Maria Callas: Today interview with Barbara Walters (New York, April 15, 1974)
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- Maria Callas: Today interview with Barbara Walters (New York, April 15, 1974)
NBC, at Stanhope Hotel
Catalogue: MC-VID-092
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She was amazingly talented, extremely intelligent, educated, brilliantly honest! I can’t believe how in every interview I have seen of her, this “reporters” seem more like bullies, by trying to get attention towards them, by making disrespectful questions to her. She was definitely way ahead of her time and manage with grace every answer she ever gave.
Like princess Diana..the newspapers hounded her...she was made out to be a Diva but she was only standing up for herself as management wanted her to perform when she was ill or she felt it was damaging her voice...plus an infamous photo of her shouting at an agent serving a writ from an old manager trying to get a percentage of her earnings, was used by the press to make out she was a difficult diva...she was in an era when women don't get the respect they now are starting to get with the "me too" movement. Also her mother put out a very damaging book about her. Callas never forgave her mother for making her perform for troops during the war which Callas found degrading....
***A Lady, that she was***
I always thought onasia was a pig
@@Maguirearchher mother was the worst kind of stage mom
Agreed. They really trolled her. I don't understand why they were soooo disrespectful to her. Smh.
How well Maria Callas fielded those questions. Beautiful, talented, humane.
Interrogation rather than an interview such a shame.
Maria was dignified throughout.
Theres no way anyone famous today would allow such brutal and cruel questions in an interview .
Well on top of it all, he was censored.
Maria is so elegant, refined, intelligent, and mature in all of her interviews. She so out-classed Walters, but Walters was no more than a ratings hound. We lost a great lady in Maria Callas to young.
BARBARA WALTERS IS LEGENDARY FOR ASKING THE QUESTIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT WANT TO KNOW! Stay in your "primary reader" group and leave the INTELLIGENCE to the INTELLIGENT PEOPLE!
Actually, Walter's does a much better job that Mike Wallace who was down right disrespectful in his interview around this same time.
@@baritonebynight barbara wawa is been bad to Callas also... one can easily feel it here...
but mike wallace was actually so mean and visius in his interview that I literally believed he must hate her...
barbara walters is a hack and a tabloid journalist at best.
Photographs never did her beauty justice. She was a beautiful woman. ❤️
She looks pretty good here though
I agree. Maria Callas had that fiery, Mediterranean, exotic beauty.
Every interview I have seen with Maria Callas, it seems that the reporter is on a hunt to back Callas into a corner!
I wonder why???
@@edglebennett6312 IMO, Walters is jealous of everything about Callas: her beauty, her grace, her soft-spokenness, her glamorous aura, to say nothing of her unparalleled artistic genius. Perhaps the thing that rankled Walters most (I am only speculating) is that, in this clip, Callas at age fifty looks ten times better than Walters at forty-four! Callas is like a goddess here, being pestered by a chihuahua.
That is what reporters do, they leave class at the door in favor of self promotion. Most reporters can be described best as POS.
Jason Hurd I think you are right, I once heard someone say ''success is an island In a sea of jealousy''
The one with Mike Wallace is just downright sexist filth. He is speaking to someone who is revered as one of the most talented people in her field and instead of asking her about her art, he shames her for stupid tabloid gossip. She had to put up with a lot of bull****
What a wonderful woman those later interviews were horrible and so disrespectful of such a gigantic talent and she was so ahead of her time
The average ordinary person would never begin to comprehend such a woman. That is why many would not have any idea of who she really was and her amazing gift. Those people read scandal sheets, adore low life soap operas etc. It , however is not all their fault. It is the way much of society has been programed. You cannot be responsible for things you have never been exposed to or ever heard of. That is why there are a small number of PHD scientists in our universe.
Maria was so beautiful here. Hard to believe she died just two years later.
indeed hard to belive, I am so sorry that she died so young.Her make-up is different as usually.
three years later. in 1977
Alejandro soto martin Wow this was pre Botox era & she looks amazing
It has been said that her assistant poisoned her. It was a close friend.
@@northerncalifornia3566 Wow! Interesting! And why would her assistant poison her? To what end? To take beautiful possessions from her apartment? Surely, that can't be it!! Poor Maria. She was a good person, but life was not good to her, despite her amazing talent. She always struggled with emotional pain.
i love the smile callas flashes walters at the end of the interview--it's one of barely disguised disgust.
