Maria Callas 'London Farewell Concert' at the Royal Festival Hall with Giuseppe di Stefano, 1973
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2012
- Now that I can upload longer videoes, this is the full version of the concert I have in pieces on this channel.
This was Maria Callas' farewell concert in London in 1973. It was held at the Royal Festival Hall. She sang with Giuseppe di Stefano. They were accompanied by Ivor Newton. The programme is:
1. Verdi, Don Carlos, Act II duet
2. Lalo, de Roi D'ys, Vainement ma bien aimé (di Stefano solo)
3. Poncinelli, La Gioconda, Suicidio (Callas solo)
4. Bizet, Carmen (duet)
5. Mascagni, Cavalliera Rusticana, Voi lo sapete (Callas solo)
6. Mascagni, Cavalliera Rusticana, Tu qui Stanuzza (duet)
7. Puccini, O Babbino caro (encore, Callas solo) 
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I think we have to have tremendous respect for Maria Callas here. This was her farewell concert, and she was very aware of how her voice sounded at this point of her life. And yet regardless of what people would think, she did this to help a friends child who was sick. She put her reputation second, and good actions first. Nothing is more respectable than that. She is truly a legend, and even here her voice is still beautiful.
@@ChewVurse She could have and should have just given them money.
I was there on the front row ! The only time I ever heard live the great Callas. I shall never forgot this extraordinary time, even if She was no longer what She had been.....
I watched her being interviewed after this performance. "Your audience gave you a wonderful reception" the interviewer said. "They applauded what they imagined they had heard." replied Callas. What a frank and brave reply.
No thanks
+Barbara Northwood That is correct. See my comment above. I was there.
I think that she said:" They applaud what I used to be not what I am"...even more poignant....She was absolutely true to herself. Once she was asked what she felt about beeing idolized she had this sharp comment:" Idols can be destroyed very quickly and easily". She never got caught up in her stardom and status and unlike so many others she knew when to stop. This tournee was only made to raise money for Di Stefano's sick daughter because she knew she was not up to it and did it to help a friend and partner....Brava Maria....
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Brava!
How quickly people forget! In their prime these two were stupendous. Why give them a thumbs down for showing their human frailty? Even great artists aren't gods. They are mortal and so are their voices. If only one could last as long as the other!
@@marianneluban3347 If they're "great artists," they should know when it's over.
One of the greatest voices ever..... This s so sad to watch as she died not long after ... A legend that will be remembered hundreds of years from now
I always come back to her...after so many singers come and go, Maria for me is supreme, the raw emotion is what counts. She puts the action to the words. Brilliant in every way.
La Callas' voice had long gone by the time the tour began, her confidence too. But this is utterly beautiful. Her incredible talent to act on stage and her own tragic story had made her performances moving. She made her characters real. Callas was one of a kind.
I listen to her recordings all the time. For me no other singer brings the pathos and deep understanding of whatever roles she is singng. I am not ashamed of telling someone I have an addiction. I am addictd to Maria Callas.
Indeed
Soffro di depressione da diversi anni e giuro che ascoltare la sua voce è più potente di un farmaco!❤🎼
After all these decades it's very emotional to see her live for her last tour.... 💜
Callas is a timeless example to singers of interpretation, vocal agility and visual beauty.
Non parlerei di tramonto vocale... Quello che in Maria Callas è considerato il periodo meno "brillante" è ciò che oggi ascoltiamo in molte voci ad inizio carriera. Lei ci aveva abituato a ben altro, d'accordo, ma è comunque una DEA. SEMPRE. Sempre straordinaria. Artista meravigliosa. Guai a chi la tocca 💟Sono una Cantante che ha attraversato molte crisi vocali e so bene quanto sia dura. Avrei dato chissà cosa (all'epoca non ero ancora nata) per essere lì, anche"solo" a girare le pagine al pianista, pur di stare sul palco a pochi cm da lei... 😅Mi inchino e mi inchinero'sempre a tanta arte 🙏🙏❤️
Love to listen her even after 50 years. She is alive and will always be because her archive is still be watched. Great opera performer and lovely woman. I wished her mother to see how much people in the world love her for who she was.
