Maria Callas & Paolo Silveri - Udiste...Vivra! - Il Trovatore - Verdi

[IRA77GEOTENORE]

Amazingly conducted, so interesting and dramatic and personal!!!

Non existent today!!!

[Aetion]

Maria is great, as usually. Paolo Silveri also magnificent.

Thanks for the post.

[zurriussII]

Callas was like Mozart - made EVERYTHING in early age that is really impossible for others. BRAVO

[Aetion]

@zurriussII Well said! Bravo.

[pjdonagh]

There is nothing to add to the general feeling of admiration for the singers and their performance in this rendition however the trumpeter deserves a special mention....on this recording he is well to the fore and performing magnificently!!!

[saverioorlando]

i have the old live recording 33 of this Trovatore.The audience was very passionate,maybe Lauri Volpi was some time hated by napolitan press,honestly i feel many moments out of tune.Maria is divina.

[sevoflurane]

two artists who knew what opera was about.

[tonyhan0903]

It's nice to hear Callas at her young age.

[maxtanz]

grande serafin

[DjeddaPixie]

My God!..fantastic!!!...

[ioSonoCallas]

Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, 01/27/1951, Tullio Serafin.

This performance of "Il Tovatore" was criticized a lot by the pressin this time, and the tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was booed! Indignant, Mister Lauri-Volpi wrote an open letter in the press to protest on what they wrote on him, and to say that the Maria Callas's singing is admirable and unique!

[HadrienB]

Are you sure he was booed and not rather distorted "bis!" shouted too near the microphones?

I can hardly believe there was someone who would have dared to boo Lauri-Volpi after his triumphant rendition of "Di quella pira" and we can distinguish some "bis!"...

But I don't know, I did not read the letter, it's just an opinion...

[ioSonoCallas]

I'm very sure, it was reported in several Maria Callas biographies. Yes we hear "Bis" but we hear especially "Ouh" which are in the Latin languages equivalent to Anglo-Saxon "Boo".

[HadrienB]

Thanks for your clarification. I would not have suspected such a vehement critic in the press after having heard the rather enthousiastic public's reaction on the most arias of this performance (except on the miserere maybe) (even shouting "bravo" after lauri-volpi "teco a morire" in "di quella pira"). Thanks again for having dealt your knowledge about those events.

[sevoflurane]

they booed lauri-volpi, the fools. they should have listened to villazon.

[corellithebest]

It was so kind of Lauri-Volpi to praise Callas! Now I admire him even more! I mean, I hardly ever heard him sing, but I know he was Corelli's teacher and model.

[Kievest]

Thrilling!!! They could sing the phone book

and I'd be hopping out of my socks.

Bravo and Thank you!!!!