas"
Tita398 2 years ago
i love u Maria u are the first the UNIQUE
pipineza 2 years ago 4
the timbre may not be for everyone...but u can tell that it is HER voice...she did not manufacture a sound, which is the norm these days (there are some great exceptions - not "famous" ones, sadly)...
JDOopera76 2 years ago
What does she say at the very beginning???
Joeleole 2 years ago
«Nel dì della vittoria io le incontrai...
Stupito io n'era per le udite cose;
quando i nunzi del re mi salutaro
sir di Caudore vaticinio uscito
dalle veggenti stesse
che predissero un serto al capo mio.
Racchiudi in cor questo segreto. Addio.»
sinibab 2 years ago
Thanks for replying, however i was referring to what she says to Rescigno before the piece starts...
Joeleole 2 years ago
No estaba en su mejor momento aquí la Callas, eso es lo de menos, para mí su gran merito es transmitir lo que canta, es decir, llegar al alma del que escuha, sólo ella y un tenor español Miguel Fleta, lo han conseguido, que empiecen a cantar y se te ponga la "carne de gallina"(por supuesto es mi opinión) No obstante para mí es esta aria la mejor es: Shirley Verret:
Tita398 2 years ago
Shirley era fantastica in questo ruolo, ma hai mai sentito la registrazione LIVE di Maria diretta da De Sabata ai primi anni 50? E' insuperabile......
federricoilgrande 2 years ago
no words... the best... there isn't someone like you... thank you for everythin.. why did you have to leave as.. I love so much...
5poin 2 years ago
She really delivers!
dks880 2 years ago
It was fifty years ago, the concert of my birth day on Friday, May 15th, 1959!
ioSonoCallas 2 years ago
A prime example of why no one else is Callas. She delivers a performance that is arguably as good if not better than all of her other recordings, all while having a cold and imploring Rescigno for aid with only her eyes (and he delivers). On top of that she finds not only the strength to sing the part but act it as well. If this were just a recording with no liner notes no one would know the difference. Younger, healthier, sopranos with the advantage of good recording techniques don't come close
mightythos77 2 years ago 2
SHE DELIVERS THIS ARIA!
TreblesBasses 2 years ago 2
Everything is there! Absolutely everything: the right colour, the right technique, the value of the notes, the perfect fast trills in " ti daro valore", the reading of the score, the artistry, the genius, and the way of coping with a tone that didn't work....... the commitment, the musicianship, and the most extraordinary stage presence. Simply the greatest Lady Macbeth on record.... and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century
colonia3059 2 years ago 5
What more is there to say except that I totally agree. Callas was made for this role.
meltzerboy 2 years ago 2
grande rescigno
maxtanz 2 years ago
There are quite a few sopranos reading the "letter" pretty expressively.
However, the hint of a question mark at the end of the last phrase and the "dropping" of addio as a meaningless word that she just read out of habit, while she was already thinking something else... is the mark of the divine Maria Callas!!!
CONTESTAR 2 years ago
La migliore Lady Macbeth di tutti i tempi.
Divina è dire poco.
malidera 2 years ago
SOLAMENTE DIVINA!!!!!, non riavremmo mai un soprano così... una voce definita uno strumento.
marcobenve 2 years ago
I can't believe the twittering about 'messing-up' - one is put in mind of spinsters spying from behind net curtains! I hate to remind these people that she was also human.
Who else could or has sung Lady Macbeth like Callas? Even the spoken introduction...even Italian singers can't summon such veracity! Callas was superb and gave herself completely to her art, surely something the 'world experts' who spend time talking about 'messing-up' might well do, if indeed they could...!
zimnaya 2 years ago 3
Did she mess up again at 5:09? I dont know enough to say this and that about notes...esp of Maria Callas but it seemed as if she missed the note there too...?
freezzertime 3 years ago
No; she just comes off of the high c quickly.
TreblesBasses 2 years ago
at that time she had a cold, she was supposed to cancel it but went on, you'll see in the barbiere also she also misses a note. but what a great performances!!! at least she didnt have to sing lakme that night!!!!
distefano13069609 2 years ago 2
also, youll se when she gets the note sometimes, she smiles to rescigno...
distefano13069609 2 years ago
Superb! No words can describe the excellence of her career. Even with her vocal decline,she is fantastic.
operagodess78 3 years ago 3
I love the way she moves at 1:22. Hand down, head down. She means business!
sandytheslayer 3 years ago
The "missed" note at 2:08 is maybe the most beautiful and moving moment of this video : Look at her disapointment and sadness, but look also how she immidiately controls her emotion, get concentrated again and "put herself together" (2:22) to be able to continue this terrible aria. This is fantastic Art. This is CALLAS !
