Maria Callas' Phenomenal Diminuendo on E6 the 1st Night in Cologne
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2014
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-From Lohengrin O:
On 1:41 she reaches an E6 and does a diminuendo on it (for years I thought it was an Eb6 but a digital pitch analyzer shows a steady E6)
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I am pretty sure that she was superhuman, capable of things no one else can, could and probably no one will be able to do in the foreseeable future.
Every now and then, superhuman individuals appear and push the limits. Like, for example, Albert Einstein did for physics and Callas did for music and arts. The difference is that in natural science we can verify it by doing experiments and gather experimental data. Some predictions Einstein's theories did were empirically verified many, many years later.
In music and arts, this is not so easy, so just lean back and listen to that performance. Or any other by her. It should provide the evidence.
If we still had true bel canto teachers and had a student who had her work ethic it could be possible
…plus the effect of a sphere we trust MC is enjoying right now…RDS
I don't care if she ended up with a wobble in her later years, anyone who can sing like this at any point in their lives deserves to be called the greatest singer of the century.
O agree
She was the greatest that’s undisputed
I remember watching the recording of her final concert in London it brought tears to the eyes nobody will ever replace her 🌹🌹
AABSOLUTELY AGREE! WELL SAID!
Del secolo? Di tutti i tempi! Dell' eternità! :)
The perfect voice. Her E sounds as it was coming from a violin, its beyond the human voice.
The E is impressive...the chromatic descending scale after is a miracle.
this. I've replayed it 5 times before even seeing this comment. literally sounds computerized! queen.
I'm really sorry, I'm an idiot musically. This whole thing sounds like a miracle and I don't really know what an E sounds like. Can you give a timestamp? Theres a very impressive note about 3:14 but the crowd drowns out any possible descending scale.
1:44
Wha?
That phrase with the high E flat that drops to a series of appoggiaturas is simply insane when you realize it’s done by a dramatic soprano. Her coloratura and tonal quality is so light and flexible throughout, it’s like hearing Ariadne sing Zerbinetta.
Ari who, singing what? 😂
Callas at her worst was superior to anyone today!
At her best, she was super human with her ability to do everything asked for by the composer and even more!
Scusate, ma... dove e quando fu il suo peggio? 😁
The VOICE. It's stunning how her voice seems a perfect musical instrument but provided with a great great great SOUL!!
Callas's dynamic E6 with excellent diminuendo and the last trill here with that dynamic crescendo will never be forgotten.
Could anyone imagine this was coming from the same woman who sang Medea, Abigaile, Gioconda, Aida, Brunhilde, Turandot and Norma?
Alexey Izmirliev czcams.com/video/6sS6nITmsnM/video.html Especially dedicated to your comment Alexey
I dont know opera
I dont know notes
I dont know this piece of music
I cant compare it to anything
I listen and what i here is a masterpiece of human sound !!
Listen and appreciate a God given talent :)
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
Always was and always will be my all time favorite soprano
The greatest voice of the 20th or any other century.
Her voice cannot simply be encased by a single "century". Callas is eternal ;)
It's simply an astonishing level of musicianship and the greatest and most thrilling voice the world has ever heard. Lucia, Norma, Armida, Violetta, Lady Macbeth, Amina and even Isolde, Brünnhilde and Kundry. Every one definitive.
So much debate on that note. Eb6 or E6..... What fascinates me more is that absolutely EPIC 2 octave chromatic scale drop. Come on my dears, THAT is more worth noting than a frivolous debate over what note she topped out at! It's all amazing....for she was truly superhuman! ❤
+Jennifer Rodgers not exactly what she topped.. what note she did a diminuendo on :D it is excruciatingly difficult to make a diminuendo on an Eb6 let alone E6 :D
+Lohengrin O True. Regardless, like all of Callas, it must be viewed as a whole. Otherwise, what is the point? 😉
+Jennifer Rodgers As a whole Callas was an unrepeatable Phenomenon of Nature.. as Meryl Streep said, she was "The greatest Artist of the 20th century, in tune with something Divine"... but as with all Legends, every nobody comes here and there and talks shit about them.. In terms of her Voice so much Shit has been spread on Callas, it is Violent! (even after all these years).. My youtube aim is to speak the truth about her Voice
Jennifer Rodgers
Indeed Votto had said that as a reply to many comments Callas received at her time that her Voice was Ugly something that she herself agreed on (she found her voice ugly as well)
+Lohengrin O Oh yes indeed! She once heard her own voice on playback, and considered quitting altogether. Thank Heavens she didn't! ❤
I will take Callas in her so called decline over any other living soprano.
