Tito Gobbi e Maria Callas nella Tosca di Giacomo Puccini

[frankmaiorana66]

This is a great pairing, Callas & Gobbi. What some have called the best opera recording ever made much less the best Tosca ever made was the 1953 La Scala recording. Callas & Gobbi were at their best. As if that was not enough, that Tosca had another brilliant performance, Giuseppe Di Stefano was at his best as Cavaradossi here. I don't know who did Cavaradossi here, I think Renato Cioni.

[56ernest]

The two greatest performers in opera ever!

[maggica212]

la mejor vesión

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

Judy Dench once mentioned this in an interview that is posted somewhere on here about how amazing this was to watch

[Barroilion]

ma chi ha messo non mi piace????

[ibsen5]

this piece is one of the highest point of human culture, no doubt..

[PeerGyntTheOnion]

da brivido...



[GoldBezant]

Luckily I watched this from the far end of the gallery slips. Callas and Gobbi were electrifying. With the knife in her hand you see Callas just as she was as the terrifying Medea - nobody did anger better. How marvelously she times the actions, making everything so real. And Puccini surely knows a thing or two about drama!

[puckFarfadette]

io gli avrei dato anche due calci al cadavere prima di andar via, eh! XD

[CarloQuinto]

CALLAS IS TOSCA! BRAVA PER SEMPRE!

[FRANKHODGES39]

The very best pair. It is said that she actrually got carried away in this performance and actually cut Gobbi with the prop!

[edwardspieres]

beautiful absolutely wonderfull

[DalokiMauvais]

I've never yet seen a better Scarpia-Tosca confrontation - they are superb.

I believe this is the performance where she broke a heel off one of her shoes - you can see how uneven her steps are - but she never falters for an instant. Brava! Bravo!

[1947Rollo]

La Callas è strepitosa e Gobbi in questa scena ritengo sia inarrivabile.Due autentici"animali"da palcoscenico

[tenorismo]

Mori !! Mori !! Mori

[gabriel94220]

@tenorismo Muori ! Muori ! Muori !

[tenorismo]

@gabriel94220 Grazie

[Alfredo50ful]

DIVINA in tutti i sensi: voce impareggiabile e presenza scenica da consumata attrice. MERAVIGLIOSA e INDIMENTICABILE ...... ormai nella storia e nei nostri ricordi !!!!

[alleviso2]

Oltre ad essere stata la PIU' GRANDE CANTANTE DI OGNI TEMPO (anche se purtroppo prematuramente decaduta) è stata anche una GRANDE ATTRICE!!!!

[victoriusBP]

THE QUEEN AND THE KING!! OH MY GOD!

[patriziacioffi]

great singing, great artists, a great era. Thank you, whomever, for posting this great, great experience. Never since, have I heard such a riveting rendition.

[cleanears]

send this one to bondy!

[sinuhe28]

Es electrizante, sublime y glorioso, algo único en el mundo de la Opera, ver a Gobbi y Callas juntos en esta escena,....que te remuerde por dentro,....he aquí a la Gran Cantatricce Maria Callas.

[Chriswren9]

OHMYGODCALLAS

[Giovannifabuloso]

Gobbi was amaster at everything he touched. We will not see the likes of him again. He was larger than life and a consumate artist and actor. Singers today have much to learn from him.

[AnryK2690]

@Giovannifabuloso very true!

[Aetion]

Thrilling, absolutely thrilling. Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi have been the best pair of Tosca and Scarpia ever.

Thank you for posting this.

[TempodiPiano]

Je comprends mieux la fin de cet acte maintenant. I have just understood the end of the scene, thank you for posting this video.

[cicchettocicchetto]

due giganti..inarrivabili

[Siberiaeterna]

Parfait,magistral,éblouissant!­!

[rbpenelope2008]

Pietà umana a parte, questa è la giusta fine di un lurido porco...E Tosca si riscatta dalla sua debolezza. Superba come sempre Maria, grazie per la condivisione.

[CatalinaDM56]

What year is this?

[Lovelytenor1]

How it will ever be done any better, I simply do not know. I have not seen their equal in my life time.

[Kievest]

These two titans of opera lived their roles

and made history in them. Pure Gold.

Today we have brass. Thank you.

[Herur22]

Yes, Gobbi is also one of my favorite baritones. He was an extremely fine artist.

[Faust075]

This "Muori dannato ! ... muori ! muori !" always gives me goosebumps !

[schlusnus]

Thank you 34fgs......Oh the garden makes London's opera

so special, what a priceless Tosca. Thanks to all and ITV

[schwarzkavalier]

E' la Tosca diretta da De Sabata?

[troppofiato]

@schwarzkavalier Maestro Cillario

[occhioverde71]

Tito Gobbi. Il più grande Scarpia di tutti i tempi...... Non ho più sentito uno Scarpia così declamato come il suo

[currymuttonpizza]

I always get chills when she screams "muori! muori!!"

[ubedajils]

ABSOLUTA E INDISCUTIBLEMENTE: I-NI-GUA-LA-BLE E IN-SU-PE-RA-BLE.

Hasta el más mínimo detalle.

Fijaos en ese: Guardami, son Tosca, OH SCARPIA, con qué fiereza lo pronuncia, y como ida diciendo "te ahoga la sangre!"

Por méritos propios, DIVINA.

[00ceroalaizquierda00]

Es que era divina, divina, divina, divina.

No tiene otro nombre

DIVINAAAAA!!!

[sebreathnach]

These days it's all so melodramatic, but what a great Tosca, Gobbi and Callas made....! Tosca certainly put Scarpia in his place.

'And this was what Tutta Roma was afraid of!' Thank you!

[allancuseo]

Beautiful. La Divina is awesome!