This is great. I always wondered what La Callas might have sounded like when she sang for the Nazis in 1942. They must have considered her an appealing fat girl with a nice voice. History is filled with irony as when she appeared at the Paris Opera House eighteen years later. Believe me, whoever might happen to read this, it was the hottest ticket in town.
I don't know if this is a fake, but it isn't strange for me that Buenos Aries's adience of surrendered to Del Monaco and to Callas not cause any success
Amazing record of two great ones who are gone. To me, this document is incredible as one can hear Maria Callas over the orchestra in the most demanding part of the opera. Certainly Maria may not have had the biggest voice but that's irrelevant as long as it travels and cuts through. I once heard another great soprano, Gilda Cruz Romo that Maria's secret was that she could change the "brassiness" of her voice depending of the type of repertoire. Something undeniable, she was just great!
@alexgomez2 Oh but my dear, it was a mammoth sound. Joan Sutherland said when she first heard Callas rehearsing in the 52 Norma it was the largest voice she'd ever heard. And then she gushed out full-bodied fioriture in the Act I cabaletta with the same size and power, no lessening of volume for the high notes. And anyway, her voice is the most unique operatic voice in history, and fortes were never overused in her approach to music.
Callas was not famous for singing Turandot as she was for singing Norma, Tosca and the Italian bel canto repertoire. However, she does have a magnificent voice for Turandot. It's just right. I still much prefer to hear Nilsson and Dimitrova but Callas does have a glorious voice as Turandot. She really had it in her to sing more roles than she did. She could have been a great Wagnerian diva: Brunhilde, Isolde and Kundry, roles which she actually did take on briefly in her early career period
Good grief @Desideria7 your analysis of Calla's singing is about as level headed as your overblown ego. It hardly matters whether Callas could have continued for more than 10 years in that time she was probably the greatest soprano of the 20th century. Better to be that great for 10 years than mediocre for 40. Sometimes it is the imperfection in something which makes it perfect, a concept of which I doubt judging by your screechy, wobbling, ridiculous posts you have the faintest notion.
not tht probably she was the greatest soprano of the all 20th century! she was THE GREATEST SOPRANO. and not becuase i say it but that is what those who knows said.
That wobble is already evident in 1949. She just screamed her voice away, poor thing. Her ego was bigger than her voice...and it had its way with her.
@Operaddict : YOUR ego is bigger than the egos of all youtube's fans together! Who are YOU to judge Maria Callas? If you feel like throwing away idiotic and malicious sentences - you better go to the toilet, say it to the lavatory and flush the toilet. Your place should be there.
@Desideria7 Another Callas queen. I love Maria Callas' singing, too, but am obviously more objective about it than you are able to be. If you do not hear the screaming, the wobbling, the ridiculous, show off screechy wavering high notes, the muddy middle voice...good for you! She did what she did...and very very well at times, but paid the price for it way too young with a voice which just couldn't take such abuse any more. Live recordings tell the story.
@Operaddict: It's too late for you to improve your intellect. Everyone has the ears, and I can hear perfectly all those "imperfections", but I do not support the stuffed shirts who cannot sing a note but are sure to have all the rights in the world to criticize great artists when they are not able to defend themselves anymore.
@Desideria7 Check out Jason Stearns here on the Tube. I can indeed sing a note...or two or three...and am also honest in my assessment of my singing, as well as others. Callas was a great artist who raised the bar dramatically in operatic performance. Sadly, she tended to oversing EVERYTHING and this wore out her great voice and technique in just over 10 years. I have sung professionally for 40 years. Maybe I'm not a famous singer, but I am certainly a good one. Not great...but often very good.
@Operaddict really! maybe you are a match that burns slowly and nowone can see your fire glooming in the dark! And callas burned faster so lightned everibody during those 10 years!
@Operaddict Actually, that isn't right. Callas ruined her voice because she sang far too 'precious' and took too many high notes pianissimo. She lost falsetto coordination and instead mixed by approximating with too much tension in the arytenoids. This loss of falsetto coordination is what caused her high notes to become a bit shrill later on. But none of this matters, because Callas was a consummate artist who earned her place. Just don't try to guess on these technical matters, please.
@Operaddict hahahaha be quiet kis or girl if you dont know nothing about opera or recording of this type specially from this area dont talked thank you
@iddete Segun lo que muchos han dicho, entre ellos sutherland y tebaldi, ella poseia una voz bastante grande, luego de su adelgazamiento fue que perdio gran parte de esa potencia.
FUCK ANYONE who has negative things to say about the most amazing woman to ever sing a note, Maria Callas.
I believe that she is superior to everyone that I've ever heard, dead or alive, but I don't busy myself by leaving Negative comments on other, lesser, singers.
it's ridiculous. I won't say any screen names because then I'd be stooping to others' level. here is what i will say:
@pointemeout Your Divina Callas lost her voice abruptly due to abuse she did to it. Hello? Only people with zero operatic knowledge can see something good in the way she abused her voice.Go listen to some really good singers, like, Ghena Dimitrova, Tebaldi, Franco Corelli. Those people had no artificial color to their voice and they sang well into their old age.
nothing you can write will stop me from smiling when i listen to her sing. period. if you don't like it. don't listen bud. it's really not that hard. :] have a fabulous day
Amen! If there was no Callas most of the Bel Canto repertoire would never have been revived and these sad armchair opera critics wouldn't have the luxury of sitting on their fat asses and whining about voice sizes! PULEEEEEEEEEEEEZE STOP!
When will people understand that callas was a coloratura soprano NOT a dramatic soprano as her ambitious self would have liked her to be. She is ridiculous in this role. It's absolutely not for her and those who admire her should be aware of the fact that she lost her voice due to abusing it by singing roles which are not for her. OPeratic art is not just, if you don't have a voice you must get over it. You can always sing in a choir but for a dramatic soloist you have to have HUGE voice.
@ididete May be it's the contrary, she began with sort of mezzo voice and her ambition was coloratura...anyway, if we trust Sutherland and Bonynge it was a "huge" voice in Norma, London 1952.
