Maria Callas- Tosca, second Act part 4 (Torture Scene p2)

[CuteMcBeauty]

It's a REAL shame there is no recorded version of the final act.... I would KILL to see Callas's jump at the end, she was SOOOO intense!!! Is there a way to go back in time and see this play with Callas / Corelli???

[rufochka1]

maria callas = a true genius!!!!!!!!!!

[flbnice1]

electrifying! Tosca/Callas for EVER!

[CaptFitzbattleaxe]

Heartbreaking. And perfect.

[tavenio]

Se Puccini potesse parlare quale Divino commento farebbe a tale Magnifica interpretazione!

[MuscleDaddyCMH]

The best acting duo I ever saw in these roles. And notice how every gesture comes FROM the music and words, and their attention to rhythm. ....

[sicuro75]

To run around the way she does and still be able to retain a good breath control is very hard to do..

[zurriussII]

And, after this, who dares to say that can "make" Tosca???

Just HAVE A CAREFUL LOOK to EVERY SINGLE gesture, breath, expression and interpretation of music and movement of Callas and then look at yourself: how many percent of it you are able to do.

That's why Callas was all devoted to Opera, that's why she lived, that's why she died.

Greatest Diva!

[flicfan416]

The dichotomy between this woman's acting and everyone else is staggering. She IS Tosca

[bonanplu]

@flicfan416 : Maria Callas looked like an eared ogre.

Offends no more to Puccini with this cartoon witch!

[Lirico96]

BRAVI !!!!!

[Elgranbajo]

¡¡¡Bravo, Gobbi; qué maestro!!!

[TheBasilio]

Aunque la Callas sea aritmica, desafinada y mala actriz, no deja de asombrarme este valioso testimonio historico.

[ArchiducDeBelgrade]

THE DIVA!!!!!!!! THIS IS WHY IS SHE THE GREATEST SOPRANO, GREAT ACTING SKILL, DIVINE VOICE AND SUPREME BEAUTY!

[ancutzaa1]

@ArchiducDeBelgrade i totally agree! she can sing, act like noone else! and she's so good, that makes everyhting real! I really wanna crey every time I listen to this!

[operaman20]

PERFECT!!!

[ubedajils]

...y todas ellas ver este vídeo de rodillas... de rodillas para aprender lo que es cantar e interpretar como nadie nunca ha hcho.

[ubedajils]

Fijaos bien!! Cómo en esos momentos de máxima tensión cuando llega al Do saca no de la garganta, sino de sus entrañas las notas agudas y sobreaguda. La voz ya era una sombra hacia tiempo... pero cuantas darían todo porque esa sombra cayera sobre ellas.

[MarquisDePosa53]

Could you imagine Corelli or Del Monaco here?

It might be too much to take

[MastersoftheOpera]

I know! It would be a Hollywood movie version of Tosca from the Golden Age of singers like Callas, Corelli and Del Monaco. I love all those singers!!

[TreblesBasses]

This scene truly was delivered!

[jcpavarotti]

this is the best tosca of maria callas.

esta es la mejor tosca de maria callas

[VivaMariaCallas]

G*d, this is thrilling....

[gitana66]

w l italia !w la grecia!una faccia una razza!

[gitana66]

w l italia !w la grecia!una faccia una razza!

[TheSwimmingOne]

What is the name of the tenor who does Cavaradossi? And does anyone else find his acting * very* slightly ridiculous?

[AZOA909]

Renato Cioni

[Arashi110]

Yeah, but this was the thing with most of the Cavaradossi(s) in the 1950s-60s. Misciano in the 1960 film with Magda Olivero does practically the same.

[TheSwimmingOne]

You probably know more than I do...I'm not too knowlegeable about tenors :P

[SVENSKSOPRAN]

I am in awe. Tosca's "shouted" phrases are the most dangerous to the voice, apart from the tremendous and loud orchestration...but she really sacrificed her all to the greatness of the art.

[kamikazekate]

i feel sorry for people like mariaperrucha they really don't get pathos. Something that few artists can transmit.. Callas oozes it! No Voice??? Well if any of the ""BEAUTIES"" and ""DIVAS"" these days had half her ""NO VOICE"" we would be in a golden age! Instead we have to listen to brainless twits with no idea what pain is and no idea how to transmit it into their voices!! Artistry is about using everything! Make the angels cry maria!!!

[freezzertime]

Well said! Well said!

[MAPIAKALLAS]

la tibaldi needs to be menstion in every callas video so people can remember her now thats sad poor tebaldi and of course callas with a voice or not still maria callas the great prima donna thats all oh and viva Gobbi

[MiniDva]

Ew. Tebaldi

-throws up-

[Elisabetta611]

She was perfect in this production. Her acting is so amazing, esp. when compared to bores like Tebaldi who just stood around and sang and sometimes waved their arms.

No wonder Dame Judi Dench was so mesmerized by her.

[mariaperrucha]

Callas isn't out of her prime, Callas voice is shot, VOICELESS, No excuses

[Elisabetta611]

Voiceless? You try to sing this better! Ignorant idiot!

[mariaperrucha]

You are upset.Relax.

Callas is voiceless yes, her voice was gone since 1959/60

[mariaperrucha]

You should have mentioned Tebaldi because La Tebaldi was the greatest Tosca.Callas looks like Renata maid.

Callas looks coarse and grotesque and her overacting is very ridiculous

[Elisabetta611]

Tebaldi was a bore as Tosca. Her mannerisms (I.E. the wishwife sobbing in Act I) and her indifferent acting......no thanks. Give me Callas over that any day. Granted, they were both great sopranos (With Callas being great in Bel Canto and Tebaldi being great in Verismo), and Tebaldi has accepted Maria's greatness & vice versa. If only the "fans" were as smart!

