Maria Callas - "Gloria all'Egitto"

[callastochter]

What a Natural Power, our beloved Tigresse...

[MisterSoprano]

I can listen to this over and over again! Perfectiong! Lots of them are trying to do it after her, but none of them as good as this (Aprile Millo is the 2nd next).

[danawinsor]

This recording always brings tears to my eyes. Callas was the greatest of them all.

[Anibaal]

Por Dios.... arrasó con todos acá!!

[primohomme]

OMG, That E-flat is PERFECTION!! a huge column of sound!

[1952a]

Bravissimo¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡­¡¡¡

[zdenko1945]

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[MadameBorgi]

Insuperable!!!!

[11bien]

Es como si la humanidad entera concentrara toda la fuerza de su espíritu en este Mi bemol de María Callas y rompiendo sus límites cantara el gozo de ser inmortal.

[Agwii]

@11bien Muy cierto, es un Mi bemol. Gracias.

Me encantó tu comentario.

La estoy escuchando nuevamente.

Maravilla!!!

Saludos.

[angelovocci]

I thought I knew the genius of La Divina. This is thrilling. I am in tears. The musicianship, and mastery, and pure emotion married to the voice. Amazing. Bel Cantanista. Brava!

[tamarexxe]

It is amazing. I just listened to Millo perform this same note but it was nowhere near as penetrating or perfectly done as La Callas, and she did not hold it as long as Callas. Amazing.

[DrFernandoBicudo]

@tamarexxe In the "Aida" at the Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, Aprile Millo delivered a stunning E-flat the same as Callas: big and long, covering everything: orchestra, chorus and other solists. The audience jumped off their seats shouting "Bravo!" as if Brazil had scored a goal and won the Soccer World Cup! And people were throwing their programs in the air. In all my life of over 50 years watching opera all over the world I have never witness anything like that anywhere in the world.

[Agwii]

Escucho y vuelvo a escuchar a María y siento que es algo sobrenatural. Es más, luego de este Si bemol no parezco concebir la partitura sin él.

Grande María!!!. La Divina!!!

[chessrossful]

@Agwii No es un Si bemol, sino un Mi bemol sobreagudo , es decir , tres tonos por encima del High-C límite de muchas sopranos. Magistralmente ejecutado CALLAS. Viva!! MARIA CALLAS, absoluta!!

[chessrossful]

@Agwii No es un Si bemol, sino un Mi bemol sobreagudo , es decir , tres tonos por encima del High-C límite de muchas sopranos. Magistralmente ejecutado por CALLAS. Viva!! MARIA CALLAS, absoluta!!

[Popi80s]

Is it possible to find this with video? I mean, is there a recording of this?

I cannot believe what she does here... it's... she's taken my soul away... I can't even write.

Gracias, La Divina

[opera1dan2]

@Popi80s You can get a recoding of this - I have one, it is commercial. Let me know if you can't find it on Amazon.

[semprecallas]

CALLAS FOREVER!

[RADAMES1983]

MEREVIGLIO!!!!!

[msg57]

que pasada....

[pump066]

Yes a year earlier was the inauguration of this

E flat to show mr Baum who´s the star. Mexicans

loved it and she was asked to do it again later.

The first one is much more steady and even rather beautiful and I think lasts about 12 measures.

[moebob212]

Perfection!

[Alleeexoscm]

Hermoso, increible lo que hizo la frialdad del público, y que no hubiera dado yo mismo por haber vivido ése instante glorioso.

Quizas fue un adorno, pero el más perfecto y poderoso, el llamado "Agudo de México".

Beautiful, and it's amazing what the initial Jade took the Mexican public, and had not given myself that having lived so glorious and impressive moment of Maria Callas.

Maybe it was just an ornament, but it was the perfect adornment and mythologized as "The acute in Mexico."

[janejones11]

Goddess.

[youfeda]

la vita!

[voceangelo]

That E-flat is so visceral and primal (yet still in character although it is not written), you can almost feel your own neck and your stomach muscles engage as if you were singing the note along with her. That being said, the perfectly placed glory of that E-flat (dominating chorus, orchestra and soloists I might add) isn't what made her the icon she is- it's her artistry, her sacrifice and her contribution to art that made her a megastar. Brava, La Callas! All others pale in comparison!