Me too.
Maria Callas gioca con il suono come un gatto gioca con un topo spaventato. L'aria per lei è come il marmo per Michelangelo, come i numeri per Descartes. Maria Callas sa usare ogni centimetro cubo di aria per creare un'emozione unica che attraversa lo spazio per passare il cuore di chi l'ascolta. Lei è stata l'unica a poter fare questo. Nessuna, né prima né dopo, è stata capace di giocare con lo spartito, senza modificarlo, come lei sapeva fare... E tutto questo con l'emozione giusta che richiede la musica di Bellini.
when Callas sings, it is as if you see Michelangelo painting the Sound
Maria Callas foi uma dos maiores artistas da história !
Assolutamente d’accordo!
Beh scusate pur adorando la Callas ma qui è orrenda, completamente fuori repertorio, le scale discendenti sono scivoloni e quegli urletti che fa sono inascoltabili. Nel ruolo di Sonnambula non paragoniamo a una Sutherland o altre che sono un altro mondo. Ci vorrebbe onestà intellettuale e dire che in alcuni ruoli è stata immensa e in altri anche no grazie. È stata una rivoluzionaria per Lucia, Norma e altri ruoli ma per esempio in Barbiere è completamente fuori repertorio
@@lucianoc.6956 le scale di Maria Callas scivoloni... prima volta che sento questa critica (piuttosto non onesta intellettualmente). Fra l'altro basta prendere un qualunque vocal pitch monitor per vedere che la voce non e' scivolata proprio da nessuna parte. Sono d'accordo sull'inappropriatezza del Barbiere di Siviglia e su qualche urletto nella Sonnambula. Del resto, vorrei vedere lei ad alleggerire una voce drammatica come quella della Callas per entrare nel ruolo della Sonnambula. Ha ascoltato tutta l'opera? Come spesso capita dopo aver ascoltato MC, le performance di altre grandissime diventano piuttosto noiosette e quasi un esercizio di stile (inclusa la Sutherland). La stessa MC era consapevole di questo aspetto dell'opera, che nulla ha a che fare con la qualita' della voce, ma con l'interpretazione innovativa e aderente lo spartito. Alla stessa Callas non importava nulla se la sua voce non era sempre gradevole, purche' fosse al servizio della composizione originale e del pubblico. Il resto e' esibizionismo e, alla fine della giornata, noia. Cordiali saluti.
The greatest voice of The Milky Way Galaxy.
@ André Santos Andromeda tried, but couldn’t produce a challenger
A miracle of skill and vocal placement. Not only does she support the upper register so freely but the lower register is densely covered.
The piannisimo staccato and the ascending trills are breath-taking. Sutherland never could sing with the same mastery of dynamics, even in this role.
thats the only bel canto role along with Elvira I barely like Sutherland :D
Lohengrin O Yes, but Sutherland takes this at such a breakneck speed to show how fast she can sing coloratura passages, that it loses all meaning. The great art in singing coloratura is to know when and how to use rubato, ritardando, rallentando, accellerando etc etc to shape each phrase and give it meaning and life. Sadly Sutherland is too metronomic , and robotic and has little feeling for what she is singing to be able todo that.
Ariadne7710
Still Callas' voice was much more agile.. I think Sutherland very often was singing whatever in the fast passages
You have named it exactly. Rubato, in particular, is important (and difficult to do without distorting the musical line)--and it was one of Maria's glories.
Ariadne7710
indeed this remark is amazing... I am placing it on the description above!!!
The diminuendo on the E-flat is quite beautiful, but the downward chromatic scale following it is breathtaking.
