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  • An amazing piece of history. So thrilling. Isn't the baritone there in the ensemble Boris Christoff? It certainly sounds like him - so we have Callas, Corelli and Christoff. Wonderful

  • When I was a kid and saw Callas in NORMA, LUCIA, TOSCA and LA TRAVIATA - and loved her - I used to say: " An artist of Callas' caliber comes along once in a lifetime." I am older now and know better. Today I say: "A Callas comes along once. Period." Thanks so much for trip into the Golden Age.

  • complimenti, dove avete scavato questo video, mai visto eppure pedo parecchio tempo a ricercarli. Grazie.

  • Sa grande époque...

  • absolutely priceless!

  • @luiismoschini. Thank you for this amazing footage. I saw her Norma in the late 50s but these clips are fantastic. It was not just the voice which was incredible but the whole interpretation and characterisation of each role which was mesmerising. A great artist and a unique musician. She had an instinctive understanding of how each role should be sang and brought to life. I doubt we will see her like again.

  • Thanks for posting.

  • Shes good - but Christoff also _what a basso profonda -does somethong with Nicolai exist on Video?

  • Il legato, le mezze voci, il morendo dei suoi acuti...-pura magia vocale!

  • Une capacité à drainer l'émotion du coeur de la musique jusqu'à celui de son auditoire!..Rare...

  • Love Norma, love Callas. Thanks for posting.

  • Splendida ed emozionante la voce di Maria Callas in questa Norma del 1953.

  • MA-RA-VI-LLO-SO

  • So we have this phenomenal legacy with everything from snippets in Buenos Aires to all of Act II of Tosca. For my part, the film of the 1965 Paris Norma recitative expresses the true meaning of bel canto as we see her joining the body, soul and voice in one coup de teatre after another. What is the true meaning of the term bel canto? I think it is that everything has meaning, every note, fermata, acciaccatura, etc., legato in some places, staccato or scuro/sfogato in others. A true diva poet.

  • And by comparison today's singers are pale, distorted imitations of what opera used to be like. There isn't even a Tebaldi, and she was not so great either, so that's how low the threshold has been lowered to. The Met is ugly, dull, full of overfed uneducated billionaires with no awareness of music. At LaScala the old ladies go up to the loggia with their scores and pick apart the singer's voices. At the Met they just saunter over to the bar and get plastered.

  • I would agree with you about the lack of talented opera singers, except for one girl. Look up Sarah Coburn. Diction, acting, and most importantly, a wonderful voice!

  • Any time!

  • I just listened to her Puritani aria, "Son vergin vezzosa" and thought she did a beautiful job except for those wedding cake embellishments before the finale. It is supposed to be really fast by that point, so her descending glissandi sound like sighs of delight and all that . . . but the voice is wonderful!

  • Your comments are wonderful....

  • Thank you so much, profgv. I aim to please!

  • @sillyboydeux Your comment matches your nickname - silly boy, twice over. Yes, Callas was a great interpreter of Norma, but there are others, such as Elinor Ross that I've discovered through youtube never having heard her live. And as for your idiotic, denigrating comments about Tebaldi ... "expletive deleted".

  • @VivaRenata grow the fuk up!!

  • @sillyboydeux but speaking from experience, a nice bracer like scotch on the rocks helps geatly to lubricate the evening at the Met. When the singing becomes a little 'drawn-out' you can always amuse yourself by clutching the brass rail and wondering how the hell you're going to avoid falling out of your box and plumeting to your death... it's very entertaining really, and they do have nice bars at the Met with very handsome and pleasant bartenders!

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  • @sillyboydeux They do that when they're not unwrapping surprisingly loud candies at the most dramatic moments, disturbing everyone.

  • @sillyboydeux She always began and ended her canto at piano, finding her way through the character's conflicting emotions by way of her innate sense of legato and rhythm that were so brilliantly employed throughout her career, rising to a kind of "sfogato maestoso"; suddenly there were no other voices, even at the amazing finale in this masterpiece. It wasn't a metallo, but a song in the Greek tradition of "tragodos", the "goat song", the sad, poignant cry which arouses pity and fear in us.

  • @sillyboydeux OMG, let's put this on a billboard!

  • @sillyboydeux  Tebaldi wasn't "so great either"? Hmmm.... listen again to the incredible musical choices she makes. Tebaldi didn't sing by the numbers.

