Callas - Medea, Florence 1953 Complete - Vinyl Source
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- čas přidán 20. 12. 2015
- From Fonit Cetra's Documents DOC 60, Callas makes her incredible début as Cherubini's Medea. Though the sound quality is similar to that of most CD releases, i feel that here, the highs are a little more sharp and present. This performance is incredible, Callas has such a massive voice here!
Maria Callas: Medea
Carlos Guichandut: Giasone
Gabriella Tucci: Glauce
Mario Petri: Creonte
Fedora Barbieri: Neris
Liliana Poli: Prima ancella
Maria Andreassei: Second ancella
Mario Frosini: Un capo delle guardie
Recorded live 7 May 1953, Florence, Teatro Comunale.
Conducted by Vittorio Gui - Hudba
La meilleure version !!! Callas au sommet !
Callas at her phenomenal best! The role could have been written for her and this is my favourite performance of hers because she's still in great voice. Later performances are also wonderful but here her most exciting and often beautiful voice is intact. Fedora Barbieri is also sublime here, her gorgeous mezzo voice suits this role perfectly and her solo un pianto is a highlight.
María Callas maravillosa!!!
È MEDEA, meravigliosa ed un eccellente Fedora Barbieri. Grazie
Non c'è niente da fare...nessun'altra saprà mai interpretare il ruolo di Medea come la divina Maria Callas
Best Medea conducting and best Giasone from all her Medeas. Thank you so much for presenting here such a treasure!
Oui, incroyable !!!! Le seul effort qu'elle semble obligée de faire parfois est de retenir cette voix gigantesque... les gens qui ont entendu et vu cela sont bénis des dieux... L'Apollinien ET le Dionysiaque
La mia Medea preferita
This was Callas' first Medea performances. She learned the role in less than a week and she sounds like she was born singing it. The voice was gigantic at this time and there was nothing she couldn't do with it. The sound is pretty damn amazing considering the vintage, and Callas shows all of us this opera is no longer performed. I doubt whether her Medea will EVER be approached let alone surpassed. Her declamation is electrifying. She's also aided and abetted by the superb Neris of Fedora Barbieri. Will there ever be another Callas?
+Larry Mitchell ofc there will never be another Callas that is why all of them are after all these years crazy with Malice for her (All of them!! - inside Conservatoires failed singers pretending to be Teachers teach that she was a bad singer!! - Primadonnas that not even their mother remembers their name claim they sing better than her).. Added to all this you so accurately say I will add the unbelievable performance of Vittorio Gui in the Storm Prelude!! no one has managed to approach Gui in this.. (1:41:40) This is by far my favorite Medea! Indeed her Voice is Gigantic here
+Lohengrin O - Callas accomplished the impossible, and is resented for it. She took an imperfect voice and turned the liabilities into assets. She shed a light on Italian opera that had long been extinguished ------ and now it's extinguished again. She still occupies her own galaxy and will remain immortal as long as opera exists. Those who don't like her have no idea of what she was even about.
+Lohengrin O
O.O do they actually theach them that in conservatoires???
da fuck.......
+Dadacomero - Lohengrin is right! For the whole decade of the 1950s, Callas was an operatic singing shark. Her demonic genius has never been possessed by ANYONE! There have been some great divas, but NONE of them could do what Callas did. I doubt whether there was ever a piece of vocal music in ANY opera that presented any challenges to her. There were retired singers who resented her and they used to say negative things about her vocal production. It was pure jealousy that even continues into today. Callas resided on her own galaxy, and she still does. We will not encounter her like again.
+Lohengrin O I credited you in a post to Dadacomcero. You were right about everything you said and even found the words to add to your already wonderful comments.
Out of this World! Heavenly !
Medea = La Callas .
unica,divina.
Maria Callas 💖 è l'unica Medea!
Incredible! Thank you!
Mythical performance
A abertura é incrível!
No comment can do justice to the miracle that was and is Callas. But Fedora Barbieri really rises to the Greek Tragedy here. I have always liked the youthful Berganza in this role but it has to be admitted that Barbieri is altogether on a grander scale and one that better fits the dramatic relationships.
Melvyn Elphee everybody's talking about Callas here that they tend to overlook Barbieri's astounding musicality as Neris.
You're so right about Barbieri.
She was a giant on stage.
Than I want ot remeber to all who commented here, that sound's technology today makes miracles....we really nevere know what the voices sounded like in reality, seen that at a first listening of this recording it seems it's been a little bit remastered, so it's quite difficult to judge how the real voices of all was on stage.
