Maria Callas - Quando me'n vo' - 1958

Concert at Los Angeles, California, USA
Aria of Musetta from La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini
Maria Callas
1958

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Music

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• maria
• callas
• quando
• me'n
• vo'
• musetta
• la
• boheme

[bm1729]

Spectacular.

Callas gave her voice and body in the 50's. Very few of her later recordings are as good.

There was a great 2-3 part audio analysis on BBC Radio 3 where a musicologist and voice coach demonstrated over a couple of hours how she deliberately destroyed her voice, most heroically in the interest of art. I cannot find it, can the expert leoparm?

Well done leoparm.

[leoperarm]

I don't know if I can... maybe, but, have you the date?

[imogene1952]

Is this really from Los Angeles-Concert? Do you have also other arias from LA ??

Many thanks for posting this aria, great !!!

[leoperarm]

yes...I have some others^^

[imogene1952]

Thank you for your answer- but if you have some other`s from LA - would you be so kind to post them? Many thanks and best greetings from graz-austria

imogene!!

[leoperarm]

SORRY! Somehow I didn't notice that you replied. I'll post 'Una voce poco fa' and 'A vos yeux' :-)

[vivaciousmuse]

always this coughing in opera... so annoying! lol

[MadonnaImperia]

@markivens Musetta is written for a soprano. In the 60's Callas sang quite a few mezzo arias from "Carmen", "Samson et Dalila", "La Cenerentola" and "Don Carlo" in concert and/or on records.

[ciociosan]

@leonardovittori1 I agree. Of course, if a singer used to practice six hours a day everyday for years and years, add the drastic weight loss, stop, resume plus emotional turmoil and partying, the instrument is bound to suffer.

[PeaceLoveFrog]

@poursuivant1 i know! i just listened to the 1963. it's incredible

[masonschoeppl123]

amo questa canzone

[cwslai]

magnificent !

[rbpenelope2008]

Travolgente, diabolica, direi quasi... virile! MAGNIFICA!!! Solo Lei rende Musetta così!

[pf84766]

she's lovely!

[poursuivant1]

Holy crap! What a difference from this to the 1963 recordings.

[leonardovittori1]

@bm1729 Thats easy.. she stopped singing... pretty much anyway, and definitely she stopped practicing, warming up, doing her exercises, etc.. and .. pretty soon her voice sounded thread bare.