@formersk8ter It's physically impossible that Callas had a huge voice. HEr voice might have been decent sized but never collossal, it just doesn't have the weight and quality necessary for it. And, for Joan Sutherland's opinion, a mouse things a cat is collossal just because it can't stand the sight of a lion. In other words, she had to say that Callass's voice was huge because her own was hardly audible.
Maria's wikipedia page says that her voice was medium at best, judged by her contemporaries,check it out.If you are not at least 80 years old and heard her live,you cannot say for sure that she sang over the orchestra.There is a person who really did hera her and who confirmed to me that her voice was not big.Also, even by the recording,her voice did not have the quality to be big--her voice is not really dense or heavy.Really heavy/big voices don't have to push their lower register as she did
It's not the size, it's how you use it, as the saying goes. Medium and smaller voices CAN sing over an orchestra if the conductor is good and keeps the balances optimized and if the singers know how to PROJECT their voices. Also, big dense voices don't sing Bellini, Donizetti, Semra Libera, Gilds, etc. You're talking through your ass.
@maestrojimbo its in the realm of science,The word "project" is so often used when people speak of the voice..Light can be project,,sound cannot be "porjected" its just a misuse of words.
@topmeat69 .This is not science class - it is English class. The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, "to throw something forwards". It's not a misuse of words - that's a common term musicians, actors and speakers use. Speaking of English class, you might brush up on your grammar and spelling. P.S. Dare I ask why you chose topmeat69 for your id? Maybe it's more than I want to know. LOL
@nestersg If you really want to hear a genuinely huge voice who does not have to push to appear dramatic, listen to Elena Baramova, Patrizia Morandini, Ofelia Hristova, and of course, the legend, Dimitrova. Also check out Kirsten Flagstad. Any of these voices would have eaten Callas alive. And the reason that she sings over orchestra in this recording is because the recording technique always amplifies the singer's voice.del Monaco's voice was 10 times bigger than Callas yet they sound same here
@ididete Joan sutherland's voice inaudible ? Are you seriious. Do you know how stupid you sound. You can keep bitching. But you WEREN'T THERE. So you can NOT talk. Contempory accounts from other opera singers say her voice was big. So you can keep bitching a half a cenutry later while callas as her mark on opera history.
Maria Callas and Mario del Monaco were superb artists, never to be forgotten!
Might not have thought Callas had the greatest tone as a soprano, but she revolutionized opera in every way, shape and form..... from her natural talent as an actor, her abilty to breathe new life in roles dead for decades upon decades, her very presence on an opera stage.
It's too bad I'm too young to have had the remotest chance of ever witnessing her in those days of glory.
@YaelBerman It's not that she didn't like and appreciate Puccini. She didn't like the character of Tosca--she thought of her as an immature woman. She loved Butterfly's music but felt the small, diminutive gestures really weren't for her. I never heard her say anything in particular about Turandot.
I don't think Callas ever liked singing Turnadot, and in interviews, she never spoke highly of this role or even of Puccini, whom she didn't consider to be in the bel canto tradition, where she felt most at home. I recall that in one letter, she wrote something to the effect that in those early years, she ran around Italy screaming her head off in Turandot. I think she was very happy to be rid of this role as soon as she could.
Callas is in relatively firm voice here and is certainly exciting but such heavy roles so young and then the weight loss. She is not my favorite for vocal reasons but she threw away a great gift and after tine the strain and hollowness of the sound
My father transcribed this from wire recording, and circulated many copies on acetate back in the 1950's, In those days he used the "Trans-Aero" label.
SHIRLY961. Que poca clase que debes de tener para emitir un criterio como ese, cada persona juzga por su condicion, OJALA EVOLUCIONES ALGUN DIA, y propongas algo bueno, antes de votar tu veneno.
I hadn't heard Callas' Turandot. She definitely had the voice for it & her singing in this clip, as poor as the sound is, we can tell she must have been sensational live.
you wouldn't end the Callas-Netrebko battle and you breaks the agreement. 3 days we don't wrote comments on Callas sites but you bash Netrebko on and on.
Come on, dirty swine, answer our questions!! COWARD!!!
Question:
Why Callas' child Omero was still-born? Why she was the first opera whore and greatest shame of opera?
maria callas ist die einzige sängerin, die es schafft, mich zum weinen zu bringen. ihre musikalität und einfühlsamkeit sind grandios. ich liebe diese frau.
just to translate what keirabelle45 has said, so people do not give her the thumb down: "maria callas is the only singer that makes me cry. Her musicality and her empathy terrific. I love this woman." END of translation. I like the comment. Maria was great and love her too.
This is f%^$#***ing amazing. I don't give a s*** what anyone says, do any other her detractors really listen? When she says her las his name is 'amore' she makes a diminuendo on it, and it is not just the recording fading out, she does this on other recordings. Now that is finesse, that is technique, that is extraordinary. I love Nillson in this role, but she doesn't attempt any kind of finesse such as this.
Why everybody is always attacking a singer just because they don't like her. I assume some people think Callas had an ugly tone and maybe this is truth to many. But no one can't deny her legacy as an opera connoisseur and an accomplished musician. Her acting, her sensibility and boldness are outstanding qualities. Her place in the history of opera is undeniable!
@rmegna Supposedly FILAREDO, who uses many profile names is 44 yoa, from Germany, and is coming to the MET, next week. I know I'm a bit extreme, but I hope he gets knifed in NYC. Hey, I'm sorry but that's just how I feel, it is no joke. I hope he at the very least, gets the shit kicked out of him. He is an avowed CALLAS HATER. He hates La Divina with a passion. I pray that he gets stuck in the stomach, like the pig that he is. He deserves the most vile treatment.
I would not go THAT far. Do you live in NYC, I used to. Maria's exalted place in operatic history is guaranteed -her artistry, musicality and devotion to her fans are legendary. She was also unequalled in her faithfulness to the wishes of the composers so much so that you can be sure you are hearing what the composer intended from one of the greatest singers of all time.
