Gracias! onegin65! Gracias! Only Maria can convey the spirit of composers to the audience. Only one! Some mastered some roles but not that much and many as Maria! Period! Like Maria is born Once in hundred years!
This is very interesting to hear - but one can see that she wasn't a dramatic sop. A large, thick voice yes....but not dramatico. And the tempi are rather slow.
Bellisimo... el PRINCIPESSA LOU-LING (0:55) lo canta con frialdad y rencor. con notas graves y rotundas, y que sutileza cuando de inmediato nos interpreta el AVA DOLCE E SERENA, CHE REGNAVI (1:06)... he ahi el poder de Maria Callas, con dulzura, delicadeza, lirismo fortuito. Excelso, este fragmento es hermoso...
Bellisimo... el PRINCIPESSA LOU-LING (0:55) lo canta con frialdad y rencor. con notas graves y rotundas, y que sutileza cuando de inmediato nos interpreta el AVA DOLCE E SERENA, CHE REGNAVI (1:06)... he ahi el poder de Maria Callas, con dulzura, delicadeza, lirismo fortuito. Excelso, este fragmento es hermoso...
listen to Callas singing the lyrics Principessa Lou-Ling, ava dolce e serena che regnavi, never heard with more emotions and better, heartbreaking tone.
There aren't enough superlatives(but I'll try) to describe this performance, that voice! Could anything be more pure with the ability to reach into your heart? Searing, caressing each word, exploring each rythmic nuance,soaring with an elasticity that defies your imagination! Can she reach higher and climb the next plateau into the celestial realm? No, she was already there!
The warmth of that voice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I love Callas' "fragality"............. the steel of Birgit Nilsson whom I've met........... and Caballé..... that's just marvellous, Fascinating that tones can be so individuallu interpreted and still have the same but VERY different beauty! By the way.... Birgit Nilsson was one the most beloved artist and people in Sweden! Always laughs and humourism.... so even my father the carpenter adored her!
@Actom08 Ma se e' la prima volta che ascolta l'aria forse non gli si e' abituato l'orecchio! Magari non c'e' nulla che non va' con l'interpretazione della Divina... Un po' piu' lucida/o adesso? :)
Even though Callas is not as good a Turandot as say Dimitrova,Nilsson,Marton,or Caballe.Callas is still 10 times better than all the Turandots singing today.
Callas said ,,When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. ''.They still criticize her,even after 33 years since she died,so this must mean something.And for those persons who think that she was screaming,not breathing properly,etc. I have one question;why don't you have a career like Callas had,or better?Since you are such experts and consider yourselves geniuses?Get a life
She sang Turandot on stage from 1947/48 to 1950/51 all around Italy, plus Buenos Aires in 1949, then dropped the role, and recorded it for EMI, with diminished vocal colume but some admirable passages, under Serafin with a vile Eugenio Fernandi as Calaf and a superb Elisebeth Schwarzkopf as Liu. This piece is from the 1954 recording of verismo and lyric arias. Although some the vocal heft is gone, she is still very good. That compilation includes an astonishing MEFISTOFELE, simply magnificent.
Can no-one see that she is the worst screecher of all opera singers. She breathes on her chest and doesn't use her diaphragm. She really isn't as good as everybody thinks, she has the typical western opera voice rather than the mellow Italian voice. I'm surprised her voice didn't run out sooner because of the way she sings on her throat, you can just hear the strain. Anyone who has been taught correctly will tell you this.
@ShemaleSow55292 You can have your opinion, but millions of people worldwide for decades will disagree with you. So you don't agree, it doesn't mean that we're all wrong, it's simply what you hear. On a different note, your views on singing seem to be skewed a bit. The diaphragm is an involuntary muscle, so you don't just USE it. There's no typical "Western" opera voice, since opera as we know it is a western art. And there's no "correct" way of being taught, only what works for each individual.
@ShemaleSow55292 If she sang as you say,she wouldn't have vad such a phrasing.In case you didn't know,she was taught by one of the best teachers of the old school.,Elvira de Hidalgo.
Something about Callas that no one can argue is perfect diction and superb legato. she never leaves you with the feeling that something was missing in the aria, or that one note should've been longer, shorter or with more support, etc....She was a complete Artist even though many will argue the beauty of that voice.
Impressive. An as an actress, wonderful. But Birgit Nilsson takes the singing award in my book - she was an outstanding Turandot. Check out Nilsson and Bjorling on RCA VIctor stereo.
