September 16, 1977 -Maria Callas Death - Giulietta Simionato

[89Thodoris]

Είσαι και θα είσαι το καμάρι της Ελλάδας!! ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΛΛΑΣ!!!!

[RonaldBarone]

Simionato was a mezzo ... right?

[vivelhistoire]

@RonaldBarone Yes, she was a mezzo. I really recommend her Anna Bolena duet with Callas, where she sings Giovanna Seymour, if you haven't listened to it.

[GoldenAgeSunshine]

"Grande soprano come Giulietta Soprano" ... bravo giornalista!

[CateSoprano]

@GoldenAgeSunshine si davvero.......... che ignoranza.

[GoldenAgeSunshine]

@CateSoprano Bé, questo puó succedere, ma è vero che accade troppo spesso con giornalisti, forse ottimi nel loro campo, ma ché non se ne intendono affatto di lirica!

[MisterPapageno]

I don't like Simionato's interview: she sounds phony to me

[MisterPapageno]

5 >> she accepted everything from me. She called me "the one and unique" . But I said to her "the unique of what?" and she replied "of many things, Giulia. You understand me, and you are the only one who understands me and who is close to me, and this is something very important to me".

THE END

[MisterPapageno]

4 >> Interviewer: "a particular memory, I don't know ? When have you seen her for the very last time? "

Giulietta Simionato: "The last time I saw her was when she was here in Rome to go filming [Medea] with Pasolini: both at the arrival and departure we were together 2-3 hours at the Grand Hotel, talking and talking, and mostly she talked herself, and she told me everything as ever because she confided in me, and she accepted everythin from me: advice, reproach, complements... >>

[MisterPapageno]

Complete translation:

Interviewer: "A great soprano like Giulietta Simionato is still moved after having learned the news of MariaCallas's disapperance (death). Were you very close friends?"

Giulietta Simionato: "First of all, I have to clarify that saying I am moved is too little: I am broken-hearted. And I really struggle (I am very emotional ) to retain my tears, but ... I have to say a few words to remember Maria and I could have expected anything today but being here inthis very moment >>

[MisterPapageno]

>> to remeber Maria that has passed away. It's like a nightmare. We met in 1948: she was perfoming "Tristan und Isolde" in Venice, and I was perfoming "Mignon" for the first time, and then she did "Puritani" where the musical and vocal phenomenon she was and she is really came out, it's a nonsense reminding it because everyone knows. I have to say we have been very good friends and this could sound something very strange because mean-minded people thought it was impossibile to be Maria's >>

[MisterPapageno]

3 >> friend's. Nevertheless, I have been and we have been both, and we have loved each other as friends and we have had great respect for one another. I knew her very well: she was very fragile, although her temperament resembling a lioness, they called her "a tyger"... So, what else can I say? A woman with a wonderful personality that has really said new words in the world of opera. I don't know what else to say because I could say ... talk over and over to talk about this thing" >>

[Lirico96]

RIP Simionato

RIP Callas

[aftox8wn]

KARIOLA

[MrPipposiculo]

Cara Giulietta ,ora che non ci sei più,lassù avrai ritrovato la tua amica!!

Siete state uniche e grandi ,basta pensare all'eredità che ci avete lasciato nelle registrazioni:una per tutte, l'Anna Bolena. con affetto. Mr Pipposiculo.

[MrPipposiculo]

Cara Giulietta ,ora che non ci sei più,lassù avrai ritrovato la tua amica!!

Siete state uniche e grandi ,basta pensare all'eredità che ci avete lasciato nelle registrazioni,una per tutte, l'Anna Bolena. con affetto

[YaelBerman]

Very touching. It´s a priviledge to be able to see this. Thank you very much for sharing.

[AmericanEvita]

From what I understood Simionato said: "I met Callas in the 40's in Venice where she sang Tristan and Isolde. I knew her well. She was a fragile woman despite the image of a lioness or tigress. The last time I saw her was in Rome when she was doing a production for Pasolini (must refer to the movie version of Medea). Callas, Simionato, Tebaldi, Nilsson, Sills, Pavoratti. There are no good singers on earth anymore!!!

[zucchini2007]

She said that Callas was a musical phenomenon and that she knew her well, contrary to popular belief. That's all I understood. Italian is a beautiful language, I love how it sounds!

RIP, Maria Callas and Giulietta Simionato. God rest your souls.

[pedrovono]

Rest in peace, carissima Giulietta!

[floridante2k]

The two GREATS - Callas + Simionato :)

[xilpix]

Giulietta is dead today May 5 2010, in Rome. She was almost 100.

Rip Giulietta, sing in heaven with others great singers now.

[agladd]

La Simionato è grandissima come artista e come persona.

[RonaldBarone]

See... thats how a elegant woman talks about another colleague ... Giulietta Simionato is sad, down, but still someone with class and respect for someone she admired ....

Giulietta Simionato I like you, but after this you really won my full respect

[permea]

che gran donna la signora simionato!

[Operalover12002]

Thanks for the English translation. Teamed with La Callas, Ms. Simionato must have been grieved at the news of her death.

[corellithebest]

Thank you so much, Onegin, for this treasure. I know Italian and I understood without problems what Giulietta said on Maria, she was undoubtedly on the edge of tears. Giulietta is so sweet, I admire her now even more than I did before, both as an artist (just to think about her Azucena and Ulrica!), and as a woman!