[thelepewguy]

Hubiera dado mi mexicanidad misma por haber vivdo este momento...No puedo creer tanta proeza ni que un ser humano toque el alma de esta manera. A veces pienso que tanta perfeccion artistica en una sola persona no es corercta...lol

[sillyboydeux]

Correct me if I am wrong, but she did this a year earlier to squeeze the balls of arrogant tenor Kurt Baum, with Simionato as Amneris. Apparently, Maria, superb professional that she was, complained to Giulietta that Baum was holding onto his high notes way beyond the measure, and she wanted to trump him once and for all, but only after the cast and conductor gave their permission. What came out was even greater than this, an E-flat that started in Slovenia and wound up in Guatemala, 20 beats!

[DanBarthy]

You are correct !!!

; )

[xafnndapp]

if you compare the 2 live recordings, definitely this in 1951 is better.

[Tenorbravo]

tHIS IS SO BEAUIFUL. IT WAS DONE JUST PERFECT. THANK YOU I SURE ENJOY IT LISTENING TO MARIA AGAIN.

SHE DID IT AGAIN.

[rambo2882]

México.

[josemuso1]

Will you please let us listen to the iv act duet with Dominguez and Del Monaco from this performance? Thank you

[pedrinrj]

BRAVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lemagnificat]

could someone please translate the German, I can manage French and Italian, but ich bin whatever mit dir Deutch :-)

[turnipoverlord]

She is the sound god makes when you squeeze him

[moghedien13]

hahaha is that a good or bad thing?

[AmoresPerros40]

DEMONIC ! ABSOLUTLY DEMONIC ! This woman is one of the Greatest Phenomens on stage. BRAVA !!!

[youfeda]

CALLLLLASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Aetion]

FOR EVER!

[thelepewguy]

Never before and never again...prove me otherwise!

[thelepewguy]

Human perfection. That is what it is!...

[lemagnificat]

and as I posted on the other site, just to let you know,

Mexico city is a mile and 1/2 above sea level, even the athletes preparing for the 1968 olympics complained how much harder they had to prepare because of this, singers

are no different, which makes Callas fabulous never ending E flat even more impressive!

[Alce2008]

Callas, the only DIVA!

[calaf0911]

It's a wonderful sound full of strength.Very effectual.

[Axel23632]

Marìa en vivo, en Mèxico, una de las muchas que se realizaron en el paìs cuando vino La Divina. Lo demàs...poco importa, era la Callas.

[goldenthroat86]

That final high Eb was truly VOLCANIC! This is no "scream'! A "scream" doesn't have an even vibrato. It goes "straight" and hasn't a chance of carrying, much less dominating, an Ensemble of 3 soloists, huge chorus and orchestra.

[egymagyar1111111]

it was when singers sung tyhe roles as those were written, but Callas is as callas you jknow to put the shit in front of GOD jajajajaj

[Ronizetti]

That is no scream, it is PERFECTION - rock solid and on pitch - a clarion blast which one can only IMAGINE must have sounded like in person - - this was 1951 people, that tumultuous applause and reception was NOT for a SCREAM, she was next to unknown, it was applause for a revelation! Acknowledgement for a SINGER and ARTIST, often rarely combined. Brava! I can not listen to this aria now without comparison, no one has touched this delivery!

[Alleeexoscm]

Fabulosa Maria Callas, sea donde fuere, (claro, únicamente en recintos dignos de una soprano de su trayectoria).

Siempre fantástica y amada por su público.

El agudo final, seguramente causó gran expectación e interés en la época.

[thelepewguy]

One more thing. Bellas artes appears to be unimportant in the eyes of these ridiculous Euro-cockeyed elitists. That is why this is the only recording of the laureate moment in which the monotonous world of Opera was ruptured by the extraordinary Callas phenomenon. Also on the scream comment. Humm...Interesting scream with a perfectly sustained vibratto. Besides who is this critic? Maybe he/she sings in his/her living room hence the analogy.

[gyrene1966]

Shower;

As for Callas she's friggin crazy!

[thelepewguy]

Oh please!...Keep making my point!

