im so devastated she is no longer here but i am sooo very glad she lived in an age where future generations are able to enjoy her greatness through videos and recordings.
Maria Callas did this last tour to help di Stefano who needed money for a sick daughter. To convince her, he became her lover... and dropped her after the tour. Even with her first husband, she had wanted to stop singing and have children and enjoy life. But he kept on signing contracts. She had a good love life with Onassis (even after Jackie Kennedy) and I am happy for her.
I think it's important to remember that nobody forced Maria Callas to give up singing and go with Onassis. Most professional opera singers understand that you have to keep singing in order to keep your voice in good condition. Maria Callas took a very long break from opera, performing only sporadically, and then found that her voice was not what it had been. She admitted as much herself. The performance here demonstrates this clearly. Her excellent musicianship still shines through however.
Já não estava no melhor de sua fase, mas é Maria Callas. Já vale por uma pá de sopranos gostosas e sem talento que fazem sucesso no cenário operístico atual.
I am not much into classical music, but because I love music within further boundaries and shades, there is something about Her, an aura, I do not know, possibly Her extraordinary sensitivity, some hunger for Love and I suppose she suffered a lot, could not fulfill her natural need... and sadly died because her heart was broken, such a wonderful Voice and Passion, I ma full of respect to Maria. Thank you for every note you sang...
Dermatomyositis, a disease that affects the muscles and tissues in general, including those of the larynx. Italian doctors believe that Maria Callas suffered from this and was treated for it during her lifetime. The treatment did not seem to help her deteriorating vocal performances. Unfortunately, the treatments may cause heart failure. Since, at 53, though she was heartbroken, she was in good physical shape, this explains her sudden and unusual death. So sad!
I strongly believe that with a better caring of her voice during and after the S.O.B. Onassis era, she could have singing at her prime again... however, at that time she was still much better than the rest, pure, heartbreaking, delightful, diva...
If you compare this to the 1973 London Recital, you can see MUCH vocal/technical improvement (open voyels, breath sustaining). We all know she was far from her best here, but trying to keep up, and did all she could. Her mind just wasnt there anymore... Her personification though, is untouchable and for this only she is my favorite Santuzza. Brava Callas
She said in an interview she was using the tours to rebuild her voice as nothing does it better than live performing. It took enormous courage! Here at the end of the tour we hear many of the earlier issues are improved upon. She was one of the hardest workers in opera, always giving her all! A blazing comet! Gone to soon. Oh, and iriisblue, you are an ignorant douche bag!
@vivegedda Callas's voice was and remains controversial; it bothered and disturbed as many as it thrilled and inspired others. The combination of size, weight, range and agility was a source of amazement to Callas's own contemporaries. Grace Bumbry states, "If I followed the musical score when she was singing, I would see every tempo marking, every dynamic marking, everything being adhered to, and at the same time, it was not antiseptic; it was something that was very beautiful and moving.
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No fue la mejor ,no sean tan payasos ke compran todo lo ke les venden, fue de las mejores, pero no la mejor....... ai varias a lo largo de la historia ke fueron exelentes e incluso hoy, escuchala a sumy jo,y compara..
@alexaadap I asked the same question. Someone posted that they heard her live at La Scala, 6 times. They said she was so great it was, " Of Mythology ". It's only my .02c but I think Callas in her prime was even better than we all think she was. We read here and there about her, we listen to her on Youtube, etc. I'm thinking that she was in fact devastating, beyond belief.
No, she was past her prime...Voice, opera is percect meium as it is in itself a tragic art form..As ballet one passes their prime and loses their instrument forever.
What is so beautiful is the courage of an old warrior still fighting. A quality most only dream of.
I thought she must've been working on her vioce. She was actually in good status in this footage. Although she was definite past her prime the musicality and quality was still there. She is the best prima donna ever.
@jackieshenkai Have you heard her last recording? She was accompaying herself singing and playing Ah, perfido. It was one of her best singing, if not her best.
She looks like a Greek goddess and sounds magnificent. No it's not the voice from the 50's and 60's, but OMG, what a presence. I am once again overwhelmed by the greatness of La Callas.
Wow so this is the infamous Tokyo Concert of '74, the last time Callas sang opera in public. I've heard her voice was in terrible condition but I just saw this and I don't agree. The technique is there, the voice is there, it's still Maria Callas. I thought she was wonderful. I've heard YOUNGER sopranos today (some who are big names I won't mention who can't sing half as good as she did right here.