It breaks my heart to think of all the things she went through. Such a loss of a lady and one of the most astounding talents to have ever graced opera.
Totally agree. I was AMAZED when I heard her masterclasses and she was throwing off phrases from all kinds of arias like it was as easy as speaking. The masterclasses are amazingly insightful to listen to.
She wasnt from this world. Her voice, her act, her looks, her dramatic personal life says that. And nothing from "another world" lasts much here on this planet. She was the greatest ever, hands down.
@@boubou230910 Nope.
@@mmjhcb go listen hiphop, it fits you, ASS
Giuseppe must loved Callas so much! He wanted to make a last tour together, Callas voice is weak but not that bad, she is still very beautiful....she can only be compared to herself.
the problem was Di Stefano 's voice.
They were lovers sometimes
@@mistersmith1883 She said nothing very nasty in this regard, ‘We should have been together when he had a voice.’
There are so many riches in this video, I don't know where to start. She is beautiful. Her style is immaculate. That asymmetrical cape! From the moment she walks on stage, she has an innate understanding of the level of excitement the public needs from an artist. Sure, the middle of her voice, just above her break, is problematic, as are notes above the stave. But this is an object lesson in how much power a human being can summon in the face of diminished resources. She seems to hit a stride in the Carmen duet. The emotional intensity she brings to the Cavalleria duet is staggering. And that face--is it possible to teach people how to capture a world of emotion in a single expression? It took tremendous courage for her, at such an emotionally vulnerable period of her life, to give a gift like this. I'm so glad she did.
Angelo Ragaza pippo che grazia divina la tua voce...in italy for the fans of distefano, his name is a nickname, Pippo. La divina is Divina for her is Nature. Che meraviglia, keine evaluation techinc, only with heart
hermoso y profundo tu comentario.
She Will Always be The Great Callas!...💖
When Callas sings, every sentence gets a special meaning ...
Her voice was clearly a shadow of her once former glory here. But damn, she has one of the best charisma and stage presence I have seen. She stays in character throughout the entire songs.
like in her interview before if she wasnt a singer she would be more likely and actress which she also is her natural talent yet one is more dominant than the other which is her singing but both need to coexist one way or another
aria!!!!blody hell do not bee to smart....
@@lindajumaila354 Callas got even compliments from Meryl Streep, arguably the most talented film actress in Hollywood today. She called Callas the greatest artist of the 20th century. What Callas had over other singers is her meticulous phrasing. She didn't have the most conventionally beautiful instrument, but that voice was very expressive. She knew how to express pain, anguish, love, sorrow, anger, warmth, jealousy, etc with that magnetic voice. She understood the importance in the small details. She was so nuanced in her vocal coloring and diction, hence why the audience immediately felt captivated by her. She was a true vocal actress, aside from just a visual stage actress.
I have read that she had suffered from dermatomyositis which is a form of muscular dystrophy, and the disease had eaten away at her diaphragm and heart muscle. This is why she kept losing weight, and why her voice slowly weakened, and why she died of a heart attack at the young age of 53. It makes sense. God bless her soul, what a wonderful talent!
Beautifully written and extremely sad but really does explain so much. Thank you so much for this as I could never understand why her voice started to fail in the early 1970's. It was obvious in that sad Japan concert tour with DiStefano and also it knocks a rumour that she took an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.
Young?
I was there! On the whole, it was terribly upsetting and depressing. She wobbled so. But every once in a while that Callas sound would come out -- and that was worth every pound I paid and more.
The voice doesn't matter anymore, rather, her presence.
Callas at her worst was much better than most we have today. She was breathtaking and nothing less than scintillating in this final performance. She was the pinnacle of everything opera could and should be. In opera this is only before Callas and after Callas. She was its apex.