Shame on you, Barbara! - Callas so honest and you so low. How I wish this poor woman had recieved the love from the one person she needed it from, the love that she recieves from us so freely she simply couldn't obtain - May she rest in peace and feel the love with which she is now eternally showered.
Why all the hatred towards Walters? She’s just doing an interviewer’s job - asking the probing questions that many people may be wondering themselves. Sometimes questions may be controversial. A good, objective interviewer doesn’t spend the whole session just fawning over the subject and only giving them praises. No one wants to watch an ass-kissing journalist suck up the entire time. What a bore that would be. In my opinion Walters was being more than polite and fair.
@@jamesmorrison2055 evidently you're incredible of understanding that an interview of an artist is not supposed to be an interrogation..
..and since when Barbara walters was good and objective interviewer... never! She was always arrogant and full of her self..
and nothing else..
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726tru
@@EliseGraham-bu5xm
..of course..!
Pretty much always the case
It saddens me that the world had to lose this legendary woman, still in her prime, her story incomplete.
Over 50 years old and such a beautiful woman,
Mediterranean women Greeks.especially age well
The more you know her, the more you love her. She was so magnetic, genuine, talented & gracious
Maria is always so honest.
I do not think she was totally honest about onasis she did want him to marry her you can hear the pain in her voice. He was a pig
What an elegant and beautiful woman Maria Callas was... aside from being a powerful soprano!
my God she is stunning
+Viking Song in every way beautiful, a virtuous and true, self aware, I think very respectable traits
She is classy, smart, talented, feminine.... but she is probably more interesting looking than stunning, though attractive for sure.
One of the greatest opera singers of all time and all they can asked her about is Onassis. I'm so disappointed.
Did we watch the same interview? Walters did not ask Callas about Onassis until the end of the interview.
she is an amazing woman. her responses are so deep. how could any man not have loved her?
Onassis was a trophy hunter. He went for famous women, just to prove his manhood was winning, as he knew, deep down, it was really his money that attracted these women . That quality of life was hard to resist. They all fell for it.
@@linanicolia1363 I Agree, Onassis wasn't a good looking man at all. The money and power were what drew those women.. Money makes men and women look better! I wish Maria could've had a nice partner at the end. She might have been to deep for Onassis.
Who said all men look for "deep"?
Why didn’t she ask how did it feel to sing Norma or Traviata? Obviously. very few journalists know anything about opera. But Madame Callas will long be remembered when Miss Walters is long forgotten.
Yes
She is 50 here and simply stunning. Are actresses aged 50 the same as they were aged 30? I saw her last concert in London. We bought seats but only used the edge. The leading voice teacher in Chicago said it was worth the price of a ticket to see her walk onto the stage. She was right. You could hear a pin drop and at the end was showered with flowers and had a ten minute standing ovation. I was a teenager and left in tears realising that it was the last time I would see her.
You are so lucky to have seen Maria perform..
She had a strong personality but I think she was very misunderstood having people say she had airs of diva. She was a perfectionist in her art, and the same discipline she applied to herself she expected from others.
@temitamas/ Exactly. Very well said! It's so true and so simple yet so misunderstood.
She was a master and a perfectionist at her craft. The sexism is how someone like Francis Ford Coppola gets perceived va someone like Callas. They both fought for their standards and visions.
I love this classy lady. So intelligent.
In 1974 they didn't really have the sort of "magical" lighting for TV that the ladies of "Knots Landing" loved so much or that Joan Rivers employed on her talk show, yet Maria looks STUNNING, only a couple of years before her death.
She is a legend....She is very candid here..She had a very sad sad life...and never got "a man of her own"...that she wanted.
Just because you don't have "a man of your own" doesn't mean you have a "sad sad life." Maria had a glorious career...and she may not have married Onassis but she did have him for a time....better than not having had him at all. Some people never get to experience love.
He never said her very sad life was mainly due to not having the man she wanted. You are just overreacting. She had problems with her family.
What an exceptional woman as well as an exceptional singer.
i have watched many of the great Maria's interviews. It could not have been easy hearing every time that her voice was not what it was. This is a true example of a broken heart. I wish I was there to dry your tears for you.
