Le contrôle vocal est étonnant dans le contexte de cette tournée où les premiers concerts sont souvent pénibles. Là je trouve une grande liberté- et quel regret qu'elle n'ait pu se résoudre à ce registre qui lui aurait permis de reprendre confiance.
Compared to Ponselle, this is like watching an understudy -- this is a classy voice (at least parts of it), but there is simply no comparison to Ponselle. At least not inthis rendition.
Her face - of a tragic empress , of a prophetess... What fools all the great producers were - they could make greatest films with Callas ! Here my heart`s bleeding looking at her Carmen, in vain she`s trying to look careless and full of vitality. She was too sincere, she couldn`t hide her pain...
her stage presence was legendary. we only have one opera performance of hers recorded, only half of one at that. but within in that half, the drama and emotion is so magnetic and real. i can't engage with 98% of opera singers i see today. her recitals still engaged me with the emotion in her movements and face. i am thankfully in the group who found her voice enduring due to its raw power, emotion, and strangeness. unsual voice, stubborn, beauty, external opera world appeal = Diva La Callas ;)
for anything less than what she wanted. it's great because it meant she was strong, but bad because it meant she was stubborn. really, what beginning singer turns down The Met? her voice, personal preference aside, you have to admit she did amazing things with it. when she debuted, she was singing so many different repertoires and styles, the ability was so unusual hadn't been heard since Malibran. there wasn't a consensus by critics on which part of her voice they hated more. and lastly,
everyone's saying there were better voices than La Divina, it's neither true or false. the sound of her voice either severely agreed or disagreed with people's personal tastes (PERSONAL, meaning no right or wrong). but certainly wasn't much neutral opinion. i agree Gheorghiu sounds beautiful, but my idea of Diva wouldn't quite suit her. i think the term Diva has been thrown around so often its lost its power. it's a good and bad thing. for me, Callas personified Diva because she didn't settle
Callas was a great diva and actress, but many singers had better voices. The mystique that has grown up around Callas preserves the idea that she had a great voice, but alas she didn't. Even as a young singer the voice was flawed. In this video the damage done to her voice through emotional upheaval and dieting and deterioration due to age are evident.
Her voice, at this point is in a very good condition! My good, I hadn't reallised how good it was her vibrato in those high notes, besides, she recovered some size on it. Love her
@davinapons I think you are very wrong,Angela will remain in the history for ever and ever because her voice is DIVINE,her performances are stunning and they are considered history....and guess what for sure she will perform for another 15 years!
@midnightdawn95 maybe there is a microphone hidden someplace, but yes, she had a very powerful voice, as I have heard her sing without a microphone at an open place, namely the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece, back in the 60;s when I was still a student at the Univercity of Athens
@marvialegria1 She's actually American-Greek, being born and partly raised in America, which explains the american accent when she's talking, but she moved back to Greece with her mother when she about 14, because her parents split.
@jjj29871 Her parents being both Greeks, and her being raised and educated in Greece, how come she is 'American-Greek"?? Why everything good must have some of "America" (you mean US) in it ??? Why not accept a simple fact: Marvelous people come from all over the world, and not necesserily with an American (US) sent in them ???
@TomSummercat60 She was taken to Greece when she was 14, so was rather American from birth, she was American-Greek by birth and where she lived. IF YOU READ MY COMMENT! idiot
@jjj29871 If you read her biography, you will learn that she was educated in Greece and she took her first singing lessons there. You can also learn that she never claimed herself as being "American-Greek,".
-And, please, did I call you names? Why the "idiot" at the end of your answer? Are you not old enough to hold a civilised convertation??
@TomSummercat60 I know that there are thousands of great artists from all over the world! I am not American, nor ever dream to be. But she never actually said she was just 'Greek', nor 'American-Greek', but as she was partly raised in America, and partly raised in Greece, therefore she was 'American-Greek'. And I am old enough to hold an extremely civilised conversation, you just got on my nerves.
@jjj29871 Sorry, I must insist that she was Greek. You see, her parents being both Greeks, it is only a coinsidence that she was born in America -her sister was born in Greece, so how come one sister is just Greek and the other sister is 'American-Greek"?
I have seen at your -chanell??- that you are interested at everything about Kalas, mad about her, and I like that. It proves that you are a person of good taste and well bread. Still, it seems that you have to try to controll your nerves!
@jjj29871 Callas was a Greek Goddess. Where she was born is really irrelivant. If a dog is born in a stable, it is not a horse. I am English, but was born in Africa, and that doesnt make me African.
Maria Callas is and will always be Greek! Viva Calls. Viva Hellas.
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Not impressed at all. Even that kid Jackie sings better than this "DIVA"! Pity indeed. I should stick with a real soprano like the famous Angela Gheorghiu!
@alexliliryan this is mezzo aria... Why are you drowning a Diva (whose fan i am not at all) at the expense of another Diva? If you think that Ms Gheorghiu is perfect, weiil, she is not, because they are all humans...
@zakales I just want to mock you, that's all. If you don't like Angela Gh. don't listen but you got to understand that someone is going to replace Maria Callas, GOD bless her Soul and Rest in Peace.