Wow!
I still can't believe there are people who were so lucky to hear her. I would love to meet someone of those people and get to know about that amazing experience. Callas seems so distant and unreachable to me, like a goddess; and I often forget that she was real and that her legacy is still alive in a few people's memories. I envy you.
That having been said, I am and will always be a devoted Callas follower. La Divina for life!
it is so sad that such a strong and talented woman like her would loose her mind and and her life over loosing a man like Onassis that not only did betrayed her, he did not even deserve her.
Well, Jaqueline Kennedy took revenge on him.
I heard Callas and all the others! Callas revived Opera. She was a great actress and an intelligent teacher. She was the ultimate Diva. RIP La Divina. You will never be equalled or forgotten.
The Ultimate Diva. RIP. I prefer Callas on a bad day to the others on a good day. I was there aged 17 with my teacher. We realized that that was the last time we would see her live. It was highly emotional and heart breaking. She knew she wasn't at her best but only did the concert to raise money for Stefano's child who had cancer.
Her bones, muscles and inner organs were disintegrating. She was now fighting her body instead of the critics. She retired to her Paris apartment to become a recluse and died within three years.
I'm very tearful reading this. I had my photo taken outside her Paris home in 2000. I never saw her live and would have loved it. God bless La Divina. Thank you for sharing this moving memory x
She had a disease?
Callas was a gift to this world.
I would sell my soul to be able to travell back in time and hear her live...
intellectuality kw and you got the rest of us a headache. Have a good day.
Intellectually kw...and yet here you are commenting on her farewell concert.
MrLisztian it's just a troll. Move along, nothing to be stressed about
intellectuality kw you are ugly. Loved to come down to your lvl of thinking. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to not being an utter idiot. *flies away*
intellectuality kw oh, go put +1 on your own comments elsewhere, douche.
Unforgettable performance! We will never see this kind of art
This recital is incredible, even though their voices are definitely not what they once were. As a singer, I really appreciate and learn from the depth of artistry here. Callas was a true singing actress, where the words informed the music. No better example is the Carmen duet (22:28). A master of her métier.
just imagine beind there in person and listen to this great voice, that would be incredible indeed, specaily casta diva.. May her soul rest in peace..
She was a great singer, a great actress, a great legend.
What raw gut wrenching emotion on the last Aria.
O mio bambino Caro.
Most soprano's today can only dream of singing like Maria.
She may have been past her prime
But she still had it.
Anyone else would be second rate
I am grateful to see this video -- as a teenager, I saw their performance during this tour in, god-help-them, Columbus, Ohio. If my memory serves, they were both having a rockier night than here; but even in the diminishment of Callas' voice and physical/emotional state, there is music at its most human to be found.
The more I hear her performing, the more I like her. Every time I appreciate her more.
An telwi because she was a witch.
So sad to see how her voice had deteriorated ... BUT WHO CARES?!! Her legend was enough. I felt so moved watching her because she was a singer never to be matched. Just to hear the applause was wonderful .. ALL those people there knew how great she was!
these videos is important for all humanity to see. beautiful and beautiful callas.Inmortal!!
Thanks for this upload.These two amazing performers did so with just a grand piano!! Not the big orchestra to disguise poor notes, all the focus on them! Nothing to hide behind with an orchestra and clever conductor, it takes great talent to perform lthis way.And they were both greats, what if their voices were no longer in their prime, they gave such pleasure and will be remembered as two of the all time greats, performing from the heart.
A wonderful treat for Callas fans. Thanks for putting this up.
I don’t hear flaws then again I am not an expert. I absolutely love this concert, people were so lucky to be in the presence of greatness, goddess, talented Maria Callas, the one and only ❤💐🌺🌷🌸🙏👍🎉🎊🥂
Her interview with Mike Wallace shortly before this interview was so sad. He was asking her tough personal questions and you can see he was hurting her feelings. She knows she was difficult throughout her life. She knows she made some poor decisions but I truly think she felt alone and that no one loved her and she did die of a broken heart . I hope she rests in peace.