Faust075 3 years ago 2
It is so sad to see her sad there. Her voice is the only thing she has and she loses it after an excellent career at such a young age... This is the rise and fall. I wish she did not fall at such a young age...
sezgin86 2 years ago
She also looks at Rescigno and mumbles something in Italian (can't understand exactly what) at 2:35 and then she becomes again the Lady at 2:40, like in a split-of-a-second transformation.
Priceless!
xafnndapp 2 years ago 3
I forgive her everything!!!!!
She is the ONE AND ONLY!!!!!!!!!
arisargiris 3 years ago 7
that look at :12 means she meant business...ultimate diva look!
musoph21 3 years ago 3
The vocal problems are easy enough to discern, but the overeall performance is so powerful as to force into the shade anyone else who sings this role. Callas IS Callas, and she stands alone. Artistically and musically, she has no peers. Probably never will.
Zva26 3 years ago
I am listening to Callas each day. What genius! What power! Truly a gift to us!
Wrightthang 3 years ago
Quegli occhi, pieni di disappunto
e "smarrimento" per alcuni momenti critici nell'esecuzione dell'aria stessa e rivolti al Maestro Rescigno, danno la misura di quanto la Callas abbia dato, in termini di prezzo da pagare, per la lirica. Che serva da lezione per alcune soprano di oggi che si "autoincensano" eredi della Divina. Poveraccie; non basta incidere, comodamente, e con gli ausili tecnici attuiali alcuni cd per affermare: "seguo la linea della Callas". (sic?!).
Grazie Onegin65.
oden60 3 years ago 5
she got down on this one and made it look effortless while doing so. That extended note at the end was powerful as hell!
musoph21 3 years ago
I cry!!! what power what voice...she always gave her self at every role...and in this video is so power and strong!!! inside the role!!! Callas for ever!!!
poupounakis 3 years ago 2
when she says the first "vieni" of "vienni t'affretta" you feel the power you need to weild when you sing this aria. you need to be "the big bitch on top" as i heard one soprano singing this role say, because it then plays in to the fact that she starts going crazy.
JuillHope17 3 years ago
La Divina is more alive than ever. Today no one can match the atmosphere she can create such small simple gestures. Even the reading of the letter is charged with so much potential and dramatic energy that it is hard to forget when listening to other Lady-s. Her interpretation is of course very unique and differs majorly from what Dimitrova or Guleghina did/do in this part.
boris1281 3 years ago
Certo che la registrazione di quando Maria era grassa e con TUTTA la sua voce è ben superiore (De Sabata etc)....
neronnenn 3 years ago
Atrévanse a decir que ni siquiera les asusta, aunque sólo sea un poco... Puro caracter, ¡es Lady Macbeth de piés a cabeza, sin miedo ni escrúpulos, manipuladora y vil a partes iguales! brava Maria, bravíssima.
scarlatti8 3 years ago 3
La Callas is in excellent voice in this clip. Love the underlying drama being played out between she and the conductor as evidenced by her asking "Who's fault was that?" at the very beginning. Check out the look she gives him at 2:35 - PRICELESS! Ah, the Diva/Prima Donna in all her magnificence!
gray70 3 years ago 11
Indeed, La Callas needed friends on the podium as she was tormented by her own standards of what she wanted to achieve; therefore needed reassuring small interplays during the course of the evening. It is priceless to see the whole evening of this concert how often she speaks with her eyes of glory or even disappointment throughout the performance.
I wonder if she would be Callas if she hadn't been so hard on herself. I think that is the only reason of her early troubles. She drove herself mad!
CONTESTAR 3 years ago 3
she want in her best form here but she is still great
mtenor 3 years ago
She was actually suffering from a terrible cold that night, but didn't dare cancel as she knew the press would crucify her. It's remarkable she sang so well, and she did get better as the evening progressed (this was the first piece she sang). Unlike most singers, Callas rarely cancelled performances, but unfortunately for her, it made front page news when she did. The press gradually murdered her.
Tsaraslondon 3 years ago 12