She sings this with so much more freedom than she did on the video from Hamburg 12 years earlier! the high notes aren't strained like they were then and she isn't all bundled up with her shoulders high. this tour was really good for her - just look how her posture is so much better - if the critics had not mauled her I think she could have made even better recordings than those she made in the 1960s! so much better here than in the studio in '72. She just needed confidence. thanks for sharing :)
so classy .. even I don't understand what she is talking about , but I fee like I do
her face expressions and the way she sings makes you part of it , you can feel like you are an important piece of the whole thing . It takes you another world , a world full of passion and imagination . You just fly away with the flew of the music . you swim in it . So amazing .. glad God grated some one like her .
In these concerts Callas really gained some part of her voice back. At least, in Carmen. She she sings not like mezzo-soprano but as a soprano. Her timbre is light. I remember what Tito Gobbi said about her: "Callas never lost her voice, she lost self-confidence".
I love Maria Callas, I think she was the best soprano who ever lived, but c'mon! Since '60 her voice started to decline due to her healt problems, excessive use and stress for personal matters, in 1974 when this video was taken it was completely destroyed... she still had the pathos and talent of Maria Callas, but of course she couldn't get even close to the level of perfection she had in her earlier career. This video is a memory of a great diva, sure not one of her best performances...
@3F93 maybe not her best, but one of her last. This was the last year she sang, in fact this may be from her last tour , which ended in a performance in Sopporo Japan in 1974. Show some respect. This woman gave her life to music and sacrificed so much to give her music to us... Viva La Divina.
Have you noticed how that even in this late stage in here career she is still better than so many singers. See the Katherine Jenkins version on here. Just terrible.
people can hate on her personality and how she should have been nicer and more polite like Joan Sutherland, but all of you love her diva ass personality and you know it. personally, I like Callas's personality better than Joan Sutherland I (whom I admire religiously). callas's personality was fiery, passionate, glamorous and diva to the core. sure she was a little crazy, but that just added to her inhuman charisma.
@gustopheles --There is a bit of flatness in the middle of her voice. But she is such an astonishing performer that one shouldn't chastise her for this!
I love it when she comes in and forces the accompanist to speed up. She is absolutely right, of course--this aria should be playful and dance-like, and his tempo is much too slow.
@Matt75003 Haha, that's funny. Yes, I have had to play for many a diva, and sometimes as a pianist you are so nervous about playing for a big singer you get cautious yourself. But you do your job, and you move along with them when they want you to!
Her diaphram was damaged by this point, and she had health issues due to losing a lot of weight. I am surprised she was able to sing this well at all, as her performances were rare at this age.
She makes it look so easy....it's really not! I 'd love to be trained as an opera singer! I do a lot of other stuff singing wise and have abour a 3 octave range to my voice, but as far as opera goes, I'm amazed at how they control their voices and breathing....it seems sooooo much harder than regular singing! I can fake it, but in all seriousness, a trained opera singer would probably look at me and be like "Bitch, please!"
@9889MissM Opera singers really are the Olympic athletes of the singing world. It takes many years of very rigorous training to perfect the technique one needs to sing opera.
I was lucky enough to hear/see her both in London(at the start of the tour) and in Japan(at the end) and her voice had improved immensely by Japan.She WAS a Diva,but not a grand one.She even realised that I had been at both the London and Japanese stage doors,and said hello! Her voice was totally natural,and affected completely by her emotions. It was discovered (from medical records)a few years ago,that she had a child by Onassis,who died when a few hours old.
@steinwaygrande1 No, there were not a marriage, just lovers or friends. He left her for Jackie. After that Callas started to die little by little, because she loved him too much.
@antolintinez . Thank you for clearing that up for me. I knew there was a connection between the two of them, but wasnt sure wet the relationship was. Now I know for which I thank you very much.
a pesar de que es un papel mas para mezzosoprano, ella lo interpreta excelente, como lo gran diva del mundo que fue, le mejor soprano de todos los tiempos.
@lilmercedestang: Really?, Yes, in some languages the spelling does change, in Español is spelled Tokio capital de Japón. (東京, Tōkyō; "Eastern Capital"?).
@lilmercedestang What do you mean "the spelling of a city does not change with languages"? If that were the case, we should all spell 東京 instead of Tokyo or Tokio... "Tokyo" is just the English adaptation of the Japanese phonetics. The Arabic one is توکیو , the Hebrew one טוקיו , the Russian one Токио , the Greek one Τόκιο, the Thai one โตเกียว and the Spanish one Tokio. Warszawa is Varsovia, Varsovie, Varsavia and Warsaw. Stockholm is Stoccolma, Estocolm and Estocolmo...
Que doce presente ouví-la! É realmente uma diva,para não dizer a melhor! Sua voz ,sua elegância e interpretação,tudo nos nela nos emociona e nos convida a olhar o mundo pelo prisma do belo e da sensibilidade.Sua obra é imortal.
If only she could have embraced the future as a mature singer, realized that the top must, of necessity, go, and explored the mezzo/contralto repetoire... Her beloved Rossini wrote so much that would have suited her. I could weep that she allowed the critics to destroy her after this series of concerts. She was so sensitive... too sensitive. This is glorious - what a Carmen she would have made! Thank you for posting this.
@shinawillful If you compare all the versions of Habanera with Maria Callas this version is really THE BEST OF ALL OF THEM: in musical and human expression as in the sensibility of the use of the voice. Maria Callas is till her end unsurpassed in musical interpretation and human expression!!! I would have liked to give her Feldenkrais treatements. May be she would have lived even today.
