Maria Callas

Covent Garden,4 November 1962;

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Verdi
• Don
• Carlos
• Tu
• che
• la
• vanita

[tez601]

i was in love with maria she was my perfect woman

[Omazing9]

This was absolutely beyond gorgeous. I cant even imagine how she could pull off, not only just singing this song, but feeling it as much as she did. I will never be able to come close to singing any song with such passion. She could move a mountain to tears. There will be no one like the one and only Maria.

[roweman2]

the fact that such perfection existed in one being at one point is stunning.

[alexgomez2]

Maria Callas was such a great artist, she didn't even need to sing to imprint drama to her performances and this video is a witness to that great amazing ability she had to convey feelings just by being on stage. The amazing 1:37 of prelude are just a great preamble to her amazing vocal range, beautiful voice and sweet countenance. She was somebody people enjoyed listening too and looking at. Maria Callas was indeed divine!

[louise181991]

I was completely drawn in before she even sang her first note.... a compelling performance. I am so grateful that this is on here for all of us to see and learn from.

[Acrim0niix]

J'en ai les larmes aux yeux... Tant de grace, de beauté c'est tout simplement stupéfiant. Je reste sans voix devant la sienne.

[foratti]

@Ariadne7710 Oh! she was very vulgar , her faces before starting to sing, she makes laugh

[Ariadne7710]

@sofiacmattos a pleasure.. but a much better Callas recording of this aria from 1958 is also on YT. She was in much better voice then and although it is a studio recording which doesn't give you the atmosphere of a live performance, it is from every technical point of view exceptional. It is a shame that they never recorderd the whole opera of "Don Carlos" which she performed at La Scala in 1954. That would have been wonderful but sadly it was not done.

[sofiacmattos]

@Ariadne7710 @1994majd thank you very much!

[Ariadne7710]

@sofiacmattos "Tu che le vanita conoscesti del mondo" ( It means You, who knows the emptiness of the world) from Don Carlos by Verdi. It is toward the end of the Opera. Elisabetta de Valois, Queen of Spain is invoking God to keep the Infante, Don Carlos safe (from the wrath of the Inquisition) and at the same time saying that life is coming to the end of the road for her. Sang as well as here and with such great artistry, it is an extremely moving aria.

[1994majd]

@sofiacmattos Tu che le vanita.