[thelepewguy]

Bonaplu, la envidia es mejor despertarla que sentirla...no me importa si me entiendes o no. pero en realidad tus comentarios valen lo que un centavo americano moderno: nada

[stomachpunch]

Callas'triumph in Mexico-and her astounding performances of Operas greatest moments--what I would give to see her there-Those present saw the legend at her best in 1951

[bonanplu]

Well, we are in front of "la diva of Palacio de las Bellas Artes" Mejico, what an important opera hall! It would be like to be the diva of the living room of your house

[bonanplu]

Callas sings a Bflat in "gloria all egitto, AH !" , that note is written for the tenor, NOT for the soprano.Then at the end Verdi wrote several terrible Bflats and two final terrible Bs, the singer must soar in the soprano line over the chorus, all the soloists, instruments, etc...Callas cannot be heard

[formersk8ter]

@bonanplu I hear her B-flats and Bs just fine--are you deaf?

[bonanplu]

The only moment Callas is heard is in the final not written Eflat, that is is a scream

[Popi80s]

@bonanplu thank you for letting us all know you have no idea about Opera, Pitch, or music. Have a nice life :)

[maragato23]

Ustedes disculpen pues, pero no he escuchado a otras sopranos hacer un mibemol de manera tal que sobresaliera de la multitud presente en la escena. Tal vez un poco gritado si, pero bueno, aun hoy muchisimas sopranos envidian el poder acer un mi bemol. Creo que esto es justo, no? y si no, bueno, pues pongase usted en la escena y hga un mi bemol igual aver como le sale.

[Popi80s]

@maragato23 Te aseguro que no grita... esta impecable ese bemol... Callas es y sera una leyenda :)

[MisterSoprano]

The one and only! La Callas!

[RosyNothing]

Beautifully put together. A pleasure to listen to and to watch

[otello31]

Che comian estos tipos para poder cantar asi??? Mi Dios ,es una competencia de la voz mas sonora???

[clasirico]

Extraterrestre

[giant469]

One should not forget that, while solo voices sang in the frontstage, at least 100 people -- dignitaries, slaves, Egyptians, etc --were screaming behind. And Callas' last note soared up to cover all the rest.

[CONTESTAR]

What impresses me even more than the Eb is the preparation for it!

Instead of what any soprano I know would have done, shut-up-and-wait-for-the-big-m­oment, She dominates the ensemble giving Del Monaco a run for his money, while he sings notes that Verdi did NOT write for the tenor: the B-Flats and C-flats(=that is how Verdi noted them...)

And then she has the reserves to go-for-it!!

What was this woman capable of those years!? Was she Callas or what!? ;-))

[nietzschearistofanes]

Best Aída of the History: Callas, Del Monaco, Domínguez, Taddei... Amazing, truly exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!. NAP.

[Alleeexoscm]

Es un beneplacito (como mexicano) saber que algún día Maria Callas pisó suelo mexicano y que incluso se sintió intimidada por la exigente audiencia.

Gracias por la Callas!!!!

[bisigato]

Cantar en el Palacio de las Bellas Artes es como cantar en un teatrito de provincia de morondanga, pocas localidades y encima no se le escucha en toda la escena del triunfo, solo se escucha ese MIb que no està escrito y es un grito la nota de la soprano coloratura norteamericana Maria Callas

[Alleeexoscm]

bisigato, parece que andas tras mis comentarios. En fin...

Supongo que tienes razón esta vez, el sonido es malisimo (no es de estudio) y hasta donde sé, la acústica en Bellas Artes no es extraordinaria. Solo difiero en que no creo que se trate de Maria, jahh!; vaya, te estás refiriendo a los años gloriosos de Callas... Tan solo hay que buscar la crítica objetiva y lo veras...

Y es que quizás Aida no fue un hito hecho por La Divina, pero supongo que tu puedes interpretarla mucho mejor...

[samuraitaliano77]

Pobre estupido. Mejor sigue escuchando a RBD y a Daddy Yankee.

[thelepewguy]

Ja, ja, ja...Hey Bisigato...Tambien por eso hay una mejor grabacion de la Callas en el teatro de ¿? tan mundialmente reconocido de Argentina por sus fastuosas producciones de milong...digo operas..

Una vez mas, la envidia es mejor despertarla que sentirla

[Popi80s]

@thelepewguy se nota que eres la persona menos culta que ha hecho un comentario en este post...

