Callas breaks your heart into a thousand pieces as Violetta Valéry
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
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-From Shahrdad:
"To be fair, many singers have stood up for Callas. In a German TV program with Birgit Nilsson, the interviewer said something negative about Callas, and he was met with Birgit's icy stare, and she replied, "At her best, Maria was greater than the rest of us put together." Caballe likewise said that she should never be compared with Callas: "I am much smaller than Callas." Scotto too said, "But SHE was the genius. Genius come from 'genio', spirit. And that makes her greater than all of us." Katia Ricciarelli said in an interview in the 1980's to never believe any singer who says they don't listen to Callas. "The first thing any soprano does in the morning is to pour a glass or orange juice, put on a Callas recording, and try to figure out HOW she did it". June Anderson said, "Callas was superhuman. She was on a whole other plane. She really was a Diva - the goddess - and the rest of us are basically her handmaidens."
-From Magnus Jönsson
The epitome of art, this is not just opera, this is an experience that one never forgets. I say Callas is a genius equal to the likes of Mozart, Rembrandt, Einstein and Sokrates, among others.
She does not compete with other sopranos because she is so far above all others in past and present.
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Ponselle once said that Callas was pushing her voice to create a bigger sound. How wrong she was! It was the exact opposite. She was pushing her GIGANTIC voice to make it sound small and fragile.
failed Carmen, ridiculous Sempre libera and Ah bello a me ritorna and coloratura skills of student level while calling herself a Dramatic coloratura, that says it all about Ponselle... another Miraculous Vocal Instrument in the hands of a cleaning lady (something that happens very often in Opera)
@@LohengrinO Arguably the greatest instrument, which was butchered by mediocre technique and a lack of higher intelligence and creativity. The voice is big, opulent and round all across three registers, which in itself is a bloody miracle. However, everything that voice exhibited was pure natural talent! She was occasionally musical, but she was never a true musician. It is a shame that she couldn't incorporate that wonderful legato into florid passages and that dark, brooding, manly chest voice into dramatic declamatory pieces. Her Sucidio will be a huge disappointment to you if you know how great her chest voice actually is.
@@alioffe4321 3 huge problems I see in Ponselle: lack of virtuosic agility (Callas / Sutherland), complete lack of singing technique (she was a girl who had a stradivarious in her hands and was handling it so and so) and lack of sense of drama (she sounded ridiculous in many of her dramatic moments)... quite like Tebaldi whose voice though was much less gifted than Ponselle's
@@LohengrinO PHRASING PHRASING PHRASING. I always judge a singer based on their innate sense of shaping phrases and coloring the notes. If their phrasing is bad, they're not intelligent, musical, artistic etc. They're just phenomenal instruments played by an amateur to my ears. I'll take someone like Schwarzkopf, who had nothing special in her throat, over Ponselle, Tebaldi or Price any day!
@Ali Offe Phrasing is the High Art of the High Art of Opera but my problem with Ponselle is much more fundamental than Phrasing... Sutherland's phrasings were always whatever! but still managed through spectacular technique and miracle instrument to provide spectacular singing... Sounding like a Duck and out of focus in coloratura parts or ridiculous in dramatic outbursts are basic problems you need to solve with TONS of training...
and when she died onstage, she broke a lyric line and her eyes widened as her jaw dropped and she fell into Armand's arms, and the audience gasped and cried out loud! it was so abrupt and shocking as Death really is!
Thank you so much for your comment. It adds another dimension to those of us who never saw her.
Even in the most fragile, sad, pianissimo passages her middle voice is disgustingly GIGANTIC and rich. This is by far the biggest middle voice the human race has on record.
some commenter the other day said Callas is an 18 wheeler moving like a Ferrari
And I couldn't agree more with that statement. I am still waiting for a more agile voice than Callas is her prime and out of her prime when in good voice.
And we *will* wait.
You can't buy or sell what CALLAS had:
MAGIC
HI LOHENGRIN!!!
I haven't seen any posting alerts from you! Hope all is well with you kind friend. Will visit tomorrow!!!
Nice to relive the genius at work..
That is very, very moving. I know nothing about singing technique, but it is just so beautiful and haunting at the same time. It saddens me to think that her health failed her, she had a nasty auto-immune condition that weakened her heart apparently. Aristotle Onassis did not treat her very well by all accounts. Giuseppe di Stefano was a loyal friend who performed so well by her side. Thanks for putting this here for everyone to enjoy.
The epitome of art, this is not just opera, this is an experience that one never forgets. I say Callas is a genius equal to the likes of Mozart, Rembrandt, Einstein and Sokrates, among others.
She does not compete with other sopranos because she is so far above all others in past and present.
This could not have been better phrased,
Magnus Jönsson
. You said all that has to be said.