Anybody who hates Callas is a moron. She is like Caruso, synonymous with Opera itself. That is the reason why everyone still talks about her to this day and why everyone, even people who don't listen to Opera know her name.
Folks, Striker 941 OH, is jut one of the many profile names used by a MAN-BITCH named Filaredo from Germany. He is supposedly 44 years old, and is a recruiter for conservatories in Germany. I think he's a wormy little bitch, who dosen't have the balls to fight me, when he comes to NY, this November. He has a hatred for Maria Callas. Kind of odd, don't you think, 44 year old guy, hates a dead woman??? I don't know about you, but I have my suspicions on this guy.
People who are offended by others who like Callas should get a life and listen/watch singers they DO like. As Callas herself said: "people who do not like my voice should not come hear me." And there is no need to be offensive - if you're angry about something in your life, please do us all a favor, and deal with it elsewhere.
let me guess "striker941O": your favorite singer is madonna or britney right!!! you dont know NOTHING about music! Maria Callas always will be "LA DIVINA" you know what does it mean? or do you need the translation? I did not call her like that, but the history did! if you like it or not!
Hey Filkaredo ( striker 941 OH ), you slimy little bastard, I see they hate you everywhere! You flunky musician. Why would a normal guy, hate a dead woman??? You are fucked-up, to say the least. No wonder you won't fight me in New York, you fucking pussy!!
oh yes)) total idiot))) maria callas is as great as we will nwver manage to be. Her voice is just beyond all! It's like a violin. You might hate it from the first sound. But after several minutes you are amased and captured with its beauty
I think these two have never had the best relationship. They were always rivaling. She was trying to kill him with high notes and he was trying to overshadow her with the immense power of his voice. This competition resulted to have unbelievably good performances! :)
Toscanninni knows better than the dilettantes on this site. Callas embodied Puccinni vocally, technically, emotionally. She resurrected the giants. NO one can match her Art.
una de mis areas favoritas pero mi favorita es turandot de puccini, es lo mas hermoso que he escuchado en mi vida, y eso que he visto y oido cosas hermosas...
I would partly disagree on your qualification of a "scream festival", but obviously the Turandot+Calaf voices are overstrained to extreme limits. It shows that this was the wrong repertoire for Callas and rightly so, Puccini -apart from Tosca- was definitely not for her. She should not have touched Turandot!Well: at least this excerpts shows the point.
GoldenAgeSunshine, Perhaps you are familiar with the comment made by Callas' vocal coach Louise Caselotti-Bagarozy with regard to her first "Turandot" sung at La Fenice in January 1948, " I was alarmed when I heard her "Turandot". The soaring high notes I admired when we were preparing the part for Chicago had lost their freedom, and wavered badly. Her low register was also weak. I knew she was on the wrong track and told her so"
I think her madama Butterfly is excellent though (Un Bel di Vedremo just makes you cry regardless of the circumstances)... aside from that and Tosca, you are right, she shouldn't have touched Puccini.
As jacquesurlus has rightly written, Callas has sung high-voltage, heavy and dramatic roles at a time in her career that was not appropriate. It seriously damaged the middle of her voice, shortening her great, outstanding career. This is a pure FACT and not FICTION. Just listen carefully: hear how strained her instrument is. And I'm also a great Callas FAN, but truth must be written, and it should not alter in any way the SUPREME MAESTRIA AND ART OF CALLAS.
Lorsque l'on entend des enregistrements de cette époque on comprend quelle a détruit sa voix à force de chanter des rôles au dessus de ses moyens. Très convaincantes ces interprétations mais destructrices pour la voix. ET JE SUIS ADMIRATEUR DE CALLAS.
è un fake la scena degli enigmi del II atto, ricostruita attraverso la registrazione Callas EMI 1957 e quella Del monaco DECCA, ma questa conclusione dell'opera è autentica del 1949 (e si sente!)
Can you imagine that she was only 14 (barely) when she sang the role of SANTUZZA! for the first time in Athens????? This woman was definitely so extraordinary that for us marvelling mortals who exist at a human level there is little we can rightfully do beyond repeat for the millionth time "Divina"!
Well, she was not 14. She started her professionnal career in Athenes at the age of 17 in "Boccaccio", then she made her debut with Tosca in 1942 at the age of 19. She continued with "Tiefland" and then "Cavaleria Rusticana" at the age of 20 and during the summer 1944 she sang "Fidelio" (Beethoven) for the first time.
no she did not avoid del monaco. he sang pollione to her norma many times in italy - they did not record because he was under engagement with decca and recorded with tebaldi. chech your facts
Thank you! You are right, on stage they sang many times together. I have that Norma. Del Monaco also sang Rhadames to her Aida. They just had some clashes offstage.
This is not entirely true. Del Monaco created problems for Callas often because he truly disliked her. She was not an easy woman to get along with professionally, and she made him (everyone) work "too hard." HOWEVER - their personal problems did not prevent them from working together many times and creating magic on the stage.
This is great. I always wondered what La Callas might have sounded like when she sang for the Nazis in 1942. They must have considered her an appealing fat girl with a nice voice. History is filled with irony as when she appeared at the Paris Opera House eighteen years later. Believe me, whoever might happen to read this, it was the hottest ticket in town.
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MuzikliMuzik 3 weeks ago
The voice is not too pretty and she also has shaky top notes.
tebaldicallas 1 month ago
Maria, Cecilia Sofia.;;;;; always great How many years to day? strange but difficult to really know.. She was awesome l heard her and saw her
joanabanyeres 1 month ago
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HellasItalia4 4 months ago 2
I don't know if this is a fake, but it isn't strange for me that Buenos Aries's adience of surrendered to Del Monaco and to Callas not cause any success
vilchno 4 months ago
@vilchno This is a genuine sound clip from Act 3. It's the second act that is a fake.
