Maria Callas - Al Dolce Guidami (Score Animation)

[infrantasi]

The music needs no affectations, no "modernized" (i.e. edited for television!) rendering, because it is the pinnacle of bel canto style and you need an artist like Callas or Gencer to match the challenges. Netrebko had no schooling in these roles in her early formation, so her voice cannot do justice to the myriad abbellimenti and legato technique, and her gruppetti and intervals are craven and amateur.

[Laeliapurpurata]

She is just so magnificent.

[violetarak22]

Wspaniale!!Cudownie!! Chwyta za serce!!

[Alleeexoscm]

Excelso!!

Su canto es una clase de canto, ella es la partitura cantante... es perfecta su ejecución, llena de belleza. Ella fue sublime...

[velociraptor44]

Brava!!! Callas Forever!!!!

[liberadico]

The best! Is it from "Mad scenes", recorded in 1958? I found some videos with, I think, the same recording but wtih the date of 1959. Do you know exactly the year?

[blktenor]

WOw thanks for adding that score. It's wonderful to follow along. I will check out your other videos.

[Chimier]

This is better than Joan's by FAR!

[Amphipolis]

The best Anna Bolena by far.

Excellent demonstration of the belcanto style.

[minnie888444]

Splendid, thanks for posting.

[kgarmaker123]

I really appreciate these animated scores, Primo..... I mean, you can see in spades how perfectly Callas adheres to the text, and how beautiful it is without rewriting the composers music. Thank You.

[LohengrinT]

exactly it is so amazing the fidelity to both words and notes... who wrote the final cadenza I wonder

[primohomme]

I think it might be by the conductor at the time who unearthed Anna Bolena for her (Gavazzeni). The original cadenza is a simpler 2 octave arpeggio from the high Bb to the low Bb.

[LohengrinT]

it is simply one of the most beautiful cadenzas ever written No wonder Gavazzeni was considered a Donizetti authority at the time. It seems as natural as if Donizetti wrote it

[kgarmaker123]

The last cadenza, is very much in keeping with the way the aria was written in other ascending phrases. It is very much fits the aria.

[primohomme]

@kgarmaker123

I recently found out Maria herself wrote the cadenza, based on an earlier motif.

[kgarmaker123]

@primohomme That doesn;t surprise me.. Maria was so inately musical.. another reason why she is so amazing. I can't get her out of my head in so much music... I hear it sung by someone else, and then I replay it in my head, sung by her.. And Amazing musician!

[Scarpiadossi]

@primohomme She wrote the cadenza? Wow! Where did you read about that? That's fascinating.

[primohomme]

@Scarpiadossi

She actually mentions it in the book of her Julliard Masterclasses

[Scarpiadossi]

@primohomme Thanks a lot for the information!

[kgarmaker123]

Not sure, but I strongly prefer it to the Sutherland cadenza.. .......She (Joan) does not own that role the way Maria did.

[primohomme]

Joan's Anna Bolena is ghastly, I love the woman, but her Bolena is just awful, not because of her age at the time, but because of all the transpositions and rewritting they did so she would avoid COMPLETELY the low register. But then in the final cabaletta she sings it a whole step down in order to finish it with a high Db, and she sounds suffocated with the middle C's that suddenly appear when the key is moved down! If she was smarter she would have just sung it as written without extra shit.

[kgarmaker123]

Totally agree. I think she should have simply avoided the role.. Sills sang Bolena, without all those changes... and frankly it sounds more convincing to me, than Joan... who i admit has an amazing upper register about(one octave in her prime)... Eflat to E flat)..... and when some on U tube whine about Callas fans adoring her, it is no small wonder.. Maria had a real voice... and had nearly three octaves of voice, with a real(not manufactured middle.).

[LohengrinT]

I also think it has to do with the fact that Joan was very old when she sang Bolena. Im sure her fans want to say she was still in 100% of her voice but the cruel truth is that Joan's absolute vocal prime ends at 1973-4. After that year she kept around 90% of her voice along with an enormous middle voice wobble but no way that an early Bolena (in late 60s) would be like the one she did at her end. Ofc there is also the matter of the up transpositions to avoid the low notes Joan couldn't sing

[primohomme]

Not only transpositions, but completely rewritting several measures! LOL

[DjeddaPixie]

perfect, thanks!