Maria Callas - Turandot (Buenos Aires, 1949)

Maria Callas and Mario del Monaco singing the Turandot's final scene at Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, 1949.
This part is the only one that survived. There is an entire second act that circulate but is fake.

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Music

Tags:

• Maria
• Callas
• Turandot
• In
• questa
• reggia
• Live
• Teatro
• Colon

[aristopus]

This is great. I always wondered what La Callas might have sounded like when she sang for the Nazis in 1942. They must have considered her an appealing fat girl with a nice voice. History is filled with irony as when she appeared at the Paris Opera House eighteen years later. Believe me, whoever might happen to read this, it was the hottest ticket in town.

[tebaldicallas]

The voice is not too pretty and she also has shaky top notes.

[joanabanyeres]

Maria, Cecilia Sofia.;;;;; always great How many years to day? strange but difficult to really know.. She was awesome l heard her and saw her

[scostatisciagurato]

@alexgomez2 Oh but my dear, it was a mammoth sound. Joan Sutherland said when she first heard Callas rehearsing in the 52 Norma it was the largest voice she'd ever heard. And then she gushed out full-bodied fioriture in the Act I cabaletta with the same size and power, no lessening of volume for the high notes. And anyway, her voice is the most unique operatic voice in history, and fortes were never overused in her approach to music.

[assindiastignani]

@RicharddtheStar That has to be the where they were standing in relation to the mikes. Noone, but no one drowned out Del Monaco.

[Buondelmonte123]

@vilchno This is a genuine sound clip from Act 3. It's the second act that is a fake.

[HellasItalia4]

ΜΑΡΙΑ ΚΑΛΟΓΕΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ

L'Ultima Dea Greca !

[livmedful1]

@Operaddict

Still, she's famous, you're not, deal with it!

[livmedful1]

@Operaddict

Still, she's famous, you're not, deal with it!