Callas' chromatic scales as well as all of her Rubati were like Black Diamonds unseen to the majority of the audience... the Diminuendo is not beautiful, it is impossible to be done
somehow, hearing their applause.... I think they both saw them diamonds and heard them too
Maria era la maga stregonesca delle scale discendenti...
Sonámbula era un título no muy de los teatros hasta que Callas canto y lo impuso. Aquí es perfecta, perfecta y perfecta, nada que decir. Los dioses del Olimpo estaban todos en su cuerpo. No se puede ser más perfecta. Abruma tanta perfección.
Una voce che è uno strumento musicale perfetto ,dotato anche di un'anima grandiosa. Questo era la Callas. Nessun'altra soprano ha mai raggiunto questi livelli, solo lei.
there's only ONE....she is the ONE
and nothing more to say. she is the opera.
Where is Callas now? Immortalized in her music, and forever with us through her definitive Voice.
One of the things that a complete untrained ear and music idiot like me can clearly see in Maria Callas: depending on the piece being interpreted she sounds like a "different" singer. Her quality of interpretation was so amazing, her individuality so strong that she could do this an still avoid being accused of "de-characterization". Do you, musical experts, agree with this impression of mine?...
What's even more baffling is that even though she sounds like a 'different' singer with each piece, we can so clearly tell it is Callas every time. There's no "Was that Mirella Freni?" "Was that Leontyne Price?" "Was that Rosa Ponselle?" It's always clear. This is Maria Callas, in all of her diversity of voices.
yes, we do ;-)
She sounds like a 'different' singer because she is a different character so absolutely in each opera: the sign of a supreme artist. She takes my breath away, one can never grow bored with her voice because her total devotion to her unique roles is transcendent.
Art incarnate, star fire brought down by creation, vocal immortality, unmatched power. We love you Maria ❤️😺😎
That final note. Unquestionably the voice of the century.
How can this not leave one speechless. Callas transports all of us into the Amber room at Peterhof, the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the Palais Garnier's great staircase, and on into the Greater Cosmos.
it was a wonderful thing to have callas walk the face of the earth.
+dike chukwudi will she ever come back?
More than anything, I pray so and wish it happens in my lifetime.
12/24/2022 - what a night 😞… going to spend the night with my Sister Esther 😺 and Co.. still sad but listening to Maria helps me outlast. Thanks be to God for my family. 🐝❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Lohengrin O for up-loading this gem. MARIA CALLAS was the sole reason I listened to opera at the age of 13 and this was 33 years ago.
There is no joy quite like this. It is the joy you feel when you’ve truly let opera into your heart and you know how to love. It is a singular experience.
This must be the best note im the history of notes, ever!!
1:41 kills me... just how
I learned to sing Opera by listening to her, how to formulate roof high notes above High C, perfect pitch, timbre, tremolo, vibrato, octave jumps, etc.; and I'm a Caribbean girl! She is the best Opera singer ever, the emotion in her voice is Legend; it transmuted Opera into an Art of Feeling not just vocal acrobatics.
How dull the world would have been without her. But having said that, Callas shows humankind what is achievable if you set your whole heart, mind and body to attain it.
This is not enough. She was born that way with all these different qualities, that made her unique.
Not only the Eb. It's ALL phenomenal!
Stunning ! She was, indeed, the best operatic artist of the 20th C (and remains so in the 21st)
You manage to get those masterpieces out, thanks, this Callas is orgasmic
All sopranos listen and learn.
And fail miserably? No one else CAN!
@@alioffe4321 i guess you are right.
I think yes.
@@alioffe4321 LMAO
I have no idea about singing terminology but goodness this is divine.
Superhuman Callas !!! Maria the breath of God !!!
This is a miracle.
No ha habido ni habra' otro instrumento que iguale a esa voz, a esa garganta que la modula, a esa sensibilidad, a ese ser prodigioso llamado Maria Callas en toda la Historia de la Opera. Como dijo la gran Mina en cierta ocssion, es posible que ni ella misma se apercibiera realmente de tanta grandeza.
