Callas teaches bass-baritone Willard White on Fiesco's aria

This is some of the best baby!  God bless both of them, and all opera singers!

OLD SCHOOL IS BEST, STILL (agreeing with Sillyboydeux) and will be forever, in my opinion.
Let´s simply see what the world has provided lately with modern technics that contradict main principles in belcanto around the world. Mr. White is one of the latest representant of the finest basso cantante today.

What a post,Thanks!

He's a great singer, taught by the Erinyes herself. What she coyly refers to as "open singing" is the technique of canto sfogato, to "vent" all the emotion of the phrase through a kind of abandon and musical aggressiveness. She also counsels the light voices to be just as assertive, each note accounted for and never slid up to or scooped. She's like my art teachers, a lifetime of study can be devoted to one suggestion that was made 40 years ago. Old school is best, still!

Loismustdie26 please go to the Callas recording of Beethoven's Ah perfido spergiura, recorded in 1975, a year before her death, after everyone had buried her anyway. She had corrected all her problems, which is to say, she got her nerve back, and sings a stirring, flawless rendition of this concert piece. Remember what she said: "He who mounts the tiger cannot descend the tiger". She had to withdraw from a vicious press, just as many Americans like Madonna have done. You get paranoid.

wow, thank you so much for turning me on to that. Absolutely amazing from start to finish.

And it is obvious that she likes his voice.

@arrassip31 For arrasip
She could also correct his pronounciation.

WILLARD WHITE Truly on of Jamaicas Gifts to the World .

if the good Lord doesn't give it to you, you just don't have it. some sopranos are blessed with a rich bottom register and others are not. a soubrette or light lyric soprano should not be expected to project the lower register as Callas does in this demonstration.