Buondelmonte123 4 months ago
Amazing record of two great ones who are gone. To me, this document is incredible as one can hear Maria Callas over the orchestra in the most demanding part of the opera. Certainly Maria may not have had the biggest voice but that's irrelevant as long as it travels and cuts through. I once heard another great soprano, Gilda Cruz Romo that Maria's secret was that she could change the "brassiness" of her voice depending of the type of repertoire. Something undeniable, she was just great!
alexgomez2 4 months ago
@alexgomez2 Oh but my dear, it was a mammoth sound. Joan Sutherland said when she first heard Callas rehearsing in the 52 Norma it was the largest voice she'd ever heard. And then she gushed out full-bodied fioriture in the Act I cabaletta with the same size and power, no lessening of volume for the high notes. And anyway, her voice is the most unique operatic voice in history, and fortes were never overused in her approach to music.
scostatisciagurato 2 months ago
Her voice sounds so big and bright. You barely hear Del Monaco next to her.
RicharddtheStar 5 months ago
@RicharddtheStar That has to be the where they were standing in relation to the mikes. Noone, but no one drowned out Del Monaco.
assindiastignani 3 months ago
LaEspriella - love ur name, and you're probably right. Geddit??
MsJudgejudy 5 months ago
Descomunalmente titánica!
ubedajils 5 months ago
Callas was not famous for singing Turandot as she was for singing Norma, Tosca and the Italian bel canto repertoire. However, she does have a magnificent voice for Turandot. It's just right. I still much prefer to hear Nilsson and Dimitrova but Callas does have a glorious voice as Turandot. She really had it in her to sing more roles than she did. She could have been a great Wagnerian diva: Brunhilde, Isolde and Kundry, roles which she actually did take on briefly in her early career period
OperaMystery80 9 months ago
Esa foto no es del teatro Colón y el audio es falso no es la Callas
Fiumita 9 months ago
@Fiumita La primera sí es del Colón, la segunda, no. Y el audio sí es el original.
Informate en frankhamilton punto org o com y en divinarecords punto com.
ubedajils 5 months ago
Good grief @Desideria7 your analysis of Calla's singing is about as level headed as your overblown ego. It hardly matters whether Callas could have continued for more than 10 years in that time she was probably the greatest soprano of the 20th century. Better to be that great for 10 years than mediocre for 40. Sometimes it is the imperfection in something which makes it perfect, a concept of which I doubt judging by your screechy, wobbling, ridiculous posts you have the faintest notion.
MsJudgejudy 11 months ago 2
not tht probably she was the greatest soprano of the all 20th century! she was THE GREATEST SOPRANO. and not becuase i say it but that is what those who knows said.
LaEspriella 6 months ago
That wobble is already evident in 1949. She just screamed her voice away, poor thing. Her ego was bigger than her voice...and it had its way with her.
Operaddict 11 months ago
@Operaddict : YOUR ego is bigger than the egos of all youtube's fans together! Who are YOU to judge Maria Callas? If you feel like throwing away idiotic and malicious sentences - you better go to the toilet, say it to the lavatory and flush the toilet. Your place should be there.
Desideria7 11 months ago
@Desideria7 Another Callas queen. I love Maria Callas' singing, too, but am obviously more objective about it than you are able to be. If you do not hear the screaming, the wobbling, the ridiculous, show off screechy wavering high notes, the muddy middle voice...good for you! She did what she did...and very very well at times, but paid the price for it way too young with a voice which just couldn't take such abuse any more. Live recordings tell the story.
Too late to fix it now.
Operaddict 11 months ago
@Operaddict: It's too late for you to improve your intellect. Everyone has the ears, and I can hear perfectly all those "imperfections", but I do not support the stuffed shirts who cannot sing a note but are sure to have all the rights in the world to criticize great artists when they are not able to defend themselves anymore.
Desideria7 11 months ago
@Desideria7 Check out Jason Stearns here on the Tube. I can indeed sing a note...or two or three...and am also honest in my assessment of my singing, as well as others. Callas was a great artist who raised the bar dramatically in operatic performance. Sadly, she tended to oversing EVERYTHING and this wore out her great voice and technique in just over 10 years. I have sung professionally for 40 years. Maybe I'm not a famous singer, but I am certainly a good one. Not great...but often very good.
Operaddict 11 months ago
@Operaddict really! maybe you are a match that burns slowly and nowone can see your fire glooming in the dark! And callas burned faster so lightned everibody during those 10 years!
mstrmilhanos 11 months ago
@Operaddict Actually, that isn't right. Callas ruined her voice because she sang far too 'precious' and took too many high notes pianissimo. She lost falsetto coordination and instead mixed by approximating with too much tension in the arytenoids. This loss of falsetto coordination is what caused her high notes to become a bit shrill later on. But none of this matters, because Callas was a consummate artist who earned her place. Just don't try to guess on these technical matters, please.
cfreetenor 8 months ago
@Operaddict Thanks! Your voice is great! Happy to discover a baritone as good as you! I will always love Maria Callas! She made me an opera freak!
ancamg 7 months ago
@Operaddict hahahaha be quiet kis or girl if you dont know nothing about opera or recording of this type specially from this area dont talked thank you
MAPIAKALLAS 10 months ago
@Operaddict
Still, she's famous, you're not, deal with it!
livmedful1 4 months ago
@Operaddict
Still, she's famous, you're not, deal with it!
livmedful1 4 months ago
BRAVISSIMO!!
Ammillcare 1 year ago
Has anyone realized that this is a RECORDING and NOT live??
How can you make a judgement 1st by that you were not there and 2nd can you sing the WHOLE damn role???
Operaman41 1 year ago
Opera begins and ends with Maria Callas. The truth is the truth, whether we believe it or not, it is still the truth.
Qbendanny 1 year ago
Impressionante Maria. Turandot perfetta!
youfeda 1 year ago
@iddete Segun lo que muchos han dicho, entre ellos sutherland y tebaldi, ella poseia una voz bastante grande, luego de su adelgazamiento fue que perdio gran parte de esa potencia.
rhapsodyaaa 1 year ago
und noch die rätsel...
