Young Maria Callas' Suicidal Scales as Abigaile
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2015
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-123pailin:
Callas...the one and only!!! Releasing the beast in her. Is there one voice that ever had all that??? She was bigger than life, the Mount Everest that fell into the opera pond....So wonderful....
-From BZBlaner:
The early Nabucco is like the Vocal Olympics - endless fortissimo passages, treacherous octave drops, a sea of high notes. It's a voice ruiner for sure, but to think she added a high E-flat in "Deh perdona, deh perdona" at the end of the opera is just beyond belief. This is MONUMENTAL level singing, something we won't be hearing anytime soon.
-From Mister Opera
WOW! At 3:38 she sings D5, FORTE, in CHEST voice, like old castrati sang...Tosi, and Mancini in their books about singing say that sopranos had CHEST voice til D5 or even higher...
Callas is really OLD school (probably because of de Hidalgo)!!!
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Callas shares the Pantheon with Phidias, da Vinci and Michelangelo
I wonder if Bellini or Donizetti ever imagined Callas for their “light” roles (I know this is a Verdi opera)?
I wish “fat” Callas had wasted less time with Violetas and Toscas……she was incredible!!!!!!
@@cadecannon159 of course they did, la Sonnambula was written for Pasta who was a dramatic soprano. The idea that “coloratura” roles have to be sung by light sopranos is 20th century nonsense
It's absolutely amazing how balanced the vocal vectors are! Her voice is as powerful and dazzling as a tornado! She is like a 30-ton truck speeding up like a Ferrari! Her voice cuts through the orchestra like a sharp blade! That is absolutely spectacular! Especially if we take into consideration the fact the score is so difficult to sing that it actually pushes the larynx to its natural limits!
indeed she is a very fat person dancing like Makarova... that was always Callas' main Miracle
Alicia makarova
Verdi didn’t know it at the time, but he wrote this role for Callas and Callas alone
you could say that about many roles Callas took.
Безусловно Мария Каллас прекрасна в этой партии, но Верди написал её для своей будущей второй жены Джузеппины Стреппони. Так же прекрасна в этой роли Елена Сулиотис. Это самая сложная партия во всём оперном репертуаре для абсолютного сопрано, чрезвычайно редкого голоса...
To those who think that the Callas Legend is all hype - they have to listen this Naples 1949 live recording, conducted by Vittorio Gui, a Conductor whom always gets it right when working with Callas. Has this role ever been so powerfully and skilfully sung? Not only are the high notes strong and forceful, as befits the character of Abigaille, but listen to her chest notes too! I think that if this opera was the only remnant of Maria Callas, she would still be talked about today.
Maria is, as ever, unsurpassed; one of the greatest artists in human history.
Callas...the one and only!!! Releashing the beast in her. Is there one voice that ever had all that??? She was bigger than life, the Mount Everest that fell into the opera pond....So wonderful....
123pailin great.
Agree
God Verdi was a dick to his sopranos early in his career. Callas was able to triumphantly rise above all the difficulty in this role and excel. Brilliant.
Potenza della voce, tecnica eccezionale, coloratura incredibile.
I miei genitori, più o meno coevi della Callas, mi hanno insegnato ad amarla.
In questi anni Maria era una potenza della natura guidata da una tecnica eccezionale... ascoltarla era esaltante !!! Quando il fato distribuì i doni sulla terra mandò anche Maria...
I was just thinking that she was a force of nature (in English!) and then I read your comment numetutulare
GB, poco dopo, per compensarci del suo precoce ritiro, il fato ci mando' la Sutherland...poi il fato s'e' stufato e non ci ha mandato piu' nessuna...
@@fabriziomariagarzi5534 La colpa non è del fato ma della cattiva scuola, dei pessimi maestri e della voglia di bruciare le tappe... la voracità del business ci regala le varie Netrebko, ormai sfiatata ed i suoi degni compari...
@@fabriziogarzi9396 Il triste è che non si vede alcun barlume di cambiamento all'orizzonte...
I'm once again impressed with the clarity of this recording. What a pleasure to listen to compared with earlier versions.
you have Callas singing Abigaile inside your room :D
Inside my head--and my heart.
If only Verdi could have heard this!
Giuseppina Streponi lost her voice trying to sing this, right? :p
In parte, quando cantò Nabucco la voce era già usurata dalle tante recite e dalla vita che aveva condotto...
What kind of life had she led before 1949? I thought it was endless vocal study. Is that what you are referring to?
