E' veramente impressionante, in quest'aria più ancora che in altre, l'assoluta padronanza e sicurezza di passaggio tra i vari registri vocali... dal "petto" che non è mai sguaiato ma spesso "misto" all'incisività del registro centrale... e poi... che fraseggio!!!
This is a pure expression of what beautiful singing is all about the drama is in the air in this aria from don Carlos she is wonderful she conveys all that Elizabetha to Verdi was.... viva la Divina
to stand up there and do what she just did for 10minutes.....amazing. she really began to sing directly into my soul during the last 3 minutes. pefection as defined in the Oxford Dictionary: Maria Callas
One of my favorite videos with her. She acts the piece long before she begins to sing. Those expressive eyes and gestures... And then she sings.....and the aria comes alive. Fascinating.
Diese Stimme! Diese Stimme rührt mich zu Tränen! Diese Frau war als Sängerin einfach himmlisch. Auch wenn sie als -die Diva- wohl auch sehr schwierig gewesen sein soll. So die Saga! Übrigens wurde ihre vorübergehend letzte Ruhestatt auf dem Pierre Lachaise-Friedhof in Paris, in der Weihnachtsnacht `77 geschändet. Maria, ruhe in Frieden!
She is amazingly expressive, very nuanced; she makes very word believable. Sure, it may not be the most beautiful voice, but she can show the emotions like nobody else.
This was absolutely beyond gorgeous. I cant even imagine how she could pull off, not only just singing this song, but feeling it as much as she did. I will never be able to come close to singing any song with such passion. She could move a mountain to tears. There will be no one like the one and only Maria.
WOW!!!! I AM COMPLETELY AWESTRUCK BY THIS WOMAN. Everyone's been saying that she's the greatest soprano of all time...now I'm absolutely certain of that as well. Except for Pavarotti, I've never heard such a magnificent, beautiful voice as this...so much power and projection, so much clarity of diction, and perfect breathing control. Not to mention her vast vocal range. And then to top it all off, she was such a BEAUTIFUL woman as well! She is the Master Jedi Knight of Opera!!
Maria Callas was such a great artist, she didn't even need to sing to imprint drama to her performances and this video is a witness to that great amazing ability she had to convey feelings just by being on stage. The amazing 1:37 of prelude are just a great preamble to her amazing vocal range, beautiful voice and sweet countenance. She was somebody people enjoyed listening too and looking at. Maria Callas was indeed divine!
Even if she didn't sing a note she would be the most expressive artist of all time. Just look how she captures the character of Elisabetta through that long orchestral introduction. Who cares if one or two notes jarr a little , we are witnessing one of the most intensly felt and beautiful performances ever given on an operatic stage. She was peerless.
Gracias María por haberme explicado con tu arte, exactamente lo que significa y en qué consiste la Opera. GRACIAS MARIA CALLAS! LA UNICA POR MAS QUE LOS ESQUALIDOS TIEMBLEN DE BRONCA!
I'm looking for new singers and I don't want to sound like the ultimate cliché but Maria Callas is still my favorite Opera singer by far. There is simply no one like her. I don't what it is.
Amazing! Technique so strong it becomes invisible and serves the communication! Musicianship--sublime! Such love, such feeling! She IS the alpha and omega of singing. Dessay-SHUT UP! And listen.
This was Callas at her most magnetic and electrifying. The voice is responsive, her artistry secure, and she takes us to places no other soprano could. Why, oh WHY couldn't she keep it together??? A talent beyond measurement!
What a beautiful and committed Artist. Thank you, Maria, for your devotion to your art and all the inspiration you gave and continue to give to humanity!
I am crying, and she has not evev begun singing...1:27 !!! 1:39, OMG the color of that voice is magnificent, open throated, NO false tongue coloring like todays Sopranos, fully supported voice, color from the chest/appogio! She lives, she embodies The Art and gives us transcendance, an angel yet so human. She cries when she sings. Amazing. Bel Canto technique IS dead. Where are the teachers like Heldago???
@COONY1875 Exactly! When I was a teenager I had a number of her old opera recordings that also included the liberetti so I could follow. Callas wasn't just a singer singing a role, she transformed herself into a character with her voice (face and body too, but there aren't many of the videos left). When I listened to her in roles of tragic heroines I could feel their emotions and their pain, I heard Lucia, Norma, Violetta....
This performance is absolutely amazing and look how beautiful she is! What I would not have given to have been present live at this performance. Callas died way to young!