Lamentable lo tuyo

[thelepewguy]

@Popi80s Lo siento, un boludo me obligo a hacer ese comentario innecesario. Nada personal ni con Argentina ni con su gente, sino contra los pocos que tienen como cerebro la parte que usan para sentarse...

[longlifeluke]

che commento da checca isterica!!

ahahahahahahahaha

[NEBESHIKU]

Pues cuantas cuentas tienes en youtube pedazo de mierda? siempre los mismos comentrios una y otra vez, se ve que eres tu. Que aburrido. A parte de pendejo, no tiene singenio.

[tomzoricic]

The most spectacular performance of Aida in history

[goldenthroat86]

That Eb was truly VOLCANIC! Brava MARIA!

[mariogalileo]

That finale was ALMOST as good as sex!!!! What chills!! Brava Maria!

[misha62]

I think Verdi SHOULD have had that in mind..the last note that is.

[Popi80s]

@misha62 yes, and didnt write it bc he prob thought "this can't be done by someone, while another 100 singers are behind" ^_-

[chloric1]

I am amazed. And this is not a low-lying role so to take it that much higher is almost insane. Then to still be able to do the lighter bel canto rep for a decade thereafter - Ridiculous.

[gondorado]

I think that is not question of if Palacio de Bellas Artes, or Teatro Colón, or la Scalla. Music is universal. You have to relax and enjoy it. Just relax, and just enjoy.

[tenornmd]

I don't think Verdi had that in mind, but isn't it EXCITING!?

[rambo2882]

En el Palacio de Bellas Artes han cantado:

Maria Callas Mario del Monaco

Giuseppe Di Stefano Luciano Pavarotti

Renée Fleming Placido Domingo

Rolando Villazón etc.

[Popi80s]

@rambo2882 En el Colón también, y muchos otros.

Coincido con el comentario de más arriba, no importa donde se canta, sino que se cante... en vez de escuchar reggeton, que se eleve la cultura en latinoamerica!

[misha62]

can't you all just ENJOY!

[misha62]

one the most exciting/dramatic moments in Opera history!

[crewmantle]

Let me absoloutely clear.

El Palacio de Bellas Artes de México is WITHOUT question a second tier house. There are only SIX top tier and SIX in this second tier category. A GREAT honour. Its importance and ranking internationally cannot be disputed.

End of discussion.

[sicuro75]

It's the singing that matters not the house.

[salalavil]

Callas feat is probably the dramatic climax in opera of all times. Maybe not altogether orthodox musically,but vocally and

dramatically flabbergasting andsuperb.This is what opera is all about:music,drama,emotio

[Sissawilda]

Mamma mia! Now that is what Opera is all about...Del Monaco, Dominguez, Taddei, De Fabritiis, et al, and Maria Callas singing a High Eb over everything and loud enough to awaken Isis and Osiris both. Just thrilling, Bravi Tutti! We don't get this good anymore.

[Elisabetta611]

Let one of today's cookie cutter chirpers TRY THAT! Amazing!

[Alce2008]

Corageous,daring, supreme. That's Callas.

[fantasual]

That's because youre personlity is dull is why shje doesn't impress you,no one can help the way you where born that's a genetic flaw. Besides she gave her all like a true artist not 50/50 or less like most who try and last for ever. The bad thing about it is regardless of how long and well presrved they think their voices are you can stil hear that they are old especially a soprano they go sour fastr than male voices.

[fantasual]

How stupid you sound;listening to this here and reading youre comments one would truly know what's flawed. You sound like a bitter jealous woman.

[Alce2008]

Sorry but you do not know what you are talking about, my dear. if I were you, I would study singing.

[Alce2008]

You do not know what you are saying, sorry to say that to you.

Alce

[fantasual]

Poor lorengrinteo doesn't realize that Pelacio de bella Artes is Mexico's finest and most famous theatre not theiur third class rate. And don't forget La scala,Teatro Communale,Verona Arena where she sand La Gioconda in 1952 just to name a few of the biggest and the best in Italy where she's renown.

[fantasual]

And i doubt very much youre from Greece ..Bitch..

[ma34xl]

get a life you dumb azz ;). honestly people like u are a waste of human flesh tsk tsk lol. Your like a real pollution to humanity. & thats fierce ! ;).

