Early Callas receives endless ovation after the most heartbreaking Vissi d'Arte

[@robertpalmer888]

I've often thought that the story of Maria's life would be a great opera plot. I know movies have been made about her. And dramas. But we would always be thinking how would Maria be singing this. Or we would hear her voice and compare with whatever artist would have the courage to assume that role. Dear friends on this thread. Hearing Callas is nothing like having seen her. I can tell you. I have seen all the great artists from the late 1940s to many of the present. And no one comes close to comparing to her. For those reading this for the first time, I saw her thirteen times and those performances are branded into my memory above all others.

[@gyslangsdeweg]

you are blessed

[@LohengrinO]

most Films center around her relationship with Onassis... who will dare to try to re-create the Masterpieces of performances in La Scala etc... who has the Knowledge? they will make a Gossip movie about her relationship with others... like the mean sister of Jacqueline du Pre did for Jacqueline...

[@hildegerdhaugen7864]

Jackies sister really comited a crime there.

[@LohengrinO]

+ Hildegerd Haugen have you seen that Atrocity? I believe more than anything in Negative Energy theories... when you have your own sister HATING YOU like that, it is no wonder you get Multiple Sclerosis so young and die a few years later... and to be so Vulgar as to actually make a movie about it... I had gone so SAD when I saw that movie... so unbelievably sad for Jacqueline and not because of the MS but because of the HATRED her sister had for her

[@hildegerdhaugen7864]

Lohengrin O She envied her and this shitty movie was the result of it

[@DHa-4u]

This version of " Vissi d'arte" is breathtaking! I've.not heard anyone phrase this aria as Callas did in this performance. She makes total sense with the text with careful musical nuance. Thus, a revelation.

[@arthurfilemon6038]

Well, this is like THE way to sing this. I haven't heard anyone who could put so many colours in their voice like Callas. This is just insane how good of an actress she can be and we don't even see her, we only hear and we can hear her cry, we can listen deeply into her soul. There's a piano that sounds like a knife really near your chest, another one like a soft, desperate cry. She was just a Goddess of Opera and no one can come even close.

[@kamanaos4643]

Well said 🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@DuduSperbBR]

We hear this and we deeply feel what it means to be humans...

[@pascalnuevayork]

Sublime of course. Thanks for leaving the full ovation. Most of the time on KZbin they’re cut short, which is very frustrating

[@colegreen1291]

Callas will never be forgotten.

[@josedomingosgiffonirosa8362]

O termo absoluta se aplica a esta artista maravilhosa. Ninca houve bem haverá outra como ela!🤍🤍🤍

[@robertavedon6983]

No one today comes anywhere close to Callas in interpreting this aria

[@johnparti2460]

The most brutal heart wrenching scene. No one will ever compare

[@photo161]

It's wonderful to hear an audience that truly appreciates the significance of what they are witnessing...the likes of which were never to be heard again, no, nor ever will...

[@tobiasandrews3778]

Love her or hate her, she changed EVERYTHING.

[@robertpalmer888]

Someone here on youtube observed that an artist like Callas comes along ONCE.

[@robertpalmer888]

David, the answer is revealed in your question.

[@tobiasandrews3778]

Even Bing conceded that once one heard Callas in a role, it became very difficult to hear another artist, however great, sing the part. He also said she was the most difficult artist with whom he ever had to work. She's the boss. Period. Callas has no rivals.

[@robertpalmer888]

That was my experience and that of most who saw her.

[@tobiasandrews3778]

Even today, to ask a singer to sing Brünhilde one week, then Elvira in Puritani the next... I don't care how young you are or how youthful you have kept your voice, that's just not something technique can give you or any teacher can teach you. It's a monster. A sacred monster. A perfect storm of talent, ambition and something superhuman. And hard hard work. As soon as she stopped working, IT stopped working. Imagine had she not met that troll... But as my voice teacher said, she was the kind of person who, if not to Onassis, would have been drawn to someone else treating her just as horribly.

[@linzy7017]

I was blessed to have grown up with Maria Callas playing on our radiogram....thank you Mum and Dad xxx

[@Irene-iu9sj]

I was 14 when first heard her in Epidavros theater. What lack!

[@anthonymahoney4329]

And me

[@shadboltbill]

Simply the supreme performing artist of the twentieth century.

[@hildegerdhaugen7864]

I come back and come back to this clip.

[@LohengrinO]

as MrQBenDanny says: Callas is having a heart to heart conversation with God.. of equal "self-healing Catharsis through Tragedy" (as Aristotle would put it) is Jon Vickers': kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYvEhqOYYr2graM

[@waynemahler2455]

Her voice lays her soul bare...