What AN INTERPRETATION!!! each word has a meaning, and each tone written by Puccini is respected.And the colouring, something people never seam to appreciate.... tones must be given a colour, like a cello or a violin....Callas is the champion of colouring tones, and therefor her singing goes far beyond beauty, she creates ART. And shall we talk about power... hear the last phrase raising to highC, "gli enigmmi sono tre".
Nicer voices, yes, surely, many, greater singing, I doubt it!
I love this song and I love the way Maria sings it. My hair just stands up. I regret that at 71 I was too young to travel to go see her live. Wouldn't that have been something.
é Daniele, do Sopro. Pôxa, vc não gostou da Callas cantando Turandot?Quando eu escuto isso, chega a me dar arrepios, de tão limpo que ficou. Aliás, eu fiquei muito feliz de poder dar os agudos dessa ária hoje, de tarde.
Sometimes I don´t know if my english is very clean... %-)
Do you understand what I mean? Is it possible to put some China in one voice?
I don´t know. I was meaning that Maria Callas in my small opinion cought all the dimension of the aria. But did I say it well??? :-) So were is China? hahahaha
I adore this aria, i think that Turandot is in the voice, she really understood the "oriental" spirit of the aria. I think another great Turandot is Maria Casolla.
China is in Asia of course, but the Orient called this territory, inhabited mostly by Arabs: it started in the Asian part of Turkey, part of India and continues to the Middle East, and covers part of Africa - again with the Arab population. And the opera written by an Italian with Chinese plot, I can't accept that there are oriental sound.
@TraVoiBelle To answer your reply to my earlier comment - which does not seem to appear here - 'Orient' is from the latin 'oriens' meaning east (or where the sun rises) as opposed to 'occident', where it sets. Its use can mean almost anywhere east of the Mediterranean though by the C19 it generally referred to China, Japan and contiguous countries. The fact that you say an opera about China by an Italian cannot sound oriental is accepts by implication that China is in the Orient. oriental.
@suzypuss 'Orient' is a geographical term which comes from French and literally means "east" of cource, serving as an initial indication of western ethno-cultural region of Southwest Asia. Far as I know, China is in the so-called "Far East".
It came from Latin before it was French. What I said still holds, 'Orient' was generally used to refer to China, Japan and adjacent countries. The 'Far East' is a far more recent concept.
@suzypuss Yeah: Laton >> French but no - it uses for the Middle East and only western Europeans, or rather the UK and France uses it for all of Asia but the world has and other nations :)
Não tem nada de errado com esta gravação e é uma grande burrice dizer que não se pode fazer Liu e Turandot! Eva Marton, que eu acho melhor do que a Callas fazendo Turandot, também cantou Liu, então minha sugestão é que se tenha mais cultura antes de abrir a boca para se dizer besteira!
funny thing is that all these women that callas is compared with admitted that she was superior and that listening to her live was the most magical thing they ever heard!!
@Marcelosopro - Até que enfim alguém põe os pingos nos Is para os fanáticos que além do mais não respeitam nenhuma outra artista! Como pode cantar Liú e Turandot? Parece sem sentido. Parabéns, estou de pleno acordo! Basta ouvir a poderosa Eva Marton como Turandot para ouvir a diferença--Que voz agüenta cantar os dois papéis? A impressão q tenho é q aqui Callas rebentou a voz! Falta peso SIMMMM e cai na gritaria no final. Enfim, que voz agüenta? abs
she has one of the most beautiful coloratura soprano voices I have ever heard.....it makes me wish I were a soprano sometimes......she has such a large range, it is gorgeous and accurate and expressive: everything one could want out of a performance!
come si fa a non apprezzare l'interpretazione della nilson e il suo spettacolare parossismo, ma qui io trovo un'eleganza, una padronanza dell'emozione in ogni sua sfumatura che la rende ancora più profonda, intensa, in fine, ancora più emozionante - se possibile.
This voice sound so powerful in the top and deep as a contralto. It pours out in a baritonal way...She's amazing! Ok maybe not as perfect as Nilsson, Not as rich as Price, Not as beautiful as Caballé. But who cares if you can listen to real emotions like she produced. She moves an eye and a river of fury is running, she moves her mouth and a tear fall in your soul. She's mastered the art of opera!
For mtmnanjt...and you Callas would not be a soprano ? It is what I have read, no ? The stupid is you because you are probably a french student in a Conservatory !!!
No actually I'm not, I'm canadian. You think that women have no head voice, the mere fact that you believe this shows that you do not deserve to sing. I hope you are struck both deaf and mute for your ignorance.
