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  • I watch this video again and again and every time that I hear the God sent voice of Maria Callas I cry,

  • Not her best performance, sadly: in 1958 her voice was starting to fail. It's depressing that most videos surviving are of a late Callas, not of her prime. Still, they give as back all the stage presence, acting skills, glamour and charisma of this woman that, even whith some shortcomings (especially towards the end) was and remained one of the greatest sopranos and surely the greatest diva of our times.

  • Mia kai monadhiki Maria Kallas

    allas

  • Netrebko isn't fit to sweep the stage for Callas. It is an offence to mention her name in the same sentence.

  • Deberían dejar de usar preciosuras como estas en las propagandas de yogures dietéticos.

  • when this woman sings, my tears are running everytime. she touches my soul. i simply love her.

  • Look at the stunning Netrebko performance of casta Diva. So who is the more attractive: Probably Netrebko. Who sings more beautifully - probably Netrebko - Who makes you cry - defintely Callas...............

  • @Midases I agree ^_^

  • The first real actress in opera. Wow. Brava!

  • ..... LA DIVINA ..... solamente MARIA CALLAS è stata definita con questo aggettivo ..... ci sono state tante altre soprano brave ..... bravissime ..... ma nessuna di esse ha ricevuto questo attributo ..... di DIVINA ce ne è stata una sola, tutte le altre, pur brave, sono state e sono "terrene", "umane", ..... cara MARIA, RIP

  • So beautiful - both the voice and the woman.

  • Wow! Where is this recording from?

  • @maestro7727 Paris 1958

  • IRREMPLAZABLE

    

  • the only Norma here she is

  • this is th greatest soprano of all time the feeling the emotion the actress WOW. She Callas needs to go on forever as a women who changed the operatic world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Give credit where credit is due stop lying about other she is it!!!!!!!

  • ¡Craso error del coro! Inolvidable,Inmortal, Inmensa Maria.

  • I never heard it sung better.

  • this is it vowww thanks

  • ...i just realized... my mouth was open for the whole 9 minutes!

  • D E A ! ! !

  • when she steps forward and gives the down beat its chilling. at once she is centering and stablalizing the whole ensemble and at the same time making sure-through instinct that she is absolutely honoring the composer for her own performance. ive seen only the great artists do such things, to not be thrown by the orchestra, band or choir but rather to elevate the whole effort to something great.

    Callas is one of the few who i think defies commentary. Genius speaks for itself. So ill shut up.

  • @MegaGum1 the hand goes up.........and comes down ABSOLUTELY on the beat.

  • What a fabulous reaction she shows to the complete disorder in the choir at 1:45! She gives them the right beat at 1:57 (remember that she could hardly see the conductor) and in the end she hands the applause on to the choir (not on this copy). This is really cool AND charming!

  • رائـــــــــــــــــــــــــع

    Magnifique......

  • This is yet another example by Callas of what art should be: a touch of humanity and much more than that. You can feel something is happening, you can almost touch it,but you can't name it. And yet everyone may feel it deep inside. Wowing.

  • Very true realy.

  • gracias por subir esta area completa

  • 4:43 oh my... subtle,delicate, gorgeous. But is the choir off (1:46), or is that just me?

  • omg. I've listened to her a hundred times and have thought that I am over her, in light of having listened to others. but i put this on out of the blue, and once again I am floored. Queen of the diminuendo, portamento, bel canto. 4 43 damn! chills

  • La Divina! Oh sublime!  Oh Maria.....you are IT in Opera for me forever........Neil

  • UN GRACIAS DE CORAZON A QUIEN LA CARGO'.

  • Speechless... Breathtaking... On a atteint le Slublime... L'emotion dans toute sa splendeur !

  • Bravo

    

  • When was this filmed? God I love this woman! MOre talent in her hair folicles than in many 'stars' entire bodies :)

  • @MulBerrie I think it was filmed 1958/12/19 at Théâtre National de l'Opéra de Paris

  • 4:45 sweet mother of god. :')

  • Personalmente, y sin quitarle valor a la interpretación de María Callas, me gusta más el tono y la textura que imprime a esta pieza Montserrat Caballé,

  • With a thin body like that, I feel so ashamed with my stout body, with a voice like that, she can beat my fortississimo.

  • truly a voice sent from heaven

  • Классно

  • PARA ALGUNOS LA DIVINA, PARA OTROS UNA MAS.