  • Well...i agree with you with MOST of what you say...although Tosca was/is a 'verismo' opera and 'bel-canto' and verismo together is somewhat of an oxymoron!!Callas WAS 'bel-canto'...but that phrase is more correctly used with operas by Donizetti and early Verdi and Bellini!!Puccini...hmmmm...not so much!!Callas RULES man...whatever...on this we most CERTAINLY agree!!

  • She was not THAT fat as some people recall or critize...

  • The Met no longer has true bel canto. Juilliard lacks the teachers who can teach it. My teacher is from the line of Tettrazinni, but she is eighty now... I am not singing. Perhaps I must teach it so this technique does not die out... May the bel canto TECHNIQUE(not merely the style/music), somehow resurrect...

  • Brilliant technique, all the warm color is from the chest, NOT the tongue like in today's inferior sopranos. Wow! When she was heavy, the voice was even more sumptous! Amazing! Emotion! A genius! She served her Art. What has happened to Bel Canto? Where are the great teachers in Italy?

  • Yes, her voice did lose something when she lost weight. She lost too much too fast. Still wonderful though.

  • Actually, She doesn't even look that heavy like she did before.

  • By today's standards, Callas wasn't even that fat. At her heaviest she was 220 pounds, which for a woman who was about 5-9, isn't that huge. Compared to the singers now that are far shorter and weight at least 300 pounds, Callas was at worst voluptuous. She certainly was not morbidly obese. I think if she had kept this weight, she would have been in good vocal shape for a long time. She looked beautiful and still had enough physical strength to support that gigantic voice.

  • It's so strange that people always mention how large Callas was, but no one ever comments about Caballe.

  • @Shahrdad Opera is about drama - being seen, heard and understood as a character. She felt she could inhabit the character more by losing weight and she was right - esp for those roles that she was best in i.e. bel canto. Perhaps bad for the voice but thinner, she could be more versatile physically and achieve an aesthetic that may have been difficult at 220lbs. Big sacrifice but reflective of how much she was devoted to the opera as art, not just music.

  • @babydrane You are right, but what I was saying is that Callas was by no means one of the elephants one sees on stage now. Of course, she looked much more the part once she was thin, but it came at a great sacrifice to her voice. I think if she had lost weight more slowly and at the same time done some gym time, she might have been able to generate the same degree of breath support and strength with her thinner body and kept the voice intact for much longer.

  • Moi de toutes les Norma de Callas c'est ma version préféré en partie aussi pour le splendide Pollione de Franco Corelli. Indispensable. Leur duo final est absolument fabuleux.

  • Connais-tu la Norma à la Scala de Milan 7 decembre 1955, avec Mario Del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato et Nicola Zaccaria? Cette NORMA est émouvante au larmes!

  • Bien sur, je crois avoir presque toutes les Norma que Callas a laissé, il me manque cepandant celle de covent garden 1952 j'ai entendu le final sur youtube, fabuleux. Si je préfère celle de Trieste c'est en grande partie a cause de Corelli qui est à mon point de vue le meilleur Pollione.Héroique et romantique, cette dernière façette manquant à mon avis à Del Monaco.

  • Mais la Norma 1955 SCALA est la plus belle de toutes les Normas callasiennes. J'ai les Normas Covent Garden 1952, Trieste 1953, Scala 1955: c'est à dire les meilleures Normas avec Callas.

  • Pour le rôle de Norma ok pour la Scala mais pour les duos avec Pollione je considère que Corelli est supérieur à Del Monaco, cela dit en tout respect bien sur..

  • Peut etre por Corelli, tu as raison, mais Le Pollione de MDM est presque au meme niveau.

  • Si vous êtes fan de Del Monaco il y a en DVD une Norma filmé à Berlin en 1967 avec Elinor Ross, dirigé par Ettore Grassis. Je crois que c'est sa meilleure interprétation de Pollione,

  • @ArcanaMundi81 1955—son année miraculeuse! Au moin de juin, elle a continué à Rome avec une autre nuit de magique dans ce rôle. Une fois plus, le finale du prémier acte, commencant dans la phrase "Tu compi . . . tu compi . . . " se déroule d'un tonnère et d'éclat, et le reste est la flamme brulante d'une femme fatale!