I love this recording - - still has all the ice and paranoia of her live characterization but with more subtlety and finesse. Her complete studio recording is wonderful to listen to from an artistic perspective, too, only she was exhausted when she made the recording and it shows. Too bad for posterity. There are still so many ignorant people who delight in dissecting this woman's voice as if she were some sort of machine instead of a brilliant, gifted, and moving VERY HUMAN artist. WHY???
Certainly, I try to look for other voices and, of course, I have found incredible ones which I would consider out of real had I never heard La Divina's voice. Grazie, cara Maria
DIOS MIO! Callas's power is riveting and spiritual. Her gift for managing to sing EVERY note as written is an astoundingly olympian feat that fills the ears and heart with pure, unfettered joy.
It comes, sometimes, to a man of my age to reflect on the failures and the sadness of lost opportunities - and to drink a little - and to play nothing but Callas - for hours and hours.
If God was found in a far off Cosmos, having forgotten us, and asked for a word on our account, it would have be this voice alone of all.
Qu'est-ce que c'est magnifique !! Je ne dis pas que les autres cantatrices c'est de la merde, mais quand t'écoutes Callas pendant un bout de temps et que tu passes à une autre cantatrice, tu vois tout de suite la différence de voix. La puissance de la voix de Callas est vraiment époustouflante et ne peut être égalée.
Amazon has lots of different editions of 'Turandot' and lots of Callas collections - some at very good prices. Trouble with the collections is that they don't list the arias so you may have to contact the seller to ask.
I don't hear any pushing! Loud singing, yes. Not because she's trying to imitate anyone but because she wanted that expression...I think she did the only right thing, lived and died for her singing. No regrets!
When one listens to Nilsson or Marton or even Dimitrova you hear a cruel princess with a heart of ice. She kills, because she has never loved and she has never suffered. But: when you hear Callas you hear some pain that is buried deep inside Turandot. And you realize that she kills not because she is simply cruel, but because she is in pain and she is afraid to be hurt again. hear it again and think about it.
i love how people think she messed up her voice so badly, when in reality, even her worst singing later on is better than most singers today! Just shows how technique has been ruined over the years. BRING BACK THE OLD SCHOOL!
Yes, I couldn't agree more, and what's worse is that today the emphasis seem to be on a beautiful sounding voice no matter what the technique, and I myself will settle for the technique where the voice is merely the means of communicating the text, which is what Maria Callas had, and what has almost died out nowadays.
Brava Maria, Brava Leontyne, Brava Birgit and Brava Joan, Beverly, Edda, Lucia, Mirella, Monserrat, Victoria, Gundula...We're still missing you because we could'nt replace you!
One wishes she had not tried to prove that she could sing everything. When she presses in this (and she does) on her extreme high nots, one can hear the beginnings of the wobble that became so evident later.
Yes, Callas had more metal and the right color in her voice for this aria. Tebaldi had the warmth for an exquisite Liu. It's nice to see someone show appreciation for Callas and Tebaldi. I'm completely a Tebaldi lover, to me there is no other voice to compare in beauty, strength, and pure Italianate sound. Callas was our great musician and dramatist.
La Callas (who sang this role onstage early in her career) fares much better than Tebaldi in this aria (both in this studio recording and in pirate verions). They were both great artists, and I'm glad we had them both. Tebaldi's Liù in the 1959 recording (Nilsson, Björling, conducted by Leinsdorf) is ravishing.
Gracias! onegin65! Gracias! Only Maria can convey the spirit of composers to the audience. Only one! Some mastered some roles but not that much and many as Maria! Period! Like Maria is born Once in hundred years!
ALSONG1 7 months ago
This is very interesting to hear - but one can see that she wasn't a dramatic sop. A large, thick voice yes....but not dramatico. And the tempi are rather slow.
soaringsound 8 months ago
This is a great interpretation.
trschaefer 1 year ago
Pace ~!
feveroo7 1 year ago
HerMOso, supREmmo !!!...
Bellisimo... el PRINCIPESSA LOU-LING (0:55) lo canta con frialdad y rencor. con notas graves y rotundas, y que sutileza cuando de inmediato nos interpreta el AVA DOLCE E SERENA, CHE REGNAVI (1:06)... he ahi el poder de Maria Callas, con dulzura, delicadeza, lirismo fortuito. Excelso, este fragmento es hermoso...
QUELLA PUREZA, QUEL GRIDO E QUELLA MORTE!
QUEL GRIDO E QUELLA MORTE! (3:35)***
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Germoso, Celestial...