    PERO PARA MI, SI, LA DIVINA

  • I'm sorry, I just don't get it. I've been listening and playing classical music all my life and I still don't get why this singer commands such adulation. Her ability to dramatize the music is quite distinct, but her voice does nothing for me. It seems that there are so many other voices that I've heard that bring the music to life with much better precision. Frequently when I listen to her singing she sounds off key and wobbly. I know I'm opening up a can of worms, but I just don't get it.

  • @drewt3 I agree with you at certain point!

  • @drewt3 If you don't get it, well.. you just don't get it! It's like: If you don't have an Iphone, well you just don't have an Iphone!... Sorry for you...

  • @Pallas54 …Right! Not to disparage drew3, a lack of appreciation for talent such as Callas's is a damn shame! It's like saying, I've never read or seen a production of Shakespeare, or looked at a Goya up close. Surely one can go on living, but one is missing out big time!

  • @drew t3 Her voice is crystal clear, her emotions superb to the highest quality, i tremble when i listen to this voice, who do you think is better than her? I'm curious to know!

  • @anemodarmenos1 no one. She's was La Divina... no one in a million years will be better than her... Yes there are great singers, but no one can measure with her, no one.

  • @drewt3 She is loved this way because she was a genius. A genius of the same caliber than Michelangelo or Victor Hugo. What she did to opera is enormous. She showed to us that opera is a complete form of art, so drama must walk along with music, because music without an expression can be boring; she showed to us that a 'pretty voice' is the least important thing in music. She brought a new face to opera! She was so 'eletric' that she brought even the masses to opera.

  • @drewt3 Her name was bigger than so many hollywood stars. And she got that with her larger-than-life personality and talent. And that talent! She could do anything with her voice. She was extremely versatile! How many singers can own Lady Macbeth or Medea and Amina the same way she did? How many singers can 'change' opera like she did? There may have 'better' voice, but no one will macth her in expression. And her life story is fascinating. A Cinderela fairytale that ended in tragedy!

  • @drewt3 So, putting it simple, she was a genius. A real genius! Some people may not love her (some even love to hate her), but you can't deny that. It's denying the obvious. One must know her work and impact to understand what Callas really was.

    Oh! And I really can't hear any 'off key' singing!

  • C'est magnifique. Une voix de diamant! Comme j'aimerais pouvoir chanter comme elle le fait! j'y mettrais tout mon être si un maître m'enseignait l'art de l'opéra.

  • Ich liebe Maria Callas. Ich liebe diese Stimme. Einfach Göttlich

  • Just amazing! Maria Callas is one of the best singers ever.

  • Χριστέ μου, γιατί δεν έζησα εκείνη την εποχή να μπορώ να την ακούσω έστω και μία φορά ζωντανά;

  • PRICELESS Killing View of a DIVA 2:19 she looks back to those idiots behind her and swears to kill every single one after the concert. 5:20 the poor little girl can't even be happy because the worst choir just ruined one of her best performances. Whenever something goes wrong in my life I watch that video and I am happy again.

  • ho imparato ad amarla, da mia sorella Silvana, ...e una delle poche cose di bello che mi habbia mai regalato.

  • beautiful... just love her

  • ΘΕΑ.-

    

  • Brava! unica, tocchi il cuore...se il coro sbaglia l'attacco, non importa...

  • Nossa !!! Que Voz Maravilhosa !!!!!!

  • 35 bakalas han visto este vídeo

  • Meine lieblings Opersängerin. Das beste was die Welt bis jetzt gebracht hat. Schade -ich war noch nicht geboren damit ich sie live hören hätte können und viel zu alt, um eine neue Callas zu erleben. So bleiben uns nur die paar Videos und natürlich die vielen CD von ihr. Ich liebe ihre Stimme.

  • So....unspeakably Beautiful!!

    

  • at work listening to this during a stressfull day! this is my medicine to relax again.... oh my how i love her voice.

  • now this is real talent, no need to wear a meat costume

  • @carey579 What is a meat costume? :)

  • @NJE100 it is a reference to lady gaga! google up "lady gaga in a meat costume" and you will understand what the reference is addressing! =)

  • Da vontade de chorar de tão lindo...

  • Un momento di eternità. Grazie

  • absolutely unsurpassed

  • She's the perfect model of woman: A classical artist with class, elegant, refined. All of that, and still so natural and without pretensions. I admire her infinitely.

  • magnifica´ 

  • la maestosità! l'apice della musica, la vera musica..

  • erythraii: Who the hell is Justin Bieber??

  • A real "gate" to the Grate Music, by a real Diva!

  • Every time I hear her emote/sing this I fall to pieces the ultimate Norma

  • In the name of God, why isn't this known like Justin Bieber is? This is the TRULY MUSIC y'all!

  • This is simply amazing. I cannot lie - I cried watching this. Long live good music!