I am sure that what Sills meant was that Callas entered into the blue flame of art and inspiration that truly does border on the divine, and inimitable because you cannot imitate someone else's inspiration. Their style, yes, but their inspiration, no. Most artists do spend their lives seeking the holy land that Callas achieved, and if her instrument ultimately failed, don't we all fail to fulfill what we see as the best in our hearts? So divine the vision, so human the woman...
@Twisterjoe . Callas did not fail. It's not failure to have the most incredible career of 20th century opera. She sang from the World War 2 days in the 40's, through the 50's and 60's. That's 30 years and a little over. She had a great voice. What happened was she aged and she was also damaging her body because she was overmedicated with pills. That's what she died of - overmedication - in her Paris apartment in 1977. The world lost a great talent the likes of which we'll never see again.
@MastersoftheOpera Hi. I did not mean the common usage, is in bad work. The better word would have been faltered. Please note I did not say Callas failed, but her instrument "faltered" in its ability to fully manifest the genius of La Callas. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan that I have been for many many years. You describe well the decline of health and physical ability that comes in time to us all. I always ask for more compassion from any who criticize her, foolishly, I think.
Es terrible la interpretacion. No conozco mucho, pero creo que fue la ultima presentacion que la Callas hizo y que fue su fracaso definitivo. No se compara a sus otras interpretaciones. Aca solamente lo que hace es gritar. Es una lastima.
@chgonzalez1 ya quisieran muchos gritar como grita ella aquí...es un ídolo,una diva,un icono,un referente y la mejor cantante de ópera de todos los tiempos...conocida mundialmente aún varias décadas despues de su muerte y además plenamente vigente y actual en el mundo discográfico vendiendo muchos más discos que alguno-as vivo-as.
Es terrible la interpretacion. No conozco mucho, pero creo que fue la ultima presentacion que la Callas hizo y que fue su fracaso definitivo. No se compara a sus otras interpretaciones. Aca solamente lo que hace es gritar. Es una lastima.
@APatronOfTheArts Sills did not mean vocally. Most likely she was speaking of career and fiery, artistically involved performance, not singing as such. Leontyne, the greatest of them all, made a similar comment about Callas, but she was speaking precisely of career and dynamic artistic involvement, not of voice as such and certainly not of the art of consistently great singing.
@911toothache : Really?, Yes, in some languages the spelling does change, in Español is spelled Tokio capital de Japón. (東京, Tōkyō; "Eastern Capital"?).
TH33X3CUTION3R, I agree that both Callas and Dessay have shrieky and metallic high notes. However, while Callas was a great actress, Dessays acting is dismal, she is often overacting and pathetically tends to compensate for her small childish voice with buffoonish histrionics.
C'est triste, affligeant de voir à quel point sa voix à changé depuis 1962... Elle n'est même plus juste... Quelle triste fin de vie a eu cette femme.
Look at that : a piano, a beautiful 50 y.o Lady in a "Grand Couturier" Dress, though, what do you see on stage : Carmen the Gipsy. Everything is there. Look at the attitude, the gesture, the position of the hand, her face expression everything is there ! And you can tell she really understands what she says. This is fantastic art, this is Callas !
look, this is the proof that without her old voice, surpasses all sopranos of her era and this one, and not even her voice, her expressions, that is pure art
of vanity of life,come from Japanease Zen & Buddhism. In spite of she had lost her peak voice, we Japanease respect her for so long carrier and past grories.Madam Callas,rest in peace forever!
Callas is of course past her prime here. But she still has a great deal of voice and stage presence, only three years before her death. Her voice retains some spin and richness (particular in the low range) and she handles the high note (granted, it isn't all that high) very well. Her presence remains strong -- not to mention sexy. AND she looks terrific:). How sad that consistent happiness and contentment eluded this great artist.
I agree. She handles this aria perfectly, since it has no high notes. I think she could've gotten away pretty damn easily performing mezzo roles at least into her early sixties, had she lived.
BELLISIMO,BRAVO LA DIVA CALLAS..
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Yozzeus 1 month ago
Великолепно!!! Но мое сердце принадлежит нашей Великой, Неповторимой Елене Образцовой!!!
jylia38 1 month ago
Le contrôle vocal est étonnant dans le contexte de cette tournée où les premiers concerts sont souvent pénibles. Là je trouve une grande liberté- et quel regret qu'elle n'ait pu se résoudre à ce registre qui lui aurait permis de reprendre confiance.
opera751 1 month ago
CALLAS WAS GREEK,SHE REFUSED THE AMERICAN CITIZEN
luisfernando191 2 months ago
Compared to Ponselle, this is like watching an understudy -- this is a classy voice (at least parts of it), but there is simply no comparison to Ponselle. At least not inthis rendition.
AnnieLaurieScottie 2 months ago
Für alle Zeiten unübertroffen - Sie wird immer die unangefochtene Königin ihres Fachs bleiben !!!
bobinobaker 2 months ago
Marìa: siempre divina
Fridauy 3 months ago
Her face - of a tragic empress , of a prophetess... What fools all the great producers were - they could make greatest films with Callas ! Here my heart`s bleeding looking at her Carmen, in vain she`s trying to look careless and full of vitality. She was too sincere, she couldn`t hide her pain...
