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  • best rendition hands down. she is aggressive, but musical about this its ridiculous. the way she takes her chest voice so high at the end is amazing. she conveys maddelena's emotions so vividly i feel like I'm on something

  • gran dio!

  • vay be anasını sikmiş ortalığın

  • Excelsa!!!!! insuperable!!!!

  • She sings so carefully,so secure here, good timing all in place. I hate her so much, She introduced me to opera some years ago, and now I can't live without her. I can't even believe i'm puttin a comment. Sing great woman, Sing you will be remembered for generations to come.

  • the extra sensitivity brings its share of mishaps but also a great release sometimes ... I can cry while listening to this shining "song" , this voice ....

    (Sorry if my english is not really good)

  • Bizarre that John Ardoin described that high B as 'wobbly'.

  • AWESOME......AMAZING......BEAU­TIFUL...WONDERFUL........THE BEST.......CALLAS FOREVER.......BRAAAAAAAAAAAAVA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!­!!!

  • Questa canzone è stupenda....

    M soprattutto lei è BRAVISSIMA!!!

  • 21 persone sotto effetto di droghe molto pesanti ...

    Callas, tu con la tua voce fai della terra un Cielo!

  • 55 seems to have been a good year vocally for Callas

  • Ogni volta che ascolto Maria "La mammamorta" le lacrime......Grazie Maria

  • AMAZING... SHE IS THE BEST!!! 

  • PHILADELPHIA!!!!

  • FUÉ LA PRIMERA Y ÚLTIMA VEZ QUE CANTÓ ANDREA CHENIER, NO SE ESCONTRABA A GUSTO EN EL PAPEL DE MADDALENA.

  • MUCHO MEJOR RENATA TEBALDI, LA MÁS GRANDE MADDALENA QUE HA EXISTIDO, PERO MARIA CONSIDERANDO QUE ERA LA PRIMERA VEZ  QUE LA CANTABA, ESTÁ EXTRAORDINARIA, PIENSO QUE EN DIRECTO ES LA MEJOR ANDREA CHENIER QUEM HAY, PORQUE MARIO DEL MONACO SE SALIÓ ESA NOCHE.. ES EL MEJOR CHENIER DE LA HISTORIA, GIORDANO LE LLAMÓ " SU CHENIER".

  • "Heaven is in your eyes"! Beautiful!

  • 4:48 This is from God.

  • E la sola che mi fa ancora piangere tutte le lagrime del corpo quando canta quest'aria................. Bravissima Maria mia.

  • Non posso ascoltarla senza piangere. Mi ricordo insieme mia mamma e mia dea Maria...bravissima Maria.

  • Μαρία Κάλλας

  • Grazie Maria:)

  • Yes, the best !

    Thanks

  • the best

  • Maral343! I agree with every word you said and believe me that such animal Onassis is surely being rotten again and again in the Hell!

  • No one does this aria like Callas.

  • I just was in Andre Chenier at the lake-stage Lake of Constance in Bregenz. I didn't know that this aria belongs to this opera, but I knew it just in time when she began to sing. It was a great experience. Great aria beautiful

  • Mai più nessuno come LEI.CALLAS FOREVER

  • There simply is NO better performance of this aria. This is absolutely riveting - vocally, stylistically, and dramatically. BRAVA CALLAS.

  • Goose bumps.....................

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  • Callas is the only singer capable of turning this poorly written and rather vulgar aria into a mesmerizing piece of musical drama.

  • MAΡΙΑ Η ΦΩΝΗ ΣΟΥ ΜΕ ΤΑΞΙΔΕΥΕΙ !!!!!!

  • LA DIVINA!!!!AMAZING!!!

  • mammamia <3

  • Perfection !

  • And to all the morons who claim they know something about music and technique and have the audacity to write such hateful and profane nonsense about the only real opera diva who ever electrified audiences, they only one known outside of the opera arena, when was the last time you sang at La Scala, or even the county fair for that matter? Get a life and tend to your own illiteracy and "Egyptian" problems. You can always listen to a recording of "Lucia" from Dame Mushmouth, but Callas is OPERA.

  • I have this live performance as well as this aria from a recital disc the year before. This version is more electric and a bit broader in scale as she tended to "sing out" on stage and keep things a bit more restrained in the studio. She was, as Tito Gobbi once said, a legend by 25 based on what she was doing vocally and quickly became immortal. He told her once "You'll be the only one they talk about 100 years from now." Isn't it the truth?

  • It is amazing to me how many people here haven't the brains not to listen to something they don't like. The commentary appears to have been written by a grade school child who never learned how to write or spell correctly. Maria Callas had a rock solid bel canto education. She attended the two finest schools of opera in all of Greece; her technique was perfect, her voice different. What she lacked was a full understanding of how to care for her instrument. She was an incredible musician.

