Maria Callas, Tacea la notte placida

[mmmmmmmmmmmmmm112232]

non sono un appassionato e nonostante la mia età la conoscevo solo per nome e per fama e per quei gossip del c.... che non valgono niente,oggi a tanti anni dalla sua morte ascoltando con un eccellente hi fi ho apprezzato tutto il suo incredibile talento e mi sono anche commosso! sono un fan ...in ritardo comunque grazie per quello che hai lasciato



[kgarmaker123]

Callas and Elizabeth Schwartzkopf were close friends, and Walter Legge( Elizabeth's husband was her producer of recordings).. It is my opinion that Callas did seek, vocal advice from Schwartzkopf when her voice ran into issues... If you listen carefully to some of Schwartzkopf's recordings of italian roles ... the funky vowels are very evident in her singing too.

[liedersanger1]

@kgarmaker123  "Funky vowels" --exactly! True of both of them.

[Lirico96]

Una dea

[alika19]

ke leggerezza.....ke emozione......ke voce. . . 

[Orfeus80]

distorting the vowels here, her earlier recordings are much clearer

[Kendayvo]

Dio, che voce!!!! Ha ragione Illaka: nessuna mai...

[MAPIAKALLAS]

brava Divine Monster brava

[rhapsodyaaa]

es cierto aqui la voz de la callas esta mas oscura y ancho de lo normal

[h0h1h2h3h4]

so heavily she sings here.And the vocals are not clear all the time.mixed.All the same .diva.

[illaka]

nessuna mai come lei... nessuna!!

[callastoujours]

DIVINE!!!!!! BRAVA!!!!

[babydrane]

She was not a mezzo - and you do a great injustice to all the mezzos out there by calling her one. The timbre just isn't that heavy - at least when we're talking about mezzos. Her lower voice is also not as resonant as a mezzo's typically is - it's good but not that good.

[martinci24]

k voz muy buenos graves

[raigekimaru]

personally, I don't think she was a soprano at all. probably a mezzo.

[doremicde]

She started as a contralto/ mezzo, than she went up until to the hig e

[raigekimaru]

even with a high E, I'd still say mezzo (though she could certainly cross over in some roles like Gioconda and Tosca). many coloratura mezzos like Bartoli and DiDonato have wonderful notes above C6

reasons being

1) her passagios

2) her color (obviously)

3) her high notes often sound strained and uncomfortable

4) her low range sounds much better than her high range (listen to her Habanera and Suicidio and then listen to her Lucia and Elvira, you'll see what I mean)

PS: she still PWNs though ;P

[eradesso]

Make Bartoli sing Konstanze, Donna Anna, Lucia, Elvira, Violetta and then we'll see.

Bartoli crosses over to the soubrette repertoire which is typical of light mezzos.

Callas crossed over to the mezzo repertoire because it's typical of dramatic coloratura sopranos (Moser for example)

Plus hitting a one time high E is one thing, singing a full opera in the soprano tessitura is a different story.

Callas didn't pop many Es but her high Ds were huge, coloured and powerful.

[silvr94]

it's an E-flat

[doremicde]

Strange....she sounds better than she was in the 62

[distefano13069609]

i always liked callas' more mature voice, this is a great example! grazie maria...

[doremicde]

When did she recordered this?

[Shahrdad]

As always, Callas is fascinating, but for a great rendition of this from her, try and find her 1953 live La Scala recording. She's in her best and fullest "fat" voice. In the first part, her voice just opens up and pours forth like a flood. In the Cabaletta, it plays and dances on the coloratura as if it were a mere plaything. She's at least as good as she was in Mexico, but without the youthful accesses of her first assumption of this role

[MAPIAKALLAS]

what year did Callas recorded this aria

[Lichtenstein76]

Thank you very much for this.