Young Maria Callas and Gino Bechi, a Duet for All Eternity (Smashing Heroic Eb6 of Soprano Assoluta)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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-From Ali Offe
She was 26 here! Having already sung... Tosca (21), Santuzza (12), Fidelio Leonore (11), La Gioconda (5), Isolde (7), Turandot (24), Forza Leonora (4), Aida (8), Norma (6), Walkiria Brunnhilde (6), Elvira (3), Kundry (4). And yes, this is early Callas having difficulties in getting contracts in Italy!!!
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-From Manoli S.
I hate when people only focus on the tragic aspects of Maria’s life. This woman was a badass full of raw energy and power and all they wanna do it focus on the bad. ENOUGH! I highly doubt Maria would want to be remembered for her personal difficulties. I’ll remember her like this, when she was at the peak of her artistic abilities.
Incidentally, I can think of no better post to celebrate 200 years of Greek Independence today Ζήτω η Ελλάς!
-From N. Lidar
Believe me, NOBODY has ever dared to leap across octaves like an Olympian as Callas did... NOBODY has ever dared sing Lady Macbeth, Violetta, Lucia, Norma, Elvira, Armida, Gilda, Konstanze, Tosca, Elena and Gioconda in the same year (1952)... Because nobody could and all singers know that even if their egos won't permit them to admit it. And about those insufferable sopranos whom you mention (we all know who they are), they don't even deserve to be mentioned or talked about under a Callas video... Utter nobodies.
-From NG TO G9
I only recently discovered this recording (im quite new to opera) but i am already convinced that either this or the mexico aida is the best recording of anything in existence. too bad she didn't sing nabucco in the first batch of studio recordings because some idiot decided to scrap it.
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![Maria Callas in Nabucco (Highlights) [Napoli, 20/12/1949]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rkXtkq0MUo4/mqdefault.jpg)
TODAY,
As it is every day throughout the world, a new generation of opera lovers are discovering the wonders of the art form. Their personal tastes have not yet crystallized, deciding whether they love Verdi more than Mozart, and then, comes the easiest decisión to make. Who is the greatest soprano in history of Opera.
The newbies will rant about this n' that, but the truly intelligent, listening to THIS display of fantastic singing, thru Line, commitment to the demands of a role will realize, that with MARIA CALLAS, the job, is complete, they are hooked, and emotionally connected to her. CALLAS is eternal life of Grande Opera. How many new fans did MARIA CALLAS make today? Nobody knows. But, they are MORE than we can guess.
Viva MARIA.
I get up in the morning, look out the window and make strong espresso listening to Callas.
HAPPY GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
the background painting is the destruction of Babylon btw
@@LohengrinO JOHN MARTIN is a Callas fan.
I was hooked up to Sutherland at first. I didn't know who Callas was. I just came across with her in my feed. After listening to her voice, I stopped listening to Sutherland.
There is a reason that Callas still outsells modern sopranos. Part of it is on display here. Stunning.
So glad you're back and posting. Wish you the best!
Imagine becoming the definitive Abigaille at 26... This woman was a paragon of singing ability.
Twenties is a time when one tries to figure out what to do with the rest of their life. She had already become the embodiment of an entire art form. Truly outrageous and grossly unfair as dame Judi Dench put it.
@@alioffe4321 that's the definition of Genius, Mozart by the time he was 33 had already died... had finished not just with his compositions but with Life itself!!!
@@LohengrinO and Bellini had already composed Norma, the crowning jewel of Art and culture in Europe at the age of 30. Callas was one of the titans, indeed.
@@equinox6651 Debuting as the Woodbird does not count, though! Great singers of the past DID start early, and they were singing multiple performances on a single day, Sonnambula at noon and Norma in the evening. 5-10 years of prime on average and another 10 past their prime.
This is another one of my favorites. Callas stentorian, thunderous, authoritative singing and the command of music, words, the bite in her singing. Becchi finally rises to the occasion in “Deh perdona” to bring the duet/bout to a knockout ending.
I love the guts and glory of her voice in this role, when her voice was massive.
I hate when people only focus on the tragic aspects of Maria’s life. This woman was a badass full of raw energy and power and all they wanna do it focus on the bad. ENOUGH! I highly doubt Maria would want to be remembered for her personal difficulties. I’ll remember her like this, when she was at the peak of her artistic abilities.
Incidentally, I can think of no better post to celebrate 200 years of Greek Independence today Ζήτω η Ελλάς!