Callas is the greatest soprano of post-WW2 time, there is no doubt. In the 50's she reached human genius with an incomparable voice. But this is not Maria Callas. In this concert her voice is destroyed and this performance is painful to hear.
C'est totalement déchirant: pourtant cette musique n'est pas ma tasse de thé, Callas est à la moitié de ses moyens vocaux, et le piano maigrichon: mais le GENIE passe. Cette expressivité, le phrasé, l'émotion. Incroyable Callas
Madre mia... que mujer... como cantaba!! Y eso que tenía la mitad de voz que antes... y aún así sigue poniendo los pelos de punta... brava Mariaaaaa... te echamos de menos!
In her glory days, it's quite puzzling to compare Maria with anyone. She has a beautiful voice, absolute perfect pitch and intelligence. The best soprano ever!
@rin4ldo Hi. I'm a huge Maria Callas fan. I think she was just about the greatest singer of the last century. This performance breaks my heart. Her voice is in absolute tatters. The tone is worn, her vibrato is about of control and she's had to drag her chest voice up much higher than it should ever go. However, the drama and the true meaning of the music has perhaps never been clearer. Listen to her 20 years before this and you will get both her voice in pristine condition and the drama.
TH33X3CUTION3R, I agree that both Callas and Dessay have shrieky and metallic high notes. However, while Callas was a great actress, Dessays acting is dismal, she is often overacting and pathetically tends to compensate for her small childish voice with buffoonish histrionics.
You are right. Some singers actually blame Maria's weight loss during the 50's as the main reason of her vocal decline. It made sense since Maria learned to use her body when she was physically stronger but the body got weak and it could not sustain the tension and the strength the heavy roles needed. It's sad because Maria never felt comfortable with her body before becoming thin. "Callas" needed the voice, the look and perhaps the glamour but "Maria" got lost somewhere.
Maria is ugly with hairy elephant legs and a dirty stinking cunt. She looks like the typical, american farm woman with stupid kids. Like a little piglet family. Mama pig Maria, Onassis and her dead piglet.
Callas has some ok stuff for the average listener. However, if you want to hear the new Icon of Opera, go to the sites of the nicest voice ever, The beautiful Anna Netrebko. There you will hear opera beyond human form. There you will hear surreal sound, that once you hear her, you will not be able to go back to other singers again. Once you hear ANNA, you will understand why she is proclaimed, the la Divina, the greatest soprano of 21th century. Don't wait any longer!
..........could it be? Striker9410, I don't believe you could be right! Folks, could it be, you think the same like Striker and allegedly millions opera fans if you hear Callas sing like a Mezzo? They think MC was SHEMALE! All along she would clinks like a TRANNY and at the last years her singing sounded more and more like a BARITON? If you would see her without horsehair they might look like a man. Indeed one can see a Adam's apple.
..........could it be? Striker9410, I don't believe you could be right! Folks, could it be, you think the same like Striker and allegedly millions opera fans if you hear Callas sing like a Mezzo? They think MC was SHEMALE! All along she would clinks like a TRANNY and at the last years her singing sounded more and more like a BARITON? If you would see her without horsehair they might look like a man. Indeed one can see a Adam's apple.
Striker9410, I don't believe you could be right! Folks, could it be, you think the same like Striker and allegedly millions opera fans if you hear Callas sing like a Mezzo? They think MC was SHEMALE! All along she would clinks like a TRANNY and at the last years her singing sounded more and more like a BARITON? If you would see her without horsehair they might look like a man. Indeed one can see a Adam's apple.
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Nobody can stand her.
She has a dynamic range of a popera singer, no depth, no variety of tones, monotonous, shallow, very poor enunciation of the lyrics and no precise control of dynamics.
Callas was only teacup faked mezzo who was the love of all neurotic sexless pigs from the Opera circle, and don't forget that she was fat and most ungraceful swine queen who, happened to have the record on cancellations and not ended performances
you are so immature....you cant judge her on this performance...she was up in age and this was also shortly before she died...you cant say shit about her early recordings...jackass
GAndoredo, does it eat at your guts knowing your cousin Annushka, no matter how cute, no matter how much money she makes, no matter how popular, will never outdo Maria. No matter how long she sings Annushka will never be known as La Divina. No matter how much money she makes, Annushka will never be proclaimed, " THE GREATEST SOPRANO OF ALL TIME " !!!!!! HA! HA! Maria still levels the competition........ from the grave!!!!!! SFOGATO! SFOGATO!! SFOGATO!!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
she had some rought time beeing scorn by onassis. but what a voice.
pettymolly 1 month ago
This is indeed what is meant by the term DIVA.
osocubano 4 months ago
im so devastated she is no longer here but i am sooo very glad she lived in an age where future generations are able to enjoy her greatness through videos and recordings.