Uy que no, un mejor instrumento y una vida artística mucho más dilatada y estable la tenemos en Sutherland. La carrera de Sutherland apabulla, sin que su vida sea una tragedia, mejor para ella. ¿Que no es una interprete-artista-actriz?. Mejor que eso, fue una mujer centrada y feliz, cuando ella cantaba Lucia, ella era Lucia, sin histerismos.
Now this is singing! Really great!!!
L'une des scènes les plus spectaculaires dans l'art du chant de Callas ,et proprement incroyable de technique et de virtuosité pour un Soprano qui pouvait chanter à la même époque et à quelques jours d'intervalle des rôles extrêmement plus lourd comme Médée ou Tosca .
Callas is one of the immortals just like Lind, Flagstad, Caruso.
As one commenter said about her, "the irreplaceable voice."
WHAT A VOICE! MAMMA MIA.
Y como una rafaga de viento que vuela todo a su paso, asi era Callas, poderosa, perfecta, eterna DIVINA!!!
VErY NICE! All singers have their distractors and critics . . . but when you reach this level of perrformance, you deserve the respect and professional ethics, etc. just like ANY profession.
IREALLY like this so much!
If she had such dynamic control on the high E, she could for sure hit high F and even high G
SIN PALABRAS! 😍
Perfect....She is the best
Lohengrin, thank you for this! Of the greatest value...
What can anyone say? She was just spectacular. No-one will ever come near.
She was a singing artist per excellence .... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Sans pareil... just as there will only ever be one Shakespeare, or one Mozart, or one Beethoven, there will only ever be one Callas. No-one from here on in until the end of time will ever claim to be her equal. This is the measure of her standing to say nothing of her genius.
OMG... Dios sabia a quien dar este talento🙏
Thank you Maria CALLAS.
It is still difficult to comprehend: Diva Callas was SURELY soprano sramatico, but also Coliratura, sang mezzo Soprano arias... no other soprano can fit in ALL THREE categories.... Callas DID....A
Dramatica? No!
Great lyric: yes! Able to sing some dramatic roles, indeed!
A soprano assoluta... Sopranissima.
One writer described Callas' as a "Soprano drammatico d'agilita", a type of soprano that hadn't existed since the 19th century, until Callas appeared on the scene.
Soprano sfogata, that all
Oh my,oh my,oh my!
No one will ever top this. La Divina is one of a kind! A virtual gift from the gods.
Mi bemolle fantastico e scala discendente superlativa!
Это невероятно, непревзойдённо, я в слезах! Так никто и никогда не споёт!
It is that descending chromatic scale (and the coloratura, colour, meaning, intensity, tempi variations, dynamics, contrasts)...No one before or since!
Ah, the human world will never hear her like ever again...
L'Olimpo del canto lirico ...una voce colossale con una duttilità stupefacente ... l'assoluta !!! Fra 100 anni pochi ricorderanno le "dive " di oggi ma tutti sapranno chi era la Callas ... come tutti sanno chi era Giulio Cesare, Leonardo ed i giganti della Storia.
GB, e della Devia e della Bartoli si perdera' il ricordo.
Ho sempre pensato di ascriverLa tra i grandi......
Superhuman !!! Divina !!! Electricity !!!
a miracle and the legend........ I'll be forever with you, Callas~
Sublime, a high wire act without a net, breathtaking.
Quelle voix; quel talent ; la divine éternelle !!!
I keep on returning to this post. Amazing. I’m always left with a sense of awe and respect.
Marvelous, only Maria was capable of this.
Elle chante en utilisant sa voix comme un instrument! WOWWOWWOW! Techniquement la perfection
the supreme voices of all time...
Era una bestia la Callas, inmensa y valiente como ella sola!
Estupenda!!!divina!!!!
una potenza della natura guidata da una tecnica eccezionale... ascoltarla era esaltante !!!
I appreciated Bartoli's rendition. she changes the coloratura to the possibility of her voice and range, but she really IS something, she delivers a full emotion- an artist
Oh God, the very best!!!
Mind-blowing beautiful...makes you believe there is hope for the human race.