MissUndercoverful 1 year ago
and an other fantastic Turandot.... maria Callas was her biggest teacher,,,, she said!
MissUndercoverful 1 year ago
i really hate to get frank...but:
FUCK ANYONE who has negative things to say about the most amazing woman to ever sing a note, Maria Callas.
I believe that she is superior to everyone that I've ever heard, dead or alive, but I don't busy myself by leaving Negative comments on other, lesser, singers.
it's ridiculous. I won't say any screen names because then I'd be stooping to others' level. here is what i will say:
Callas, Divina, period.
and PakoChile...!muchas gracias por esta!
pointemeout 1 year ago
@pointemeout
I think so
amneris54 1 year ago
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@pointemeout Your Divina Callas lost her voice abruptly due to abuse she did to it. Hello? Only people with zero operatic knowledge can see something good in the way she abused her voice.Go listen to some really good singers, like, Ghena Dimitrova, Tebaldi, Franco Corelli. Those people had no artificial color to their voice and they sang well into their old age.
ididete 1 year ago
@ididete
nothing you can write will stop me from smiling when i listen to her sing. period. if you don't like it. don't listen bud. it's really not that hard. :] have a fabulous day
pointemeout 1 year ago
@ididete
Tebaldi lost her voice after her mother died. Dimitrova was a belter but not a goodmusician. Nor could she act.
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
@pointemeout
Amen! If there was no Callas most of the Bel Canto repertoire would never have been revived and these sad armchair opera critics wouldn't have the luxury of sitting on their fat asses and whining about voice sizes! PULEEEEEEEEEEEEZE STOP!
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
When will people understand that callas was a coloratura soprano NOT a dramatic soprano as her ambitious self would have liked her to be. She is ridiculous in this role. It's absolutely not for her and those who admire her should be aware of the fact that she lost her voice due to abusing it by singing roles which are not for her. OPeratic art is not just, if you don't have a voice you must get over it. You can always sing in a choir but for a dramatic soloist you have to have HUGE voice.
ididete 1 year ago
@ididete May be it's the contrary, she began with sort of mezzo voice and her ambition was coloratura...anyway, if we trust Sutherland and Bonynge it was a "huge" voice in Norma, London 1952.
512gontran 1 year ago
@ididete As Joan Sutherland herself said, Callas' voice was huge--colossal!!
formersk8ter 1 year ago
@formersk8ter It's physically impossible that Callas had a huge voice. HEr voice might have been decent sized but never collossal, it just doesn't have the weight and quality necessary for it. And, for Joan Sutherland's opinion, a mouse things a cat is collossal just because it can't stand the sight of a lion. In other words, she had to say that Callass's voice was huge because her own was hardly audible.
ididete 1 year ago
@ididete
Yes, because little voicecs can be heard over an entire fucking orchestra and chorus.
nestersg 1 year ago
Maria's wikipedia page says that her voice was medium at best, judged by her contemporaries,check it out.If you are not at least 80 years old and heard her live,you cannot say for sure that she sang over the orchestra.There is a person who really did hera her and who confirmed to me that her voice was not big.Also, even by the recording,her voice did not have the quality to be big--her voice is not really dense or heavy.Really heavy/big voices don't have to push their lower register as she did
ididete 1 year ago
@ididete
It's not the size, it's how you use it, as the saying goes. Medium and smaller voices CAN sing over an orchestra if the conductor is good and keeps the balances optimized and if the singers know how to PROJECT their voices. Also, big dense voices don't sing Bellini, Donizetti, Semra Libera, Gilds, etc. You're talking through your ass.
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
@maestrojimbo Light can be projected, sound cant,but it can be audible or not
topmeat69 1 year ago
@topmeat69
Huh? You sooooo don't make sense.
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
@maestrojimbo its in the realm of science,The word "project" is so often used when people speak of the voice..Light can be project,,sound cannot be "porjected" its just a misuse of words.
topmeat69 1 year ago
@topmeat69 .This is not science class - it is English class. The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, "to throw something forwards". It's not a misuse of words - that's a common term musicians, actors and speakers use. Speaking of English class, you might brush up on your grammar and spelling. P.S. Dare I ask why you chose topmeat69 for your id? Maybe it's more than I want to know. LOL
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
@nestersg If you really want to hear a genuinely huge voice who does not have to push to appear dramatic, listen to Elena Baramova, Patrizia Morandini, Ofelia Hristova, and of course, the legend, Dimitrova. Also check out Kirsten Flagstad. Any of these voices would have eaten Callas alive. And the reason that she sings over orchestra in this recording is because the recording technique always amplifies the singer's voice.del Monaco's voice was 10 times bigger than Callas yet they sound same here
ididete 1 year ago
@ididete Yes...that is so easy to do live... in 1949... in Buenos Aires... PLEASE! You do not know art. You don't deserve it either.
AOG93 1 year ago
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NEBESHIKU 1 year ago
@nestersg Huh?
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
@ididete Joan sutherland's voice inaudible ? Are you seriious. Do you know how stupid you sound. You can keep bitching. But you WEREN'T THERE. So you can NOT talk. Contempory accounts from other opera singers say her voice was big. So you can keep bitching a half a cenutry later while callas as her mark on opera history.
RicharddtheStar 1 year ago
@ididete Your ignorance is monumental.
maestrojimbo 1 year ago
Maria Callas and Mario del Monaco were superb artists, never to be forgotten!
Might not have thought Callas had the greatest tone as a soprano, but she revolutionized opera in every way, shape and form..... from her natural talent as an actor, her abilty to breathe new life in roles dead for decades upon decades, her very presence on an opera stage.
It's too bad I'm too young to have had the remotest chance of ever witnessing her in those days of glory.
Thanks EMI for her grt recordings.
PetoAntoni 1 year ago
Qué maravillosa! qué afortunados los que pudieron verla en escena!!
paulachina 1 year ago
i would give anything to have been in the audience singing Turandot's In Questa
fll7181 1 year ago
@fll7181 or figlio del cielo =) I think is just as overstading as in questa reggia.