BrownLaura8847 4 months ago
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BrownLaura8847 4 months ago
Maria Callas did this last tour to help di Stefano who needed money for a sick daughter. To convince her, he became her lover... and dropped her after the tour. Even with her first husband, she had wanted to stop singing and have children and enjoy life. But he kept on signing contracts. She had a good love life with Onassis (even after Jackie Kennedy) and I am happy for her.
Tusson07 4 months ago
I think it's important to remember that nobody forced Maria Callas to give up singing and go with Onassis. Most professional opera singers understand that you have to keep singing in order to keep your voice in good condition. Maria Callas took a very long break from opera, performing only sporadically, and then found that her voice was not what it had been. She admitted as much herself. The performance here demonstrates this clearly. Her excellent musicianship still shines through however.
Dianaemanuel 5 months ago
ich wünschte, ich hätte sie EINMAL gesehen...
i wish, i've seen her ONCE.....
timo201282 5 months ago
She is incredible a true DIVA !
smlly990 5 months ago 7
I love Maria Callas but i think Leyla Gencer is the best Santuzza ever.
kullifulusi 6 months ago
Já não estava no melhor de sua fase, mas é Maria Callas. Já vale por uma pá de sopranos gostosas e sem talento que fazem sucesso no cenário operístico atual.
1989Doido1989 6 months ago
I am not much into classical music, but because I love music within further boundaries and shades, there is something about Her, an aura, I do not know, possibly Her extraordinary sensitivity, some hunger for Love and I suppose she suffered a lot, could not fulfill her natural need... and sadly died because her heart was broken, such a wonderful Voice and Passion, I ma full of respect to Maria. Thank you for every note you sang...
blacksteen 6 months ago 2
Bellissimo, grazie mille! :)
Meraviglioso!
LeCommedieDellArte 6 months ago
Là, vraiment c'était vraiment la toute fin des fins!!!! tout juste bon pour des japonais!
antequem 7 months ago
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terrybouma 7 months ago
I strongly believe that with a better caring of her voice during and after the S.O.B. Onassis era, she could have singing at her prime again... however, at that time she was still much better than the rest, pure, heartbreaking, delightful, diva...
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great wobbling ugly sounds .
dziady1 8 months ago
Великолепно
mozartsber 9 months ago
If you compare this to the 1973 London Recital, you can see MUCH vocal/technical improvement (open voyels, breath sustaining). We all know she was far from her best here, but trying to keep up, and did all she could. Her mind just wasnt there anymore... Her personification though, is untouchable and for this only she is my favorite Santuzza. Brava Callas
distefano13069609 9 months ago
Even at this stage in her career though many could beat her vocally at this point dramatically she remained untouched. To this day.
Lindow 9 months ago
amazing beauty..even until this age
silvermist1992 10 months ago 2
She said in an interview she was using the tours to rebuild her voice as nothing does it better than live performing. It took enormous courage! Here at the end of the tour we hear many of the earlier issues are improved upon. She was one of the hardest workers in opera, always giving her all! A blazing comet! Gone to soon. Oh, and iriisblue, you are an ignorant douche bag!
Paddy818 10 months ago 3
No-one, absolutely!, NO-ONE, was or ever will be as good Callas the voice, or Maria the Woman, a fantastic duo!
jjj29871 10 months ago
Best soprano ever!!!!!
callasforalltid 10 months ago 2
I enjoy Fiorenza Cossotto a bit more than Callas, but she is still a tremendous singer.
thatclassicalchick 10 months ago
cette femme a très mal chanté toute sa vie
vivegedda 10 months ago
@vivegedda Callas's voice was and remains controversial; it bothered and disturbed as many as it thrilled and inspired others. The combination of size, weight, range and agility was a source of amazement to Callas's own contemporaries. Grace Bumbry states, "If I followed the musical score when she was singing, I would see every tempo marking, every dynamic marking, everything being adhered to, and at the same time, it was not antiseptic; it was something that was very beautiful and moving.
markbargen 10 months ago 2
@vivegedda
Et toi, as-tu dis quelque chose de pertinent dans vie... Que connais-tu de l'art de chanter? Quand on ne connait rien, il vaut mieux se taire.