You know, I have never heard anything as magnificent as her execution of these ornaments and superhuman ability to NAIL that high e or e flat. On these older recordings, sometimes they seem to go up and catch a little bit with age or maybe multiple transfers between mediums I don't know. I have never heard such a powerful, pointed, and the spot on executed in my life by anyone. It makes me think of the Death Star laser in Star Wars. It almost sounded like it was biting or acidic. But amazing, and then her facility on the descending passages afterwards was just insane! The contrast and delicacy of her descending line sharply contrast with the ascent up to that E or E flat. I'm sorry I don't know the answer to this, but does anybody know what opera this is from? I'd like to hear another singer maybe someone like Joan Sutherland sing this and see how she compares? Sorry my message got long!
dame Joan was the only Amina in Sonnambula that rivalled Callas' and the only singer in recorded history who rivalled Callas' technique but she had this weakness, she never executed Diminuendi on high notes... in general she avoided Dynamics (increasing or decreasing the volume of a certain tone) like plague and she was accused for it... there is no recorded messa di voce of hers... In general, this particular Achievement by Callas, doing a Diminuendo upon an Eb6, is one of the rarest and most difficult vocal acrobatics a human throat can perform very similar to sustaining a pianissimo on a D6 (required in the sleepwalking scene of Lady Macbeth and on the entrance aria of Madama Butterfly)... it seems that human throats find it impossible to support a pianissimo above C6... the downward Chromatic Descends of Callas' have often been praised by musicians who were are able to recognize the individual tones in the Chromatic Descend (I personally cannot separate them)
Simplemente única. Cuánto tiempo irá a pasar antes que llegue alguien de su altura.
PERFECT
Bravo brilliance vocal
...... apparve la Callas e la lirica dovette riscrivere la storia dell'interpretazione....
Magnificent no other word for her I often think it’s a tragedy she never had a daughter imagine if she had passed her gifts on ❤️
Rare genetic accidents are not Germlines mutations thus are not inherited (Montsi's daughter)
¡Pero qué control de agudos y qué interpretación!
Incredible soprano!!!
Виртуозно спето. Именно так пели во времена Россини и Беллини. Это бельканто.
PASMOSO DOMINIO VOCAL CON LA IMPRONTA ÚNICA DE LA TRASMISION EMOCIONAL. ¿Será que podrá aparecer alguna otra con tal conjunción de talentos? Ojalá aparezca pero será siempre otra NO la Callas.
Callas ,siempre Callas dando el cien por cien de sí, lo cual es decir el no va más de facultades ,sentimiento y genio, unica
La Divina, L'Ammaliatrice, La Stregona, La Maga, La Maliarda!!!
La Primadonna assoluta! Unica! Divina! Un miracolo di una voce! Avvolte mi chiedo cosa direbbe Maria Callas dello stato attuale che vige nei teatri dell'opera....🤔🤔🤔
After listening to your recent post, I had to be reminded what an actual Amina should sound like and not singing this already hard repertoire at neck-breaking speeds that do nothing but hide and masquerades the lack of a chest voice (which is essential for this repertoire).
Amazing to hear PRIME Callas in her element.
SHE is the One and only
As Franco Zeffirelli says In the movie Callas for Ever: a voice that is not from this world
That’s the most important thing in that movie
There will never her like again
Richard
We’re definitely staging this scene on our drag lip sync channel! DIVINISSIMA! 💎👑
link us the link to see it after, nothing better than clever drag show
Even the great Pasta, for whom Amina was composed, couldn't have executed that diminuendo seeing that the highest note she could reach was "a slightly sharpened D" as Stendhal put it. Callas' range and the control she had on it was beyond anyone's reach. Who else could trill at the bottom of their range and do diminuendi on their highest notes? She remains an enigma...
you mean there is somewhere reference that Pasta couldn't perform this diminuendo? it is written? not added by Maria?
@@LohengrinO GOD NO! It belongs to Callas and Callas ALONE. What i meant is that even if Bellini had written it, Pasta would have had to transpose it down for the note did not exist in her throat. Pasta's highest comfortable note was a C#6.
🌹🌹❤🌹🌹❤🌹🌹❤🌹🌹❤🌹 Divina