Great impression all the same!
Rospaint 3 months ago 3
her stage presence was legendary. we only have one opera performance of hers recorded, only half of one at that. but within in that half, the drama and emotion is so magnetic and real. i can't engage with 98% of opera singers i see today. her recitals still engaged me with the emotion in her movements and face. i am thankfully in the group who found her voice enduring due to its raw power, emotion, and strangeness. unsual voice, stubborn, beauty, external opera world appeal = Diva La Callas ;)
fll7181 3 months ago 3
for anything less than what she wanted. it's great because it meant she was strong, but bad because it meant she was stubborn. really, what beginning singer turns down The Met? her voice, personal preference aside, you have to admit she did amazing things with it. when she debuted, she was singing so many different repertoires and styles, the ability was so unusual hadn't been heard since Malibran. there wasn't a consensus by critics on which part of her voice they hated more. and lastly,
fll7181 3 months ago
everyone's saying there were better voices than La Divina, it's neither true or false. the sound of her voice either severely agreed or disagreed with people's personal tastes (PERSONAL, meaning no right or wrong). but certainly wasn't much neutral opinion. i agree Gheorghiu sounds beautiful, but my idea of Diva wouldn't quite suit her. i think the term Diva has been thrown around so often its lost its power. it's a good and bad thing. for me, Callas personified Diva because she didn't settle
fll7181 3 months ago
Bava!
wTrevorh 3 months ago
Callas was a great diva and actress, but many singers had better voices. The mystique that has grown up around Callas preserves the idea that she had a great voice, but alas she didn't. Even as a young singer the voice was flawed. In this video the damage done to her voice through emotional upheaval and dieting and deterioration due to age are evident.
arpeggio1358 3 months ago
Her voice, at this point is in a very good condition! My good, I hadn't reallised how good it was her vibrato in those high notes, besides, she recovered some size on it. Love her
RoOodOoOloOmeg 3 months ago
Do not forget about Angela Gheorghiu....she is the new DIVA of our time...Callas was Stunning but Angela sings DIVINE!
sergiu17 4 months ago
@sergiu17 Yes, Angela Gheorghiu is the new diva, but in 50 years no one will remember her, but they will still be talking about Callas.
davinapons 4 months ago
@davinapons I think you are very wrong,Angela will remain in the history for ever and ever because her voice is DIVINE,her performances are stunning and they are considered history....and guess what for sure she will perform for another 15 years!
sergiu17 4 months ago
AUNKE SU CARRERA FUE CORTA ES LA MEJOR SOPRANO KE HA EXISTIDO!!!!SI PUDIERA REGRESAR EL TIEMPO LO HARIA SOLO PARA CONOCERLA!!!!!!!!!!!
Alberto22D 4 months ago
彼女が生きていたら唄ってほしい日本の唄がたくさんあります。
kyuurinoshiyaha 5 months ago
After seeing many performances of Habanera, no one does it quite like Maria
methuselus 6 months ago
I noticed she didnt have any microphones. She must have had a very beautiful powerful voice.
midnightdawn95 6 months ago
@midnightdawn95 maybe there is a microphone hidden someplace, but yes, she had a very powerful voice, as I have heard her sing without a microphone at an open place, namely the ancient theatre of Epidaurus in Greece, back in the 60;s when I was still a student at the Univercity of Athens
TomSummercat60 5 months ago
What do you call that style of dress? it's practically a square sheet.
operachild 6 months ago
amazing , beautiful @ 0:22
TaVo78 6 months ago
Beauty in all its form
methuselus 7 months ago
where is she from?
marvialegria1 8 months ago
@marvialegria1 Maria Callas(real name:Maria Kalogeropoulou) is Greek!!!
Xaniotissa84 7 months ago 3
@marvialegria1 She's actually American-Greek, being born and partly raised in America, which explains the american accent when she's talking, but she moved back to Greece with her mother when she about 14, because her parents split.
jjj29871 6 months ago
@jjj29871 Her parents being both Greeks, and her being raised and educated in Greece, how come she is 'American-Greek"?? Why everything good must have some of "America" (you mean US) in it ??? Why not accept a simple fact: Marvelous people come from all over the world, and not necesserily with an American (US) sent in them ???
TomSummercat60 5 months ago
@TomSummercat60 She was taken to Greece when she was 14, so was rather American from birth, she was American-Greek by birth and where she lived. IF YOU READ MY COMMENT! idiot
jjj29871 5 months ago
@jjj29871 If you read her biography, you will learn that she was educated in Greece and she took her first singing lessons there. You can also learn that she never claimed herself as being "American-Greek,".
-And, please, did I call you names? Why the "idiot" at the end of your answer? Are you not old enough to hold a civilised convertation??
TomSummercat60 5 months ago
@TomSummercat60 I know that there are thousands of great artists from all over the world! I am not American, nor ever dream to be. But she never actually said she was just 'Greek', nor 'American-Greek', but as she was partly raised in America, and partly raised in Greece, therefore she was 'American-Greek'. And I am old enough to hold an extremely civilised conversation, you just got on my nerves.
jjj29871 5 months ago
@jjj29871 Sorry, I must insist that she was Greek. You see, her parents being both Greeks, it is only a coinsidence that she was born in America -her sister was born in Greece, so how come one sister is just Greek and the other sister is 'American-Greek"?