RoOodOoOloOmeg 1 year ago
How can one surpass that??????? So much intensity in her interpretation that is almost not-human!!!
DrFernandoBicudo 1 year ago
How strange it sounds to me that she didn´t like Puccini. Because I think Tosca is one of her best roles ever.
YaelBerman 1 year ago
@YaelBerman It's not that she didn't like and appreciate Puccini. She didn't like the character of Tosca--she thought of her as an immature woman. She loved Butterfly's music but felt the small, diminutive gestures really weren't for her. I never heard her say anything in particular about Turandot.
formersk8ter 1 year ago
I don't think Callas ever liked singing Turnadot, and in interviews, she never spoke highly of this role or even of Puccini, whom she didn't consider to be in the bel canto tradition, where she felt most at home. I recall that in one letter, she wrote something to the effect that in those early years, she ran around Italy screaming her head off in Turandot. I think she was very happy to be rid of this role as soon as she could.
Shahrdad 1 year ago
Callas is in relatively firm voice here and is certainly exciting but such heavy roles so young and then the weight loss. She is not my favorite for vocal reasons but she threw away a great gift and after tine the strain and hollowness of the sound
de-compensate for her interpretive talents.
65attila 1 year ago
Bravo Divina Maria
dalerta 1 year ago
Awesome
paulostroff99 1 year ago
MARIA CALLAS - LEGEND!!! THE BEST.
HateNetrebko 1 year ago
My father transcribed this from wire recording, and circulated many copies on acetate back in the 1950's, In those days he used the "Trans-Aero" label.
Vitanola 1 year ago
Love it!!!
TreblesBasses 1 year ago
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JesusFan 1 year ago
SHIRLY961. Que poca clase que debes de tener para emitir un criterio como ese, cada persona juzga por su condicion, OJALA EVOLUCIONES ALGUN DIA, y propongas algo bueno, antes de votar tu veneno.
mike20374 1 year ago
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What can you expect from somebody that was a whore?!!!
shirly961 1 year ago
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mike20374 1 year ago
@shirly961
mike20374 1 year ago
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@mike20374 bla bla bla bla bla fuck a donkey!!!!
shirly961 1 year ago
@shirly961 mi e stato insegnato a non combattere con le donne, whitetrash
mike20374 1 year ago
@shirly961 Scusi , ma di chi sta parlando? Grazie UN saluto
federic017 1 year ago
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The screaming Callas!
Horseshoe4441 1 year ago
what a diva!
blondzuher 1 year ago 2
Her voice is unique as it is dramatic and her interpretations are as grand as they are inspired.
raciny1 1 year ago 3
Amazing done! Thanks for the video.
bitoaguilos 1 year ago
fantastico
tsena6 1 year ago
A true goddess!
blackwig5 2 years ago
I hadn't heard Callas' Turandot. She definitely had the voice for it & her singing in this clip, as poor as the sound is, we can tell she must have been sensational live.
MastersoftheOpera 2 years ago
pity that the pitch is low er of half a tone, so we can't really appreciate how the voices sounded...
xafnndapp 2 years ago
a mere mortal can't bother a true godess
dustangelanderson 2 years ago
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Striker comme on,
you wouldn't end the Callas-Netrebko battle and you breaks the agreement. 3 days we don't wrote comments on Callas sites but you bash Netrebko on and on.
Come on, dirty swine, answer our questions!! COWARD!!!
Question:
Why Callas' child Omero was still-born? Why she was the first opera whore and greatest shame of opera?
You crappy woodman give us a answer!!!
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
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Striker
why you don't answer on my questions?
Ok, new question:
1. Why Callas shouts like a donkey?
Answer:
Under the dress, between her elephant legs, jams a Pinocchio puppet and he sticks his nose into everything.
Pinocchio, the only man less than 70 years who sah Callas' greasy, smelly gap.
Neanderthalgirl 2 years ago
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Do you know this pig?
boring voice?
ugliest singer ever?
hairy stinking cunt?
blowjob whore?
elephant legs?
who sounds like a donkey?
YES, it's naturally Callas and her little dead piglet Omero!!!!!!
gandor1337 2 years ago
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Dear Callas fans!
Striker9410 is a liar and fraud. He breaks the agreement with Filaredo group since 3 days and continues to bash Anna Netrebko on Anna Netrebko sites.
He cannot end his bad comments and we come back to Callas sites if he don't stop his insults right now.
belmanotre 2 years ago
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Dear Callas fans!
Striker is a liar and fraud. He breaks the agreement with Filaredo group since 3 days and continues to bash Anna Netrebko on Anna Netrebko sites.
He cannot end his bad comments and we come back to Callas sites if he don't stop his insults right now.
gandor1337 2 years ago
both are stupendous also the unique MDM impresses, they were giants in those days
ErnaSack 2 years ago 2
Vielleicht bist du aber auch nur ein dummes Flittchen, Marke Dirty Dancing, dass wegen jedem Scheiss rumheult und nervt.
Ja, ja und dann der Michael Jaaaackson das ist ja sooo traurig, der arme Junge! Hey, halt ganz einfach deine Schnute.