[CONTESTAR]

§1. (...)To say I am moved [by the death of Maria] is very little. I am broken-hearted. I try hard to hold back my tears!

Maria is not there. It is a nightmare. We met when she was doing Isolde and I my first Mignon. Then she did Puritani causing [the world] to call her vocal and musical phenomenon ...which she Was as everybody knows. We loved and appreciated one another against the disbelief of the envious who maintained she couldn't be friends with anyone... I knew her really well.

[Liwah]

Thank you so much for the translation! :-)

[MissJessyeNorman]

@CONTESTAR Thanks for translating =))

[CONTESTAR]

§2. She was a vulnerable woman. And yet an element in her character could make her look like a lioness or a tiger, as they said. A woman of formidable personality who had indeed something new to say in Opera! What else shall one say. One can talk infinitely about Maria. (...) The last time we met was when came to Rome for her Pasolini Film. We spoke for hours at the hotel. She spoke mostly because she always confided in me. She also accepted everything from me: advise, critic, compliments...

[CONTESTAR]

§3. She called me "unique". I asked "unique" in what sense!? She responded, "In so many ways! You are the only person who understands me, who is close to me and does so much good to my heart!"

[Ratisbone68]

Can anyone translate the basics in English?

[Dalida23]

Come era triste Giulietta!! lei ha perso una grande amica ch'era Maria Callas =(

[corellithebest]

Si, questo e' davvero commovente. Da adesso, da quando l' ho sentita qui parlare cosi' di Maria, appena riuscendo a trattenere le lacrime, amo e ammiro Giulietta anche di piu', come artista e come donna.

[saribu]

Que bellas palabras. Sin duda, una amistad sincera.

[Operalover12002]

I wish this clip contained English captions for what Ms. Simionato talked in the interview. With no knowledge of Italian, I was unable to comprehend what she said there.

[filiodecallas]

Dolce Anima, questa grande mezzo.

[Artemisiakv384]

Ma Onegin65 - dove hai preso tutti questi video cosi fantastici!!!

Grazie per tutto questo!

[mdellavalle]

dolce, dolcissima Giulia. La tua commozione ci arriva intatta al cuore. Sono fiero di averti conosciuta e di aver assaporato la tua arte.

(Signor giornalista la signora Simionato é la più grande mezzosoprano vivente, non soprano!)

[GIUSEPPEFEETLOVER]

avrebbe potuto chiamarla tenore ma....lei provava un sincero dolore e quindi non ci ha fatto caso...

[fedro98]

thanks a lot for that

[carlissima28]

thank you so much for posting this.

[ArcanaMundi81]

Grazie di questo video! sono commosso!

[jolucascan]

Un documento excepcional pera recordar a la Callas. Gracias

[operaholic001]

Éternité, néant, passé, sombres abîmes,

Que faites-vous des jours que vous engloutissez ?

Parlez : nous rendrez-vous ces extases sublimes

Que vous nous ravissez ?

Ô lac ! rochers muets ! grottes ! forêt obscure !

Vous, que le temps épargne ou quil peut rajeunir,

Gardez de cette nuit, gardez, belle nature,

Au moins le souvenir ! :(

[ioSonoCallas]

Ce passage du Lac des méditations poétiques de Lamartine est bien choisit pour ce jour anniversaire de la disparition de nôtre chère diva. C'est très beau, merci infiniment.:)

[lochness11]

Many thanks.I remember the BBC News TV announcement.Victoria de los Angeles was 'phoned at her Barcelona home by a reporter from Paris in the afternoon."Madam de los Angeles,Callas is dead.What do you have to say?"He heard a gasp,followed by sobbing and her 'phone fell to the floor.Later she replaced the handset without speaking.

[andreasscholl]

Giulietta Simionato and La Divina were not good friends!

She always tried to outsing Callas.

Her notes were stronger, although Callas never made a battle with her.

[woytynowska]

I think that it was Fiorenza Cossotto, not Giulietta Simoniato, who did behave like that.

[operaclassicc]

these are bullshits ,fiorenza and giulietta werent good friends but callas had a good friendship with simionato

[ioSonoCallas]

Actually it's Cossotto which was cruel for the poor Callas faint in Norma at Paris Opera in 1965. But there has never been rivalry between Callas and Cossotto and even less with Simionato which was a great friend since the beginning.

[woytynowska]

that was exactly what I meant. I didn't remember the year and the spectacle and the book shelf is just too far from me to go to it and check :)

[lungdoc]

Gracias Oneguin. Brava Callas.

[yes4albert]

Grazie tanto per questo interview con Simionato. Mi fa tanto bene al core ascoltare come le due grandi cantatrice si amavano, e che Callas poteva confidarsi in Giulietta, e sentiva amata da una collega cosi. Son americano; italiano non e mia lingua materna, pero, mi puo capire, no? Grazie ancora.

[yes4albert]

Oh...Onegin, you sent this in. Duh! Sorry, I didn't even look to see. Thank you so much for this treat. It's wonderful to hear Simionato speaking with affection on her friendship with Callas. Two great artists who gave us great performances.

[MusicaParola]

Non mi sembra possibile che domani, 16 settembre, commemoriamo trentadue anni della morte di Maria Callas. E qui, molto commossa, possiamo vedere una grande artista parlando con affetto ed emozione dell'atra. Ti ringrazio per questo video di Simionatto.

[ArcanaMundi81]

31 anni dalla morte della Callas: 16.IX.1977 - 16.IX.2008.