I think numetutelare talks about Giuseppina Streponi, who reportedly lost her voice in the rehearsals of Nabucco.. so he reports that she didnt lose her voice because of Abigaile but because of "the life she led" before that
In effetti la biografia della Strepponi dice che lei canto molto e di tutto, quindi repertori pesanti, per mantenere la sua famiglia che pesava tutta su di lei, inoltre ebbe una vita sentimentale molto avventurosa e complicata con due bambini avuti da nubile e dei quali, stranamente, non si sa quasi nulla... Mi ha sempre stupito l'assoluta mancanza di notizie e, pare, di interesse, per i figli da parte della Strepponi. Comunque non ne ebbe con Verdi e dopo un po' di anni adottarono una figlia... quindi i discendenti diretti di Verdi non sono consanguinei... Tra l'altro la Strepponi non era certo una bellezza, anzi, ritratti e foto dell'epoca lo attestano... mentre la presunta amante di Verdi, il soprano Teresa Stolz era una grande cantante ed una magnifica donna, stando alle notizie dell'epoca,. In ogni modo la Strepponi condivise la vita ed anche la morte con Verdi, poiché riposano entrambi nella cappella della Casa di Riposo per Artisti "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milano.
One of the Callas miracles.. i think most likely not repeatable any time soon.. makes me very happy we have this recording and also very sad
I........am.........speechless. Simply phenomenal.
SEMPLICEMENTE DIVINA! 🌟
She mastered "old school" while creating a new school where the singer is an actor as well, and every scale, every fioritura, even every note has a meaning and/or expresses a feeling.
absolutely no school... no one before her and no one after her
@@LohengrinO WORD!!
Atmosfere irripetibili,generano brividi esaltanti. Grandioso
The greatest ! No debate needed
I just admire people with big voices. I used to listen to Coloraturas and Lyric Sopranos. But I didn't really get amazed with their voices cos the bright timbre sounds similar to mine. But those with big voices, Dramatics and Contraltos. Even Baritones and Bass just always gets my attention. It simply commands that I listen to them 😻😻😻
That's what made amazed to Callas. Her voice is big and is not constricted.
What about Spinto?
Because they don’t teach them how they used to, and people have the misconception that sopranos are supposed to have a light voice when old school sopranos had depth to their voice. Like Callas and Rosa Ponselle. I had fallen into that misconception until I started listening to older sopranos and seeing that they no longer teach sopranos to incorporate chest voice, which is what gives that depth. It is a shame and has probably been part of the downfall of opera. It’s not exciting anymore like this. I recently began training the old school way after almost a decade of voice issues since getting sick in 2014. To sing around my issues I was singing incorrectly and didn’t really change it up til last year. Finally seeing results I want to see, but still have more healing to go. I can only hope to be half as great as Callas, even then, that would be greater than most of the sopranos today. I am grateful for my journey and will just use it to strengthen myself further. Best wishes to you
Это невероятно... Странный голос, колючий какой-то,не самый красивый голос, но потрясающий, изумительный, невероятный, колоссальный,великолепный вокал!Это чудо,изумительно
I love how the baritone’s growly, primitive sounds contrast the regal, warrior voices of Callas-not a typo here-i mean voices!
...and Souls
I am sooo glad that I subscribed to your site...thank you for all the great treasures...and OF COURSE CALLAS IS/WAS THE GREATEST !!!!!!!!!!
One of those one time recordings of hers that you can’t ever get tired off.
And that if you keep listening to it 1000 times you still find precious gems lying around waiting to be descovered. So sad she never got to record it in the studio.. just like with Armida for example...
or just like a live Turandot or Butterfly..
But there are these recordings like Nabucco, Armida, Alceste, Vestale, the live Pirata, the live Balo, the live Bolena that are just so all encompassing, honest, raw, pure and it just can’t be any more perfect than that...
And then there are roles that she sung over and over again each time better more passionate more deeper understanding the personaggio than the other : Norma, Violetta, Medea, Lucia, Elvira.. i can’t choose if the studio or the live one is more fullfilling.. but i do thank her and all the maestri and the artists she worked with on all these recordings because i can’t imagine it any other way...
Abigaile and Armida would have lost much if sung studio... in studio she was never allowed to unleash the full power of her voice.. same with Aida, if u compare her live Aidas to the studio one... here live Aida is Divine
Lohengrin O yeah i know what you mean.. even Rigoletto is more satisfying as “bad” as the Mexico one was as the studio one. Trovatore from 53 Scala is amazing so is the mexican Puritani.. to be honest i can’t deceide between the two Giocondas though both studio done. Too bad there isn’t a live one. The same for her Turandot.. had she recorded it with DelMonaco or Corelli well..