Patrick R The sad part is that humans are really little, like Barbara Walters is in this interview, they do not understand the greatness of a true hard worker a true star... once again we missed that opportunity. It is revolting to see how they were after here
@@phus2001 I don’t understand the hatred towards Walters by so many commenters here. It’s like in order to praise Callas people think they need to tear down Walters. It’s ridiculous. She’s just doing her job as an interviewer to ask difficult questions that many people may be wondering themselves. She’s not being rude or impolite. She’s just asking questions.
@@jamesmorrison2055 I totally agree with you ,she's asking questions that all of us would ask but wouldn't dare ,so Walter's interview is really a very good one ,she makes interesting questions and allows maria to answer calmly ,I think walters was one of the best in her field. we have to be grateful to her for this unique interview specifically during such a difficult time for callas .
@@jamesmorrison2055 Barbara should be ashamed of her self... this is not and interview, it is an interrogation.. and a normal human being should know the defense.
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Now you're just being ridiculous. The reason why Barbara Walters was so successful as a journalist was because she asked probing questions that the public was interested in knowing. Maria Callas would've known full well going into this interview that she would be asked difficult questions because that's what Walters was known for. She was simply doing her job and she was never disrespectful in any way.
The lady showed real class here.
Maria Callas was beautiful, talented, honest and gutsy! Some people could not handle a strong willed and outspoken woman back then! She always looked lovely in her interviews and was well spoken. Thank you for posting this interview.
They still can’t
What a truly inspiring and classy lady.
But there is so much pain in her voice and eyes😢
Maria Callas fielded questions superbly with dignity and honesty. I had become fascinated with Ms. Callas (and her voice) when very young and read everything I could find about her.
i love that maria never compromised her artistry, especially for the met, namely, rudolf bing. she is still the best soprano, musician, actress who stands head and shoulders above all the soprani before and after her. may she rest in peace. im sorry to have been born after her death and never heard her perform live.
The quality of what we hear from recordings, is getting eroded. You can still hear that beautiful tone and range. It is still there.
Callas had so many exceptional gifts, a great speaker as well as a great singer and strikingly intelligent and full of such charm and magnetism and self assurance, you can't take yours eyes off her even for a second. She can waltz through any interview like pro. Walters must have sat in quite the admiration of this woman before her, every question she asked, Callas took over and beautifiully handled it , showing what a woman of substance she was.
10:00 "very good friends"... wow that is class
I really admire Maria Callas.
surprisingly refreshing and disarming, Maria conducted herself with such grace.
The ultimate Diva. RIP. nobody has equalled you and who even knows the names of the critics?
Maria Callas is so classy! A true Diva in all aspects
Yes. I agree 💯 percent.
This video says a lot about Callas's extraordinary grace. She refuses to diminish herself in the face of badgering & handles everything with élan, including the here yenta-ish Walters. To have told Barbara to "go to hell" or to leave the interview would be reactionary & as tacky as Walters herself. So sticking to her guns and telling Babs she felt no remorse or jealousy (even if the truth lie elsewhere) she is the bigger person of all people involved (including Jackie, Onassis, AND Barbara Walters). I love her bit about integrity also, VERY true. And she did pay the ultimate price.
A strongArms
@Ari Onassis-Sugen She was the better person than Barbara Walters due to her grace and poise in the face of Barbara's inappropriate questioning. She was better than Jackie O. because she let Onassis go- which took so much strength, whereas Jackie held on to the man for dear life. Ms. Callas was a true diva, she never let the world see her sweat.
a beautiful woman and her eyes look so sad.
I ADORE MARIA... LA CALLAS... FOREVER...!!!!
It's a shame Maria had to constantly keep justifying herself in these American interviews, to people who knew hardly anything about her or her art.
What is she trying to justify?
@@jackanthony976 Maybe that she was, vocal flaws notwithstanding, the greatest opera singer in recorded history?
Americans were perfectly aware of her art and magic, as they were with Yma Sumac. Both had extraordinary (and long lasting) appeal internationally. Admittedly interviewers and the press were more crude in the United States and especially the UK. But as we know, the press and critics do not represent the general population.
They have been doing exactly the same to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. If Celine Dion was an american, I am sure she would face the same problem
@@floreentan8020 Please do not compare the prostitutes Carey, Houston and Dion to the transcendent Maria Callas.