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gandor1337 2 years ago
maria callas ist die einzige sängerin, die es schafft, mich zum weinen zu bringen. ihre musikalität und einfühlsamkeit sind grandios. ich liebe diese frau.
keirabelle45 2 years ago 4
just to translate what keirabelle45 has said, so people do not give her the thumb down: "maria callas is the only singer that makes me cry. Her musicality and her empathy terrific. I love this woman." END of translation. I like the comment. Maria was great and love her too.
chislehurstbat 2 years ago 15
thanks for defending me..i did no think about posting my comment in english, lol...those germans, u know, hihih..
love, gabrielle
keirabelle45 2 years ago
This is f%^$#***ing amazing. I don't give a s*** what anyone says, do any other her detractors really listen? When she says her las his name is 'amore' she makes a diminuendo on it, and it is not just the recording fading out, she does this on other recordings. Now that is finesse, that is technique, that is extraordinary. I love Nillson in this role, but she doesn't attempt any kind of finesse such as this.
jazzychazzy007 2 years ago 3
brava.
sailorgennie 2 years ago 3
Why everybody is always attacking a singer just because they don't like her. I assume some people think Callas had an ugly tone and maybe this is truth to many. But no one can't deny her legacy as an opera connoisseur and an accomplished musician. Her acting, her sensibility and boldness are outstanding qualities. Her place in the history of opera is undeniable!
yodavidnavarro 2 years ago 53
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@yodavidnavarro Maybe but she sang like a cow!!
vivegedda 1 year ago
They are wonderful singers!
herring508 2 years ago 2
To defame Maria Callas is nothing short of sacrilege! She remains and will always be one of the greatest sopranos of all time! Brava, la Divina !
rmegna 2 years ago 4
@rmegna Supposedly FILAREDO, who uses many profile names is 44 yoa, from Germany, and is coming to the MET, next week. I know I'm a bit extreme, but I hope he gets knifed in NYC. Hey, I'm sorry but that's just how I feel, it is no joke. I hope he at the very least, gets the shit kicked out of him. He is an avowed CALLAS HATER. He hates La Divina with a passion. I pray that he gets stuck in the stomach, like the pig that he is. He deserves the most vile treatment.
striker9410 2 years ago
I would not go THAT far. Do you live in NYC, I used to. Maria's exalted place in operatic history is guaranteed -her artistry, musicality and devotion to her fans are legendary. She was also unequalled in her faithfulness to the wishes of the composers so much so that you can be sure you are hearing what the composer intended from one of the greatest singers of all time.
rmegna 2 years ago 3
Anybody who hates Callas is a moron. She is like Caruso, synonymous with Opera itself. That is the reason why everyone still talks about her to this day and why everyone, even people who don't listen to Opera know her name.
viverito 2 years ago 3
And why she continues to outsell other opera singers, long after her passing.
Redboy4 2 years ago 3
Bravo Mario!
rerigras12 2 years ago
Brava Maria!
rerigras12 2 years ago
Folks, Striker 941 OH, is jut one of the many profile names used by a MAN-BITCH named Filaredo from Germany. He is supposedly 44 years old, and is a recruiter for conservatories in Germany. I think he's a wormy little bitch, who dosen't have the balls to fight me, when he comes to NY, this November. He has a hatred for Maria Callas. Kind of odd, don't you think, 44 year old guy, hates a dead woman??? I don't know about you, but I have my suspicions on this guy.
striker9410 2 years ago
People who are offended by others who like Callas should get a life and listen/watch singers they DO like. As Callas herself said: "people who do not like my voice should not come hear me." And there is no need to be offensive - if you're angry about something in your life, please do us all a favor, and deal with it elsewhere.
revmiguel2000 2 years ago
let me guess "striker941O": your favorite singer is madonna or britney right!!! you dont know NOTHING about music! Maria Callas always will be "LA DIVINA" you know what does it mean? or do you need the translation? I did not call her like that, but the history did! if you like it or not!
goodboysv 2 years ago
c'est une vraie folie d'avoir abordé ce rôle en l'absence manifeste des moyens vocaux qu'il requiert,et en plus à ....26 ans !
ctenor06 2 years ago 2
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Sorry, but this horrible Mezzo is only good for idiotic and dump italian and american freaks.
Third-class operatic fans without knowledge and notion.
HAW HAW....silly Callas idiots!!!
striker941O 2 years ago
Your parents are brothers right?
Vivalaespe 2 years ago
Hey Filkaredo ( striker 941 OH ), you slimy little bastard, I see they hate you everywhere! You flunky musician. Why would a normal guy, hate a dead woman??? You are fucked-up, to say the least. No wonder you won't fight me in New York, you fucking pussy!!
striker9410 2 years ago
Brava Maria!
saigoners 2 years ago 13
Power of voice? Or only a screaming monkey?
I know it's a metallic voice without real high notes from a Mezzo.... no more.
Today nobody would like her horrible voice and her ugliness!!!
striker941O 2 years ago
Sorry if I say this, but you are an idiot
SecondaParte 2 years ago
You should´nt be sorry. He is an idiot.
eugeneonegin 2 years ago 2
oh yes)) total idiot))) maria callas is as great as we will nwver manage to be. Her voice is just beyond all! It's like a violin. You might hate it from the first sound. But after several minutes you are amased and captured with its beauty
wwwcomunicative 2 years ago
Callas was MEASURED at 38% above the normal range of human voice. An unheard of number!
mtnmanjt 2 years ago 4
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loeb123 2 years ago
Callas is killing Del Monaco on those high notes.
AuthenticFeirce 2 years ago 3
well at least he's on pitch and without a big wobble
topmeat69 2 years ago
Callas is neither off pitch nor does she have a wobble here.
Elisabetta611 2 years ago
I think these two have never had the best relationship. They were always rivaling. She was trying to kill him with high notes and he was trying to overshadow her with the immense power of his voice. This competition resulted to have unbelievably good performances! :)
Aetion 2 years ago 2
I know right. There were both great artist.
AuthenticFeirce 2 years ago 2
Toscanninni knows better than the dilettantes on this site. Callas embodied Puccinni vocally, technically, emotionally. She resurrected the giants. NO one can match her Art.
angelovocci 2 years ago 3
una de mis areas favoritas pero mi favorita es turandot de puccini, es lo mas hermoso que he escuchado en mi vida, y eso que he visto y oido cosas hermosas...
rominapat2806 2 years ago
Wow! Callas is easily overpower Del Monaco's voice.
operagodess78 2 years ago 5
Cette femme extraordinaire n'était pas humaine.
mariasarda 3 years ago 5
I would partly disagree on your qualification of a "scream festival", but obviously the Turandot+Calaf voices are overstrained to extreme limits. It shows that this was the wrong repertoire for Callas and rightly so, Puccini -apart from Tosca- was definitely not for her. She should not have touched Turandot!Well: at least this excerpts shows the point.
