Maria Callas: "Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce!" Lucia, Donizetti, Serafin, Firenze 1953

[salstiha]

ASSOLUTA!

[pedrofribeiro]

It's an astonishing performance. You can actually feel the craziness trough the voice. Her suffering is palpable. Such a mastery performance.

[Heloisasans]

She was really fantastic. Her voice is really something amazing!

[HeartsEyes]

Maria Callas surely knew her own share of going mad with love.

[Aurum777999]

fantastically!!!

[JoansGirlfriend]

such a special unique voice

[eilier]

Maria was Europe, Europe was Maria!!!

[abi64328]

maria callas best as anyone, I want to be like her that voice is really beautiful

[MsTeophila]

magnifique cette Grande Dame et ce vidéo!

[damenz]

you tube = the best of inventions

Maria Callas = definitive La Davina assoluta!

[jubah]

no one sings like her, this is the best lucia di lammemmoor on youtube...

[belcantismo]

@jubah I am totally agree with you! :-)

[Landhausneues]

Teleios :)

[belcantismo]

@Landhausneues ευχαριστίες :-)

[meditatedhammapada]

Surreal, spine tinglingly haunting interpretation.... I adore Maria!!

[mariadragoni]

Il timbro della Callas era come il suono di un clarinetto,un suono meraviglioso adatto quanto mai alla follia tragica di Lucia e difatti dopo aver ascoltato lei in questo ruolo non apprezzo nessun'altra anche perchè la Callas aveva il suono delle cantanti ottocentesche come la prima interprete di Lucia,come la Malibran o la Pasta,una voce drammatica ma con le agilità,molto diversa da una soprano coloratatura,lei cantava come si faceva all'epoca di Donizetti e questo è quanto,grazie del video

[belcantismo]

@mariadragoni Grazie a te, Maria di aver onorato con un tuo commento il mio umile omaggio alla Divina di ogni tempo.

[SiEtIn1]

@mariadragoni non credo che persona alcuna sappia come si cantava all'epoca di Donizetti, sopratutto perche non avevano modo di registrare, Lei come sa? lo chiedo perche anche io mi domando se a quella epoca si cantava come si canta oggi. Questo e soltanto il mio umile comento. E per favore Scusi il mio italiano

[HerrSpieldose]

Das ist einer der schönsten Lieder der Welt ....  vielen dank!

[sssmmm3]

Бесподобна. Никакие новые "звезды" пока до ее уровня не дотягивают. Каллас поет сердцем.

[gomongio]

I've heard many many many many interpretations of this aria and Callas is the only one who makes me feel the madness and despair of Lucia... her timbre, technique and diction, as well as her soul devoted to her interpretations, are beyond any 'nightingale-voiced soprano' to my heart and ears.

[RomaN48000hz]

I think its like a..( I may sound idiotic right now) like a simple stone which was polished into a diamond. He had very bad vocal conditions and made simply the best out. I think its more hard work than talent.

Dont get me wrong - I respect this art very much.

[belcantismo]

@RomaN48000hz Wunderbar, you find it all in this aria? Sorry, I don't agree at all. In 1953 the conditions of her voice are very close to her best of 1949/50 and no other singer in the history of belcanto could obtain so magnificient results only with hard work. Here there are talent, genius, voice, acting and of course a lot of hard work to manage all so huhe qualities in only one singer. The best of ever!

[babydrane]

@belcantismo belcantismo u r absolutely right. I thank God though for her schooling. This very approach to bel canto is, by all accounts, dead! Now we have bella voce.

The sound, the phrasing, the technique seems so alien whereas so many other persons trained in other ways produce other kinds of sounds which are sadly more common. No scooping or choppy passage work...just clean singing and dramatic, musical accentuation. I love this woman and thank u for posting the video.

[belcantismo]

@SkateNater To complete my opinion, I would remark that all the recordings from Callas was treated to magnify the presence of voice, letting in background the sound of orchestra. To give an example if you listen to Sutherland recordings, generally you can mark her voice is quite always in background mixed with ambient echoes and orchestra. I mean that if you put the voice under a magnifying glass it will possible to mark every weakness, even more the smallest one.

[belcantismo]

@SkateNater Sorry but I don't agree on 'terrible'. Coming from nightingale's voices somebody can name it original, different, strange. The definition of 'terrible' is unaccettable because that voice formed the complex of Maria Callas phenomenon and has special and original peculiarities. They joined with the wonderful acting are important to produce the uniqueness of the rainbow of emotion Maria Callas only was able to reproduce in definitve way for each one of her stunning interpretations.