  • OH, my GOD!!!!! This is WONDERFUL!!!

  • DIOS MÍO,COMO ADORO TU VOZ,COMO TOCA CADA UNA DE LAS CUERDAS DE MI CORAZÓN! BRAVA,BRAVISIMA!!!!!!!!!

  • E' la più grande che sia esistita.

  • hayyy maria callas por que no tuve el agrado de aver nacido en tu epoca de esplendor y verte actuar en vida la verdad me haces sentir al oirte cantar las emociones mas fuertes y maravillosas te adoroo siempre lo hare nicolas roda

  • Someone has 'looped' some fake applause in just at the end of the aria, my vinyl record of this performance is quite different from the one played here. Why? I wonder who did this?

  • @Buondelmonte123 It's not fake. This is a live recording as opposed to the studio recording of only this aria. A full performance of Andrea Chenier with her as Maddalena exists.

  • @Elisabetta611 Yes, I have the Verona issue and several other cds of the live performance at La Scala, but there has been some doctoring of the tapes. My MRF vinyl records are quite different, no distortion of any sort. I still think someone has 'doctored' the recording. If you have Jellinek's book, "Callas, Portrait of a Prima Donna" you will see why.

  • @Buondelmonte123 I havethe emi's and it is also a fake applause!!Could you upload the original??

  • @MariaCallasLegend I don't have the skills I'm afraid to upload, it means getting the vinyl transferred to a cd and where I live that's almost impossible. On the vinyls, and I have heard two different vinyl editions the sound remains the same, its clearly a live recording, recorded all at one level. EMI has done some nob-twiddling and brought Callas' voice 'up' louder, and then dubbed applause in for the end of the aria. To me, that is dishonest, a live document should stay 'live.'

  • @Buondelmonte123 Thank you my friend ....I agree with you!Keep the ORIGINALS as much more as you can!!!

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  • I would die to be able to watch and listen to this live at the theatre !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Fortunately her recording are so real, you do not have to see her, everything is in her voice!!! Absolutely unique! I loove many other singers and am able to enjoy and listen to many others, but always when I listen to Maria`s recordings, I realize she was a phenomenon and we will never listen or watch something like this again. Thank you Maria thousand times and rest in peace on heaven.

  • @jirizika1962 Yes, that is a suitable term for Callas- PHENOMENAL. At her best, before the poor girl suffered a a filthy betrayal by Onassis, she was so great that the world's experts say that no soprano can be compared to Callas, it is not fair to them, Callas is unreachable. Yes, Supersoprano Sfogato Assoluta, Phenom La Divina Callas.

  • I have a bunch of MP3 files of opera arias. For sopranos, they're classified into two categories -- Maria Callas and all the others.

  • @JLFAN2009 Are there any others!!!! LOL! For me there is Callas, and no one else.

  • truelly amazing talent and grace,one truelly talented singer

  • MAGNIFICA!

  • @Elisabetha611 haha, your so right! :D

    and hammer, your not really offending anyone. you just sound moronic. shoo.

  • @wearepastulio Shut up.

  • @hammer55292

    hahhahahaaaaaaaaaa .... loser

  • @ShemaleSow55292 Lick your Whore-Mother's ass, Cletus!!

  • @vahisern Copy the great Hammer!! Yes, I am great, smart, and funny. Copying me, proves it!! LMAO!!

  • @vahisern Wash your MOTHER'S ass with bleach, to kill the smell.

  • @Elisabetha611 The great Callas fans of the world will " SPAM " you bastards to death!!!! SPAM DEATH to all FILAREDOS!!!

  • @Neanderthalgirl Yes, we " SPAM ' you to death, you fucking bastard-son of a prostitute.

  • @Neanderthalgirl You dirty CALLAS-HATERS are being SPAMMED to death!!!! SPAM DEATH to you bastards!!

  • WHOA, hammer thats a bit much. lets leave the comments about maria callas and how everyone on the planet should adore her voice.

    p.s- get some anger management therapy.

  • @wearepastulio

    Hammer isn't treatable ... he is the showpiece in his nuthouse!! ;-))

  • @Elisabetha, Your MOTHER is DEMON WOMAN of Bavaria!! Please kill her!!

  • La grandeur d'une artiste et sa capacité à impliquer son auditoire:Brava!

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  • Magnificent!!!!

  • Leave Her Alone,I Don't understand opera becuz i sing a completely different genre Singing Is Hard, I Think She Sounds Great.

  • You know, as much as I love her studio recording of this aria, hearing this live performance for the first time literally gave me chills. It was a revelation.

