Maria Callas - E Che? Io son Medea! - La Scala 1961 MRF LP 102
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- With booklet scans. This is the only copy of the 1961 Medea i have so i'm not sure if the sound is good or not :)
Maria Callas: Medea
Jon Vickers: Giasone
Ivana Tosini: Glauce
Nicolai Ghiaurov: Creonte
Giulietta Simionato: Neris
Edith Martelli: Prima ancella
Maddalena Bonifaccio: Seconda ancella
Alfredo Giacomotti: Un capo delle guardie
Thomas Schippers conducs the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
11 December, 1961
One of her best roles! Then again, how can one really say that since she was phenomenal in EVERYTHING? Viva La Divina!
Che dire...Divina! Nessun'altra potrà mai interpretare li ruolo di Medea come Maria Callas.
I was living in Verona at this time and managed to get a ticket to La Scala for the 1961 Medea! The live performance was burned into my memory....the supreme acting, the vocal pyrotechnics, and HER on stage like a complex ferocious animal from Greek legend. Also I was fortunate to see Poliuto with her, and the world recital tour in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center with Giuseppe di Stefano....No matter that she was a shadow of her former voice, it was a chance to see and hear her again live! Amazing!
Was that the Poliuto with Corelli, who was spectacular in this dramatic bel canto tenor part?
LOVE...PASSION...PAIN...HATE... IN THE SOUL OF A SORCERESS!... MADAME CALLAS IS "THAT SORCERESS"! SHE ALLWAYS WILL BE "THE MEDEA"....ASTONISHING!
I find the sound very good. You did a great job. Callas drives me crazy in this role. I get chills. It's beyond madness. No one comes close to this immortal artist.
And no one ever will! She is one of a kind. A vocal genius.
Thank you 123 Paillin. Yes the majority of today's sopranos with their voices intact can not do what the greatest soprano of all times, the GREAT Maria Callas, could achieve. Jealousy affects to many couch critics hearing to pick up so called" flaws" in her voice. She is absolutely brilliant in this recording. Have you heard her in rehearsal in 1969 in Paris? The voice still sublime. Bravaaaaa Maria.
Whenever I want to run away from the painful truths , I listen to this aria , it is good sometimes to be heartless like medea , it gives you somekind of a strength to continue !!
I personally think its great break up music.
Thaank you, CallasFan !!
This was almost 1962 ( Dec of 1961) and Callas, with a little work would have had her voice back, the wobbling is now and then and could be easily fixed. This is still very musical, and pretty good singing. The performance at Scala in 1962 finds her in worst voice. Thanks for posting this.. She was superb Medea.. No one else can sing this role , you know, and when they do, its usually awful.. its a hard hard role.
''Wobble '' the biggest nonsense they said about Callas
I think she put in more than a little work on her voice. There is much speculation about the reason for the premature decline of the Callas voice. Dame Joan Sutherland, who both heard Callas live many times at Covent Garden and sang with her before she herself became a superstar, provides the most insight (rapid weight loss).
@@baritonebynight I suppose speculation is useless at this point, but I believe callas lost her higher notes due to some sort of physical ailment, not the weight loss. And that’s another thing, she never really “lost” her voice, it was all there really, excluding the few notes above B5 that slowly faded. I think in any singer, weight loss will undoubtedly make the voice smaller (due to less muscle support) but it’s not really ever the loss alone itself that causes decline.
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E allora forse la malattia (dermatomiosite) può esser stata il colpo di grazia.
Del resto gran parte delle cantanti hanno un top vocale che non arriva mai a fine carriera
Beautiful record and beautiful photos too! Thank you very much. :)
many thanks for the posting God bless you -paul
Callas was in great voice so late in her regretfully short career. And what luxury casting with Vickers (who was Jason to her Medea many times) Ghiaurov, Simionato. and Schippers in the pit. I think Cherubini's Medea is one of the first great Romantic operas with unchecked emotions and large stretches of through sung scenes, as opposed to the set arias that existed since the Baroque era, which anticipates Wagner. I'm glad La Divina championed this masterpiece.
Name one of the present day sopranos who with their so called "intact" voices can do what Callas did with her so called "damaged" voice. Isn't her voice rock solid??? But no, we have to hear the "flaws" even if there were none....
123pailin . For the most part I agree. As an avid La Divina fan for nearly 50 years though, I would have to say that yes, there were certainly noticeable "flaws" in her voice, especially in the later years of her career. And yet, those very "flaws" were truly an important part of her "magic" that is La Callas. Only Callas was able to take such flaws and still use them to serve both the music and the drama. That was her art and the miracle that was Callas. Viva La Divina!
no one will ever do 🙏🏻 but the little old 🐧 has seen sonya yoncheva as medee in berlin at the staatsoper & she did what no other soprano could in the last centuries = come close to callas, yoncheva's acting & singing was out of this world 🎼🐧💜🙏🏻
Callas owns this role. Other great singers have had success in many of Callas' great roles (Sutherland's first Lucia was the same year as Callas' last)...but Medea is nearly unsingable!
This is just a mere fraction of the voice she had a mere 8 years early, when she still had her natural and larger figure. But this role was such an unusually good fit for her voice that even with a fraction of her previous vocal resources, she can bring the role to life as no other.
Non e troppo veloce? Quanto alla Callas, questa è un'esecuzione leggermente "inferiore" a quella di Dallas, ma nondimeno allucinante.
Though her voice is very declined here , I feel like it is her best version of "e che io son medea " , from the voice and the photos you feel like she is maleficent .
Caro Roman,piu' svelta si trovava sicuramente meglio. Il fraseggio e' strabiliante.Non sara' mai raggiunta da nessuna.
Maria's Birthday today 90th 2/12/23
i think Thomas Schippers rush ( sometimes) a bit more than the usual the "finale " of Medea.. as we can hear made some breathing difficulties to all singers.
This is certainly not Scala 1961; sounds like Covent Garden 1959. Also the recording sounds too fast/sharp.
Unfortunately this download runs a semitone sharp. "Io son Medea" is E to A; this runs F to B flat.
Why is it fast forward ?_? I am.sure it is not the normal speech. It is rushing
I think that the part from 10:04 - 12:06 ( more or less ) is taken from the covent garden version in 1959 . Am I right ?
I don't think this is the 1961 recording. His voice doesn't sound like it did in those years. It looks like an older recording.
Nope. It's the December 1961 performance.
@@stefanodepeppo Yes it is. I have it. She was still a fire eating dragon when she did this very late Medea. She was only on the eve of her 38th birthday at the time. When pushed to the max, she could still crank out those difficult notes at both the top and the bottom. She was something else!
I think it was speeded up , what a bad recording
Thin sour voice, it's almost cracks on the high notes.