;)
TheMarcs01 9 months ago
@schambi333 me too, i really don't like her voice but her singing expression is overwhelming.
fernylein 11 months ago
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YouTubr889 1 year ago
Povera Maria .... commovente
Lirico96 1 year ago
i just respect this last tour with Di Stefano.
YouTubr889 1 year ago 19
Non importa se le si spezza il suono: non c'è che Lei, per sempre.
E' come un Sole, brucia e da' vita a tutto... il resto ruota intorno a Lei.
MA GUARDATELA!!!!! E IL FRASEGGIO!!!!! MiTICA!!!!! LA AMOOOOO!!!!!!
rbpenelope2008 1 year ago 3
Quando si è grandi si è grandi sempre! Viva la Callas!
leprincebeaumont 1 year ago
i am really NOT a fan of her but this makes me cry!!
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Her very last performances. Some things at that stage revealed a frayed voice, but this is still utter perfection.
violinovoce 1 year ago
Her very last performances. Some things revealed a frayed voice, but this is still utter perfection.
violinovoce 1 year ago
Brava Callas! Brava Maria!
pedrofribeiro 1 year ago 2
CLASS LUXURY VOICE FOR ETERNITY
likuzoo 1 year ago 3
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Мария Каллас - чудо навсегда!!!
politica66 1 year ago
Мария Каллас - чудо навсегда!
politica66 1 year ago
La Divina
tenorismo 1 year ago
Déesse.... <3
vivelhistoire 1 year ago
merci Maria de nous donner tant de bonheur
stephzech 1 year ago
Maria Callas unübertroffen !!! Genie der Oper !!!
bobinobaker 1 year ago
la cosa che mi sorprende è la sua concentrazione, l'abbandono totale della sua anima al pubblico
youfeda 1 year ago
dang. shes GOOOD.
MusicReignz 1 year ago
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Oh, please. Our church soprano who's in her 60's sounds better than this.
iriisblue 1 year ago
@iriisblue This was 3 yrs before her death and I think she sounds beautiful!
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@iriisblue Why don't you shut up, and go to hell, you ugly rat.
hammer55292 1 year ago
@iriisblue Might you die???
hammer55292 1 year ago 3
@iriisblue you are a douche bag ....
netrebko1224 1 year ago
@iriisblue I APOLOGIZE!!! (i meant to say you are an ignorant douche-bag...sorry)
netrebko1224 1 year ago
mind-boggling!
vibradot 1 year ago
At this stage of her life- there are so many "songs" that would have been perfect for her. Why just arias?
StuartLou 1 year ago
@StuartLou I'll take whatever.
feveroo7 1 year ago
La voce suona così vuota e la donna sembra così triste. Ma che fuoco, che fraseggio, che occhi! E' la callas, sempre.
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ferricheart 1 year ago
I can't believe this performance is only 2 years prior to her death ! God must have missed her voice !
tienanhnguyen 1 year ago 3
woman?! she's a goddess.
nelumvila 1 year ago
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classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
I checked out her performance when she was younger. your right. Incredible
alexaadap 1 year ago
No fue la mejor ,no sean tan payasos ke compran todo lo ke les venden, fue de las mejores, pero no la mejor....... ai varias a lo largo de la historia ke fueron exelentes e incluso hoy, escuchala a sumy jo,y compara..
martindogo 1 year ago
i absolutely love her voice and everything about her.
may the memory of her live forever.
roweman2 1 year ago
Oh God what a voice...i love it.....
Ryanmanal 1 year ago
jesus ,if this was past her prime, i wonder what she sounded like when she was younger live.
alexaadap 1 year ago
@alexaadap I asked the same question. Someone posted that they heard her live at La Scala, 6 times. They said she was so great it was, " Of Mythology ". It's only my .02c but I think Callas in her prime was even better than we all think she was. We read here and there about her, we listen to her on Youtube, etc. I'm thinking that she was in fact devastating, beyond belief.
hammer55292 1 year ago 4
@alexaadap
I know, right? I want this voice she has during this performance--it is more masterful than 99.9% of ppl singing today.
But, she sounded beyond belief and otherwordly when she was younger. Her voice was the definition of operatic mastery.
cecillbill 1 year ago
Courageous.