It's in the middle section of this aria that Callas show her true genius. There have been sopranos that make something great of the opening lines and then just sort of float around in the middle section until the opening theme returns and they can take off again...Callas makes MUSIC of that section, finding the line and shape of the phrase through perfect rhythm and fabulous sense of pitch...it's a masterclass in interpretation...and the color she finds are always amazing.
Not to be rude but how can anyone dislike this? Can't people recognize true talent? She was amazing and if people are not fans of opera or Callas then I can't comprehend why they are watching this video.
Even though I've seen this video many times, I still wait in total apprehension for when her diamond brooch falls to the floor! Callas was unfazed, and sang the rest of the aria beautifully. The most beautiful rendition of this aria that I know of, vocally and dramatically. Even when listening to the audio only, one can immediately sense the drama and tension in her singing, especially how she colored each and every phrase to convery the varying emotions in the aria. A true genius.
Her performance still commands a sense of excitement & touches the soul of the audience. Others may have had a more pleasing voice, but she had the inner-fire & theatrical intensity that gave meaning & thrill to her art. As the San Francisco Silent Film Festival motto indicates, "True art transcends time." And Maria Callas did that to perfection! Viva Callas!
@millriv Hardly. As you can guess by my YT name, Elisabetta is a fave role. I heard and saw many of the greats live and on disc in this role. No one matches her dramatic intensity, phrasing and musicality.
i love you MARIA CALLAS, sinduda una de mis sopranos favorias por sus interpretaciones tan buenas ,devo dar gracias a ella puesto q nos dejo una gran cantidad de arias del bell canto, con los q podemos recrear nuestro oido gracias, MARIA CALLAS!!!! BRAVOO!!!
Hoy a Callas por primera vez en la grabación de Il Ballo in Maschera, no entendi ese momento lo que era la pasión por el ARTE. Pero dejo en mi el amor por su voz, su interpretación y todavía la admiro como la primera vez que la oí en Amelia.
I just love her expressions. It's hard to act, but just stand there, mute, relying solely on your body, nothing else, to express the music. Makes me wonder why nobody ever recorded her acting in a live opera.
@thewickedzirenita on another Callas video someone suggested it's the wildness she has in her voice--she never tamed her voice, and every word she sings bleeds with firey emotion... and I think I'm in the same boat as you, she's just an incredible, beautiful artist
Yes, the present has some great talent as well. Anna Netrebko, Renee Fleming, Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay to name only some. All different. Every great soprano has something different to offer.
Callas was opera's most expressive, most elegant, most articulate artist. Opera has had many stars, but Callas has no peer with the possible exception of Caruso.
Maria Menganini-Callas, was one of the most supurb italiana suprano that Italia and the world could have. Oh yes there were good supranos that came along after her death in 1977AD, but as far as I am concern there has not been any that could top her along with one of her most favorite tennors that she demanded the opera businnes to have on hand--Guiessepa De Staffano. Callas was a very very picky suprano and she had her pickings of tennors that she would preform with.
It's Elisabeth di Valois' final aria in Act V of Verdi's "Don Carlo." She is awaiting her stepson, & former fiancé, Don Carlo to bid him farewell as he leaves Spain for Flanders. She is sitting near the "tomb" of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Monastery of San Yuste & is addressing the supposedly dead Emperor in this aria.
@9raider I personally like it a lot and I love Callas. The reason why some people don't respond to Callas the way you and I do is that they like beauty of the voice above all and prefer opera singers with more conventionally beautiful voices like say Caballe. It's an issue of what one finds more important - beauty of the tone vs artistry. Callas was a total package, an artist who expressed every nuance of emotion as nobody else, but many find her voice a bit harsh, too metallic.
@ferricskin Ponselle is No19?? Where did you find that statistic? Since reading your comments, I listened to a few of her performances, and I think she has such a beautiful voice! If that's true, then she's seriously under-rated! I'm new to the world of opera so I'm not that much of an opera connoisseur.
You are one funny guy or girl i dont care but to say that of Callas please.. if you want to believe that good for you... THATS ALL THANK YOU... RAGAZZO PAZZO
This is pure hippo sheeee' I'm a 30 year old man yet I could do this... There's nothing special about this at all. This is as impressive as my wife breaking wind when she sleeps.
E' veramente impressionante, in quest'aria più ancora che in altre, l'assoluta padronanza e sicurezza di passaggio tra i vari registri vocali... dal "petto" che non è mai sguaiato ma spesso "misto" all'incisività del registro centrale... e poi... che fraseggio!!!