Bellisimo... el PRINCIPESSA LOU-LING (0:55) lo canta con frialdad y rencor. con notas graves y rotundas, y que sutileza cuando de inmediato nos interpreta el AVA DOLCE E SERENA, CHE REGNAVI (1:06)... he ahi el poder de Maria Callas, con dulzura, delicadeza, lirismo fortuito. Excelso, este fragmento es hermoso...
QUELLA PUREZA, QUEL GRIDO E QUELLA MORTE!
QUEL GRIDO E QUELLA MORTE! *** (3:35)
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Alleeexoscm 1 year ago
listen to Callas singing the lyrics Principessa Lou-Ling, ava dolce e serena che regnavi, never heard with more emotions and better, heartbreaking tone.
roibin123 1 year ago 2
@roibin123 You're so right! :)
terveron 1 year ago
There aren't enough superlatives(but I'll try) to describe this performance, that voice! Could anything be more pure with the ability to reach into your heart? Searing, caressing each word, exploring each rythmic nuance,soaring with an elasticity that defies your imagination! Can she reach higher and climb the next plateau into the celestial realm? No, she was already there!
rovingeye5 1 year ago
The warmth of that voice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I love Callas' "fragality"............. the steel of Birgit Nilsson whom I've met........... and Caballé..... that's just marvellous, Fascinating that tones can be so individuallu interpreted and still have the same but VERY different beauty! By the way.... Birgit Nilsson was one the most beloved artist and people in Sweden! Always laughs and humourism.... so even my father the carpenter adored her!
MrMyggan1 1 year ago
*quakes in chair unable to react in any other way.....*
.......soooooooo amazing. If only we had opera like this today.
Loismustdie26 1 year ago
da fan della Callas penso che questa non sia per niente bella...mi sembra che faccia fatica...no? non insultatemi, spiegatemi! e gli acuti?uhmmmm
Actom08 1 year ago
@Actom08 Ma se e' la prima volta che ascolta l'aria forse non gli si e' abituato l'orecchio! Magari non c'e' nulla che non va' con l'interpretazione della Divina... Un po' piu' lucida/o adesso? :)
terveron 1 year ago
da fan della Callas penso che questa non sia per niente bella...mi sembra che faccia fatica...no? non insultatemi, spiegatemi!
Actom08 1 year ago
IRRANGIUNGIBILE!!! DIVINA MILLE VOLTE!!!!
alleviso2 1 year ago
My god--superb. That's the best Callas I've ever heard. Absolutely mastery and at the top of her game/talent/voice, surely.
ranhat2 1 year ago
Even though Callas is not as good a Turandot as say Dimitrova,Nilsson,Marton,or Caballe.Callas is still 10 times better than all the Turandots singing today.
montsyblackmadonna 1 year ago
Uncomparable! There's no use keeping comparing Her!
terveron 1 year ago
@terveron
right, she was the most overrated singer ever. Why we should compare a third-class diva lioke Callas with real great sopranos?
ShemaleSow55292 1 year ago
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terveron 1 year ago
@ShemaleSow55292 daaaaaaaaaaaamn Shemale..... :P
belcunto 1 year ago
@ShemaleSow55292 I agree with you, Tebaldi was a lot better than her.
Callas was really overrated.
tebaldicallas 1 month ago
Callas said ,,When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. ''.They still criticize her,even after 33 years since she died,so this must mean something.And for those persons who think that she was screaming,not breathing properly,etc. I have one question;why don't you have a career like Callas had,or better?Since you are such experts and consider yourselves geniuses?Get a life
andreea94a 1 year ago 2
She sang Turandot on stage from 1947/48 to 1950/51 all around Italy, plus Buenos Aires in 1949, then dropped the role, and recorded it for EMI, with diminished vocal colume but some admirable passages, under Serafin with a vile Eugenio Fernandi as Calaf and a superb Elisebeth Schwarzkopf as Liu. This piece is from the 1954 recording of verismo and lyric arias. Although some the vocal heft is gone, she is still very good. That compilation includes an astonishing MEFISTOFELE, simply magnificent.
philipc67 1 year ago
The best interpretation I've ever heard! She is the best!!!!!!
andrzjcz08 1 year ago
@andrzjcz08 @phortion
WHAT BULLSHIT .. you're deaf!!!
Can no-one see that she is the worst screecher of all opera singers. She breathes on her chest and doesn't use her diaphragm. She really isn't as good as everybody thinks, she has the typical western opera voice rather than the mellow Italian voice. I'm surprised her voice didn't run out sooner because of the way she sings on her throat, you can just hear the strain. Anyone who has been taught correctly will tell you this.