I have seen at your -chanell??- that you are interested at everything about Kalas, mad about her, and I like that. It proves that you are a person of good taste and well bread. Still, it seems that you have to try to controll your nerves!
TomSummercat60 5 months ago 4
@TomSummercat60 You are 100 percent correct my friend.
Maria was Greek. A Greek Goddess. I love her!
EffLabels 4 months ago
@EffLabels Thak you for your kind comment
TomSummercat60 4 months ago
@jjj29871 Callas was a Greek Goddess. Where she was born is really irrelivant. If a dog is born in a stable, it is not a horse. I am English, but was born in Africa, and that doesnt make me African.
Maria Callas is and will always be Greek! Viva Calls. Viva Hellas.
EffLabels 4 months ago
lol she looks like a rectangle haha
Natthix 8 months ago
Mesmo não estando em sua plena forma, Callas é e sempre será a Eterna Diva.
Bravo Callas.
CarlosHenriqueZippo 8 months ago
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This is not as bad as everybody says.
luiszaoo 8 months ago
Beautiful voice and beautiful woman. I'm Polish and I very like Maria Callas.
wspomnienczar1 8 months ago
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Not impressed at all. Even that kid Jackie sings better than this "DIVA"! Pity indeed. I should stick with a real soprano like the famous Angela Gheorghiu!
alexliliryan 8 months ago
@alexliliryan this is mezzo aria... Why are you drowning a Diva (whose fan i am not at all) at the expense of another Diva? If you think that Ms Gheorghiu is perfect, weiil, she is not, because they are all humans...
zakales 8 months ago
@zakales I just want to mock you, that's all. If you don't like Angela Gh. don't listen but you got to understand that someone is going to replace Maria Callas, GOD bless her Soul and Rest in Peace.
alexliliryan 8 months ago
Not impress at all. Even that kid Jackie sings better than this "DIVA"! Pity indeed.
alexliliryan 8 months ago
I love you <3
vivelhistoire 8 months ago
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Well. Enough temperament and expression, but terrible problems of sharp in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
Well. Enough temperament and expression, but terrible problems of sharp in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
Well. Enough temperament and expresividad, but terribly desafinada in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
Well. Enough temperament and expresividad, but terribly desafinada in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
Bastante temperamento y expresividad, pero terriblemente desafinada en la mayoría de las notas de muchos pasajes. Lamentable...
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
Well. Enough temperament and expresividad, but terrible problems of sharp in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
prodigio!!
treguna85 9 months ago
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@treguna85 Well. Enough temperament and expression, but terrible problems of sharp in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
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@treguna85 Well. Enough temperament and expression, but terrible problems of sharp in the majority of notes during many passages. Pity.
MesalinaXXI 8 months ago
She sings this with so much more freedom than she did on the video from Hamburg 12 years earlier! the high notes aren't strained like they were then and she isn't all bundled up with her shoulders high. this tour was really good for her - just look how her posture is so much better - if the critics had not mauled her I think she could have made even better recordings than those she made in the 1960s! so much better here than in the studio in '72. She just needed confidence. thanks for sharing :)
1988dongiovanni 9 months ago 2
@1988dongiovanni I agree with you , good comment !
TaVo78 6 months ago
you can barely hear anything
hegliton 9 months ago
she is using chest a lot in that version it seems...
eustazio 9 months ago
so classy .. even I don't understand what she is talking about , but I fee like I do
her face expressions and the way she sings makes you part of it , you can feel like you are an important piece of the whole thing . It takes you another world , a world full of passion and imagination . You just fly away with the flew of the music . you swim in it . So amazing .. glad God grated some one like her .
SEMA89ful 10 months ago
In these concerts Callas really gained some part of her voice back. At least, in Carmen. She she sings not like mezzo-soprano but as a soprano. Her timbre is light. I remember what Tito Gobbi said about her: "Callas never lost her voice, she lost self-confidence".
zurriussII 10 months ago 3
that performance was some months before she died then....
touching...
iaswnath 11 months ago
@iaswnath 3 years earlier actually but yeap pretty close to her death. =(
TaVo78 6 months ago
I love Maria Callas, I think she was the best soprano who ever lived, but c'mon! Since '60 her voice started to decline due to her healt problems, excessive use and stress for personal matters, in 1974 when this video was taken it was completely destroyed... she still had the pathos and talent of Maria Callas, but of course she couldn't get even close to the level of perfection she had in her earlier career. This video is a memory of a great diva, sure not one of her best performances...
3F93 11 months ago
@3F93 maybe not her best, but one of her last. This was the last year she sang, in fact this may be from her last tour , which ended in a performance in Sopporo Japan in 1974. Show some respect. This woman gave her life to music and sacrificed so much to give her music to us... Viva La Divina.
johnb340 10 months ago 3
Have you noticed how that even in this late stage in here career she is still better than so many singers. See the Katherine Jenkins version on here. Just terrible.
Telltaleheart79 11 months ago 3
there are many divas but only one Maria Calla ....the DIVINA !!!
27athenian 1 year ago 56
@27athenian
Could Katherine Jenkins become as popular as Maria?