This is fabulous. Beyond fabulous, it is miraculous.
This is a pure expression of what beautiful singing is all about the drama is in the air in this aria from don Carlos she is wonderful she conveys all that Elizabetha to Verdi was.... viva la Divina
She was a GODDESS, the Queen of Opera! She's the world's greatest singer EVER. Her legacy is immortal.
to stand up there and do what she just did for 10minutes.....amazing.
she really began to sing directly into my soul during the last 3 minutes.
pefection as defined in the Oxford Dictionary: Maria Callas
One of my favorite videos with her. She acts the piece long before she begins to sing. Those expressive eyes and gestures... And then she sings.....and the aria comes alive. Fascinating.
Brava Brava Brava BRAAAAAVAAA!!!! sin duda fue, es y será la mejor!!! fantástica
Diese Stimme! Diese Stimme rührt mich zu Tränen! Diese Frau war als Sängerin einfach himmlisch. Auch wenn sie als -die Diva- wohl auch sehr schwierig gewesen sein soll. So die Saga!
Übrigens wurde ihre vorübergehend letzte Ruhestatt auf dem Pierre Lachaise-Friedhof in Paris, in der Weihnachtsnacht `77 geschändet.
Maria, ruhe in Frieden!
She is amazingly expressive, very nuanced; she makes very word believable. Sure, it may not be the most beautiful voice, but she can show the emotions like nobody else.
This was absolutely beyond gorgeous. I cant even imagine how she could pull off, not only just singing this song, but feeling it as much as she did. I will never be able to come close to singing any song with such passion. She could move a mountain to tears. There will be no one like the one and only Maria.
WOW!!!! I AM COMPLETELY AWESTRUCK BY THIS WOMAN. Everyone's been saying that she's the greatest soprano of all time...now I'm absolutely certain of that as well. Except for Pavarotti, I've never heard such a magnificent, beautiful voice as this...so much power and projection, so much clarity of diction, and perfect breathing control. Not to mention her vast vocal range.
And then to top it all off, she was such a BEAUTIFUL woman as well!
She is the Master Jedi Knight of Opera!!
This video should be a tribute to her dramatic capabilites. And to think she was already past her prime. This is amazing thank you for posting.
Maria Callas was such a great artist, she didn't even need to sing to imprint drama to her performances and this video is a witness to that great amazing ability she had to convey feelings just by being on stage. The amazing 1:37 of prelude are just a great preamble to her amazing vocal range, beautiful voice and sweet countenance. She was somebody people enjoyed listening too and looking at. Maria Callas was indeed divine!
The most regal, most moving and most dramatic Elisabetta de Valois EVER. Stunning!
Human being is a perfect creature. she proves it.Bravo.
Even if she didn't sing a note she would be the most expressive artist of all time. Just look how she captures the character of Elisabetta through that long orchestral introduction. Who cares if one or two notes jarr a little , we are witnessing one of the most intensly felt and beautiful performances ever given on an operatic stage. She was peerless.
its the sixties..and she still sounds fabulous. enough said.
Emotion just leaks from her every sound and movement. She becomes the music.
swell of the speakers Perfect description!
O merveilleuse Callas : exceptionnelle actrice à la voix sublime.
Je me souviens encore de la première fois où elle est venue à Paris.
Gracias María por haberme explicado con tu arte, exactamente lo que significa y en qué consiste la Opera.
GRACIAS MARIA CALLAS! LA UNICA POR MAS QUE LOS ESQUALIDOS TIEMBLEN DE BRONCA!
I'm looking for new singers and I don't want to sound like the ultimate cliché but Maria Callas is still my favorite Opera singer by far. There is simply no one like her. I don't what it is.
Maria has such a rich, supple timbre in her voice, it's absolutely beautiful! RIP, darling Maria Callas.
Amazing! Technique so strong it becomes invisible and serves the communication! Musicianship--sublime! Such love, such feeling! She IS the alpha and omega of singing. Dessay-SHUT UP! And listen.
J'en ai les larmes aux yeux... Tant de grace, de beauté c'est tout simplement stupéfiant. Je reste sans voix devant la sienne.
She is the best without a doubt.
I still AM in love with her
All I want to say about this it That this is just Pure and beautiful...and Just Amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Brava Diva May her soul Rest in Peace.
This was Callas at her most magnetic and electrifying. The voice is responsive, her artistry secure, and she takes us to places no other soprano could. Why, oh WHY couldn't she keep it together??? A talent beyond measurement!