  • Eres un monstro divino Maria Callas con que pasion canta esta aria Heroica refleja todas las penas de la pequena Aristocrata en 5 minutos con una pasion de sentimientos brava brava

  • MARIA CALLAS is ONE AND ONLY ; she is the DIVA no one has ever matched with her talent . simply NO ONE . She is a great performer -artist - everything .. but shame on Onassis whoc aused her untimely death !

  • @Maral343 u'r rite!

  • @Maral343 I agree with your assesssment of Maria's talent-the best who ever lived? Every note filled with passion, heart, soul! However, not shame on Onassis, shame on Maria. Everyone is responsible for their own life and she let it happen . By the way, she was a married woman during the entire affair- no saint. Everyone is ultimately responsible for their own actions, their own lives! A Psychologist

  • @markbob120 Why don't you die, you demon.

  • @markbob120

    Over 20 years working and living opera and from 1949 to1959, we can listen with what kind of "standart". Suddenly she decided to be happy outside a theatre (where she had made others happy), when her voice had started to decay. It was a pity Onassis was just a jerk, but she definitely deserved a chance to fall in love and be sexually happy. She had done enough!

  • @LazarNewDeal You are mixing apples and oranges. Her talent was magnificent her morals disgusting. She was a married woman who cheated on her husbann for years. She deserved to be happy you say? She took marriage vows you idiot. No excuses for infidelity.You have the morals of a dog in heat.

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  • @markbob120

    Sorry... I though I was talking to a normal person and not a childish, imature and fanatic one.

  • @LazarNewDeal I am a fanatic and childish because I believe in fidelity. That makes a great deal of sense. You are a lost soul who apparently does not believe in the sancity of marriage. If you are married I feel sorry for your spouse.

  • @Maral343 LEYLA GENCER IS ONE & ONLY TOO :-)

  • Wow... for me it's not just about her voice being technically perfect or not, or being her voice beautiful or not, it's about all the emotions this woman transmitted in each of her performances... she is like acting just with her voice alone.... Thanks for sharing

  • Does anyone know when and where this is from? This is staggering!

  • @rad10024

    From a full live recording from La Scala. You can buy it. ;)))

  • @rad10024 She only sang the role once and I think it was La Scala in 1957.

  • @rad10024 Live from La Scala, 8 January 1955, with Mario del Monaco and Aldo Protti, Votto conducting. It is available on Amazon et al. Highly recommended, despite the mediocre sound quality the dramatic excitement is overwhelming, the final duet tremendous in passion and glory. This is one of the two definitive recordings of ANDREA CHENIER to have, the other is the, also superb, 1957 Decca studio recording with Tebaldi (in a state of grace), del Monaco and Bastianini under Gavazenni.

  • La Davina and no less....

  • La divina non si smentisce mai.

  • Pura pasión!! , this is the most powerfull Bflat registrered live ever...

  • @gandor1337 Human shit, in your mouth. 

  • @hammer55292

    I get you up .. you sow!

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  • @ferricskin Thank you. I think opera's not only singing perfectly (I do not agree with you when you talk about "mediocre voice colorless, shallow, lax, limply without emotion", "sounds like a bagpipe". Definitely we're not listening the same voice and I don't know why do you say your opinion is an universal truth. Wrong, friend! You forgot, I guess, the sense of "everybody" and you reduce it to your opinion.) Obviously, opera stage is also acting. And this is a live record from stage.

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  • excelente!!! mi favorita!!!

  • this is truly what opera, music, is.

  • This is definitely HER ARIA!

  • Cette voix ! Et quelle voix ! Tout y transparaît, tout ce qui fait que l'humanité existe,on y trouve tout le spectre des sentiments, il faudrait avoir un coeur de pierre pour ne pas être toucher par les accents inimitables de ce timbre unique......!!!!!!

  • nessuna può più cantarla

  • Singing with talent, heart and soul giving all to outside whats inside.

  • maria,un'angelo!

  • Bravísima María!!! Tu arte enorme no parece de este mundo.

  • Tout simplement immortelle !!! interprétation d'une intensité jamais atteinte par la suite!!!!

    CALLAS FOR EVER!!!!!!!!!

  • This lady was so beautiful, her voice powerful and enchanting.

  • La Divina!!! The best, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

    We love you Maria.

  • im heretosexual and i like gays, and lesbians, and i support gay marriage as well.

    why u have problems with gays?

    have u ever hung out with a gay? OMG, they are amazing, i laugh till i tear.

    Im also Greek and she was a Greek, the Greek blood doesn't die no matter what.

    Psychologicaly your behaviour indicates some obsession, u hung out here in Maria Callas videos, u have hate, so, u need help to stop that.

  • @charisaob

    I don't hate gays, you don't understand my comment. Gays are just as good as heterosexuals. But I know, that Callas Fans are maudlin and pretty dumb and it's a great pleasure for me to PLAY with you!!! :-))))))))

    Don't answer ........ you cannot win this game.... LOL!!!!