  • I love Callas and this is one of my favorite videos, but just wondering .. did Callas have a small head or was she about 7 feet tall... anybody else notice how tall she seems in the full body shots, almost as if on stilts?

  • @dickhawaiikai well she was 5'10 and with those 5 inche heigh shoes and her hair maybe 6'8

  • @dickhawaiikai In this time of her life Callas was anorexic with vomiting periods, that's the reason she looks too thin and her head looks too big. She was 1.67 mts tall (5.6 feet)

  • She is unique and eternal!!!

  • STUPENDA

  • Fantastico!

  • una donna che a sofferto tanto e a dato tutto x la musica

  • no entiendo a esos 35. Esto es belleza pura. Un regalo para los oidos.

  • bloody perfect

    

  • non me ne voglia nessuno....ma non riesco ad ascoltare altre Casta Diva....amazing *.*

  • Espectacular !!!!!!!

  •  preciosa

  • ¡¡Bravissimo!!

  • GREECE RULES,,,,,,

    

  • @mrmiloupas76 WHAT do they rule?

  • @flemingcourt read history and the contributions of greeks in any aspect of science and culture and then come back again... ok?

  • bravo!

  • one of my fav song!!!!i listen all the time..

  • beautiful voice!

  • sin palabras... speachless.....

    admiro profundamente a Maria Callas... I admire Maria Callas deeply..

    esta demostracion de pena... es increible!.... this pain demostration is awesone!

    she became a mithycal singer.... just like a goddess... and her voice is a gift of God....

    @lovingee1....GO TO STUDY MUSIC BEFORE SPEAKING ABOUT HER TALENT, AND TECHNICQUE.....

    HER VOICE WAS A PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE THE GREAT HONOR OF LISTEN UPTO THIS DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!... THANKS MARIA!

  • condivido.... benvenuti i Paradiso!

  • The timbre, coloring, feelings, a pain, are inexpressible!!! And it could, could give the feelings overflowing it!!!)) such more never will be, It is a pity (But I remember you!)

  • Benvenuti in paradiso!

  • Che Poesia...Poesia pura!

  • Give me MARIA GULEGHINI as NORMA any day and every day of the week!

    Barbara Todres/NYC

  • Give me MARIA GULEGHINI as NORMA any day and every day of the week!

  • SPEECHLESS ~ THERE IS NO, NO - NO POSSIBLY WAY OF EXPRESSING THIS ... 'CONNECTION'???

  • Ἡ θεά μου.

  • As a PUBLIC FIGURE Callas remains, she is OPEN to ANY and ALL praise as well as criticism or she would not qualify to be an Opera singer in the public arena. It is all part of the game!

  • She is GORGEOUS, wonderful dramatic actress - loved her in Madama Butterfly and disliked her voice in every other performance and the WORSE Norma I ever heard . I agree with the 33 dislikes which is my right as it is all others and how fortunate that we all have the entitlement to Opinion and to express ourselves as to how we feel. Music and Art are 100% subjective to the INDIVIDUAL and noone has the right to tell others how to feel and what to and what not to express on this website.

  • @lovingee1 Oh yeah? I'm quite the opposite actually. I believe that her Norma (especially the '55 one with Ebe Stignani) is just beyond all others' performances. (My own private sacrilege: I think Sutherland is the worst Norma!) Every soprano I hear I measure by the standard with which Callas raised. However, I do know she's ONE OF THE BEST, but not overwhelmingly so. Besides from Sutherland, there is also Edda Moser, & Sumi Jo who are right up there with Callas in talent.

  • @Rhopoe agree with you, Callas is amazing, more of a goddess than a singer eh? :)

  • But a terrible performance of the choir!

  • what is the second song that she sings in this video?....after castadiva?..i have been trying to find it..its kindda intense

  • @xxleoxkaufmanxx

    It's simply the continuation of the "aria". Look at the (italian) lyrics.

    The second part, which you asked info, starts with:

    "Fine al rito. E il sacro bosco

    sia disgombro dai profani."

    Ciao!

  • Lo hace como si fuera tan facil!!!!! fantastico!

  • @philiaulcopt Se supone que así debe ser, natural, llevando los mecanismos naturales del habla al canto y no tratando de cantar. SE SUPONE, pero la mayoría de los cantantes solo cantan pues hahaha.

  • The real 'Diva '...divissima ...! And those diamonds...so large and sparkling underline very well her being...diva !

  • There is a steel underlying that voice that could only come from inside Callas herself. She is compelling! Take each note and analyze it and the notes are not that good, but put hem together and it is perfection!