Despite the old Teatro Comunale acoustics that's a remarkable recording. Callas at 1:40:18 is incredible !
💥💥💥🌚🌚🌚
Suprema!
Her note at 1:40:18 is amazing.
Andy Schnabel Amor ridi con MEEEEE!!!! It is mad...
I think her Florence Medea with Gui is the best in term of vocal feats. The Dallas one is the best in term of vileness.
Andy Schnabel Vocal MURDERS.. No recorded artist no matter what could sing this like Callas. No matter how much the anti-Callas clan will try they will never find anyone..
Her C at the Amor ridi con MEEEEE is ways better than many famous Wagnerian sopranos.
N. Lidar we get your point. I totally agree with you though. Not take of deep breath take a Xanax glass of wine😊🍷🙏🎼💊
H have no fury. And Callas does it perfectly. BRAVA MARIA !!! Another triumph. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
1:40:17
Is Nirvana
Al het bewijs van de Aller Grootse is het applaus als zij opkomt. In 53 al DIVINA!!
If you listen to this and then to her Scala Medea of December 8th, by which time she had lost a good deal of weight, you will hear how her voice had already shrunk a bit in power, volume, and amplitude. It amazes me how she learned this fiendish role in such a short time, and how she sounds like she's been singing it her whole life. There was something about this music and this character out of Greek mythology that deeply resonated with her, and the fiendish music somehow always fit her like a glove. Even in the Juilliard masterclasses, her voice sounded astoundingly better when she was demonstrating Medea's aria to a pupil. I have heard many other singers attempt this role, but they all sound ludicrous. There are so many roles in which Callas set unattainable vocal and dramatic standards, but in my opinion, none more so than Medea. This role will be forever hers.
The definitive performance of the role
Yes. This, Scala, and Dallas performances are each definitive in a slightly different ways. Here she is more the vengeful demigoddess, whereas in Dallas there is more of the human woman in her. She's in excellent voice in them all, and perhaps because of the Met firing, she felt even more in a Medea mood in Dallas. It's her most tortured performance of this role. Essentially, the whole performance is a titanic battle between the loving mother and the vengeful demigoddess. And there is incredible pathos in seeing the woman defeated by the vengeful goddess with horrific results.
@@Shahrdad I just love your comments on Callas! I always learn something more on our DIVINA! Thank you.!
It was something normal for her, her music’s intelligence made her be able to do it, she also made this with Armida or I puritani for example. Which are a very high category roles too.❤️🤍❤️
legendary.... divine.... etc etc
Thanks for uploading it, it's important anyway to remember that Callas is just the singer for the title role, the Opera itself is by LUIGI CHERUBINI. Not a secondary information to avoid to mention....
You are right , sometimes they focus on the prima donna or the title role and forget the origin , but sometimes the opposite happens , unfortunately .
Cherubini created a marvel here indeed and all honor goes deservedly to him for that. It is yet so that he and his great work would have stayed in honorable obscurity but for the glory that was is Callas.
Incredible...i.love all her medea, this is a role only her can sing and understand. Who after her sang that this Way?
1:34:45- the beginning of the end.
The 3 dislike clicks here proves why game of pornothrones was such a big "hit". Humanoids....
Troglodytes INDEED my friend. Arnold Bourbon Amaral
2:04:40
N. Lidar I really enjoy your comments about Maria Callas! You go girl are you a girl? Arnold Bourbon Amaral and LOHENGRIN TOO if spelled correctly please forgive me Your Highness LOL
50:06 - Nemici senza cor duet
Which version is the best Callas Medea, according to you? Personally, I'm rather fond of the 1959 version (London Covent Garden)...
This and Dallas. They're both incredible in their own way: in Florence, she's more the goddess and less the woman, whereas in Dallas, she's more woman and less goddess. For me, in Dallas, she truly became Medea, as witnessed by the famous photo of her in full, grand fury.
Dallas. So intense!
Dallas. Definitely!!!
the orchestra & maestro gui in this interpretation is the most unique version ever the overture act 1&espcially act 3 is just breathtaking 🙏🏻 none did a better one as a musical director & callas it is so hard to choose, but when it comes to just the voice, this is "the medea" 🐧💜
@@oswaldcoppelpot2543 Yes, Gui was the better maestro for Cherubini'music (very difficult and deep), and Callas here had her better and powerful voice
Constant interruptión of the Callas performance with ads
the tempo seems to have been tampered with.
This ads are real garbage the the media controles have increased due they want to pay eventually ill turn to own music in disc et
1:40:06 thank me later
41:48