[@Ad-nh8ov]

Elle est unique. Elle arrache le cœur ❤️ brava assoluta

[@lylianemanquest2323]

Vivante Combattante Passionee ELLE A " TOUT DU GAGNER " puis .. Adulee et .... SI SEULE

[@jmiller05]

Callas was so right about Tosca. If you look at the role objectively it's ridiculous, but when you inject life into her, her music becomes a never ending lament for the soul.

[@LohengrinO]

Mercy... the Opera of mercy... why to me? ...

[@erichodge567]

I really think Tosca was her greatest role. Her renditions of the early 1950's are masterpieces of dramatic art, never to be surpassed.

[@Vorenius1]

What else can be said? This is the Glory of Human Voice and Soul!

[@Zva26]

Callas still rules ---------- she was from another galaxy altogether. There will never be another like her.

[@beachfanatic2010]

I love the ease she possessed in her voice at this point of her career. She sounds extremely easy, she is not even the slightest bit challenged in any type of way.

[@LohengrinO]

Well, it is Tosca after all... when Bernstein took Sylvia Sass to Callas' apartment and Sass suggested she would sing Tosca, Callas replied: Too easy.... Traviata!! and Sass began singing in another room while Callas and Bernstein were discussing :D

[@beachfanatic2010]

You are right though...Tosca is a very easy role for any large to big voiced soprano who understands her voice and took the time to properly trained it. All those sopranos making a lot of fuss about this role are amateurs.

[@LohengrinO]

easy to sing, easy to be a disaster... Tosca, Carmen... people take them easy and fail miserably... but Sass was supposed to be the next Assoluta (so Bernstein thought... so Bernstein understood the Voice: 0 :D)

[@tobiasandrews3778]

That is true! Olivero said Act 2 is the one that will break you. Everything is rosy up until Act 2. If you start the long interrogation scene with Scarpia to the climax "Ah piu non posso! Ah! Che orror! Ah Cessate il martir! e troppo suffrir" and the voice is too open, diaster. Behrens tried to sing Tosca, and many other roles, to horrific effect. I saw Mattila at the Met maybe 9 years ago and it was... not Tosca. Totally out of her instrument. And Carmen... how many monsters have we witnessed blast to shit this "easy" opera?

[@LohengrinO]

All failed Carmen... but extremely few

[@bernardlowe7191]

"E morto! Or gli perdono!" OMG! Never, before or since, has anyone uttered those words like Callas.

[@lothan8072]

La Divina. There will never be another Callas.

[@ferp577]

The perfect singing actress. Bravissima!

[@redfilfil]

The tears always come; I don't know why; I love her voice.

[@peterwylliejohnston]

Heartbreakingly beautiful. Moved me to tears halfway through!

[@claudiosbranchella5049]

Maria Callas è un soprano straordinario, Maria Callas grazie alla sua immensa arte si è resa immortale. L'amo.

[@johnareiter73]

The best..the very best by the great Callas!!!

[@yariekvaldes720]

at unisone, right there at whatever time all of you connoisseurs love to mark. I cried too

[@jaykauffman4775]

Back in the early days in Mexico when the voice had everything

[@cesarecolona8895]

Maria Callas, bringt mich immer noch zum Weinen , wenn ich ihre Tosca höre. Es ist unglaublich, der Schmerz in Ihrer Stimme . Man merkt : Sie hat für Ihre Kunst gelebt und hat sich für diese Musik aufgeopfert . Es gibt viele gute Sängerinnen die Tosca singen, aber wie schon Christa Ludwig sagte: Was die Callas mit Ihrer Stimme gemacht hat, DASS KANN NIEMAND . Gott lasse sie ruhen in Frieden ! SIE HAT MIT IHRER STIMME SO VIELE MENSCHEN GLÜCKLICH GEMACHT UND MIT IHRER DARBIETUNG .

[@highbaritone]

My god this is wonderful.

[@kastrafior1487]

Encore, encore, et toujours revenir à ce moment de bonheur et d'horreur. Callas a placé la barre si haut que personne ne peut la suivre, même de loin. Elle-même s'est perdue et a sacrifié sa vie sur l'autel des dieux de l'opéra, des dieux terribles et merveilleux ★

[@lorenatorrescaceres2331]

Kastrafior ❤️🌸

[@steventootill3332]

Surely she is in heaven singing, fantastic voice how could she sing those notes amazing gift she gave the world, elite few leave a mark in life she certainly has

[@paulinewallin850]

Hear and weep.