  • The testimony to how phenomenal Maria Callas was can also be seen by the way the Chorus behind her is totally mesmerized by her! So much so that they come in completely late! Leaving Callas to signal her own entry again with a strong downbeat and a glance backwards to display her disapproval at their tardiness...But I don't think she even thought for one second that the poor Chorus Members were completely under her spell and forgot themselves totally! The magic of Callas!

  • aaah, the beauty

  • excelente!

  • D'une beauté formidable, elle est toujour unique, la voix , sa voix, vraiemont une merveille, merci à vous grande dame, Maria Callas

  • Falem oq quizer, mas ninguem pode negar que esta mulher era suprema em sua arte!!

  • Une desse !! Bravo !! Merci !!

    

  • La voz de Maria Callas es el instrumento musical más bello que jamás oí. The voice of Maria Callas is the most beautiful musical instrument I´ve ever heard.

  • @EzequielAudiofilo You're quite right, Maria Callas è di gran lunga la voce più impressionante che abbia mai sentito!

  • Damn! at 1:24 Maria cracked my monitor! I love her!

  • @Rhopoe LMAO!! If you're REALLY a cute 27 year old GIRL, the only one that will be jerking me off is YOU, on the 11th floor of the Hyatt, as I'm about to penetrate that smelly gash of yours, and traumatize your vaginal tract with steam-driven piston-like, pelvic thrusts.

  • @Rhopoe Describe your face and body in detail. How big are your juggs? Are they perky? Do they have any hairs growing out of the areolas? Do they have any stretch marks? Do they sag? Is your stomach flat? Is your butt, firm and nicely rounded, or do you have a humungus WIDE-GLIDE?? I don't think I'm 'gonna entertain thoughts about bangin' you, until you give an accurate, concise description of your physical self. I know your mind is mush, that I know.

  • @Rhopoe Hey, I just want to make one thing clear. I don't hate you 'cause you're a militant lesbian activist, I hate you 'cause you're you!!!!

  • @Rhopoe Hey, aren't you working the fryalator tonight at Mickey D's????

  • @Rhopoe I never threatened to kill or rape you. However, if you are a cute 27 year old GIRL, being the bitch-on-wheels that you are, I must admit I would find that sexually abusing you without legal recourse, would be quite exciting.

  • Remember Pussey Le Vant, that there is no substitute for brute strength in nature. The most powerful buck does all the breeding. So, if you are in fact a 27 year old, cute GIRL with a Phd, as you claimed, then it is only fair that I have the right to mount you, as you have repeatedly challenged my masculinity, here on Youtube, in front of my many fans. I am the World Defender of Maria Callas, and although I do use some rather spicy language, I am secretly loved by millions. Your ass is grass!!!

  • This woman could stand still and not sing at all, and I would still buy the DVD. What a magnificent creature

  • @flicfan416 Luckily, not only is Maria Callas Live in Paris 1958 available on DVD, but on CD as well! We're very lucky!

  • Well, you accomplished what you set out to do, you ugly fucking demon. That was to taint Callas' video, you fucking pig.

  • @hammer55292 Give it up, dear. I'm wittier than you. Smarter. Better at spelling, and grammar. Except perhaps in brute strength, just like any old dastardly ape, I wouldn't put brutishness past you. No wonder you're only qualified to mow lawns– perhaps only in the Midwest too. Ah! I'm being snobbish. Give it up. You'll never win over me. I'm just a better human being. While you're, well, sub-human. Anomalous. An insolent little shit.

  • @Rhopoe Rope Hole, what time does your shift start at Mickey D's???? Will you be on the fryalator tonight??

  • @Rhopoe Hey piglet scum, how's your PHd working out? It doesn't seem as though you have a job, you LOOOOOSER!!! LMAO!!! Eat my hot, steaming shit, you suck-ball!!! LMAO!!! It must suck to be you, no job, probably no life, and UGLY!!!!

  • Are you a Filaredo?? Wow, there's no limit to your cock-sucking is there??

  • I'll be back tomorrow, to continue beating you like a rented mule, you street-whore.

  • @Rhopoe Hey, how's your PHD working out at Dunkin's on the late-night shift!!! LMAO!! A freakin' pHD up at 2:30 AM!! LMAO!! Are you on unemployment, food stamps, or both??? LMAO!! Put a big L on your forehead...LOOOOSER!!!

  • @hammer55292 Dunkin's? There's no Dunkin's where I am. LOL! See, you are white trash the fact you know al about that. I'm in the West Coast dear, I don't think there's Dunkin's here at all. LOL! You're such an idiot. I do not fear you, but I'm "sing"-ing and "waivers." Clearly, you're too stupid to know what a waiver can consist of. I told you, if you finish high school first, you just might well be on your way to understanding some of the things I write. Let alone my doctoral dissertation. LOL!