ShemaleSow55292 1 year ago
@ShemaleSow55292 You can have your opinion, but millions of people worldwide for decades will disagree with you. So you don't agree, it doesn't mean that we're all wrong, it's simply what you hear. On a different note, your views on singing seem to be skewed a bit. The diaphragm is an involuntary muscle, so you don't just USE it. There's no typical "Western" opera voice, since opera as we know it is a western art. And there's no "correct" way of being taught, only what works for each individual.
JuillHope17 1 year ago
@JuillHope17
Sorry, but opera experts doesn't confirm your varying viewpoints.
ShemaleSow55292 1 year ago
@ShemaleSow55292 And who are these opera experts please? Just a few names.
Aetion 1 year ago
@ShemaleSow55292 If she sang as you say,she wouldn't have vad such a phrasing.In case you didn't know,she was taught by one of the best teachers of the old school.,Elvira de Hidalgo.
andreea94a 1 year ago
Something about Callas that no one can argue is perfect diction and superb legato. she never leaves you with the feeling that something was missing in the aria, or that one note should've been longer, shorter or with more support, etc....She was a complete Artist even though many will argue the beauty of that voice.
inapproprick 1 year ago 3
Impressive. An as an actress, wonderful. But Birgit Nilsson takes the singing award in my book - she was an outstanding Turandot. Check out Nilsson and Bjorling on RCA VIctor stereo.
The99Gambo 1 year ago 2
What AN INTERPRETATION!!! each word has a meaning, and each tone written by Puccini is respected.And the colouring, something people never seam to appreciate.... tones must be given a colour, like a cello or a violin....Callas is the champion of colouring tones, and therefor her singing goes far beyond beauty, she creates ART. And shall we talk about power... hear the last phrase raising to highC, "gli enigmmi sono tre".
Nicer voices, yes, surely, many, greater singing, I doubt it!
colonia3059 1 year ago
@colonia3059
You doubt it?
Well, hear Birgit Nilsson .... she sings in a higher class just like Ponselle.
OperaCritics 1 year ago
@colonia3059 God, thank you for saying this! You hit the nail on the head. This woman is unsurpassable.
phortion 1 year ago
Callas is Callas...
heigei1 1 year ago
far capire ogni parola come fa la garnde Maria in quest'aria e' veramente difficile....solo Lei............
heron520 1 year ago
Gorgeous. Incredibly gorgeous.
serendipity4212 1 year ago
wow what a piece..Oh Dio, this is incredible! unbeatable!
feveroo7 1 year ago
Why does Callas often sounds as she got something stuck in her throat?
sounds very ugly for me. But in the latter part she sings well.
maxhansendk 1 year ago
Checchè se ne dica l'unica vera Turandot è della Callas!
sciorgiodark79 1 year ago
Insuperabile.
Aspett0 1 year ago
Diese Dramatik, dieser Ausdruck in der Stimme!!!!!.... das schafft(e) nur Maria!!!!!!!!
Ein Phänomen, sie wird unerreichbar bleiben!!!
Medea59 1 year ago 2
I love this song and I love the way Maria sings it. My hair just stands up. I regret that at 71 I was too young to travel to go see her live. Wouldn't that have been something.
francoisbarrel 1 year ago
@francoisbarrel if You were too young at 71, how old are You now ? 120 yrs old ? :)
MrJudube 1 year ago
Magnificent Maria Callas. . She was a sensational Turandot.
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
Her performance of this aria is electrifying. Viva Callas!
YaelBerman 1 year ago
I just love the way Callas coloured her voice for the whole aria! Most sopranos have a hard time JUST getting through this killer beast of an aria :)
floridante2k 1 year ago 2
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Covered, not coloured. She was a piss lousy singer who relied on her homosexual claque to remain "famous".
PenzancePete 1 year ago
Amazing, as always!
Thank you!
Aetion 1 year ago
Oi, Marcelo,
é Daniele, do Sopro. Pôxa, vc não gostou da Callas cantando Turandot?Quando eu escuto isso, chega a me dar arrepios, de tão limpo que ficou. Aliás, eu fiquei muito feliz de poder dar os agudos dessa ária hoje, de tarde.
Beijos e saudade, amigo!
GretaGarbo 2 years ago
Sometimes I don´t know if my english is very clean... %-)
Do you understand what I mean? Is it possible to put some China in one voice?