  • @charisaob

    Yes, she was greek by blood but never a greek. Can you show me her greek citizenship? It doesn't exist.

    But everybody can see, that she was a greek. Greek women are all ugly, with a hooked nose and hairy like an ape.

  • @belmanotre well yes she had a greek citizenship by 1959 she talks about it on a interview were she shows proud yes so check your info thats all

  • @MAPIAKALLAS

    Thanks for information!

  • BRAVO!

  • wow, she is like no other singer, i mean, imagine being there hearing this live, her live, her expressions, her passion, everything, the woman was amazing.

    Love Maria Callas

  • @charisaob

    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 and sounds like a random Egyptian singer because of the way she acts and looks.

  • @charisaob

    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 ugly and most ungraceful swine queen who, happened to have the record on cancellations and not ended performances.

  • @belmanotre u know, lately people with evolution try to say that our behaviour is because of genes, u cheat, u have the unfaithfull gene, you are a killer you have the killer gene, personaly i think it is bull, and people should give more attention to Psychology, please go and see a psychologist, u will het help for your hate whatever reasons, it is not a bad thing , it is a good thing to seek for help, it can make our lives much better.

  • @charisaob

    Why you're soo aggro? Why you don't turn a blind eye on me?

    I write MY truth about Maria. It's my opinion but why Callas-freaks are grievously offended?

    I think, you and all other silly Callas fans are self-opinionated and mostly women, lesbians like Elisabetta, gays or maudlin sissies from Greece, Italy, Spain and America.

    Callas was American and after her wedding she was Italian but never a greek...... deal with it!!!

  • @belmanotre did u say gays and other things to insult me?

    lol, i love gays, and im Greek, u don;t insult me with that, i just found it funny!

  • @belmanotre Lol saying its your truth does make it true.

  • @charisaob

    BTW, for my poor soul you need a team of psychiatrists .... not only ONE psychologist!!!!

  • @belmanotre ok, i will keep it in mind, thanks!

    i don;t have a problem with you, but in every Maria Callas video i see , u are there and u are very insulting for a person who is dead and i found it little bit rediculus.

    U need to cool down, someone who doens;t likes something don't hung around in things he hates, why a dead person bothers you so much?

    i don;t like many opera singers, some of them i cannot stand, i don;t go and write hateful things, i just ignore they sing!

  • @charisaob

    You've got me wrong. I don't hate Callas, I like Callas in many arias and operas. But it's so funny if the freaks on YT to be upset about "my truth".

    You're all pretty stupid but I have my fun!!

  • @belmanotre

    The best strategy to people like me is:

    DISREGARDING .......... take no notice!

    But the Callas-freaks answer, answer, answer..........LOL!!!

  • @belmanotre hahahah you are crazy but thanks for posting your msg you make our Diva better from hate to love there is one step ;-)

  • No one like her to sing this! No one!

  • She was so thin. It saddens me.

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  • @Speedoz, in all the things u said i agree but: I have herd Dessay and Larmore in Flower Duet, and they almost sounded the same, im saying this example, to say that Maria Callas whatever she will sing, I know it is Maria Callas, her voice it is not ungly, either delicate like the two above, in which they sound like angels, but Callas voice is special, and for me is unique color and has beauty. :)

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  • Find something to fill-in the empty space between your shoulders. You're a complete and utter moron, and know absolutely nothing about singing.

  • Again, you know nothing. I'm surprised you can put one foot in front of the other and manage to walk. How sad you that you couldn't manage to think of a more creative response, other than to repeat what I wrote. Hence, you remain a moron.

  • Why because he criticized callas's ugly voice? Growing up in a family of opera professionals, believe me, I know, maria callas has a very undeveloped voice. Every respected critic has said this. So why doesn't he know anything about singing?

  • @psycedeliccorn

    No critic worth his salt or credentials ever called her voice "undeveloped". While it was not classically beautiful, it was anything but undeveloped. Her musicianship is unmatched.

  • @Elisabetta611 Ummm do you know why it wasn't classically beautiful? Because she never learned proper technique, ergo undeveloped!

  • @psycedeliccorn

    Actually no, dearie. A voice's timbre has nothing to do with technique. Her technique was amazing. Just read what Walter Legge had to say about it. She was a perfectionist, trained by a legendary soprano. (Elvira de Hidalgo) Do your homework, dearie!

  • @Elisabetta611

    ummmm....dearie? how bout u stop talking out of your ass and get a degree in music (like i currently am), take a few opera courses, and learn a thing or two! My grandmother (who was a far superior soprano to scream-the-high-notes-callas) and her colleagues all had nothing good to say about Callas! In fact, read any respectable critic of the time and tell me how much they love callas!