Although this interview was done in 1974, the style and content of mainstream interviews in the American media are often as cryptic as this one for artists, especially great artists. So much effort is made to make the artist appear to be like everyone else in an attempt to garner ratings with tabloid like techniques that often betray a sense of respect and class from the reporter, just like what went down in this interview, conducted by Barbara Walters.But despite this Maria Callas knocked it out of the part with her honesty and intelligence that in my view is only upstaged by her legendary status as one of the greatest opera singers of all time. La Divina indeed!
what a beauty
Much like yourself gorgeous my dear 😊🥰
Barbara Walters was asking some messy and rude questions!
wow this woman had so much artistry and musicianship; all she can ask is about Onassis and and her voice..Nothing about her legendary performances, her perfectly pitched and spun high C's...Ringing high E6's. Such a wasted interview. There are a plethora of things to ask. How did she achieve perfect legato trills staccato diminuendo her passagios. Her breathing technique pre weight loss...nothing but b.s. questions.
Actually, Maria does talk about her pitch and her high C's in other interviews. Maria talks about her work extensively in some of her other interviews. Maybe Maria doesn't want to talk about the same thing in every interview.
Bear in mind, when you criticize Barbara Walters for her sophomoric interview...American audiences are totally ignorant of the fine arts, except for society people. Also, Walters was no doubt instructed not to have an in-depth interview, just to keep it shallow and at at level simple-minded Americans could understand and not tune out.
Yes, I agree. Barbara was not interested how talented she was. She was interested in exposing the bad in Callas. Why? The Media is owned by the Elites. Callas didn't settle. She was a Virtuous woman. She didn't sleep with the directors or with the producers. She made it to the top only by her abilities to sing. All the Media was there to take her down from her pedestal. That's a shame. This means that no one is allowed to succeed on her or his own merit. Shame on Barbara Walters !!!!! Shame on those who sent her.
Issa Bop: Walter's didn't ask questions like you propose because she doesn't know anything about opera. I don't either but I think questions should be relevant to Maria Callas' career and not her personal life. Her personal life is nobody's business.
Issa Bop ~ YESSSS
Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters exemplify "How not to conduct an interview" in their interviews with Mme Callas.
I wonder why. ?? ;)
I’m not really into opera but she was fantastic. Maria put everything into her art, she was very frank in interviews, quite blunt at times but equally charming.
Wow this was a really interesting interview to me. Although I hate the way they interviewed her, so many interruptions, but I loved Maria's answers and I agree with her beliefs. I find it amazing that she stood firm to her beliefs, especially the one about marriage and the way she wanted to work with others. Beautiful.
Brave and honest Callas always gave us her everything.
A good interview w/a talented lady! I see such sadness in her eyes.
It sounds to me like Onassis was basically like any powerful man, he wanted complete control of her, after all she's a possession and she apparently would not allow that even though she did love him. Any man who would tell you that you must give up something of yourself to be with him is absolutely not worth the sacrifice. She seems fully aware that she's made poor decisions, but cannot change how she feels.
Men rarely give up anything when they marry. It is the woman who is expected to give up her life's work and her creative juices when she marries.
We hear the opposite that he did not want her to stop her singing, but that she actually wanted the break. She wanted to totally give herself to the relationship with Onassis while expecting the same from him. He could not do this !!!! not in his style. The moment his honeymoon with Jackie started, he was off to a business meeting. He was already done with her, before the honeymoon started. Typical of that man. Women were trophies......everyone of them was !!!!
@@linanicolia1363 Exactly, it wasn't the case that he couldn't have her; she surrendered it all to him even whilst she was married (& he was married) and he used and unfortunately discarded her.
Onasis did not care for women, only power
I love Maria Callas
She was the very best at what she did.
Absolutely adore you❤️🙏🏾❤️
. With in months of marrying Jackie, Onassis was back sleeping with Maria. They never really separated. Ari and Maria were soulmates. When Onassis died Maria followed a few years later. An operatic love story indeed.
Bruce Robertson they’re true twin flames💕
A "soulmate" who drugged, abused, insulted & basically dumped her in public? Hmm that's a different kind of "soulmate".
@@GarageStudio7 Hope you fall in love some day.
@@brober If that's what "falling in love" has to offer then I gladly decline.
What a Legend !
This great lady Maria Callas is legendary. She left us too soon, at the young age of only 53. Rest in Peace, Madame Callas.
perfection
i wish i had been her friend!