I don´t know. I was meaning that Maria Callas in my small opinion cought all the dimension of the aria. But did I say it well??? :-) So were is China? hahahaha
cristetoile11 2 years ago
I adore this aria, i think that Turandot is in the voice, she really understood the "oriental" spirit of the aria. I think another great Turandot is Maria Casolla.
cristetoile11 2 years ago
@cristetoile11 China is not in the Orient, mate! :D
TraVoiBelle 2 years ago
@TraVoiBelle 'Orient' is usually understood as the East. A very general term I know, but where would you put China, geographically ?
suzypuss 2 years ago
China is in Asia of course, but the Orient called this territory, inhabited mostly by Arabs: it started in the Asian part of Turkey, part of India and continues to the Middle East, and covers part of Africa - again with the Arab population. And the opera written by an Italian with Chinese plot, I can't accept that there are oriental sound.
TraVoiBelle 2 years ago
Not exactly 'sound'. I mean 'spirit' :)
TraVoiBelle 2 years ago
@TraVoiBelle To answer your reply to my earlier comment - which does not seem to appear here - 'Orient' is from the latin 'oriens' meaning east (or where the sun rises) as opposed to 'occident', where it sets. Its use can mean almost anywhere east of the Mediterranean though by the C19 it generally referred to China, Japan and contiguous countries. The fact that you say an opera about China by an Italian cannot sound oriental is accepts by implication that China is in the Orient. oriental.
suzypuss 2 years ago
@suzypuss 'Orient' is a geographical term which comes from French and literally means "east" of cource, serving as an initial indication of western ethno-cultural region of Southwest Asia. Far as I know, China is in the so-called "Far East".
TraVoiBelle 2 years ago
It came from Latin before it was French. What I said still holds, 'Orient' was generally used to refer to China, Japan and adjacent countries. The 'Far East' is a far more recent concept.
suzypuss 2 years ago
@suzypuss Yeah: Laton >> French but no - it uses for the Middle East and only western Europeans, or rather the UK and France uses it for all of Asia but the world has and other nations :)
TraVoiBelle 2 years ago
Não tem nada de errado com esta gravação e é uma grande burrice dizer que não se pode fazer Liu e Turandot! Eva Marton, que eu acho melhor do que a Callas fazendo Turandot, também cantou Liu, então minha sugestão é que se tenha mais cultura antes de abrir a boca para se dizer besteira!
thiagomadrugamonteir 2 years ago
I never knew she recorded this!!! Thank you!!!!
Could you imagine her doing this with CORELLI?
ksol1460 2 years ago
funny thing is that all these women that callas is compared with admitted that she was superior and that listening to her live was the most magical thing they ever heard!!
CallasAfrica 2 years ago 3
callas is the only diva. her voice will endure forever.
Shanniquitie 2 years ago
Tudo bem que Callas é Callas...agora dizer que ela podia cantar tudo...
Em Turandot por exemplo falta muito peso na voz..
Marcelosopro 2 years ago
@Marcelosopro - Até que enfim alguém põe os pingos nos Is para os fanáticos que além do mais não respeitam nenhuma outra artista! Como pode cantar Liú e Turandot? Parece sem sentido. Parabéns, estou de pleno acordo! Basta ouvir a poderosa Eva Marton como Turandot para ouvir a diferença--Que voz agüenta cantar os dois papéis? A impressão q tenho é q aqui Callas rebentou a voz! Falta peso SIMMMM e cai na gritaria no final. Enfim, que voz agüenta? abs
lamsalgado 2 years ago
Divina as always!
AntiquesVoices 2 years ago
where is the tenor?????
fontenayperi 2 years ago
Studio recording... there should have been a huge choir also...
Piacevole 2 years ago 2
@Piacevole
and a proper tenor voice, del Monaco's or Corelli's
Aetion 1 year ago
La Divina
tenorismo 2 years ago 2
One of the best interpretations. I love it!
saigoners 2 years ago 3
she has one of the most beautiful coloratura soprano voices I have ever heard.....it makes me wish I were a soprano sometimes......she has such a large range, it is gorgeous and accurate and expressive: everything one could want out of a performance!
meant2live747 2 years ago 2
come si fa a non apprezzare l'interpretazione della nilson e il suo spettacolare parossismo, ma qui io trovo un'eleganza, una padronanza dell'emozione in ogni sua sfumatura che la rende ancora più profonda, intensa, in fine, ancora più emozionante - se possibile.
maxtanz 2 years ago 2
She should be the singer to represent this piece.
pnedratr 2 years ago 2
This voice sound so powerful in the top and deep as a contralto. It pours out in a baritonal way...She's amazing! Ok maybe not as perfect as Nilsson, Not as rich as Price, Not as beautiful as Caballé. But who cares if you can listen to real emotions like she produced. She moves an eye and a river of fury is running, she moves her mouth and a tear fall in your soul. She's mastered the art of opera!
yodavidnavarro 2 years ago 28
I must agree with you, she is wonderful and in my opinion she is just as great a Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, and Leontyne Price.