GoldenAgeSunshine 3 years ago
GoldenAgeSunshine, Perhaps you are familiar with the comment made by Callas' vocal coach Louise Caselotti-Bagarozy with regard to her first "Turandot" sung at La Fenice in January 1948, " I was alarmed when I heard her "Turandot". The soaring high notes I admired when we were preparing the part for Chicago had lost their freedom, and wavered badly. Her low register was also weak. I knew she was on the wrong track and told her so"
(End of friendship).
filippovonreutter 3 years ago
I think her madama Butterfly is excellent though (Un Bel di Vedremo just makes you cry regardless of the circumstances)... aside from that and Tosca, you are right, she shouldn't have touched Puccini.
DaphCh3m3ng08 3 years ago
pure Golden Age Sunshine, who could make a better Abigaile, and a Turandot? please, wake up history is making judgement
egymagyar1111111 3 years ago
As jacquesurlus has rightly written, Callas has sung high-voltage, heavy and dramatic roles at a time in her career that was not appropriate. It seriously damaged the middle of her voice, shortening her great, outstanding career. This is a pure FACT and not FICTION. Just listen carefully: hear how strained her instrument is. And I'm also a great Callas FAN, but truth must be written, and it should not alter in any way the SUPREME MAESTRIA AND ART OF CALLAS.
GoldenAgeSunshine 3 years ago
This is the scream festival! Callas not even shouldn't have touched any of Puccini operas!
bonanplu 3 years ago
Lorsque l'on entend des enregistrements de cette époque on comprend quelle a détruit sa voix à force de chanter des rôles au dessus de ses moyens. Très convaincantes ces interprétations mais destructrices pour la voix. ET JE SUIS ADMIRATEUR DE CALLAS.
jacquesurlus 3 years ago 2
Pity that the pitch is not good (too low) because for sure the tape survived was played too slowly.
Her wobble at the end is not for real!
xafnndapp 3 years ago
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this is "the scream festival" , a disaster, she was and she will be always the female dog of the opera
bonanplu 3 years ago
Yes yes, you are right.
Now it's time to take your Prozac, sweetie.
xafnndapp 3 years ago
Signora Callas was who tooks pills and drugs, that's the cause of her death at 53 after years or drugs addiction
bonanplu 3 years ago
Ok. She did. And your point is?...
xafnndapp 3 years ago 4
She was afflicted with heart disease and was not addicted. But yes, what's you point actually?
Aetion 2 years ago
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The point is that is was a bloody waste!!! Thats the fucking point. Gosh!!!
Lanark8 2 years ago
id like to hear the fake second part...
hartnell114 3 years ago
am I'm steel slepping and only dreming that I hearing something that fantastic?????
tjallew 3 years ago 3
It is a still picture all the time, not a video with Callas, et je pleure.... c`est tellement... rien...Listen Callas and look at he......
robertse14lon 3 years ago
She really sounds better here than in the studio recording with Serafin. This is really the vocally golden age of Maria Callas
Ostasio 3 years ago 5
this is fake
comey717 3 years ago
No It's really singing Callas & Del Monaco. Buenos Aires 1949!!!!!
ArcanaMundi81 3 years ago 3
o ok
srry
comey717 3 years ago 2
è un fake la scena degli enigmi del II atto, ricostruita attraverso la registrazione Callas EMI 1957 e quella Del monaco DECCA, ma questa conclusione dell'opera è autentica del 1949 (e si sente!)
galehout 3 years ago
Can you imagine she was only 26 years old when she sang Turandot at Teatro Colon/Buenos Aires ??? This woman was definately not human !
Faust075 3 years ago 5
Yes I think so too, was she Human? well, I m not sure but she maybe was what the opera really needs.
Nacidodelmar 3 years ago
Can you imagine that she was only 14 (barely) when she sang the role of SANTUZZA! for the first time in Athens????? This woman was definitely so extraordinary that for us marvelling mortals who exist at a human level there is little we can rightfully do beyond repeat for the millionth time "Divina"!
filippovonreutter 3 years ago 7
Well, she was not 14. She started her professionnal career in Athenes at the age of 17 in "Boccaccio", then she made her debut with Tosca in 1942 at the age of 19. She continued with "Tiefland" and then "Cavaleria Rusticana" at the age of 20 and during the summer 1944 she sang "Fidelio" (Beethoven) for the first time.
Faust075 2 years ago 3
agree with everything you write ( but check out her FIRST " Cavelleria " in Athens (though admitedly it was not a professional production) . Saludos.
filippovonreutter 2 years ago
Bravissima!!! Callas en el Colón!!!!
teatrocolon 3 years ago 2
DE-LA-MUER-TE! AAAAAAAAH, Calaf davanti al popolo con me!! por favor qué escándalo. Divina, Callas, Divina!!
ubedajils 3 years ago 4
So il tuo nome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yonecromancer 3 years ago 2
DAMN SHE SOUNDS BIG BUT WONDERFUL!!!
KEEPDATBS 3 years ago
Electric Callas.
qbendanny1 3 years ago
That apprently was the time when Callas and Del Monaco were trying to outscream each other. Callas avoided him after that,
marquefan1 3 years ago
no she did not avoid del monaco. he sang pollione to her norma many times in italy - they did not record because he was under engagement with decca and recorded with tebaldi. chech your facts
mariahelleberg 2 years ago
Thank you! You are right, on stage they sang many times together. I have that Norma. Del Monaco also sang Rhadames to her Aida. They just had some clashes offstage.
marquefan1 2 years ago
This is not entirely true. Del Monaco created problems for Callas often because he truly disliked her. She was not an easy woman to get along with professionally, and she made him (everyone) work "too hard." HOWEVER - their personal problems did not prevent them from working together many times and creating magic on the stage.
BellovVideo 2 years ago
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tonyantony 3 years ago
This has been f