Maria Callas Talks

[Buondelmonte123]

I sometimes think she learned to speak English on another planet. But I love her.

[vabbana]

what does she says from 2:58 to 6:59?

pleeeeaaase!!!

[vabbana]

thank you...

scrivo in italiano, la mia lingua...è così toccante sentirle dire certe parole... "io sono un essere umano e nessuno si preoccupa del fatto che sono un essere umano..." ti spezza il cuore...se fosse stata lì...sono nata troppo tardi...

[ma34xl]

God how I wish she were still alive today.. those of us who never had a chance to see her in person treasure her very greatly.

Viva La Callas :'[ -3

[feveroo7]

background music from Tosca is just brilliant!

[CorinaTag]

I'm with you, JesusFan. I love this woman. She is, and she was, "The Diva"

[jradetzky]

so posh, so posh

[8bobthebuilder]

Callas: "What am I? Is she only a machine for singing? No! She's a human being...I need help too; life they say is `terrible' - of course life is terrible, if we make it that way!"

[Alexandrinio1995]

Which music is as a background i mean which part of opera?

[diuscorvus]

@Alexandrinio1995 it's from Tosca. I'm not sure what track exactly, but likely it's from just before Tosca kills Scarpia.

[feveroo7]

@diuscorvus is it??

[feveroo7]

very touching video..the background music is fabulous...!!!

[Adlih91]

in which year was this?

[MrCafiero]

@Adlih91 It is clips from all different years.

[argentin]

what 's is the accent of maria...

Rather american than english but where ? new-york, etc etc

thank you

[MrCafiero]

@argentin She grew up in NYC - Washington Heights I believe - and moved back to Greece at age 13.

[distefano13069609]

@argentin Mix of where she's been.... London, NYC...

[VisualGrower]

Im in shock...

[feveroo7]

Thanks for creating this unique video...so legendary...!

[riannagreece]

oh! thank you! I've only read this interviews , but never heard them. finally  i did.

[annajeehee]

Wish I met you at Juilliard when I was there

[annajeehee]

There will be no one like her until maybe in the next century

[AOG93]

Do you have the videos for some of these interviews? Because I saw many of them and want to know if the rest are also available as videos...

[ciociosan]

"because i am leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeaaving my god, use your mind a bit" hahahahahahahaha!

[Zva26]

She may have been the greatest operatic artist of the century, but she suffered from insecurities all her relatively short life. She was frightened, mistrustful of others, used poor judgement in becoming involved with Onasis, used equally poor judgement in the way she managed her great voice, and ended up falling into an abyss of pills, etc.

This greatest of all operatic artist was a figure out of a Greek tragedy. Yet she was/is still so loved and revered.

[CalifaJohn]

I find the comments here really revealing about opera fans. Rather than hearing WHAT she says, they are critiquing the mechanics of the voice. What Callas understood was communicating through music.

[SiEtIn1]

i could listen to her speaking for hours i love it

[JesusFan]

I cried. She was VERY REAL, and I understand her completely. Her singing was only an enhancement of her pain and her demand for understanding. She sang from her SOUL, and when she speaks... the universe needs to stand still.

She is a WOMAN, And If I wasn't born in '91, I would've DEFINATELY fought back at the press for her, she's worth it.

[JesusFan]

And I would've deffs wanted to be with her too!

[CorinaTag]

@JesusFan I'm with you, JesusFan. I love this woman. She is, and she was, "The Diva"

[JesusFan]

@CorinaTag Thank you! She is so strong to have forged ahead dispite the public scrutiny. Even when she knew she couldn't give "perfection" to the worlds' standards, she gave them 'option' and with that, her BEST.

[Qbendanny]

La Scala hated the fact they couldn't resist her talent. This Greek Woman coming to the Italian Basilica La Scala and showing what great singing truly is.

It must have hurt their exclusive singing pride.

[HellasItalia4]

Troppo Greca..........!!

[shaby3333]

i find really pathetic that the comments under this video are related to her "speaking voice"...

[velazquez2009]

these fragments should be put in persepctive. Her reaction on Norma 1958 etc. Callas was a very sensitive and private person, that is why she hated press and stupidity.

Wonderful Maria!

[tebaldicallas]

She sounds very american - loud voice.

It is not the most beautiful voice.

I do like her in some roles, but not everything. As per Richard Bonynge

the voice was not always beautiful sometimes very ugly.

[MrCafiero]

"American"? What kind of nonsense is that? Del Monaco was Italian and was as loud as they come. Nilsson was Swedish. And Tebaldi's voice was louder than Del Monaco by *HIS* own admittance.

Sometimes what you are singing about in opera isn't pretty like kittens in a basket. And Callas let the sound be ugly.

[tebaldicallas]

I was talking about the speaking voice, not the singing voice.

Merry Christmas.

[MrCafiero]

OK, but what does that have to do with being "American"?

[tebaldicallas]

Americans are known to be loud.

[MrCafiero]

ROFL! If you say so. I have never head that from anyone in my life.