Royalorgans 2 years ago 9
opera means drama. she mastered it.
firetiger123 2 years ago 6
I agree. Callas is music!
saigoners 2 years ago
@yodavidnavarro what are you talking? I think you cant compare her with anyone..so, jsut delete your comment...
feveroo7 1 year ago
The best Turandot ever. Stunning La Scala recording with Carreras as Calaf. Brilliant. My favourite aria.
JackSafferyRowe 2 years ago 2
Of whom are you laugthing ? She is a soprano, not obvious for you, and happily she has no head voice like stupid french singers.
italopera 2 years ago
This was by far the single most stupid comment I have ever read in my entire life. You are a huge idiot, do not speak.
tenor220 2 years ago
For mtmnanjt...and you Callas would not be a soprano ? It is what I have read, no ? The stupid is you because you are probably a french student in a Conservatory !!!
italopera 2 years ago
No actually I'm not, I'm canadian. You think that women have no head voice, the mere fact that you believe this shows that you do not deserve to sing. I hope you are struck both deaf and mute for your ignorance.
tenor220 2 years ago
@tenor220 a bit overstated, my friend -- control your wishes
Martinowor 1 year ago
French or canadian is the same . Head voice does not exist for true musical notes.
Get away : there is no teachers in Canada, and read what clever people are thinking of me !!!
italopera 2 years ago
@italopera that makes no sense whatsoever
Martinowor 1 year ago
Her technique is verry good. She could sing like a soprano with her head voice.
mtmnanjt 2 years ago
Diosa!
orejarota 2 years ago 2
Her voice touches the part of my brain
that is related to spirituality, connecting me with the kosmos, longing for Divinity.
Glory to Thee, Divine Callas!!!
Rigelcentauri58 2 years ago 5
I love this recording - - still has all the ice and paranoia of her live characterization but with more subtlety and finesse. Her complete studio recording is wonderful to listen to from an artistic perspective, too, only she was exhausted when she made the recording and it shows. Too bad for posterity. There are still so many ignorant people who delight in dissecting this woman's voice as if she were some sort of machine instead of a brilliant, gifted, and moving VERY HUMAN artist. WHY???
BellovVideo 2 years ago 6
Certainly, I try to look for other voices and, of course, I have found incredible ones which I would consider out of real had I never heard La Divina's voice. Grazie, cara Maria
EnricoAtHome 2 years ago 7
stupefiant! So very wonderful singing.
Icy and warm. Turandot is a very troubled woman and Callas shows and lives every bit of it! !
velazquez2009 2 years ago 6
I love callas high notes,she had a wonderful voice...
lateralex90 2 years ago 6
Thank's a millon time's Onegin I thougt they stop with this wounderfoul Turandot bye
Primadonna absoluta the one and only Callas
tjallew 2 years ago 16
DIOS MIO! Callas's power is riveting and spiritual. Her gift for managing to sing EVERY note as written is an astoundingly olympian feat that fills the ears and heart with pure, unfettered joy.
boredwell 2 years ago 10
GLORIOSA! Todas de rodillas tendrían que escuchar esta interpretación. TODAS.
ubedajils 3 years ago 6
This voice is from heaven. A true gift.
raaadja99 3 years ago 10
It comes, sometimes, to a man of my age to reflect on the failures and the sadness of lost opportunities - and to drink a little - and to play nothing but Callas - for hours and hours.
If God was found in a far off Cosmos, having forgotten us, and asked for a word on our account, it would have be this voice alone of all.
fritzryan 3 years ago 11
Qu'est-ce que c'est magnifique !! Je ne dis pas que les autres cantatrices c'est de la merde, mais quand t'écoutes Callas pendant un bout de temps et que tu passes à une autre cantatrice, tu vois tout de suite la différence de voix. La puissance de la voix de Callas est vraiment époustouflante et ne peut être égalée.