One of Callas' great, great performances, both live here and in studio. Thanks to everyone... for posting and sharing!
A day like today we last la divina 32 years ago we still remember you divina brava....
What a beautiful and committed Artist. Thank you, Maria, for your devotion to your art and all the inspiration you gave and continue to give to humanity!
She can hold your attention without a note then she shows what opera is all about!
I am crying, and she has not evev begun singing...1:27 !!! 1:39, OMG the color of that voice is magnificent, open throated, NO false tongue coloring like todays Sopranos, fully supported voice, color from the chest/appogio! She lives, she embodies The Art and gives us transcendance, an angel yet so human. She cries when she sings. Amazing. Bel Canto technique IS dead. Where are the teachers like Heldago???
@COONY1875 Exactly! When I was a teenager I had a number of her old opera recordings that also included the liberetti so I could follow. Callas wasn't just a singer singing a role, she transformed herself into a character with her voice (face and body too, but there aren't many of the videos left). When I listened to her in roles of tragic heroines I could feel their emotions and their pain, I heard Lucia, Norma, Violetta....
♥ i love maria!!!! LA DIVINA!!
This performance is absolutely amazing and look how beautiful she is! What I would not have given to have been present live at this performance. Callas died way to young!
It's in the middle section of this aria that Callas show her true genius. There have been sopranos that make something great of the opening lines and then just sort of float around in the middle section until the opening theme returns and they can take off again...Callas makes MUSIC of that section, finding the line and shape of the phrase through perfect rhythm and fabulous sense of pitch...it's a masterclass in interpretation...and the color she finds are always amazing.
cantaaaaaaaa como los dioses!!!!!!!!!!!!
I thought that I was familiar with all extant films of Callas; what a treasure.
Boring? If Boring is so magnificent, i will be bored to eternity. Love you Callas!
ANGELIC VOICE
Not to be rude but how can anyone dislike this? Can't people recognize true talent?
She was amazing and if people are not fans of opera or Callas then I can't comprehend why they are watching this video.
Accusa giá qualche problema anche grave di emissione ma...l'interpretazione rimane ancora insuperata! Straordinaria e indimenticabile Maria!
Even though I've seen this video many times, I still wait in total apprehension for when her diamond brooch falls to the floor! Callas was unfazed, and sang the rest of the aria beautifully. The most beautiful rendition of this aria that I know of, vocally and dramatically. Even when listening to the audio only, one can immediately sense the drama and tension in her singing, especially how she colored each and every phrase to convery the varying emotions in the aria. A true genius.
Her performance still commands a sense of excitement & touches the soul of the audience. Others may have had a more pleasing voice, but she had the inner-fire & theatrical intensity that gave meaning & thrill to her art. As the San Francisco Silent Film Festival motto indicates, "True art transcends time." And Maria Callas did that to perfection! Viva Callas!
Cuantos de nosotros no reprimimos nuestras emociones y dejamos de hacerlo tan bien como ella, es el canto el mejor medio de liberarlas.
She reminds me of the great actress Irene Pappas. The of intensity of Callas work is legendary in our time. One of the best operasingers of our time
Mikor lesz még egy ilyen? Amilyen Ő volt. Elképesztő, ahogy énekel. Nincs rá szó.
its like watching someone walk a tight-rope... it makes the palms wet and the hair on the neck stand up.
viva callas! her voice is immortal.
6:04--6:10 GOOSEBUMPS
I especially love her deep notes at the end of the aria - simply amazing.
Creo que el dramatismo que nos muestra es la energía que la hacia cantar tan bello.
@millriv
Hardly. As you can guess by my YT name, Elisabetta is a fave role. I heard and saw many of the greats live and on disc in this role. No one matches her dramatic intensity, phrasing and musicality.
oh,dios santo...quisiera algun dia ser como ella...pero es mucho pedir,me conformo oyendo a esta grande mujer
eventhough some say her voice had declined...come on!
who today sounds even a third as good as she did near the "end" of her voice???
NO ONE
i love you MARIA CALLAS, sinduda una de mis sopranos favorias por sus interpretaciones tan buenas ,devo dar gracias a ella puesto q nos dejo una gran cantidad de arias del bell canto, con los q podemos recrear nuestro oido gracias, MARIA CALLAS!!!! BRAVOO!!!
Hoy a Callas por primera vez en la grabación de Il Ballo in Maschera, no entendi ese momento lo que era la pasión por el ARTE. Pero dejo en mi el amor por su voz, su interpretación y todavía la admiro como la primera vez que la oí en Amelia.
molto Bello!