I think apart of being a exceptional opera signer! She had a beautiful soul! And very hungry for love ! Se la vide! Some people found love and some others spend all their life looking for love and never find it,,,,
Barbara Walters, you are not WORTHY to interview Maria Callas.
+Perry Nelson On the button, Perry Nelson. Walters has a very bourgeois mind that has no sense of what to present to an artist of Callas' stature. She only wants sensational answers to her foolish questions. Remember it was Baba Wawa who asked Katharine Hepburn, "If you could be a twee . . . what koind of twee would woo bee?" Shut up, byotch!
Who is worthy enough to interview Maria Callas?
@@jackanthony976 George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, who knew Maria Callas personally and also knew all about opera. Unlike Walters he was not interested in Onassis and all that irrelevant nonsense about Jackie Kennedy.
so true.
She did a much better job than Mike Wallace who was rude and disrespectful to Callas.
La Divina!!! 😘😘❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎼🎼
Talented and beautiful 😊
I love this woman. When a woman stands up to be who she imagines herself to be, the world picks her apart. Callas lived her life on her own terms, not paying any attention to the CULTURAL HEGEMONIC roles laid out for women in a patriarchal world. The Americans could NEVER understand this kind of freedom. She was a complicated, proud, dynamic human spirit
very well said. she was ahead of her time in many ways.
Beautifully said.
You can tell she was broken hearted. In that magical voice of hers you can sense all the times she must have cried and tried to endure. Her beautiful idealistic point of view in regards to love was smeared and smirched by those who never truly understood her nor her artistry nor her importance to history as a whole.
I personally have felt and currently am feeling the pain of a deep heartbreak. But not being on her level, I can only imagine that whatever pain ordinary people like I can feel - Callas felt it 10 times worse. And it's illustrated by her early death. It's tragic and sad and shouldn't have happened the way it did, it does make me tear up a little just wishing she could have found the relief her Spirit needed.
God had to intervene, rescue her, and bring her home. 😔🎈❤
Moses A. Humans are truly limited like Barbara Walters shows in this interview. They cannot grasp the fortune of a hard worker and perfectionist... sadly, Maria suffered of N autoimmune disease that at time time was only treated with a type of cortisone that, among other side effects, brings heart attacks. Thankfully, Maria was a strong women that has blessed us all with amazing memories and amazing performances- I have not yet encountered anybody able to bring opera so close, perhaps except Pavarotti, but he was a guy!
This journalist are vaulters. They live only because of the greatness of people like Maria Callas. A men that interviewed her taking over Barbara Walters was sooooo crass asking her about money, that she had a good living etc. what a joke!
Miss Callas was an Extraordinary woman,La Divina indeed ❤
Fascinating interview! To me, she comes across as very intelligent but had no idea of how magnificent she was and the power that she had as a women! The fact that she thought that a women to have a man love her was to make HIM happy?? But, I do believe that she knew what she wanted and what she did was RIGHT FOR HER! GOD BLESS HER!
She also said she didn't believe in marriage, which is quite a bohemian attitude. Sad or happy, she was a great, great human being and a brilliant artist, the most innovative singer in the history of opera.
Agree with you completely.
I agree
Barbara is horrible with her relentless prying
she is so right here.... most of the singers just do what is required from them without putting any extra effort they sing take the money and go home while MAria wanted everything to be perfect and was genuinely caring for art and development of art ..... such a shame she is no longer here :(
I think it’s a very good interview. Callas shows her human feminine side, and Walters asks questions that Callas admits are honest questions. I am actually not a Callas fan, but I find her endearing in this interview.
When the interviewer's ego pretends to overwhelm the greatest voice, let alone, the greatest soul...
I suspect that either Callas was either really depressed in her later years or overcame the reality of her life. Had this interview happened 10 years earlier Callas would have walked out , she really let her guard down in her later years.
RicharddtheStar No, she has an autoimmune disease that at the time was only treated with cortisone... that,among many side effects, it also bring heart attacks. Look at how people adore her nowadays... everybody at the time could see non equals to Maria where around in the opera world. We are blessed and opera has been blessed to have her
RicharddtheStar ~ I agree
Maria's voice change did not negate the fact that she was the BEST!...she had a wonderful gift that she,herself,didn't understand...she was a supernova...burned brighter than the rest then was gone.....she is very much loved and missed
M.A.G.N.I.Q.U.E Maria Callas !