No, she was past her prime...Voice, opera is percect meium as it is in itself a tragic art form..As ballet one passes their prime and loses their instrument forever.
What is so beautiful is the courage of an old warrior still fighting. A quality most only dream of.
Nothing but respect
2manysecrets2 1 year ago
This is great.
Thanks!
She really wanted to start singing again.
Sad to think that she was gone from this world just 3 years later.
BrentAudi 1 year ago
Es la mejor y punto
gonzalojosevb 1 year ago
Bravo Tulio Serafin.
lucca54 1 year ago
OH MY GOD :O Amazing...
SsteinwayS 1 year ago
Maria Callas was bar none the best!!
MsIrishmickey 1 year ago 2
I thought she must've been working on her vioce. She was actually in good status in this footage. Although she was definite past her prime the musicality and quality was still there. She is the best prima donna ever.
jackieshenkai 1 year ago
@jackieshenkai Have you heard her last recording? She was accompaying herself singing and playing Ah, perfido. It was one of her best singing, if not her best.
ciociosan 1 year ago
@ciociosan NO! I didn't realise she was accompanying herself - can you post it?
pianomags 1 year ago
@ciociosan It's not self accompanied, it's with Jeffrey Tate, now Sir Jeffrey. [I know because I asked him.]
Buondelmonte123 1 year ago
@Buondelmonte123 According to "The Unknown Callas" and the CD cover, it was La Divina herself playing.
Just sayin.
ciociosan 1 year ago
The greatest soprano ever! No question, no doubt... even here in her last performance she is better than anybody!
La Divina!
CallasForeverable 1 year ago
All that smiling and frontal singing... poor thing. She really got off the right path independently from her personal life..
mrantiquedealer 1 year ago
The best
SopranoLeggero 1 year ago 2
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Great acting-Yes! Great expression - also Yes. But great voice? No! Maria Callas was always an absolutely overvalued singer!
direttore2007 1 year ago
She looks like a Greek goddess and sounds magnificent. No it's not the voice from the 50's and 60's, but OMG, what a presence. I am once again overwhelmed by the greatness of La Callas.
corelli2 1 year ago 15
Wow so this is the infamous Tokyo Concert of '74, the last time Callas sang opera in public. I've heard her voice was in terrible condition but I just saw this and I don't agree. The technique is there, the voice is there, it's still Maria Callas. I thought she was wonderful. I've heard YOUNGER sopranos today (some who are big names I won't mention who can't sing half as good as she did right here.
MastersoftheOpera 1 year ago
Callas is the greatest soprano of post-WW2 time, there is no doubt. In the 50's she reached human genius with an incomparable voice. But this is not Maria Callas. In this concert her voice is destroyed and this performance is painful to hear.
Simdaperce 1 year ago
in that time her voice wasn't at the best condition, but even then no one can be compare to her!!!!! we adore you, just simple as that....
rest in peace...
with love Greece
gagidis 1 year ago 6
everytime i listen to this aria "voi lo sapette" the only one name who has on her own, callas.
sanghyangdharma 1 year ago 3
yes, I like her
jirka001 1 year ago
But,... is there another soprano than Maria??
manelri 1 year ago
Callas is divine, beyond comparison... no question. The best!
CallasForeverable 1 year ago 3
Какая Великая-даже когда уже не такой голос-все равно -это чудо!!!!!!
MsTafta 1 year ago
I like María Callas...me encaaaanta María Callas...qué voz más increíble...
tatuartetenerife 1 year ago
the BEST...the BEST, and the BEST
wenarto 1 year ago 3
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piano player why you play with such a boring, bad singer? No one can pay this shame for you!
vandrops 1 year ago
piano player needs to wake up. You are playing with Callas!
nauJRodriguez 1 year ago 4
three years before her death..she is still thrilling and incredible!
manoc69 1 year ago 6
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@manoc69 "best soprano ever" ?are you ill?
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She is such a bad singer but I like her as a whore.
shirly961 1 year ago
C'est totalement déchirant: pourtant cette musique n'est pas ma tasse de thé, Callas est à la moitié de ses moyens vocaux, et le piano maigrichon: mais le GENIE passe. Cette expressivité, le phrasé, l'émotion. Incroyable Callas
opera75frfr 1 year ago 2
Madre mia... que mujer... como cantaba!! Y eso que tenía la mitad de voz que antes... y aún así sigue poniendo los pelos de punta... brava Mariaaaaa... te echamos de menos!