Voina Marius LA DIVINA LIVE IS SO MUCH BETTER MY FRIEND. LIKE LOHENGRIN O SAID UNLEASH HER VOICE. "INDEED"☝ SINCERELY Arnold Bourbon Amaral 1820 🌍🌎🌏
I... I don't know what to say. Mesmerized.
Beautiful music, beautiful singing. I don't care what anyone says, early Verdi is my favorite. Delicate, elegant AND intense and powerful. There is nothing in the world so beautiful and magnificent. Who is the conductor? I love his subtle tempo variations!
Amazing...the voice young, flexible and fearless!... incomparable!!!!
Dazzled ! I cannot say anything else and anyway there no words needed .....
Imagine Patrik Baboumian doing Evgeni Plushenko's 4+3+3 jump combination while simultaneously lifting a 150kg beer keg. This is its vocal equivalent. STOP COMPARING HER TO NOBODIES!
LOVED IT!
WONDERFUL
Una forza della natura...
Admirada!!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
love it
مريا حبببتي انت نعمة من نعم الله ارسلها لعباده
MARAVILLOSA
Bravo grandiose music
BELLEZA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ÙNICA !!!!!!!!!!
All hail Callas
ÙNICA !!!!!!!
SUPERHUMAN CALLAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting this. If you have the information, please post where and when this was recorded.
Performance from 20. December 1949, Teatro San Carlo, Naples with Maria Callas, Gino Becchi, Amalia Pini, Gino Sinimberghi, Luciano Neroni, Iginio Ricco, Luciano della Pergola. Vittorio Gui, conductor :-)
perché non ha fatto,proprio in quelli anni registrazioni in studio, accurate, perfette, per poter godere oggi in pieno la sua divina voce ? Che trascuratezza da parte di chi la adorava....
stupidità, non trascuratezza
Si je puis me permettre .. Tellement plus vivant , prenant sur scène en live , non !?
Once again, a pox on Cetra and later EMI for not recording some of her best roles under studio conditions! (Don't really mean that. Both labels have wonderful things!)
👌🏿👌🏿👌🏿
Abigaille, Lady M and Amneris were cut from the same cloth .. if only she had sung Amneris instead of Aida 😲😬
Can you imagine a duet with Callas Amneris and Tebaldi Aida with Corelli or DelMonaco between them ? 🤨 that is epocal beyond grasp ❤️🎼
To think she sung this then lived to sing in gorgeous voice 100 Normas and 80 Medeas 😳...
Tebaldi was horrible as Aida though :D
Lohengrin O well even so such a night would have blown Scala and the entire opera world 😲 i mean Sutherland and Callas together were meah cause at that time Joan was really a nobody.. but Tebaldi was a superstar at the same time with Maria.. ofcourse nobody would have had the guts to be Aida to her Amneris .. most likely she would have ended up pulling another “stunt” and singing both roles 😬😍
I think the best female partners for Callas were Stignani and Simionato... both very powerful and agile voices in the prototype of dramatic d'agilita singing
Lohengrin O ah yes, it would have been possible for Simionato to sing Aida? That could have been something gorgeous for Callas to be Amneris and Simionato to be Aida 😍
the real Miracle exists: Callas as Aida and Oralia Dominguez as Amneris in what is the greatest recording of Aida of the Century
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I think the issue with her vocal problems stems simply from her having used all her vocal reserves while so young. She may have lost her voice while relatively young but what she did changed the face of opera in the 20th century. So much emotion poured forth her it would have been miraculous if she hadn't blown her voice reserves. You can't give this much and not pay some kind of price. But I can't think of another performer who gave so much. Not even Caruso.
if you think that she was singing like that from the age of 16 all the way to the age of 36 (1959) that is 20 years of singing the heaviest repertoire, that is phenomenally long lasting vocal longevity. Think that her Golden Era (1952-1957) occured after more than 40 Turandots and God knows how many Aidas, Kundrys, Brunhildes, Abigailes etc She was a phenomenon of vocal longevity when taken into consideration how many years she was singing the heaviest repertoire and the way she sang it
You know, she was right behaving the way she did towards her voice. people say, for instance, that Joan Sutherland had a 30 years career...But only the first ten or twelve really count. After 1970 the voice has lost the freshness and purity...Later, if she went up, she could not come down and vice versa...So Bonynge had to be transposing everything for her. Why did she droped Puritani? Because it is low, for Bellini... But at the end the high notes come and she could not sing them any longer...You see? And Zinka Milanov was the same: very long career, but after 1950 steady drop in her vocal qualities... Und so weiter !