+ljude01 What an insensitive pig, Mike Wallace was. She should have stood up and told him she had another engagement - something. Anything to put an end to that relentless, rude grilling.
+ArtSmart him and that disgusting pig of a woman barbara walters despicable both
ljude01 yes
And Mike Wallace was/is the Swiss Franc of news guys AND fathers?? C'mon!!
Chris, his son, ain't even pops' wannabe equal - but AGREED. Someone in Maria's corner needed to slap the shit outta Mikey. Ideally, on air.
" no one loved her and she did die of a broken heart" . Di Stefano loved her.
Such beauty such talent!
Beautiful singers like Callas should never age, should never die.
+Paul France
Unfortunately they do....but we do have their beautiful voices that are still with us.
a beautiful smile, an unparallel talent and a radient Greek character....
Greatest singers ever born! the endeared charismatic personalities
who worked tirelessly with dedication to perfect the art of singing. May their souls rest in peace.
Thank you so much for uploading! I love Maria so much, I can't believe she had such a tragic life; What a beautiful, talented woman!
Thank you for posting this. My parents were at this concert and they never forgot it. Callas and di Stefano - two heroes of opera and the very greatest.
WOW... I'm so joyfully jealous of them... I would have LOVE to have been at this concert!
Happy birthday, La Divina! We love and miss you! BRAVA!!!!
Now days: Dec. 2013; we don't have even ONE tenor that can touch Pipo Di Stefano, in this recording, and to think that he was already out of the business; but he defended himself like a real Lion with his diction and with those clear A vowels, and phrasing
Thank you for sharing this. The amazing Maria Callas!
Marcy Goldsmith qui finalmente si sono dichiarati amore...Pippo cche voce ancora, che voce. La divina , restA per sua stessa essenza, ma povera senza voce
Clapping for over a minute just for showing up... I wish I could have been there
Maria Callas! The goddess of music! The only PERFECT voice that has ever been and will be!
@@mariavalasaki1299 OMG!
Thank you for sharing this video. Her magnificent voice deserved the beautiful vessel God placed it in. May her soul be blessed with eternal joy...
Maria Callas a glamouring star of all times!
A diva like no other, thanks for uploading this
I cant stop watch Maria...shes great, diva. Callas forever ♥️
Maria Callas is still over today singers.. And nobody will never "double" Callas ! On her own words ! Its the fact.. And stays for ever !
No that were the words of I think manager of opera a Roma
Qué milagro de concierto ! Yo hubiera dado años de mi vida por haberlo visto . Bravooooo !!!!
She really was just divine. No other opera singer will come close to her legacy or work ethic or passion or ability to transform opera into a living being.
Word!
Today is another anniversary since she left us. Yes, her voice was not there anymore, but even so she sounds better than most today, and this woman with just one look and a hand gesture, can distroy anyone. Love you forever Maria.
A grand voice ever. Even at its end! She was the grandest ever for a century, no way! BRAVO Maria! So many years alone... A great tribute to the ultimate STAR of Opéra. Bravo! Rest in peace. Emmanuel from Paris
Maria Callas e Giuseppe di Stefano both are greatest opera' singers.
Maria Callas not only an opera singer, her performance is perfect in all the the sense or way!! She will be in the all the Opera theaters forever as a symbol of Divas. Giuseppe di Stefano also in this concert was performance of soft sounds is incredible!!
She had an incredible voice. She could also put emotions in her singing as few other singers had before her.
Stop the stupidities about Callas. She was the greatest ever because she was much more than her voice. No one has come or will come near. Callas was, is, opera.
exactly.
The Greek goddess Maria Callas!
absolutely!!! it doesnt get any better…. EVER!
Very rightly said.
"She was the greatest ever because she was much more than her voice. No one has come or will come near. Callas was, is, opera."
Ohh so well said.