Giuliano
I'd wish everybody know that Callas is Callas, but there are such great sopranos as you named.
Thank you for posting...
this is perfect just PERFECT
Thanks for upload
And 9:01 wow! You can notice her dress ornament falling, and she acts completely oblivious, wrapped up in her moment...magical...
I just love her expressions. It's hard to act, but just stand there, mute, relying solely on your body, nothing else, to express the music. Makes me wonder why nobody ever recorded her acting in a live opera.
she is amazing
perfection thats the right word...
@thewickedzirenita on another Callas video someone suggested it's the wildness she has in her voice--she never tamed her voice, and every word she sings bleeds with firey emotion... and I think I'm in the same boat as you, she's just an incredible, beautiful artist
AWESOME!!
I'm IMPRESSED by her range!! From 6:53-6:57 to 8:26, how many octaves is that???
Unparalleled Maria Callas
I love how she controls her voice, great...
A Perfeita .....
Yes, the present has some great talent as well.
Anna Netrebko, Renee Fleming, Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay to name only some. All different.
Every great soprano has something different to offer.
@ferricskin BBC Music Magazine labeled Maria Callas "the greatest soprano of all time". Argue against that.
MAGISTRALE!!! :-) Et dire qu'à l'époque(fin 1962) elle était "censée" perdre sa voix,d'après les connaisseurs! ...Difficile à croire!!! :-) :-)
*smile*
look at her ..a real professional
i'm a musicalsinger and know this kind of situation...
it's hard to keep calm.
Well said, Colonia!!!!
OMG her low notes!!! Almost like they were stolen from an alto!
Callas was opera's most expressive, most elegant, most articulate artist. Opera has had many stars, but Callas has no peer with the possible exception of Caruso.
you're so right...
What's the piece?
It's Elisabetta'a 4th act aria 'Tu che le vanità' from the Italian version of Verdi's 'Don Carlo'.
Maria Menganini-Callas, was one of the most supurb italiana suprano that Italia and the world could have. Oh yes there were good supranos that came along after her death in 1977AD, but as far as I am concern there has not been any that could top her along with one of her most favorite tennors that she demanded the opera businnes to have on hand--Guiessepa De Staffano. Callas was a very very picky suprano and she had her pickings of tennors that she would preform with.
It's Elisabeth di Valois' final aria in Act V of Verdi's "Don Carlo." She is awaiting her stepson, & former fiancé, Don Carlo to bid him farewell as he leaves Spain for Flanders. She is sitting near the "tomb" of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Monastery of San Yuste & is addressing the supposedly dead Emperor in this aria.
Absolutely spqrmor. They only come along every
30 years or so. Ms Callas set the world on fire.
Ms Netrebko is doing it again.
@roweman2 "Tu che le vanita" from Verdi's "Don Carlo".
@9raider I personally like it a lot and I love Callas. The reason why some people don't respond to Callas the way you and I do is that they like beauty of the voice above all and prefer opera singers with more conventionally beautiful voices like say Caballe. It's an issue of what one finds more important - beauty of the tone vs artistry. Callas was a total package, an artist who expressed every nuance of emotion as nobody else, but many find her voice a bit harsh, too metallic.
@thewickedzirenita "Tu che la vanita" from opera Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi.
VERDI 'DON CARLO" 'TU CHE LE VANITA'
if she would scream... how could she look so relaxed during the top notes?
@Omazing9 that was deep...
go check out Takesha Kizart singing this aria. Very interesting and beautiful. A legend in the making.
@ferricskin Ponselle is No19?? Where did you find that statistic? Since reading your comments, I listened to a few of her performances, and I think she has such a beautiful voice! If that's true, then she's seriously under-rated! I'm new to the world of opera so I'm not that much of an opera connoisseur.
someone can tell me witch aria is this, please?
You are one funny guy or girl i dont care but to say that of Callas please.. if you want to believe that good for you... THATS ALL THANK YOU...
RAGAZZO PAZZO
@ariadna2006 what is the name of this piece, please? and thanks for uploading!
This is pure hippo sheeee'
I'm a 30 year old man yet I could do this...
There's nothing special about this at all. This is as impressive as my wife breaking wind when she sleeps.
@Ariadne7710 @1994majd thank you very much!
Maravilhosa, morreu muito jovem e por culpa de um mau caráter mafioso, que a tratava mau , Callas não merecia ,teve a glória publica e a dor privada.
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