17sunnyhour 6 months ago
people can hate on her personality and how she should have been nicer and more polite like Joan Sutherland, but all of you love her diva ass personality and you know it. personally, I like Callas's personality better than Joan Sutherland I (whom I admire religiously). callas's personality was fiery, passionate, glamorous and diva to the core. sure she was a little crazy, but that just added to her inhuman charisma.
raigekimaru 1 year ago 4
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myth105 1 year ago
Very touching.
YouTubr889 1 year ago 3
How anyone can find fault in this woman's voice is confounding.
gustopheles 1 year ago
@gustopheles --There is a bit of flatness in the middle of her voice. But she is such an astonishing performer that one shouldn't chastise her for this!
klavierspieler72 1 year ago
I love it when she comes in and forces the accompanist to speed up. She is absolutely right, of course--this aria should be playful and dance-like, and his tempo is much too slow.
Matt75003 1 year ago
@Matt75003 Haha, that's funny. Yes, I have had to play for many a diva, and sometimes as a pianist you are so nervous about playing for a big singer you get cautious yourself. But you do your job, and you move along with them when they want you to!
klavierspieler72 1 year ago
la habanera es la unica opera que no tiene grabación en video
baronpasivo 1 year ago
if the film is right... she hated to have done this concert at tokyo... she thought her voice wasn't good enough as it used to be.
blessed me to don't see anything wrong with her voice. cheers for my ignorance.
giuvic 1 year ago
@giuvic
Her diaphram was damaged by this point, and she had health issues due to losing a lot of weight. I am surprised she was able to sing this well at all, as her performances were rare at this age.
TheQuellian 1 year ago 16
Just like Vincent van Gogh she was a tormented soul...may they both rest in peace!
krakra58 1 year ago
She makes it look so easy....it's really not! I 'd love to be trained as an opera singer! I do a lot of other stuff singing wise and have abour a 3 octave range to my voice, but as far as opera goes, I'm amazed at how they control their voices and breathing....it seems sooooo much harder than regular singing! I can fake it, but in all seriousness, a trained opera singer would probably look at me and be like "Bitch, please!"
9889MissM 1 year ago 3
@9889MissM Opera singers really are the Olympic athletes of the singing world. It takes many years of very rigorous training to perfect the technique one needs to sing opera.
arpeggio1358 6 months ago
PS:~
Yes,I AM that old! LOL
MrSwifts31 1 year ago
I was lucky enough to hear/see her both in London(at the start of the tour) and in Japan(at the end) and her voice had improved immensely by Japan.She WAS a Diva,but not a grand one.She even realised that I had been at both the London and Japanese stage doors,and said hello! Her voice was totally natural,and affected completely by her emotions. It was discovered (from medical records)a few years ago,that she had a child by Onassis,who died when a few hours old.
This undoubtedly broke her heart.
MrSwifts31 1 year ago
Someone please refresh my ailing memory - wasnt she once married to the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( apart from Jaqui Kennedy )
steinwaygrande1 1 year ago
@steinwaygrande1 No, there were not a marriage, just lovers or friends. He left her for Jackie. After that Callas started to die little by little, because she loved him too much.
antolintinez 1 year ago
@antolintinez . Thank you for clearing that up for me. I knew there was a connection between the two of them, but wasnt sure wet the relationship was. Now I know for which I thank you very much.
steinwaygrande1 1 year ago
@antolintinez That sounds very romantic! but Callas didn't die of love but from a heart attack.
jgh37 1 year ago
Küldöm Napsinak Ezt a dalt! Gábor
papucs1000 1 year ago
Don't like it.
diechterliebe2010 1 year ago
Man it was just so natural for her, blows my mind.
oktj89 1 year ago
a pesar de que es un papel mas para mezzosoprano, ella lo interpreta excelente, como lo gran diva del mundo que fue, le mejor soprano de todos los tiempos.
guiller197211 1 year ago
hold on a second....I don't mean to interrrupt and i'll let her finish, but Beyonce's video was the best yo!
afinkeln 1 year ago
soberbio!!! que hermosa mujer
almenfer 1 year ago
Büyük yetenek.
canilecananlar 1 year ago
I am fluent in Spanish. The spelling of a city does not change with languages.
lilmercedestang 1 year ago
@lilmercedestang Ask them in Roma, Atenas or Londres
blitschk 1 year ago
@lilmercedestang: Really?, Yes, in some languages the spelling does change, in Español is spelled Tokio capital de Japón. (東京, Tōkyō; "Eastern Capital"?).
You might want to do some research about it.
giloz2k 1 year ago
@lilmercedestang Yes it does.I guess you're not that fluent in Spanish.
arvedsin 1 year ago
@lilmercedestang What do you mean "the spelling of a city does not change with languages"? If that were the case, we should all spell 東京 instead of Tokyo or Tokio... "Tokyo" is just the English adaptation of the Japanese phonetics. The Arabic one is توکیو , the Hebrew one טוקיו , the Russian one Токио , the Greek one Τόκιο, the Thai one โตเกียว and the Spanish one Tokio. Warszawa is Varsovia, Varsovie, Varsavia and Warsaw. Stockholm is Stoccolma, Estocolm and Estocolmo...
lospazio 1 year ago 3
@lospazio And, for example too, in Portuguese it is Tóquio. So, the spelling of cities' names DO change from language to language.
etreduardo 1 year ago
bellissima voce !!!! Da brividi!