I wholeheartedly agree Manoli. Unique only begins to describe her art. I’ve ‘pinned’ thousands of pictures on Pinterest that celebrate Callas and have come to see her in different terms than how she is often described as a ‘trista donna’ or a difficult person. We learn from candid photos that she smiles frequently, has close relationships with friends and colleagues, loves the sea (this surprised me), was a social animal who enjoyed the life of the glitterati and her own celebrity.
I think that the early press did her and her reputation a disservice. The films and books on her death put way too much on her personality and conflicts with others. That her relations with Onassis and her final years are sad are just part of her story.
I still get chills when I listen to these early recordings but also marvel at the other later performances when her voice was beginning to unravel on how much she was still capable of doing with it to express what only she could find.
My hope is that there will be a full assessment on the giant and genius that she was.
@@dougt3652 thank you Douglas for your response. I’ve found that some people are only attracted to the “tragic” aspects of some figures and Callas is no exception. Whatever morbid curiosity there is in insisting on only exploring the personal hardships of Maria and others is beyond me. I’m not saying one can’t sympathize with Maria but when it becomes more about her personal life than what captured our attention in the first place there’s a problem. I think Maria was a very reasonable human, quick to smile, full of charm and humor (especially in her masterclasses), enjoyed social scenes as you said, when pushed too far she’d fight back as she should. She wasn’t this temperamental diva that some say (Rasponi called her ‘the wily Greek’ in a disgusting display of his ignorance) or the frail walking corpse that others want to make her to be (at least not until the very end). She was a human being with an incredible musical and dramatic sense, which she had to work her ass off to mold into the Callas that we know. I remember her saying her memoirs are in her music, and I’m with her. I’m with you all the way my friend, well said!
I agree completly,with Manoli...I never like the Callas,But I am a fan of Bechi
9:29 the way her voice steps up a gear in intensity and cavernousness as it rises, I’ve never known any other soprano before or since who can do that
She conquers the role confidently and commandingly--a notorious voice wrecker (Soliutis, Strepponi). Callas went where other sopranos feared to thread--she led the way; some followed, few have succeeded.
To none
..... Fenomenale esecuzione.!!! Indimenticabile Maria Callas e un grande Gino Bechi 👏👏🇮🇹👏🇮🇹👏🇮🇹Elsa
Because nobody did such huge high Eb ever and because Maria Callas was a paramount of opera, a lot of people forger the wonder was Gino Becchi and the unique quality of his tone, here and in so many recordings he made.
Why do these voices sound a thousand times richer than the best thoses of today ?
Because of the technical use of chest voice and an integrated chest voice to the central octave. The bel canto technique has been mostly lost.
There is a quality/feature in some of Callas' high notes which is hard to explain in words.. you can actually hear another sound "spining/ringing" inside of the main note, usually when she let lose the gigantic top register. I just love it.
Siciliani talks about these mystical harmonics in Callas' voice in an interview here on youtube. You might want to check that out if you havent yet ;)
@@alioffe4321 for sure i will check it out, it is something that always intrigued me and I didnt know there was talks about it!! Thx!!
@@Tdvc you're welcome ♡
@@alioffe4321 Could not find the interview just by searching his name around, do you recall the video tittle?
@@Tdvc
czcams.com/video/FQgZ1pssQ2g/video.html
Singing like this is like dancing on the lip of a volcano. This is sheer vocal suicide that they somehow, just somehow managed not only to survive, but thrive in. Who will ever dare sing like this? Who can?
@@NGTO-zt9qe Believe me, NOBODY has ever dared to leap across octaves like an Olympian as Callas did... NOBODY has ever dared sing Lady Macbeth, Violetta, Lucia, Norma, Elvira, Armida, Gilda, Konstanze, Tosca, Elena and Gioconda in the same year (1952)... Because nobody could and all singers know that even if their egos won't permit them to admit it. And about those insufferable sopranos whom you mention (we all know who they are), they don't even deserve to be mentioned or talked about under a Callas video... Utter nobodies.
@@NLidar AMEN! Compared to Callas, Verret was no Lady, Caballe no Norma, Fleming no Armida, Sutherland no Lucia... they were kids in a schoolplay playing the roles of adults. Convincing portrayals for their age and all, tho.
@@alioffe4321 I agree, although I think Caballé as Norma in Orange really did come the closest, in her own very unique way... As Callas said about Caballé's Norma, a 'swansong'...
@@NLidar in some aspects, she was truly divine. In others, she was sloppy, much like Ponselle and Sutherland. So, i'm with Caballe on this one. She's not a Norma. She's the daughter of Norma.