Yes, and we are lucky that there are recordings to listen to her art.
Oh god!....... there'll never be another...
ofc there wont be another Callas not ever... and especially nowadays with the unbelievable Imbeciles that have taken over Opera Houses....
She utterly destroys me. My God. There is no one else.
Ok, that's enough Callas for today - if I weep anymore, I'll dehydrate!
Thank you for this post, this is simply amazing no words to truly express myself properly. BRAVA.
it shattered my heart...
this is incredible, thank you.
My favorite Callas Traviata is Lisbon 1958. After that performance, no one else will ever compare.
I usually post her in here full vocal prime though... when she could blink and sing the entire role in one sec
After reading the book "La dame aux Camelias" recently this music has not been the same. It is even sadder than it was, if you can believe that.. I recommend you the book extremely. But be careful with the ending, tears will flow..
I whole-heartedly agree. The additional dimension the book provides to the music is simply profound and without parallel. Wept did I ever, at the beginning, middle, and end - especially the end...
I'm in Awe!
Her emotion here is UNMATCHED. I cried. I can feel the angst and the despair, the realisation that she'll die, alone. It's so sad. I watched Moffo's Traviata and she was good, but nowhere near Callas in the sheer emotion and acting. I'm sobbing right now. I understand every single Italian word and it hurts.
...whatever someone states about Maria Callas, there should never be an attempt to compare her genius with any other singer past, present or in the future. A critic of Munich SZ once stated in a article on Mrs. Netrebko in Il Trovatore „better than Callas“ Even with all knowledge of history of Opera and Drama, as critic I would never dare a statement like that. It is preposterous.
As an icon herself, Birgit Nilsson demonstrated that sovereignty remarkably in her reply to a journalist, who gave a negative comment on Maria Callas.
that critic was either paid or psychopathic
Nilsson said that" Callas at her best was better than all of us put together ".
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wow we are all listening to this at the same time? all commenting about Callas, and it is 3 am here in Dubai
I just went nuts with this piece... NUTS... I have listend to it like 12 times the last hour.. so decided to post it... I cannot believe the degree of perfection you listen to here...
Lohengrin O, I can't remember when I last listened to this, because you put so much quality out for us. But I think the key here as that it's SO off the rails that it embodies human IMperfection perfectly! (If that makes any sense - well, sense goes out the window with this level of identification with raw feeling.)
exquisita
Gracias por tan bello detalle..¡¡
No words...just tears...
Igaz…
Unsurpassable.
Voix remplie de pleurs, tragique par excellence. L'interprétation portée à son paroxysme. Confine au sublime. Totalement habitée par son rôle, par la musique, par l'art. L'unique diva.
Ευχαριστω! εχω ανατριχιάσει! να εισαι καλα. Καταπληκτική! η τραγικότητα που βγαζειστις ηρωίδες της ειναι αξεπέραστη.
το άκουσα χτες πάνω από 15 φορές... είναι απίστευτο δείγμα της τέχνης της...
Χαίρετε συνεχιστές τής τέχνης της !!!
SUBLIME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
drenched in sadness.
had you heard this version before? it is everything the 55 is but it is sung with flawless voice
I usually prefer her thinner voiced Traviatas, but this is unreal.
her 55 Traviata is her ultimate vocal masterpiece but this is so huuuuuge, huge vocally, emotionally, intepretively...
I think Traviata might be her most multi-faceted role ever. Every single performance was so different and individually genius.
Her imagination in this role kept growing and growing.
Merci les gens….❤️
The speaking part has a bit of a Mexican-telenovela quality, but the singing grabs you by the balls and shakes you to your very core. Divine, indeed. =D
Lohengrin, you delightful man, when will you post more Hallstein videos? Shall I keep begging until you block me? lol
the speaking part moves me even more... it is genuine sadness of the deepest form...
I will post more Hallstein, promise... her repertoire is so unknown to me... I need to fall in love with a piece to post it...
mexican-telenovela is actually pure drama...
pues si tiene alguna similitud con telenovela mexicana esta bien porque ambos son "melodrama" entonces como pueden ver no hay donde encontrar un error en este genio.
OH MY GOD!!!!
Thank you for the upload ! Can you please tell us from which recording this comes from ?
...but I never (or rarely) do :D
Why? I grew up listening to my mom's recording of Callas - unfortunately they are lost. I am no expert - teaching oneself to appreciate opera can be enhanced by knowing the date, location singers, composer. Respectfully I ask that you please change your mind.
From which passage of La traviata is the spoken part from ? Thank you very much for the wonderful content !!
if u click on the details above u ll see..
It is too unbearable to listen to, her dying, it is too perfectly a dying
I find Callas unbearable to listen in most of her recordings