MissMartina95 1 year ago 2
In those concerts I'd be the one yelling "DIVINA!" in the 9 minute ovations.
BusyDefyingGravity 1 year ago
Que doce presente ouví-la! É realmente uma diva,para não dizer a melhor! Sua voz ,sua elegância e interpretação,tudo nos nela nos emociona e nos convida a olhar o mundo pelo prisma do belo e da sensibilidade.Sua obra é imortal.
raioliversan 1 year ago
Look out! A big red rectangle is singing opera!
djtrain0495 1 year ago 4
@djtrain0495 HAHAHAHAHA
Limmensita 1 year ago
If only she could have embraced the future as a mature singer, realized that the top must, of necessity, go, and explored the mezzo/contralto repetoire... Her beloved Rossini wrote so much that would have suited her. I could weep that she allowed the critics to destroy her after this series of concerts. She was so sensitive... too sensitive. This is glorious - what a Carmen she would have made! Thank you for posting this.
shinawillful 1 year ago 5
@shinawillful If you compare all the versions of Habanera with Maria Callas this version is really THE BEST OF ALL OF THEM: in musical and human expression as in the sensibility of the use of the voice. Maria Callas is till her end unsurpassed in musical interpretation and human expression!!! I would have liked to give her Feldenkrais treatements. May be she would have lived even today.
TheFeldenkraisMethod 1 year ago
I AM DAMNED! And SHE is my brandy.
choralman8009 1 year ago
divina
Burns516 1 year ago
Awesome!
Od3tt301 1 year ago
Inesquecivel Maria Callas,voz divinal,emocionante ouvi-la.
Irretocável afinação,interpretação de um sentimento que vem da
alma.Ouvi-la faz muito bem a nossa alma.bravo.
taicodobrasil 1 year ago
@taicodobrasil
Mas esse foi o considerado 'worst concert" de Callas. 'The end' de sa carrière.
Elle chante bien quand même. Mais, ce n'est plus comme auparavant.
TheMarcs01 1 year ago
I am sure that what Sills meant was that Callas entered into the blue flame of art and inspiration that truly does border on the divine, and inimitable because you cannot imitate someone else's inspiration. Their style, yes, but their inspiration, no. Most artists do spend their lives seeking the holy land that Callas achieved, and if her instrument ultimately failed, don't we all fail to fulfill what we see as the best in our hearts? So divine the vision, so human the woman...
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
@Twisterjoe . Callas did not fail. It's not failure to have the most incredible career of 20th century opera. She sang from the World War 2 days in the 40's, through the 50's and 60's. That's 30 years and a little over. She had a great voice. What happened was she aged and she was also damaging her body because she was overmedicated with pills. That's what she died of - overmedication - in her Paris apartment in 1977. The world lost a great talent the likes of which we'll never see again.
MastersoftheOpera 1 year ago 2
@MastersoftheOpera Hi. I did not mean the common usage, is in bad work. The better word would have been faltered. Please note I did not say Callas failed, but her instrument "faltered" in its ability to fully manifest the genius of La Callas. You would be hard pressed to find a bigger fan that I have been for many many years. You describe well the decline of health and physical ability that comes in time to us all. I always ask for more compassion from any who criticize her, foolishly, I think.
Twisterjoe 1 year ago
supositorios de opio....
mendoza5088 1 year ago
The end of a great singuer, it hurts to say this, but her end was realy near
be3eu 1 year ago
Es terrible la interpretacion. No conozco mucho, pero creo que fue la ultima presentacion que la Callas hizo y que fue su fracaso definitivo. No se compara a sus otras interpretaciones. Aca solamente lo que hace es gritar. Es una lastima.
I think this is her worst interpretation ever
chgonzalez1 1 year ago
@chgonzalez1 ya quisieran muchos gritar como grita ella aquí...es un ídolo,una diva,un icono,un referente y la mejor cantante de ópera de todos los tiempos...conocida mundialmente aún varias décadas despues de su muerte y además plenamente vigente y actual en el mundo discográfico vendiendo muchos más discos que alguno-as vivo-as.
delomehor 1 year ago
Es terrible la interpretacion. No conozco mucho, pero creo que fue la ultima presentacion que la Callas hizo y que fue su fracaso definitivo. No se compara a sus otras interpretaciones. Aca solamente lo que hace es gritar. Es una lastima.
I think this is her worst interpretation ever.
chgonzalez1 1 year ago
""I WOULD RATHER HAVE TWO YEARS AS MARIA CALLAS THAN TWENTY YEARS AS ANYONE ELSE"" Beverly Sills
APatronOfTheArts 1 year ago 3
@APatronOfTheArts Sills did not mean vocally. Most likely she was speaking of career and fiery, artistically involved performance, not singing as such. Leontyne, the greatest of them all, made a similar comment about Callas, but she was speaking precisely of career and dynamic artistic involvement, not of voice as such and certainly not of the art of consistently great singing.
Trinite33 1 year ago
Aθάνατη φωνή...
ehetleos 1 year ago 2
She was Greek -American so viva Greece and Viva America because we can all take credit for this great talent!
grenadian11 1 year ago
Saudades / I miss you / Te extraño, Maria
lucianapb10 1 year ago 2
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thats not how you spell "Tokyo"!!!