[Anakinjan]

Good point!!!!

[Elisabetta611]

I "am her every day" and "lissen" to her videos every day? Excuse me, but could you please elaborate? And use proper English?

[DanBarthy]

Well, I said this about Mariaperrucha. Not you. And I Know that my Inglish isn`t good.

[Elisabetta611]

Oh, I|m sorry then. :-)

[petalouda1]

The only thing I can say is: "She was perfect"! There are no words to say something else...!

[canzonettasullaria]

A breathtaking realistic performance! Callas and Gobbi are indescribable. I wonder, if there will be any singers, who will ever reach them.

[mariaperrucha]

Pityful.

I hate to tell this but one can't avoid an outburst of laughter in front of such a bad taste of overacting , plus she is voiceless

[Elisabetta611]

Again, my dear mariaperrucha, you have no clue. This production by Zeffirelli has become the golden standard against which any Tosca production is measured. None has equalled it yet. Voiceless? Callas out of her prime had more of a voice and artistry than all the dull, brainless vanilla voices and chirpers put together.

[DanBarthy]

GREAT SINGER GREAT WOMAN!!!!

Many Operas with Maria Callas (Tosca, Norma, Medea, Anna Bolena, La Sonnambula...) are Better!!!

You are ignorant!!! Don´t know nothing about her art!!!

YOU Never lissen one complet opera with Maria Callas, La Divina!!! Just in Youtube!!!

Please...go way!!!

[monteaventinoo]

Callas was FULL OF FLAWS, WOBBLY high Cs, ugly SCREAMING voice, HORRENDOUS technique that cracked most of the time, let's not mention her MONOTONOUS high notes, unlike sutherland's ringing ones. hmmm let's see what else?

she LOST her e-flat in 1955, she produced bizarre sounds in many coloratura passages (example: the Ah! si in saprgi d'amaro that became hooo! si) and they call her la ¿divina?, and a ¿¿¿dramatic coloratura???.

[nicevidbro]

but she existed. and she was loved. and she is still loved. and im sure you did not achieve half of the things she achieved. but cwhat can you do about it? just complaining.

[DanBarthy]

From The New York Times, the Washington Post, Opera News, Time The New Yorker and score of other publications, there sounded the same celebatory note about interpretion of Maria Callas in 1965...

*"Miss Callas entered, and all things came to a halt..."

*"A Gasp went through the audience."

*"Her conception of the role was electrial."

[DanBarthy]

Critics About Maria Callas in 1965:

*"Anyone, admirer or not, must admit that she has earned the right to stand at the top of a pyramid, with a total production: scenery, direction, conductor and cast- designed upwards is a consistent structure."

*"If she did not care to sing a note, she would still rank among yhe geuine dramatic interpreters of our time."

[DanBarthy]

Importants critics said about Maria Callas as Tosca in 1965:

*"She was an electrifying figure on the stage, youthful, sensitive, beautiful to contemplate- and she lived the role as no other singer within my memory..."

*"Miss Callas is a unique creature- already, in fact, a legend..."

[DanBarthy]

The importants papers (The New York, The Washington Post, Opera News and outhers) said:

*"Here we have woman who, like her or not, is the most important person singing in opera today. Her greatness is in her fierce and all-pervasive power to realize every dramatic nuance of a character and to recreate that realization through the overwhelming use of her body and voice."

[monteaventtino]

Read this review froma an ancient italian newspaper:

"In the nov 1956 Tosca 2nd act excerpts Telecast Callas is horrible too. Have you ever seen anything as horrible on stage as Maria Callas ? plus she never had voice for Tosca, when she has to do the "parlato" mouri ! she sounds like a 15 years old girl, a soprano leggero singing Tosca, a piece of shit.And how coarse her gestures and movements are ! she seems a butcherwoman.."

And she is screaming & overacting too.

[diuscorvus]

This is sooo amazing. She's completely alive and makes you forget that this was 1964 and her voice had been going downhill for nearly a deacde. Next to her, all other Toscas are like sailboats. Look at her face after she tells Scarpia! The way she matches voice to expression! Amazing...

[MAPIAKALLAS]

and you are crazy and you dont know what you are talking about and finally you dont know what art is... thank you thats all...

[MAPIAKALLAS]

this is my favorite part of the second act of Tosca the fight with scarpia and tosca just look at callas face she is Tosca its wonderful she still give shrivers after more then 40 years of this video yes even tho her voice was not 100% but them look at her and Tito is wonderful just out of this world

[samuraitaliano77]

Brava, María! Bravo, Tito! Bravo, Renato! Bravi a tutti!!!! Quell'e cantare!!

[canzonettasullaria]

who was the tenor in this performance? i thaught, it was richard tucker.

[Elisabetta611]

A goddess.....

[bisigato]

A close friend of old lady Zeffirelli told that in that year, 1964, Maria was offered to play a role in The Addams family, she nearly signed but she finally found her best grand guignol witch role in this production

[poupounakis]

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[martafloria]

Wonderful!!How can they compare angela G. Her interpretation is completely diferent!!Worse of course!!

[csmjr91090]

Even though she is not in the best voice, she still sends shivers down my spine, just like the 1953 studio recording did. Maria is simply just amazing! Tito Gobbi again shows why he is the ultimate Scarpia with his superb acting. Renato Cioni provides a very good Cavaradossi.