[irinas04]

divina!

[tamyrlin1986]

Her technique sounds flawless to me, but I think her timbre isn't that great. ***This is a single opinion; not a statement of fact.***

[belcantismo]

@tamyrlin1986 "Her" timbre has been one of the most important peculiarity of the Maria Callas' phenomenon. I know that the personal taste is unquestionable but what I have just written is a statement of fact, not a simple or single opinion.

[Fairpavel]

30 years after her death Callas is still the best opera singer through her recordings.

[belcunto]

I am grateful for what you post. Thank you for posting. <3

[risan01]

if there are imperfections, still sounds like heaven

[marina6y]

She was and is one the greatest ever..she is..yes, IS, because such divas live on in music,..Greek afrodite. When she died , her ashes were spread at the Aegean ocean..Back to Poseidon and Afrodite.Beautiful..SE AGAPAME MARIA MAS! GIA PANDA!

[tazkorinthos]

geia sou re patrida.....:D

[ilianajezi]

i love maria callas

[JahPunKay]

Bravo...exilent piece. im glad to see that all of the people who know about this song dont only know about it because of the fifth element

[RKAS43]

@JahPunKay, I think it's a good thing that people who are otherwise not exposed to this kind of music are introduced to this song, even if it is through the fifth element...That's how I found it and I think it's brilliant!

[candacecromson]

A sound from Heaven.

[kgarmaker123]

This is beautiful. the sound of her middle voice is wonderfully round and full, well supported.

[cuttingquick]

While reeling from that amazing performance thinks that MrMaz, should he feel so moved, simply buy it. Thank you belcantismo for sharing this wonderful piece!

[slats22]

wow...and wow again !!!!!

[machjaghjollu]

Hummmmmm ! tanto tanto bella voce !

PER TE MIO AMORE !!!! baci dolci....

[TheMrMaz]

Can't you post the WHOLE THING...from 'Il dolce ...' straight through to the end of 'Spargi d'amaro...' please!!!!??It's SO like being castrated to have it just suddenly 'end' at 'any old part'!!!!It makes the whole point of the two arias/the whole scena (from 'Il dolce' to 'Spargi') a waste of time if they're split up...it IS afteral a STORY and she IS ACTING that story with her voice...so it's akin to ending 'Hamlet' after he says "alas poor Yorrick"!!!!InSANE!!

[belcantismo]

I'm sorry but YouTube have put a limitation of 10 minutes on video and audio posting.

[TheMrMaz]

Yeah...they SAY that but there are documentaries in here that are over two HOURS (see: 'The Falling Man')!!Please try at least...i'd LOVE to hear this all the way through to the end of 'Spargi...'...thank you!!!!XXXX!!

[belcantismo]

To post so long videos you must have a 'premium' account, paying them something for the service.

[Manos251987]

who says that a fragile woman should have a high pitching voice?

She is just the best and she is performing amazingly well

[TheMrMaz]

Lucia wasn't a "fragile woman"!!And when Callas sang THIS performance she was HUGE!!And anyway...beyond all of hat...the whole POINT of Callas is that she REESTABLISHED the CORRECT way that these roles (like Donizetti's 'Lucia') were MEANT to be sung...ie: with a voice with a 'great depth of tone'...a soprano sfogato singing the florid embellishments WITH that 'depth of tone' so making the embellishments MEAN something other than 'twittering like a bird' as singers had lapsed into doing!!

[yodavidnavarro]

Her voice is great but too heavy for the role of a fragile woman!

[belcantismo]

Are you sure?

[yodavidnavarro]

Is my opinion. I'd prefer a lighter voice. But Callas IS a force of nature!

[hermx0]

Hadn't she been a fragile woman, after all?

[sweetaztecangel69]

@yodavidnavarro just because you have a richer vocal texture doesnt mean you CANT play a fragile woman....in fact the best interpretations of fragile women are from sopranos with that richer texture because it conveys the emotion better :]

[campoobutt]

5th element was the first place i heard this song. Loved it ever since.

[egimelli]

Brava la Callas, ma bravo e molto anche il Maestro Serafin!

[Abernis]

¡qué pasada!

[callasmariacallas]

Il 'climax' creato in questa interpretazione trasporta in una dimensione eterea, a mezz'aria tra sogno e realtà. Eternamente Maria!

[zagot27]

diva!!! really she was a queen......

[SiChiamaMina]

Superba!