She was like the Michael Jackson of the Opera world.. A genius perfectionist constantly attacked and undermined.. being forced to defend and assert her achievements.. I have seen many interviews where the interviewers (usually male) are shockingly rude and condescending to her. Focusing more on her personal life than professional achievement. Is it envy and jealousy that makes us treat our very best talents this way?
Well, she didn’t molest sexually anyone, let alone little children.
Please do not compare the psychologically damaged pedophile Michael Jackson to the incandescent and unapproached artiste Maria Callas.
Michael Jackson is innocent. Learn facts before commenting.
@@medusachristo3725 no he isn't the was a sick pervert
Callas was never rattled when poorly interviewed. She had great composure.
Poor Maria! All she wanted was peace. I think she found it in her later years.
“There are no chains for love “ !!!
Maria Callas was very beautiful and highly intelligent. She was an amazingly wonderful woman. Her voice was lovely. Such a pity she died so young. Died from a brocken heart.
Una donna molto affascinante indubbiamente... nonostante il suo talento la sua carriera i trionfi il successo la fama...si ritrova sola svuotata sempre alla ricerca qualcuno da amare ed essere amata...come se oltre il palcoscenico non ci fosse altro non si era creata una sua vita propria ..finiti i fasti del successo il nulla...mi da questa impressione nonostante fosse amata e lo è tuttora...
barbara walters is nothing but a gossip columnist, curious interview and rather insulting, maria is and always will be remembered as a class act, not a married house frow! viva maria !
Well Said! Madam Maria Callas was a Powerful First Class Artist !!
Barbara is sooo crass
Donnie Mrkacek i noticed Barbara Walters kept going asking her about Jackie Kennedy Onassis !!!! Maria was very Polite to answer !!! Very. ! Me I would have stopped her
Donnie Mrkacek House Frau, or hausfrau.
Callas must have had an agenda if she consented to be interviewed by a "gossip columnist" as you put it. I'm sure Callas was prepared to answer gossip columnist type questions when she consented to be interviewed by Barbara Walters.
8:08: 'The most important thing, in a woman, is to have a man of her own and make him happy.'
This is a fascinating remark from such a great artist as Callas. It shows that, for all her vaunted ambition and musico-dramatic genius, she had a profound need for love and, in a way, to serve a man ('make him happy'). What a complex, paradoxical woman she was.
That was also her problem... Thinking that she needed a man in her life to make her happy
It’s not fascinating. It’s sad and totally against feminism. She was so much better than being a woman serving a man and she is giving this up so easily? It’s one thing to love and it’s another thing to serve. It’s great to love someone but serving is not.
@@PhaedraTify Then all I can say is that you have lived a crabbed, parched existence. A life of service to others is the most fulfilling, rewarding life one can live. Feminism has robbed nigh on to three generations of women of the rich dimensionality of a humble life of service by making it appear oppressive and punitive. For shame.
@@jasonhurd4379 I didn’t say anything bad for you so I think it’s rude of you to judge me especially when you don’t know me. And I didn’t mean that offering to others is bad but serving a grownup man? What’s the point? Can’t he take care of himself? He’s not handicapped, he is not impotent. Why sacrifice something great to serve him? Was he serving her in return? Women are not slaves of men. We have our own life and needs, same as men do. And by the way by singing she was serving the humanity in a much greater way than by taking care of a man
@@PhaedraTify The humblest, most loving thing a person, whether man or woman, can do is to sacrifice the greatest gift they possess in the interest of serving another. Many people in 2021 are self-regarding and vain, and this causes the vast majority of the problems we face. Tearing ourselves away from the mirror and devoting ourselves to others is the first step in correcting this situation.
Callas bellissima come non mai!
Few knew all she overcame and personal demons and struggles long before she became a major force. She was once obese. The problems with her mother were serious and ongoing. She was diligent about her craft. Onassis changed her life. She set the bar high - and was crushed if she didn't live up to that. Overall, she was respectful and demanded the same. The career that made her also destroyed her. She died too young - alone & sad. But what a legacy. Brava.
brave lady.
Most interviewers seemed to have such pleasure in cornering Callas - there were always such aggressive and sadistic undertones in most of their questions - I have never have fathomed why they always put her through the grinder every single interview. It always hurts me just listening and I should imagine for Callas it must have been hell! It is really so sad..........
