Callas gave her voice and body in the 50's. Very few of her later recordings are as good.
There was a great 2-3 part audio analysis on BBC Radio 3 where a musicologist and voice coach demonstrated over a couple of hours how she deliberately destroyed her voice, most heroically in the interest of art. I cannot find it, can the expert leoparm?
@bm1729 Thats easy.. she stopped singing... pretty much anyway, and definitely she stopped practicing, warming up, doing her exercises, etc.. and .. pretty soon her voice sounded thread bare.
@leonardovittori1 I agree. Of course, if a singer used to practice six hours a day everyday for years and years, add the drastic weight loss, stop, resume plus emotional turmoil and partying, the instrument is bound to suffer.
@markivens Musetta is written for a soprano. In the 60's Callas sang quite a few mezzo arias from "Carmen", "Samson et Dalila", "La Cenerentola" and "Don Carlo" in concert and/or on records.
amo questa canzone
masonschoeppl123 8 months ago
magnificent !
cwslai 8 months ago
Travolgente, diabolica, direi quasi... virile! MAGNIFICA!!! Solo Lei rende Musetta così!
rbpenelope2008 1 year ago
she's lovely!
pf84766 1 year ago
Holy crap! What a difference from this to the 1963 recordings.
poursuivant1 1 year ago
@poursuivant1 i know! i just listened to the 1963. it's incredible
PeaceLoveFrog 8 months ago
always this coughing in opera... so annoying! lol
vivaciousmuse 2 years ago 12
The best Musetta sung by Maria,the performances of 63 ar'not perfect,but ever interesting.
saverioorlando 2 years ago
Spectacular.
Callas gave her voice and body in the 50's. Very few of her later recordings are as good.
There was a great 2-3 part audio analysis on BBC Radio 3 where a musicologist and voice coach demonstrated over a couple of hours how she deliberately destroyed her voice, most heroically in the interest of art. I cannot find it, can the expert leoparm?
Well done leoparm.
bm1729 2 years ago 5
I don't know if I can... maybe, but, have you the date?
leoperarm 2 years ago
I would very much like to listen to that.
tneprescintr 2 years ago
@bm1729 Thats easy.. she stopped singing... pretty much anyway, and definitely she stopped practicing, warming up, doing her exercises, etc.. and .. pretty soon her voice sounded thread bare.
leonardovittori1 1 year ago
@leonardovittori1 I agree. Of course, if a singer used to practice six hours a day everyday for years and years, add the drastic weight loss, stop, resume plus emotional turmoil and partying, the instrument is bound to suffer.
ciociosan 7 months ago
There are many singers able to sing this perfectly (well... not so many), but this is something else.
With Callas, each and every aria becomes something else.
Thank you for posting.
Querzeo 2 years ago
I read that Callas from the 50's was awesome. Love to hear more from that period. Thanks.
bbbartolo 2 years ago
strange to hear Callas sing a mezzo role here... and not the role of mimi, the soprano in La Boheme...But nevertheless perfect as always :-)
markivens 2 years ago
Musetta is no mezzo role, it's for a soprano and has always been sung by sopranos.
Klassizismus 2 years ago
@markivens Musetta is written for a soprano. In the 60's Callas sang quite a few mezzo arias from "Carmen", "Samson et Dalila", "La Cenerentola" and "Don Carlo" in concert and/or on records.
MadonnaImperia 4 months ago
Is this really from Los Angeles-Concert? Do you have also other arias from LA ??
Many thanks for posting this aria, great !!!
imogene1952 2 years ago
yes...I have some others^^
leoperarm 2 years ago
Thank you for your answer- but if you have some other`s from LA - would you be so kind to post them? Many thanks and best greetings from graz-austria
imogene!!
imogene1952 2 years ago
SORRY! Somehow I didn't notice that you replied. I'll post 'Una voce poco fa' and 'A vos yeux' :-)
leoperarm 2 years ago