La Callas has NO rivals! (She tells it like it is!!)

She talks about her voice, her recordings, her roles, her collegues, and her "rivals". Queen Diva Goddess Maria Callas tells it like it is and lets the haterz have it.

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[DrRigolettoPianist]

Excuse me mr. primohomme, I would just like to know what aria the last excerpt came from. The one in the end? Thank you. =D

[primohomme]

@DrRigolettoPianist

As LohengrinT said, the bit at the end is "Contro un cor che accende amore" from Rossini's Barbieri studio version. So you were right it was Italian and was Rossini ;)

[LohengrinT]

-Indeed she never had up to now any rival and frankly Im starting to believe she never will have any true rival. When no-one tells the truth about you you just go out and say it yourself :))

-Above all for me she defies and cancels pseudo-modesty

[primohomme]

@LohengrinT

Do you happen to know from which recording the bit at the end is from?

[ungiornodiregno]

She is just telling the truth! A complete singer like Callas is truly missed in the opera world today!

[primohomme]

@ilfig1iomio

Many malicious people attacked her and she was just defending herself, nobody would speak for her and defend her.

[MisterPapageno]

Wonderful!

[MariaCallasLegend]

@primohomme it is from her 1957 emi Barbiere con Gobbi,Alva,Zaccaria and Galliera!

[babydrane]

It isn't immodest and like everyone's said, no one else had her back or had the balls to say what she says in this interview because they were too busy kissing everyone else's ass. She really had no rivals except for people who sang only a particular kind of repertoire, over and over and over again. As a Musician and opera singer, she had none period! It was those mediocre singers that had the most to gain from this apochryphal rivalry.

[MrLupo23]

ahhahahhaha What a bi*ch!!! Love her voice!!! :-)

[Shahrdad]

@sezgin86 Callas had an incredible technique, but it was suited to her larger stronger body. Her husband said that when heavy, she had the strength of a young bull. Some of her most amazing singing is form 1953, her last "fat" year, and the voice changes as she got thinner. Many singers have spoken of this, and as Renee Fleming said, if Callas had a light voice, this would not have mattered, but she had a large, heavy voice which couldn't function as well with reduced physical strength.

[DrRigolettoPianist]

@primohomme Thank you LohengrinT and primohomme!! =D If I'm not mistaken, "Contro un cor" is the lesson scene of Barbiere. =D

[LohengrinT]

@primohomme

If you mean the end of the aria at 8:23 it is the end of Contro un cor che accende amore from Rossini's Barbiere, this is the studio version. In the live version she transposed higher to the high soprano (the only official transposition Callas made in a Scala performance)

[DrRigolettoPianist]

@primohomme Thank you sir! =D