Jenia2304 3 years ago 2
Absolutely incredibe, such artestry, passion, anima, what else could we ask for. I miss you Maria La prima donna of all time.
mrjoe1955 3 years ago 10
Amazon has lots of different editions of 'Turandot' and lots of Callas collections - some at very good prices. Trouble with the collections is that they don't list the arias so you may have to contact the seller to ask.
DavidMJordan 3 years ago
I would love to buy it. Do you know where I can get it??
SVENSKSOPRAN 3 years ago
I don't hear any pushing! Loud singing, yes. Not because she's trying to imitate anyone but because she wanted that expression...I think she did the only right thing, lived and died for her singing. No regrets!
SVENSKSOPRAN 3 years ago 6
I agree, and the notes sound easy, like she is NOT REACHING.. Have you listened to entire recording ? It is something.
kgarmaker123 3 years ago
When one listens to Nilsson or Marton or even Dimitrova you hear a cruel princess with a heart of ice. She kills, because she has never loved and she has never suffered. But: when you hear Callas you hear some pain that is buried deep inside Turandot. And you realize that she kills not because she is simply cruel, but because she is in pain and she is afraid to be hurt again. hear it again and think about it.
svpavlov 3 years ago 18
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comey717 3 years ago
oops! I meant give you a thumbs up, but I hit the wrong one! Great observation!
thornolie 3 years ago
Thank you for your words
akattara 3 years ago
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to my taste she does not come near to nilsson or marton... sorry about that but this is how i feel...
lexusis220d 3 years ago
"Quel grido e quella morte" - amazing!!! Callas was and she is THE ART OF THE OPERA ITSELF, ever!
DarthVidal 3 years ago 25
i love how people think she messed up her voice so badly, when in reality, even her worst singing later on is better than most singers today! Just shows how technique has been ruined over the years. BRING BACK THE OLD SCHOOL!
JessTea 3 years ago 34
Yes, I couldn't agree more, and what's worse is that today the emphasis seem to be on a beautiful sounding voice no matter what the technique, and I myself will settle for the technique where the voice is merely the means of communicating the text, which is what Maria Callas had, and what has almost died out nowadays.
barmanjoe 3 years ago 8
Brava Maria, Brava Leontyne, Brava Birgit and Brava Joan, Beverly, Edda, Lucia, Mirella, Monserrat, Victoria, Gundula...We're still missing you because we could'nt replace you!
yodavidnavarro 3 years ago 8
@JessTea I'm with you on that Jess!
Racheltaylordiva 1 year ago
@JessTea Yes indeed...
profgv 1 year ago
One wishes she had not tried to prove that she could sing everything. When she presses in this (and she does) on her extreme high nots, one can hear the beginnings of the wobble that became so evident later.
meinfb 3 years ago
When she finishes singing, I have nothing to say! There is nothing anyone can say to describe or add to that.
dornroslein 3 years ago 6
come al solito la più grande. grazie Maria!
mdellavalle 3 years ago
Oh, pietá, Callas, mi muouro per la tua voce
I really love you, Callas, the best sopran ever!
gomongio 3 years ago 9
Testimonia una grandissima Turandot,che la Callas fece in teatro fra il 48 e il 53.
saverioorlando 3 years ago
saverioorlando vatene vafanculo la voce della Callas fa cagare.
Bravo stesondrio88
bonanplu 3 years ago
quos perdere vult,deus amentat
saverioorlando 3 years ago
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Maria la tua voce mi fa cagare! W RENATA TEBALDI VOCE D'ANGELO. PER SEMPRE.
stesondrio88 3 years ago
cagare fa solo il tuo commento volgare e non degno nemmeno di nominare né Maria Callas né Renata Tebaldi. vergogna
mdellavalle 3 years ago 9
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si la voce della Callas fa cagare, ma que voce? e un grido
bonanplu 3 years ago
Maria la tua voce mi manda in estasi!
nuraxis 3 years ago 6
amazing done!
thanks for the video
callasdimitrova 3 years ago 4
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Yes, Callas had more metal and the right color in her voice for this aria. Tebaldi had the warmth for an exquisite Liu. It's nice to see someone show appreciation for Callas and Tebaldi. I'm completely a Tebaldi lover, to me there is no other voice to compare in beauty, strength, and pure Italianate sound. Callas was our great musician and dramatist.
Andante735 3 years ago
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La Callas (who sang this role onstage early in her career) fares much better than Tebaldi in this aria (both in this studio recording and in pirate verions). They were both great artists, and I'm glad we had them both. Tebaldi's Liù in the 1959 recording (Nilsson, Björling, conducted by Leinsdorf) is ravishing.
MusicaParola 3 years ago