I love seeing the big respect between Callas and di Stefano. People/artists of class 😌
La Divina was still magnificent. Particularly interesting is the contrast in the two operatic scenes, from Carmen and Cavalleria Rusticana in which the roles of spurned lover are reversed. Callas' acting is state of the art, as always. True, the voice is not what it was 25 years earlier but even the most average Callas performance (which this is NOT) far outshines legions of contemporary singers.
Maria Callas....so beautiful, thank you for this post!
Incredibile, per sempre
I was there, aged 20. Ivor Newton gave me a ticket. I will never forget. The audience seemed unsympathetic for some reason. Then her earring dropped with a plonk onto the floor. Ivor woke up with a jerk. She stooped to pick it up and seemed to be beseeching the audience for sympathy, that it gave as a great wave of warmth and love and admiration. At that point the concert took off. It may be all in my head but that is how I remember it.
how lucky
unsympathetic because the singing is so bad?
I'd still sell my soul to see that concert
La Callas avrà anche perso volume nella voce col tempo, ma la sua voce,la sua tecnica, la sua teatralità resteranno sempre appellabili con l'aggettivo Divina!
Maria Callas cantaba en forma impresionante, varias de sus interpretaciones son simplemente CONMOVEDORAS
The greatest DIVA! And she looked so beautiful!
This woman was a gift to this world
impressive were her hands, her gestures, I saw that her performances must have been great, her singing never sounded dated.
I wish she can see how there are also now new audiënties who love her.
MC has a voice no others to this day can quite emulate.
Divina Maria come te non ci sarà mai più nessuna!❤️
maria is immortal.
Todo en ella es música... Todo en ella es Arte. Callas aún vive...
Thanks YOU Samuel... from the bottom of my HEART!
Bravo, bravo. What a voice and talent.
She's so pretty!
Mabie I'm crazy but I think she sounds just as lovely in this performence as she did in her prime.
Yes. Indeed!💖
BEAUTIFUL!
I here because my mother love Maria Callas.
She was the greatest...She is the greatest. enough of the analysis.. rest in her talent, her brilliance...that is enough
without putting Maria Callas into the pedestal and fanaticism I discover the true art of opera after hearing her name I thought opera is just a form of haute le chant but ive been following her in youtube during her prime years to the years of her decline I try to check other opera singers like Tribaldi, Sills, Escoto, Sutherland and the one who comes close to her is Caballe. something about Marias brand of opera that is different from the rest her charisma is outstanding among the one existed even now. Looking at La Divina is a work of art thats why her influence even stretched to more than the Opera and music itself but also in fashion, art, films and literature there is the reason why the current haute couture collection of valentino is inspired by her and Passolini the film director call her the walking art and german indie film director Werner Shroeter is inspired to make film base on her work even her life is like a literature or story line of a tragic play..... depite her vocal decline that is visible in this concert she still have the voice but not strength she use to have during her prime yes she still have the character of what she is singing and able to feel it while you are listening... she is still Carmen and she is still la Gioconda in her suicidal tendency and a anxious Lauretta begging for her father for her love in O mio Babbino Caro.... this is the reason why often times when opera is used in many soundtrack they use Maria Callas version singing in those arias. to be honest aside from all the idolizing I find it amazing Maria never have a bad hair day everywhere you see not to mention she looks older in her heavy make up in her prime years and much younger in her less make up in her later years
Великая Певица всех Времен! И Всех народов!!! Нет Равных!!!
Thanks for uploading this video. This has just made my day. Great to actually see my childhood heroes sing, when all we could do in the past was to listen to them on records.
You all need to understand something. Maria Callas was a professional singer! That means, she was smart enough to choose roles that would not represent a vocal damage, although when you've had a damn good vocal training, you know that if you sing properly, any role is bad for the voice. It was her private life which was tremendously perjudicial for her.
When you stop singing for a very long time like she did, the muscles needed for singing (diaphram, vocal cords and the chest register) looses their strenght, and this is reflected in the way of reaching the top notes, the vocal acrobats and the support for the voice.