Gary Dubois This is true. But there were other health issues as well.
Gary Dubois The great Elena Souliotis had that problem with Abigail
@@LohengrinO Completely agree. Part of the thing that we love with Callas is the way that she used her technique to get the most out of her instrument, top to bottom, as a means to make her roles vital, compelling and alive. It could be argued that there have been soprani with better god given voices, but none with the rest of her talent's facility for intelligence, acting ability, and compelling use of a technique which was at variance with what was considered the most desirable during her career.
Why you d'nt give the date ot performance?
Although Callas had the voice and the technique to sing this killer-role, she has sung it only once, if I am not mistaken. Pity!
Aetion it would have ruined her voice... too screamy role with not so much beauty in it.. just a technical achivement
Lohengrin O Sure. Many a voice have been ruined by this inhuman role. The first one must have been Giuseppina Strepponi's, Verdi's second wife.
+Aetion Dimitrova suggested that this score was typical of Verdi's early works, that he couldn't really write for the voice yet. Too many octave jumps, fortissimo demands, heavy coloratura.
Even Lady Macbeth is not as difficult as this.
jmiller05 not too much meat I think though... just extreme demands... I only truly like the Nabucco duet Deh perdona... and I dont think most people realize how difficult this is
It's almost a masochistic task for the singer. Abigaille only ever sings lyrically in one tiny section and the rest is monstrous singing. It's like Turandot with coloratura and octave drops.
The fact that Maria sang this whole and undamaged at 26 is a miracle.
I really thought whitney houston has the most powerful voice until i heard this young callas. She's the queen of all voices.
You are kind comparing orchids with roses ;)... compare Houston to Streisand and Callas to Sutherland :D
Now I kind of wonder where Whitney would have been if she had gone the operatic track.
usually immensely talented pop singers are very mediocre opera singers and vice versa... Nana Mouskouri and Sarah Brightman both with operatic placement in singing and bot excellent in pop music, quite dreadful as opera singers...
Jose Abraham haha. I seriously doubt any excellent opera singer would be doing drugs. That would destroy the folds. It's basically like being an Olympic athlete. You must keep your body pristine
Evangeline Hortense Hon, Whitney's BEAUTIFUL voice was a LYRIC Soprano. She belted. Not a huge voice like Chaka Khan. Callas's is a Spinto, the flexibility and range of Lyric, but can make Dramatic (Huge) tones. Opera singer Birgit Nielsen has an even larger voice, but none of the interpretive power and genius.
Someone could tell me the Aria's name?
Donna chi sei
@@cristinapalermo3569 thanks
Bechi is terribly flat and uninspired as ever. Callas deserves a better opponent.
Agree
Callas is great, but the music in Nabucco is just not great...
a role la stupida never dared!
+Ninel Con D yes this is the only one role of Callas Sutherland never dared.. oh yes! along with Costanze!!, Armida, Lady Macbeth, Gioconda, Imogene, Medea etc (the entire Assoluta catalogue I and II :D
Lohengrin O and they dare say sutherland's zero diction singing was the perfect technique. Sutherland was a mess. if i want to go to sleep i put her casta diva.
Ninel Con D
If a singer has to cancel major singing qualities in order to amplify one certain quality, then actually, there is no technique at all :D
Lohengrin O if only she had a higher iq she would of stayed with serafin and not turn into her "husband's" beard...
+Ninel Con D Sutherland's "Casta Diva" was the only good thing she did in the whole opera...
Gino Bechi was a force of nature.
Callas is pretty good here too :)
Hey. I know your the biggest callas fan ever. I wanted to know if you knew these existed. czcams.com/video/t-VXwdvKo7k/video.html. I never knew she taped singing these arias.
+RicharddtheStar well, I wouldnt call myself the biggest fan ever... But I have studied Callas a lot in her early years and Im still studying her.. I had not see before these two samples you just sent me.. Thank you...
the video link is unavailable - what was the link to? *hoping it is something i haven't heard yet*
CallasFan hey. The link was with callas singing Mimi's aria and a casta diva that has never been shown before. The owner of the clips took them down because people where taking credit for his work. He apparently has a video of Callas as Lucia. But he's not willing to budge on uploading the clips.
Purtroppo la Dimitrova in confronto fa ridere.