[ezayitas]

You´re such an ignorant. Obviously you haven´t been at Palacio de Bellas Artes de México and second it isn´t a third rate house. Other wise La Scala wouldn´t go there. It is one of the most important theaters in Latin America. And 1951 was part of her great period.

[ezayitas]

Again... IGNORANT!!!... you´re making of yourself a STUPID IDIOT in front of everyone here. Go ahead!!!

[sofiakalogeropulus]

Lohengrinteo, where did you get this absurd idea that Callas could order to put the billboard? The Mexicans were the first to recognise she was (and still is) the greatest primadonna of the century and all times!

[fantasual]

stome3139 and others like him are like an empty room with grey walls a table and no chair sit on.

[saverioorlando]

It's a moment of opera to remember for Maria's crazy vocally power.But her best legacy is about the interpretation.

[fantasual]

You and others like youreself should seriously look into a differen't hobby because surely if it's not youre age of 65,i think you may have been born with a tin ear or just bad hearing judgement and that's the reason for youre dislike of true greatness. Leave the criticism of the musical arts to those who where born with true gifted hearing and talents.

[goldenthroat86]

She DOMINATES the ensemble! Are you DEAF???

[hac2011]

You mean then moment when she overpowers the chorus, tenor, and orchestra for 8 entire seconds? If that is a scream, well, more people should scream like that.

[sicuro75]

Yahoowy!! Full throated enormous high E flat held for nearly 8 seconds that only Callas could emit at her prime. I'm sure no one fell asleep at this Aida performance.

[opera60]

would have loved to have been in the opera house! she must have blown them away!!!

[Elisabetta611]

This woman was a miracle! That E-flat is just BEYOND words!

[jjcbss]

Her voice cuts through the orchestra like a knife! No comparison. Brava!

[zdenko1945]

Callas was simply the best opera singer of 20 th century, with her flaws together. Who cares if she lost her high e flat in 1955. ALL IN ALL SHE WAS THE BEST SINGER OF PREVIOUS CENTURY, AND MAYA PLISETSKAYA BEST BALERINA OF THE SAME TIME.

[sillyboydeux]

Correction zdenko: Margo Fonteyn, Ulanova and Spessitseva way ahead of Plissetskaya.

[jrwilmott]

She probably lost it in 1953. Before that she was the finest soprano in the world. This is probably the most famous note in live opera.

[csmjr91090]

No she didn't where did you get that? Have you heard her E-flats in her Traviata's between 1955, and 1958? I guess not. Or her stratospheric E-flat in the 1954 and 1955 Lucia's? Or in La Sonnambula? After 1958 she didn't sing roles that required an E-flat. You should get your facts straight. She was the finest soprano until she died. She has not been surpassed in her interpretations.

[jrwilmott]

Tebaldi or Callas, the answer is Nilsson ;-)

[tomzoricic]

De gustibus non disputandum est

[Shahrdad]

Actually, she sang lots of good E-flats until 1958. And in her commercial and live Sonnambula (Cologne) in 1957, she not only hits great E-Flats, but does a perfect diminuendo before a two octave descending scale, a feat "unrivaled in the history of the grammophone."

[jrwilmott]

I am a major fan, but by '57 she had lost the power and had started to 'wobble'. All the same, the poignancy, the tone, and the acting, she was a colossus... No other soprano sounded so good he wobbled...

[Shahrdad]

She lost the power with the weight, but still sang some great E-flats, though not with the same ease or gigantic volume she could pour out when she was zaftig. Still though, not even Sutherland did the same diminuendo on the E-flat Callas could do well into '57.

[finisquo]

Sabes? creo que podrría apreciar más a Sutherland si lograra entender lo que dice. Ella es prognática, tu sabes.

[NEBESHIKU]

jajajaja

one can only laugh from the stupidity that comes from your mouth!

[csmjr91090]

Thanks for posting this video. I really love that first picture of her.

[csmjr91090]

Even though I have listened to this a million times, every time I listen even though I know exactly when the E-flat is coming, Maria still blows me away each time! For 8 seconds there is just an unexplainable feeling that I get.

[brightside18]

E-flat!! woooow...just amazing!! haha La Callas was just great!! there's no one like her!!...she is my heroe...and I think that what she did that time /and many others has no comparasion)..please post your commentS!! I just can't stop listening!! jojo