BeatricediTenda 1 year ago
i love this woman.......
tazkorinthos 1 year ago 43
Thanks for posting.
yoxles 1 year ago 2
Sei un angelo!
rshace4 1 year ago
Un vrai bijou!
fantasrix 1 year ago
The best soprano ever!
blondzuher 1 year ago 76
Thanks for posting!
sweettyo 1 year ago
Spectacular performance.
sweettyo 1 year ago
Callas, simply I love her!
derek5ur 1 year ago
Callas forever!
braveheart030 1 year ago
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fantasrix 1 year ago
horrible. du fer rouillé
seetsebea1 1 year ago
In her glory days, it's quite puzzling to compare Maria with anyone. She has a beautiful voice, absolute perfect pitch and intelligence. The best soprano ever!
outstep37 1 year ago 3
elle ne chante pas, elle crie.
seetsebea1 1 year ago
Spectacular performance.
sweettyo 1 year ago
She's a master of the role that acts and sings far superior to anyone.
bitoaguilos 1 year ago 2
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
outstep37 1 year ago
She attained it and she deserves recognition.
fantasrix 1 year ago
Callas forever!
medic944 1 year ago
Guys I am 55 years old and still sing very well.
gharusa 1 year ago
Graet Callas
FerdinandMetz 1 year ago
perfecto, ninguno de nuestros comentarios dicen mas que su hermosa voz
Maria Callas por siempre
Haggardjack 1 year ago
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horrible, poor Calls, should have stopped earlier.
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Neanderthalgirl 1 year ago
She is wonderful!!!!!! She sings perfectly well!!!!!!!!
Jame243 2 years ago
honestly, could someone take a minute and explain to me why and were in the video is her voice terrible / bad?
i am no opera expert, but i find her voice quite emotive, powerful and nice (more than a lot of the contemporary singers today).
rin4ldo 2 years ago 4
@rin4ldo Hi. I'm a huge Maria Callas fan. I think she was just about the greatest singer of the last century. This performance breaks my heart. Her voice is in absolute tatters. The tone is worn, her vibrato is about of control and she's had to drag her chest voice up much higher than it should ever go. However, the drama and the true meaning of the music has perhaps never been clearer. Listen to her 20 years before this and you will get both her voice in pristine condition and the drama.
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TH33X3CUTION3R, I agree that both Callas and Dessay have shrieky and metallic high notes. However, while Callas was a great actress, Dessays acting is dismal, she is often overacting and pathetically tends to compensate for her small childish voice with buffoonish histrionics.
maa10able 2 years ago
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Great acting and body language. She feels the music. But her voice is terrible, IMO, especially at the top.
GoBogi 2 years ago
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OK but you have to remember that here she`s around 50 years old
CelineFascinated 2 years ago 3
51 exactly
bLackpuppet 2 years ago
@CelineFascinated well, at 50 most singers are still in their best.
For Callas the reasons of her decline have nothing to do with age, as she already was beginnign to have vocal problems in her late 30s.
xafnndapp 2 years ago
You are right. Some singers actually blame Maria's weight loss during the 50's as the main reason of her vocal decline. It made sense since Maria learned to use her body when she was physically stronger but the body got weak and it could not sustain the tension and the strength the heavy roles needed. It's sad because Maria never felt comfortable with her body before becoming thin. "Callas" needed the voice, the look and perhaps the glamour but "Maria" got lost somewhere.
espinaca79 1 year ago
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Maria is ugly with hairy elephant legs and a dirty stinking cunt. She looks like the typical, american farm woman with stupid kids. Like a little piglet family. Mama pig Maria, Onassis and her dead piglet.
vandrops 2 years ago
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My good opera friends.
Callas has some ok stuff for the average listener. However, if you want to hear the new Icon of Opera, go to the sites of the nicest voice ever, The beautiful Anna Netrebko. There you will hear opera beyond human form. There you will hear surreal sound, that once you hear her, you will not be able to go back to other singers again. Once you hear ANNA, you will understand why she is proclaimed, the la Divina, the greatest soprano of 21th century. Don't wait any longer!
belmanotre 2 years ago
@belmanotre LOL! Nice joke!
chrishot10 1 year ago
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vandrops 2 years ago
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....in fashion this times???
Perhaps in greece but she looks like a RAM and it sounds equally.
But nobody, except Maria, would sing with such a terrible voice, it would be too folly.