She was the supreme in her century ~ NO ONE CAME CLOSE TO HER, when opera singing is diminishing through the time Soprano Assoluta even extinct. She is definitely the last and was well recorded. Thank God
I had never heard these singers nor this music. I need to explore this art form.
till yesterday that I discovered this old piece I was listening only to Niki Minaj
@@LohengrinO Moi aussi!
Combat de titans! La vieille garde et la nouvelle génération. Prodigieux.
Her unsurpassed artistry serving the interiority of her characters. Brava Sempre
Ah, the Nabucco for eternity.. what more to want? I’m sure in ways this surpasses even the best imagination of maestro Verdi..
The way she says “ me a slave”?! You can feel the utter disgust/disappointment in her voice
N.LIDAR You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT...SHE IS /WAS THE GREATEST SINGER EVER !!!!!!
I have heard that the San Carlo theater half demoloshed after their final bombing note!! Callas High E flat is causing pandonioum along with Bechi's Volcano high note at the end!
1821-2021: Greece Day Indipendence
Ζήτω το Έθνος!!
indeed Bechi stands here so amazing against La Callas
@@LohengrinO Callas' Abigaille was Herculean. And Bechi was her Nemean lion. He put up a good fight. But, Callas beheaded him a hundred times over with those heroic scales.
@@alioffe4321 but all those artists always gave 110% of themselves when singing along with Callas...
@@LohengrinO Callas had that sovereignty on her colleagues. Everytime i listen to her Covent Garden Norma, i'm suprised to hear how dramatically committed the young sutherland was to such a small part as Clotilde; something gravely missing in her own Norma a decade later!
@@alioffe4321 Richard wouldnt let her... light headed
Open mouth, stunned look, “WOW!”....
Phenomenal!
I am one of the few fortunate enough to have heard (I was even in it) a great Nabucco live! Abigaille makes or breaks Nabucco. unlike most operas that rely on arias, Nabucco is 99% chorus and Abigaigaille's recits. Life changing opera when done right.
INCREDIBILE,VOZES LENDÁRIAS,É DE TIRAR O FÔLEGO.BRAVISSIMI...
If we had images of her... and of the public !
Maria ♥️
Yesterday after your post about the Moser Gilda i listened again to the Callas studio recording of Caro nome and somebody actually commented on the video that she had decent low notes...🌚😑🤦♀️ can you actually imagine someone commenting that about Maria?! Lol!!! I was thinking exactly about Nabucco snd these scales up and down and trying to imagine the sheer stupidity of some people commenting on yt ..🤥😎😝
idiots all around the net
@@LohengrinO
So true!!!
Ζήτω η Ελλάς! ❤️❤️❤️
Θα ήθελα να τραγουδούσε η Μαρία τον εθνικό μας ύμνο σήμερα.
Ναι, ναι γιατί οι Έλληνες της φέρθηκαν εκπληκτικά, την πήγαν στη Βουλή των Ελλήνων δύο φορές ως σκανδαλωδώς Ατάλαντη, την είχαν στη λίστα των Καλλιτεχνών προς Εκτέλεση όπως την Παπαδάκη, της έλεγαν συνέχεια να πάει σπίτι της γιατί ήταν ατάλαντη και όταν ήρθε το 1957 να τραγουδήσει στο Ηρώδειο ο Διευθυντής της Εθνικής Λυρικής Σκηνής είπε: ποια είναι αυτή? δεν την ξέρω!!!
@Lohengrin O
Άδικος ο θάνατος της Παπαδάκη. Πολύ άδικος.
@@fzpe856 Μόνο άδικος? Τερατώδης!!! και η Κατίνα δεν πήγε ποτέ στην κηδεία (τερατο Κομουνίστρια)
@@LohengrinO
Έχω δει μερικές φωτογραφίες αυτής να βρίσκεται στο έδαφος νεκρή. Απορώ με όλους εκείνους που συντέλεσαν στη δολοφονία της. Εντελώς απάνθρωποι. Κτηνώδεις.
@@fzpe856 οι Αριστεροί... ο,τιδήποτε Λάμπει πρέπει να πεθάνει... είμαστε όλοι Καθαρίστριες :D
Bravissima!!
Beautiful.
Thanks
Monumental
Two giants
Is she really singing below him at 7:13!?! Unbelievable sound!
Truly remarkable that!
Agree of every words in the description
Source ?
the Spectacular Warner remasterings