  • @sillyboydeux

    N'oublions pas sa Sonnambule de Scala le 5 mars 1955!!! avec Berstein et Valletti!

  • @jacquesurlus J.S.D. = JE SUIS D'ACCORD!

  • Commotionnant. Cet être était irréel, surhumain...

  • Thx so much for this

  • Although she was beautiful once she had lost weight it came at a terrible price to her health and voice. But her art was pure genious. Viva La Callas per sempre. A Comet that streaked across our lives in blazing light and then..................if she had only really known her own power which everyone felt watching/listening to this supreme performer.

  • Grazie per cndividere un video dall'epoca in cui c'era ancor bellezza al mondo!

    Ankhsnammon

  • -Vedadero documento Histórico!!!

    ¡¡¡Gracias *luismoschini*!!! Por compartirlo desde YouTube al Mundo!!!

  • supremely wonderful! Norma is Callas' most important part and she has, even when she was young this regal and intense combination of attitude and dramatic gestures! She is the great Callas even in Trieste! Many thanks for this wonderful video wich makes us understand and discover for ourselves why she was and is so great!

  • Ho quasi le lacrime agli occhi! Ho sempre pensato che filmati di Maria ce ne fossero ma, chissà perché, ben nascosti, anche per pigrizia. Ma questo di Trieste non era neanche lontanamente immaginabile! Occorre lavorare per rendere pubblico tutto quello che è disponibile, non credo assolutamente alla pochezza delle antologie video ufficiali della Divina. Cosa possiamo fare in tal senso ? Aspetto notizie.

  • Fantastic! Thanks you very much!

  • E deggio e posso crederlo? Wort-Ton-Drama al meglio.

  • immense eternal thanks. for what other singer would a few silent blurry seconds-long fragments be like the uncovering of the video grail?

  • OMG WHERE ON EARTH DID U FIND THIS?

    lets hope more exists...

  • Thank you so much for this! Even if the quality of the images aren't very good nor clear, it's amazing even to recognize the movements and gestures of Callas. Only that is already a great gift, one can feel a very minimum part of her tremendous fire, noblety and intensity on stage.

  • Ciao, io vidi un film rarissimo quasi 10 anni fa a Trieste presso il Museo Schmidt dove si vedeva una bellissima Callas che provava con Corelli "Norma" (1953). Non so se è lo stesso filmato ma mi ricordo che le parti video erano più lunghe. Rarità di Maria ce ne sono e anche tante ma la gente non vuole farle conoscere al mondo...esiste una registrazione dove Maria prova Werther in studio... 1976

  • ...e abbiamo tutti letto che molte recite messicane furono teletrasmesse: non esiste più niente?! Alcuni coristi piacentini anni fa han riferito di aver sentito la Guendalini parlare di un filmato del concerto Rai di Torino del '51. Per tacere della "Sonnambula"scaligera del '55: anche se si tratta di un documento precario, perché non renderlo pubblico?!

  • WOOOOOW.

  • INMENSAMENTE AGRADECIDO, es como me siento a la persona que ha tenido la enorme gentileza de compartir con la comunidad de amantes del arte de Maria Callas, semejante vídeo singular. Una verdadera joya.

    Muchas, muchas gracias.

  • A fantastic new addition to the Callas archive!!!

    Thank you for posting.

    And by god, if I had been alive back then I would have given it all up to have followed Callas around the world and listened to ALL of her performances.

  • This is so wonderful; even though it's just a few minutes of Callas's early live stage footage what a magnifecent presence she had to go with the rest of her greatness.

  • Este vídeo é uma surpresa grande e uma contribuição maravilhosa para o legado de Callas. Muito, muito obrigado!

  • Amazing, I hope that other miracles just like that will reproduce! One thousand thank you.

    STUPEFIANT! J'espère que d'autres miracles comme celui-ci se reproduira! Merci infiniment.

  • Thank you very much, Luis Carlos, And thank you very much too, Ricardo Gmeiner. It is like a miracle.

  • Gracious me! Thank you!!!

  • Great Gift for us!!!

    Thanks!

  • Wondrous, magnificent and extremely moving!

  • FABULOUS!!!

  • Good God! Thanks for this!!!!

  • OMFG! Absolutely stunning!

  • WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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