..one will think all those obnoxious indervisers have something in common ???
For some reason they are trying so hard to diminish her and destroy her image or to... so much hatred..
See the Mike Wallace interview!
It's very similar!
So sad!
I think Callas must have liked being put through the grinder or she wouldn't have continued to consent to these endless interviews.
agree!!
Moving and sincere answers by Maria Callas, courageous and patient to some brutal questioning by an interviewer only interested in getting gossip and audience. She became very rich with this US TV style of interviewing and her jewels are being sold on auction right now 🌿
In retrospect, these "journalists" who interviewed Callas (especially the impudent Mike Wallace) squandered a unique opportunity. They were obsessed with prying loose a tabloid confession for purposes of self-aggrandizement rather than bringing to light the life lessons and artistic insight she had to offer. Their work now looks shabby.They should be ashamed. Yet Callas was incandescent when she spoke of the high cost of the integrity and honesty that were the foundation of her art and life.
callahanstudio Very well put. Mike was a garbage human and so was his interview... I hope Callas got lots of money for it... she was way more intelligent than him and Barbara Walters and you can see it
i love Maria’s honesty and i relate to her in every possible way.
her demands are not so great, especially for a person of her sensitivity and absolute connectedness to the music.
She end the interview this tears in her eyes...She really fell in love with Onassis.
Luis Gómez with his money.
+Ali A You're such a callas hater! Why do you even bother to watch, comment on, and reply to this video? Please give this woman the respect she deserves if you respect the art of opera and what she has done for it.
+Ali A you're right, callas was a bitch. with the voice of a witch, and ugly face, and attitude.
Hannah Harrelson ok Hannah.
Barbara Walter questions are so cheap, equal to a high school level, childish. Really what a shame , this is absolutely not professional. when you have the opportunity to interview a legend Like Maria callas, you make sure you're ready and prepared. Callas should have asked her the questions before the interview and denied the interview. Thank god times have changed. Maria looks stunning here ,amazing more in the american traditional way way than European style. but still amazing.
+Constantin Giakoumakis Well, that IS Barbara, or Baba Wawa as she was so hilariously parodied by Gilda Radner in the original SNL. Cheap questions, constantly probing for something salacious or scandalous. Cheap, cheap, cheap...
I enjoyed the interview. I think the interview gave Maria Calllas a human face. What question would you have asked that Barbara did not?
Constantin Giakoumakis Absolutely right... Barbara like her colleagues are so crass!
Constantin Giakoumakis ~ you are right!!! Maria is in our heart ❤️ forever!
Callas wasn't stupid. Callas knew what kinds of questions she would be asked if she was being interviewed by Barbara Walters.
Callas's ghost still haunts her old house and some of the old opera houses. Callas's mother stated that she feared Callas's ghost and would be very apprehensive when she felt that Callas's ghost was in the room...Callas's mother knew Callas had a score to settle with her.
That´s a bit better interview , than that arrogant Wallace did with her . He just ripped her apart rudely and arrogantly . She got very little change in her come back even though she was not what she used to be. She died for years after his disgusting attack .
Even she was a difficult person , she deserved a change after a difficult life , mostly of her own doing , but we would have wanted that for our self.
@4:38 Ms Callas just articulated a very good life lesson for me. The next time someone says to me "You should (do this, that or the other)" I will begin by asking them to merely ask if I would.
the queen of fabulous
I love this woman! She was so mistreated by the media.
Why does Maria Callas have to answer any questions about her personal life, like the stupid questions Walter's was asking about her relationship with Aristotle Onassis, etc. It is none of her business. I would have told her, "It is none of your business."
Oh, by the way, for those who say that Maria Callas was not beautiful, I think she is beautiful.
Frances Castillo ~ who knows..... she felt like she had to.
barbara walters was so cruel
Walters is nothing but a gossip cheap personality
Callas should have chosen not to give interviews like these
Didn’t have to explain herself
Sad
Such a talent!!!
Yes, but Callas did choose to explain herself of her own free will. Nothing wrong with that. Better to explain yourself than have the tabloids do it for you.
MARIA KALLAS THE BEST SINGER
Barbara is rude, disrespectful and insensitive to keep probing Ms. Callas on her relationship with Mr. Onassis; there's no reason for her to be friends with Mrs. Onassis, whatsoever.