[MrCafiero]

And, actually, I know people who said that Del Monaco's speaking voice - especially after performing - was so loud. Same with Nilsson and most dramatic voices.

[tebaldicallas]

I know that Tebaldi speaking voice was very soft but her singing voice powerful.

Tebaldi was very feminine and refined.

Watch on You Tube Renata Tebaldi on Tosca you will see what i mean.

[MrCafiero]

Oh but that was all for the camera. Not that she wasn't refined - she certainly was - but I know people who knew her personally. And she was much more firm and strong behind the scenes. The "soft" feminine tone was for interviews. The strong tone - while still feminine - was for real!LOL!

[findshell]

Wow what is this footage from? Its fascinating.

[tebaldicallas]

It is well known, i am suprise that you never heard that.

[MrCafiero]

Well known where and by whom?

I know that there are a lot of "well known" opinions about certain cultures, races, religions etc.

[findshell]

I am still discovering ! So can you help? Thanks :)

[tebaldicallas]

Her speaking voice is not as good as her singing voice.

[MrCafiero]

Whose speaking voice? Tebaldi or Callas? Callas' speaking voice is actually very good. It is fully approximated and clear. That is how it should be. It is really bad for women - or men - to speak without approximation. Many times women - due to cultural issues - speak much too lightly and falsettic. That leads to weakening the lower register. I see it all the time as a teacher. Men many times have the opposite problem.

[tazkorinthos]

@MrCafiero Her voice is a voice of a diva.... Of a Godness of a music.....

Clear powerfull and divine.....

[MrCafiero]

@tebaldicallas Does your stupidity have a limit?

[mcallaspersempre]

Maria Callas is excellent. His voice gives us great joy, just a moment just to listen but listen well so that you can go to develop the wonderful feeling in our body. Callas was brilliant, wonderful, excellent and surprising. He renewed the scene of the twentieth century was is and will be extraordinary. The truth can be said: Callas Forever.  Inglés. Luis Taus Argentina

[tebaldicallas]

She had an ego.

[MrCafiero]

And she had every right to have one.

[tebaldicallas]

I admire her, but she did not have the greatest voice. Sorry.

[MrCafiero]

Really? And what do you base your opinion on?

[velazquez2009]

I don't agree with you! She might not have had (some mements or by timbre) the most beautiful voice, but:

She had the GREATEST voice

if you look at the way she expressed all

characteristics of different roles so richly.

[mozarteugenia]

The only, the truth, the one, the best, Maria Callas. Brain, soul, personality, voice, talent. We can, thank to gosh and internet, listen to her recordings. I will love to be like her, have her voice, have her talent, and her hair, LOL.

[smartsteve]

Is there anybody to hold her hand?God bless you Maria up there!

[DjeddaPixie]

Extremely moving video. There is a very famous photo of family Callas of 1924. Maria is only 1 year old on it, but her eyes shake me, they are already precisely such as on this video from a concert in Hamburg - the same expression, the same tragic element, it seems she is on a stage, she obviously foresaw her destiny.

[TheOption9]

"being honest is a hell of a price to pay"it is very lonely at the top, but in her death she lives on and that is somenthing that most will never acomplish, it is still like she said, quite a price, Brava La Divina!

[MrCafiero]

YES YES YES!  People don't appreciate the price it pays to be honest.

[naturerevenge]

there is no such thing as the wrong man.. hope Onassis is deep in hell, even if she loved him so.

[artdanks]

SOOOOOOO sad!!!

[Liwah]

Look at this video.

Put aside the remarkable voice for a minute and forget that she was a singer.

Just look at this video.

Her theatrical instincts are completely out of this world.

She is an artist on a par with Michelangelo and Shakespeare.

[Liwah]

"Use your mind a little!"

LOL!

I love her!

[MrCafiero]

Me too. I know exactly how she feels! LOL!!

[manelemsb]

this makes me cry so much

[luvxl]

Divina, Divina...

This is so sad and still I just can't stop listening

Divina.

[marcourraro]

Intelligente, forte, combattiva e divina...

[saverioorlando]

Bravo,il ritratto viene commosso e intelligente.

[BACRvideos]

Thanks=)

[stevevandien]

Geniuses often have a difficult time in this world. Some, if not many, have caprices that non-geniuses don't. Often non-geniuses have trouble understanding them and vice-versa. Callas was a creative genius. Her life might have been happier -- or at least not as sad -- had she lacked such a gift. But we wouldn't have had her extraordinary artistry, her example of what opera at its best can be. And we wouldn't be discussing and listening to Callas 32 years after her death --

[MrCafiero]

I think most great artists see a lot of truth and stand for it. She was one of those people. And some people cannot see it or will not see it so it makes it hard for people like Callas. There is so much dishonesty in the world.

[lapoireUS]

This is a great video, very moving, and very true.

How come did you find so many great Callas interviews ???

Anyway, congratulations, this is a precious document :)

[BACRvideos]

Years collecting here and there...