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
Maria Callas is epic, but her hair looks like Alien.
TheElizabethArden 2 years ago
ahahaah, poor callas!
she's ever great
permea 2 years ago
haha ok this coup was in fashion this time...
tazkorinthos 2 years ago
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Don't speak with me latino.
belmanotre 2 years ago
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Nobody can stand her.
She has a dynamic range of a popera singer, no depth, no variety of tones, monotonous, shallow, very poor enunciation of the lyrics and no precise control of dynamics.
Callas was only teacup faked mezzo who was the love of all neurotic sexless pigs from the Opera circle, and don't forget that she was fat and most ungraceful swine queen who, happened to have the record on cancellations and not ended performances
belmanotre 2 years ago
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fat your fucking mom
manuelspcool 2 years ago
Congrats! You and Neanderthangirl must have the same undeveloped brain being that you copy each others' EXACT nonsense. Don't have children.
christ1f 2 years ago 3
you are so immature....you cant judge her on this performance...she was up in age and this was also shortly before she died...you cant say shit about her early recordings...jackass
malesoprano88 2 years ago
Callas is so magnificent. Netrebko is a
SOUBRETTE compared to La Divina.
striker9410 2 years ago 2
Macht aber nur etwa 30% des Gesamtrepertoires aus. Für 70% Opern war Callas nur zweitklassig.
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
GAndoredo, does it eat at your guts knowing your cousin Annushka, no matter how cute, no matter how much money she makes, no matter how popular, will never outdo Maria. No matter how long she sings Annushka will never be known as La Divina. No matter how much money she makes, Annushka will never be proclaimed, " THE GREATEST SOPRANO OF ALL TIME " !!!!!! HA! HA! Maria still levels the competition........ from the grave!!!!!! SFOGATO! SFOGATO!! SFOGATO!!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
striker9410 2 years ago
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Is Maria Callas the la Divina?
I say no!
She sings only italian opera who is popular only in America and Italy.
Is Maria Callas the greatest soprano ever?
I say no!
YouTube is a forum mainly for American people and they know only 25% from opera repertory.
Is America a land of opera or popera?
Naturally Popera!
I claim, Maria Callas was the first POPERA Diva like Madonna today. It's just an act and money, money, money .....nothing else matters.
gandor1337 2 years ago
@gandor1337
italian opera is VERY VERY VERY popular in Germany!!!!!!!!!
xxx777x99y 2 years ago 2
The BBC, and Times UK, know of what they speak....The Greatest Soprano Of All Time!!!
mtnmanjt 2 years ago 2
superb la Callas, as usual....
obviously it's not her same voice than in the 50s but it's the same heart, the same passion, the same "artistry"
gomongio 2 years ago 2
Every witches lives forever....... especially greek!!!
belmanotre 2 years ago
HAS THIS GREEK GODDESS EVER RECODED GOUNOD's AVE MARIA
gharusa 2 years ago 2
GREEK GODESS,LIVES FOR EVER!!!!
manguard1976 2 years ago 7
fare well or
be quiet for once!
Will you stop it!
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
Thanks for your beautifull singing on all the recordings of your farewell-tour. I listen to it regularly, so much hearth in the songs.
Thank you for your gift
RIP
astridsmid 2 years ago
Prachtige stem Maria. Wellicht niet meer zo zuiver als in de vroege jaren. Maar ik vind deze doorleefdheid veel mooier.
Dank je voor al je mooie zang, vooral die van je Farewelltour in 1973 en 1974.
astridsmid 2 years ago
She has already promoted. It is just the favour to you, mockers.
MakovDmitry 2 years ago
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If someone lost his voice he have to end his career, otherwise he expose oneself to ridicule like Maria Callas.
belmanotre 2 years ago
Their is nothing of ridicule. Even this is unattainable for many.
MakovDmitry 2 years ago
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Callas would have had to finish her career a little earlier, otherwise one becomes to object of ridicule.
gandor1337 2 years ago
RIP Maria!
vocalandchords 2 years ago
Maria giving her whole heart to music as always. So many years after her time we are still grateful!
SweetFiness 2 years ago 4
Rest in peace Maria!
walking90087 2 years ago 3
Maria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ekaterinakov 2 years ago 4
rest in peace
ligth95 2 years ago 4
Jamais uma voz igual, impossivel!!!!
Ramsestal 2 years ago 2
Sad to read such a language and way to discuss about something so great as Opera. respect an