The voice was not broken! It was out of strenght, if she'd have the volunty to work very hard and study again, she could've had another chance, but she couldn't because she had nothing to grap on in this life & she passed away. So, a little bit of respect & please don't talk about thing you know anything about, it's disrespectful for her legacy and you look very bad.
Preach it ♥
Thank you for your explanations. I hope she rests in peace. A l epoque, many people said it was a mistake. But I think she felt good about it, and we all enjoy it. She never sounded as an "old" voice, in spite of her age, her talent was always there... beyond any critics. Adorada ....
Hernan Revello For all the incredible things that she did, for how passionate and worker she was, i'm vey sure that she rest in peace.
yes, but your grammar is horrible. There are run-on's everywhere and no punctuation.
neither gramar, nor pronunciation were important in those times. The importance of the text had never been stressed until the late 80's. Before that, the singers wouldn't care because the important thing to them was the music itself.
Oh my gahd.... where do they get these beautiful and powerful voices... LOVE EM!!!!!!
If you are disappointed from her performance you need to read her life story.Her career was not even close to anyones career.She was a dramatic soprano!!You can not compare Callas's voice,soul,musicality,stage performance,quality and career with Sutherlad's or with any soprano..That is why Callas was /is a legend.End of story..!
Music She was a dramatic coloratura.
She was and vill be a legend... the others are the others
She was not a dramatic soprano
Chère Maria, que d'émotion....encore merci pour ce talent jamais égalé
Everyone knew her voice had deteriorated, but WHO cares? She was a legend. Sutherland was also not great in her final years, but her legend was enough. This caliber of soprano is hard to find in our time. I would have loved to have been there. I cried watching this.
Sean Redmond - Your candour is admirable and touches the heart. But oh, how I wish the two of them had never made this 'comeback' as it is so terribly sad. The threadbare voices are simply struggling ... And to give Joan her due, when she retired, she retired and never sang again in public.
I think she needed it for the reassurance that she was still adored. There were some moments were the voice sounded dreadful, but I don't think the audiences were expecting the Callas of the 1950's. It was a farewell tour so I guess she just needed that connection with the audience just one last time. So sad that she did not live longer. Her Julliard Masterclasses were just wonderful. She was an encyclopedia of opera genres and, like Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills. Our contemporary divas are not a scratch on these great women who worked hard and didn't run before they could walk.
+Chris Ryan I had a similar experience at a Marian Anderson concert circa 1960. Just horrible. My mother sat sobbing, not for the beauty she was hearing, but for what once had been and was long gone. Anderson had early technical problems, too, which my mother and others knew if not corrected, would eventually cause what we heard that night. Still it was really painful to watch. Proper technique is the basis of all great singing. If it isn't there, you'll be done long before you should be.
Sean Redmond 0
OMG... her high... is SO BEAUTIFUL... the lower voice... a little bright... BUT OMG... she's GLORIOUS...! I have "friends" who are singing on BIG stages still... and NEVER sounded like this... EVER... EVER... EVER... (and NEVER will...!)
MrLisztian That's a good thing.
That's the Callas quality and brand! She will never get off the emotion even a few seconds after the song... and who says she lost the voice, low tones perhaps, but the voice?! Unless you're deaf or you don't understand music at all. Carlos Bas was right, she is Opera.
Je suis devenue une vraie fanatique d'opéra parce que, un jour, j'ai entendu «par hasard» la voix de Maria Callas. Merci pour ce document vidéo. Ils sont si rares.
bellissime voci cosa dire si è detto tanto che aggiungere! GRANDI!!!
She is awesome best voice of the eras ♥
Thank you for the posting!!!!!
Beautiful recording, for it shows a duality: her magnificent voice and passion for singing, and the dedication a good friend had to her. Giuseppe, a loyal friend. RIP both in His memory.
What a great duet he is incredible