Final scene from Armida 1952
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2024
- The performance, in care of Tullio Serafin and a train of most worthy performers, left an excellent impression in regard to the music and singing. Maria Meneghini Callas sang as convincingly as a refined actress is able to: regal, passionate, desperate, she measured her bearings with fascinating sensibility and rhythm. Vocally, she dominated the whole opera, from the very beginning to the very end: in long singing outpourings, in sparkling bravura cabalettas, in the more dramatic and agitated passages, she found the tone that the music demanded, creating a feminine and touching vocal drama.
Review by Gualtiero Frangini in "La Nazione Italiana" April 27, 1952
![Maria Callas in Nabucco (Highlights) [Napoli, 20/12/1949]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/rkXtkq0MUo4/mqdefault.jpg)
As usual, thanks a million for posting. If one has not heard an early Callas, one has not heard Callas!
C'est certain ! La voix de Callas à cette époque est colossale ,et sans limite .C'est prodigieux et sans équivalent dans l'histoire je pense .
Yes very true..... but all great artists became famous for their early years... it's what they do after that differentiates their legacy....
I agree the Gualterio Frangini comment for this and every singing music the Callas sang!!!!!
She is la Divina.
Never before.....and certainly never since! Agree with P. Lochs......greatest vocal achievement of 20th century.......and beyond.
Difficult to put into words... it's an absolute miracle.
The definition of Superhuman!! No one has ever or will ever come close.
That unwritten top E flat that she sings as she flies off in her dragon chariot must have been spectacular heard live!
❤❤❤❤The supreme voice of all time❤❤❤❤The only CALLAS❤
This is a superhuman achievement. If there was no other recording of Callas this would still assure her place as the greatest soprano assoluta of all time.
The voice is plangent yet subtle , amazingly flexible and deeply emotional. The sorceress Armida incarnate!!!Great photo!
Muchas gracias.
Esta mujer es un milagro irrepetible.
La Divina, bravissima
Muchas gracias y saludos cordiales desde Santiago de Chile.
Dr. Fernando Rivas-Burattini.
CALLAS FOR EVER!
Phenomenal!
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEGATO EVEN TO THE HARDEST COLORATURA WRITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS WOMAN IS SOMETHING
beside some comments from somebody with mental issue, Armida is one of the MOST difficult operas, after Callas no one was capable to achieve what did. Era un mostro di bravura, altri Soprano possono solo venire DOPO di lei e mai accostarsi a lei.
Carlo Pietroniro armada is a bitch to sign!!! Scuse my French..no one beats Callas in finaleArmida
Appunto. Come lei ha detto à Simionato la notte della prima di Bolena-“dopo di me, nessuno”! (E basta con la porcherìa!)
lost for words
Wonderful to read what the papers of the date wrote
Just can't believe my ears.
Bravo super brilliance
LA DIVINA
At 2:08 she elevated Rossini to dramatic genius
It's simply bonkers.
Rossini elevated Callas’ to use her dramatic genius. She’s just singing what’s already wriiten!
@@maxinecornucci5953 this part at 2:08 is not written in the original score. It's an ornament by Callas.
❤Η Κάλλας παρά πάνω από φαινόμενο , ήταν η ίδια η δύναμη της Μουσικής και ΤΟΤΕ και παντα
this could only happen when opera was only for those who knew what opera is - and not a show on television
well then that's ironic because wasn't it Callas who became famous beyond the realm of opera which resulted in those who didn't know what opera was buying tickets to come see her?
❤❤❤😊😊😊❤❤❤
When she was a truly dramatic
Soprano.
Til she took her last breath. And please reflect on what you say and study her performances to realize this was just her baby steps toward Medea, Bolena, Traviata, Norma, Alceste. You on the other have never been noticed!
You just have to read what. Titto
Gobbi wrote in his biogrphy about
Callas voice!! Everything he said there,is what I felt,when I heard
The lived performance of. Verdi
I visperi seccialianni,from the
Maggio musicale fiorentino in
1951!! Everything was there!! Gobbi was right!!
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤!!!!!!!!!!!!
What recording is this from it did you clean it up yourself? The quality of the Warner recording I have is poor
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not likely that this will ever happen again....Todays mediocre opera conductors and directors would not allow it. We were so fortunate to experience opera in the 50s and 60s.
Siamo passati dalla Callas alla Deutekom alla...Fleming....?
alla netrebko pendant que vous y êtes. On ne mélange pas les torchon et les serviettes. Aucune n'est capable d'une telle performance.
@@gerardmignon700 , hai ragione, di quattro non se ne fa una.
Callas remains the greatest in this
Repertoire!!
Fleming è stata buona, ma non mai grande!.
@@maxinecornucci5953 , Fleming cantante eccellente ma non ha lo stile e il timbro non si sposa bene col repertorio Romantico italiano. Verdi compreso.
1:03
9:37
Callas absolutely divine as usual, but seriously "Armida" is boring as hell, and there's not a single nice melody in all these scenes, except the very last minutes of the final, and even that is... meh.
This extract is prety exiting and the end is amazingly powerfull... or at least she make it amazing.💪💪💪
I guess each to their own. I find a lot of the music quite compelling
I find the music in Armida exciting, dramatic, and beautiful. All the tenor arias are gorgeous. The Armida/Rinaldo duets are gorgeous. For me, the tenor trio is the icing on the cake!
Callas devotees are frequently irrational...their extreme hyperbole is boring.
!mrdunn brucvald .....as are Tebaldi and Sutherland devotees!!!....also "irrational"....... admirers of Callas do not have the monopoly on hyperbole!!!!....
@@artdanks .....if you had bothered to read my comment properly you would have noticed I did not argue about opera singers, I was merely objecting to the statement that Callas devotee's are frequently irrational!!......please be careful dismounting that high horse you could hurt yourself......I will not dignify the asinine "not worthy of opera lovers" comment.....with a response......😘
And who are you exactly??
@@artdanks As a persistent perpetrator of hyperbole in my Callas comments I feel you are being particularly unjust here. Pammy was being the soul of reason here. I find that the purplest hyperbole is the only rhetorical mode that works to express to some degree what Callas does to me.
@@shaundudley4576. Thank you. I just deleted the rude response I made two years ago, and apologize to both you and Pammy, as well as anyone else who read it. I have to agree with what both you and Pammy said. I'm not even sure why I made those comments. I can only surmise that I must not have really read the original comment correctly at all, as Pammy suggested. So sorry. (Fortunately, since then, Pammy and I have had some very good conversations, so hopefully she will know I must have been "out of sorts" that day, and accept my apology.)