911toothache 1 year ago
@911toothache In Spanish is written Tokio
Onegin65 1 year ago 67
@Onegin65 oh ok :)
911toothache 1 year ago
@Onegin65 haha owned
jrr1234567890 1 year ago
@Onegin65 In Polish too : D
MrMattixx 9 months ago
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@Onegin65 In Polish Too : D
MrMattixx 9 months ago
@Onegin65 as in Polish...
RaphaelAtherill 9 months ago
@911toothache It's spelt "Tokio" in various languages and you actually spell it "東京" ;-)
But does it matter as long as you get the meaning?
Maria Callas... simply wonderful. "Habanera" is one of my favourite pieces from Bizet's "Carmen" and when Callas sings it... wow =)
curonbene 1 year ago
@911toothache : Really?, Yes, in some languages the spelling does change, in Español is spelled Tokio capital de Japón. (東京, Tōkyō; "Eastern Capital"?).
You might want to do some research about it.
giloz2k 1 year ago 2
@911toothache
manny1manito2 7 months ago
gracias por compartir esta joya en video!
un angel en la tierra, la Sra. Callas.
que voz, que porte, que distincion. !
La mas grande entre las grandes voces de la opera que Dios ha permitido
en el mundo, ahora debe estar en el cielo iluminando nuestras noches junto a Dios, bendito sea Dios por permitir este regalo de video. !
Gracias por compartirlo. !
luisdiazfelix16 1 year ago
E' l'unica inimitabile DIVINA; COMPIANTA- musa dell arte del bel canto Grazie Maria
Aperlini 1 year ago
Tout dans cette femme respire la vie.
mariasarda 1 year ago
Right. One can hardly believe that three years after this moment she died. Alone in that apartment from Av. G. Mendel.
AliciaDupres 1 year ago
She had already started to lose her voice but she is still one of the bet.
dchile29 1 year ago
tsts a8lia a8lie opios kai an eisai apo kato!
manoc69 1 year ago
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She sucks so bad!!!!
shirly961 2 years ago
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here speaks an expert on sucking.
hugoforth 2 years ago
ΑΞΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑΣ
griechereservist 2 years ago 2
ελληνας...
tazkorinthos 1 year ago
Siempre unica!!!
vocalandchords 2 years ago
This looks like Callas' very last concert. What a way to go out! Thanks for sharing.
gregpko 2 years ago 3
Brava.
lanimabilanganligot 2 years ago
I love the freedom of character and voice.
herring508 2 years ago
The best soprano ever!
outstep37 2 years ago 4
Amen to that.
takeabow1010 2 years ago
An amazing powerful voice!
kitchavez 2 years ago
Esto realmente es cantar soy fiel fan de esta opera y maria callas sencillamente es de lo mejor
aaaalexm 2 years ago
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TH33X3CUTION3R, I agree that both Callas and Dessay have shrieky and metallic high notes. However, while Callas was a great actress, Dessays acting is dismal, she is often overacting and pathetically tends to compensate for her small childish voice with buffoonish histrionics.
maa10able 2 years ago
C'est triste, affligeant de voir à quel point sa voix à changé depuis 1962... Elle n'est même plus juste... Quelle triste fin de vie a eu cette femme.
jojofashion0169 2 years ago
why did she had to grow old? Why??? Callas = eternal symbol of quality..
vabilas28 2 years ago 3
I agree. She is one of the greatest sopranos and her voice is perfect in every register.
outstep37 2 years ago
best Greek ever ! we miss u Maria :(
MissTrinaBabe 2 years ago 4
Very nice vocals. True beauty lies within Bizet's Carmen
Garcia4Hendrix4forev 2 years ago
onassis è merito tuo.
frapepsi 2 years ago
this is the kind of music Callas was meant to sing. not lucia, lakme or all those other coloratura pieces for pretty little voices.
raigekimaru 2 years ago 4
Look at that : a piano, a beautiful 50 y.o Lady in a "Grand Couturier" Dress, though, what do you see on stage : Carmen the Gipsy. Everything is there. Look at the attitude, the gesture, the position of the hand, her face expression everything is there ! And you can tell she really understands what she says. This is fantastic art, this is Callas !
Faust075 2 years ago 26
just perfect
MrKoibi 2 years ago 7
Maria, we miss you! The world of opera is empty without you!
boris1281 2 years ago 16
look, this is the proof that without her old voice, surpasses all sopranos of her era and this one, and not even her voice, her expressions, that is pure art
ara89tres 2 years ago 12
Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!Bravaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!
aggelosagg 2 years ago 9
「Nothing is certain in life」 This is sense
of vanity of life,come from Japanease Zen & Buddhism. In spite of she had lost her peak voice, we Japanease respect her for so long carrier and past grories.Madam Callas,rest in peace forever!
ilovetorachan 2 years ago 4
the woman and the song :D
Scum71succer 2 years ago
Callas is of course past her prime here. But she still has a great deal of voice and stage presence, only three years before her death. Her voice retains some spin and richness (particular in the low range) and she handles the high note (granted, it isn't all that high) very well. Her presence remains strong -- not to mention sexy. AND she looks terrific:). How sad that consistent happiness and contentment eluded this great artist.
stevevandien 2 years ago 21
I agree. She handles this aria perfectly, since it has no high notes. I think she could've gotten away pretty damn easily performing mezzo roles at least into her early sixties, had she lived.
ChrisStockslager 2 years ago 4