  • @hammer55292 Sei un perdente totale. Brillante come sono, ho fallito, perché impegnati in questo rapporto con voi. Si potrebbe parlare molto di voi per ottenere finalmente qualcosa nella tua testa vuota installato e funzionante, ma ad un brillante, giovane donna dei miei piedi, non è niente di cui essere orgogliosi. Davvero, la cosa migliore per voi è quella di morire. Basta morire, mia cara. Ucciderti. Solo morire.

  • @Rhopoe Wow, what a dummy, you are!! I said you would have to sing a waiver, giving me the right to strike you, IF YOU WERE NOT AS YOU CLAIMED, a 27 year old cute GIRL with a PHD!! You dummy, I would never risk my wealth on a fuck-job, street fag like you. HA!HA!HA! All your foolish typing can not undo the fear you have for me. You will not confront me, why is that? You had everything to gain, unless you are a fraud!! Now faggot, go suck more dicks.

  • @Rhopoe What's the matter, smegma mouth, no job to go to??? LMAO!! Are you unemployed, broke? Do you suck cocks for a living? Where's your job? What was your PHD in? What are you doing up all night? Jobless? Oh, you're the sicko here, trust me, that's why you would not accept my challenges, you know I'm rich, powerful, and smart!! What was your PHD in?? Tell us. Be a man for once and stand up to me, accept my challenge, call me out, you ugly faggot-in-disguise. You're gutless, and a fag.

  • @hammer55292 "I'm rich, powerful, and smart!!" Oh dear Vera, you've written nothing that gives evidence to this. Rich? Mowing lawns for a living? I don't think so, Vera. Give it up. I'm up at midnight because I don't work 'til 10AM, & I can stay up as long as I want. And you? 2:00AM perhaps in your podunk town, what are you doing up? Shhh... You don't want to wake your mother up, now do you? My PhD like I said, is beyond you, I'm afraid, but if you must know, it's on Turgenev...

  • @Rhopoe I liked his " Sportsman's Sketches ", but I found his " Father's and Son's " a little bit unbelievable, and somewhat unrealistic, even considering the fictional basis of his work. I think his whole outlook changed when he left Moscow University and went to St. Petersburg. His personal conflicts with Tolstoy escalated in those ensuing years, mostly because he favored the European culture that he had experienced, as opposed to his Russian motherland.

  • @hammer55292 Now what did I tell you? Didn't we already establish that you're a loser? Everybody hates you. Not one comment against me. "I challenge you! I challenge you!" Listen to you! You're a fool. An idiot, & a fool! You're a paranoid-schizophrene with nothing but a dead-end lawnmowing job so as you can subsist hand-to-mouth. Your life is wasted– since the day your mother was cursed to give birth to you. Why don't you die, you lonely, overweight, old, delusional, sick, sad man?

  • @Rhopoe Hey, it's 2:16 AM, and you're arguing with a lawnmower on Youtube, and you say I'm lonely, overweight, old, delusional, and sad?? LMAO!! No, LMMFAO!!!!!

  • @hammer55292 It's 2:16 AM where you are in your podunk, white trash town... It's 11:45 PM here... What are you doing up at 2:16 AM?– Get to bed, you have lawns to mow bright & early tomorrow, you bum! Poor sucker you! Sucks not having an education, doesn't it? Which confirms what I've always believed about you: you ARE lonely, overweight, old, delusional, & sad. YES, YOU ARE. What?– Masturbating to more Toby Keith music videos? Get a life– unfortunately, life wants nothing to do with you.

  • @hammer55292 Am I the only one who knows how to spell around here? First there was that idiot hammer55292's "doosh-bag", & then there's "dushbag", & worst of all, "collared" greens? hammer55292, you're white trash, you're country corn pone poop pusher, you know what that is! Again, you've egregiously made clear your utter stupidity– did you just refer to Callas as "this monster"? I doubt she'd appreciate that.

  • @Rhopoe You're a cute, 27 year old girl, right? Does this mean I don't get to bang you on the eleventh floor of the Hyatt Regency ??

  • @hammer55292 I'll keep in touch with our little thread here. I find amusement watching others pop up of a sudden, make some disparaging remark about one of your installments, call you a douche bag, & you carry on about some "challenge" you want them to take on, & look like an even bigger village idiot WE already knew you are! Ahh... How pathetic can a person be?– Oh! There you are! LMMFAO!!!!!!