[@donm7823]

The ovation says it all: Brava the true musician/artist/genius. You have made us feel what the composer/librettist intended because you knew how to understand character and bring it to life thru music. RIP

[@fedecastaldi]

non mi si venga a dire di altre interpretazioni di quest'aria. ce ne sono tante stupende ma questa è assolutamente unica e irripetibile, riposa in pace maria

[@LohengrinO]

Come ha detto Federicko Fellini, è stata la più grande cantante di tutti i tempi

[@andrewwalker3312]

BRAVO!

[@erick-gd7wo]

In my ears, maestra Callas seems to pour out ALL every drop of world's tragedy into each note she sang. Notes after notes, tragedy after tragedy are what comes out of her throat. I have not hear other soprano sings like that after her. Other soprano may have strong technique but the passion is and will NOT be the same. So sad for her to have experienced sad love. So sad...

[@LohengrinO]

not sad, only Natural... others didnt even experience love they went and married gay men ;)

[@costingeorgescu3314]

Supreme voice of all Time..... CALLAS ❤️

[@esuna6352]

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore. An aria perfect for Maria Callas. I've always thought that somehow, one way or another, Tosca was a slight allusion to the life of Callas. She lived for art, she lived for love. And sometimes her love for opera was so intense that people mistook her for a tigress and a diva ordering people around as she wished. But she was nothing but a pristine soul that devoted her whole life for opera, for art. Even if it meant damaging her image. She was perhaps, the most misunderstood artist in history. She gave the future generations masterpieces of art, her gift of love for us, her contribution of hope to this world slowly plunging into darkness and hate. Requiescat in pacem wherever you are, La Divina.

[@jonldn]

The performance breathtaking ....the ovation deserved

[@silvinaprioris5207]

Oh God ¡¡¡¡ divina...glorious ¡¡¡

[@panlam8022]

Perfection

[@natanaelgorrin9473]

Ella única, incomparable, aquí la interpretación con todo el dolor de aquel que sabe su final y con la consciencia de no merecerlo. Ella es lo más grande nacido en la historia de la música. Viva para siempre la Divina.

[@autumnleaves2766]

She might not have liked the character of Tosca but, boy, could she sing it brilliantly, so much drama in there. Thanks for posting.

[@DIMON_CAMI]

I love her so much, I hate her. I hate her so much, I love her. We didn’t have anything like this today...

[@jeancarouge6600]

So perfect!

[@carlosnobili9348]

Al pubblico mesicano va riconosciuto il merito di aver subito riconosciuto il miracolo Callas quando stentava ad essere apprezzata in Europa a iudad de Mexico la chiamavano già LA SOPRANO ABSOLUTA DEL SIGLO ci sono le foto del teatro che così la presentano

[@ОмарГоряев]

Заслуга Марии К. Именно в том, что она объединила и подняла сценическое и оперное искусство вокала на невероятно высокий уровень и произведения гениев прошлого зазвучали с особой остротой и великолепием. Браво, Мария! Ты с нами. Твой В.Б.

[@meirwise1107]

The ultimate Diva. RIP Maria. You set the bar too high. Nobody can follow and in their hearts they know it........

[@martinsubway5953]

Bravaaaaaa!!!!!!! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@esterbruno8604]

La vita di Maria Callas rispecchia molto quest'aria 🥰🔥 Lei non la canta solo con la voce, la canta anche con l'anima 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 Sarai sempre nei nostri cuori, Maria 🎶

[@giuliosonzogni4420]

Verissimo

[@karinwijnberg9489]

The one and only Tosca. And Medea. And Norma. And Violetta. And Leonora. And Butterfly....

[@LohengrinO]

...and Medea and Amina and Gioconda and Armida and Lady M and Bolena

[@karinwijnberg9489]

@@LohengrinO lets not forget Margherita, Imogene, Santuzza etc. etc.

[@antonioramires9559]

CALLAS é DIVINA!Maria Callas La DIVINA!!!!

[@rosacelani9866]

Nn è paragonabile s nessun ‘altra cantante grande Maria Callas 😘

[@martincancino6016]

¡Amaré a María Callas mientras viva!

[@MrQbenDanny]

VIVA LA CALLAS, Having a heart to heart conversation with GOD. Lo mas grande en la historia.

[@Tdvc]

"Avanti a lui Tremava tutta Roma" . THAT voice also sang Ah non Giunge :D

[@globalman]

Thank you for this. Thrilling. What I lament is today we have technology that captures perfectly and for all time the most mediocre if not forgettable performers and the brilliance of true genius on stage are lost forever but for the rarest film, mostly poor quality and pirate film recordings. A terrible loss. Especially where Maria Callas is concerned. Watching her is nearly as breathtaking as her incomparable talent. What she lacked in perfection (according to some critics) she made up with passion, dedication and an art that gone forever.

[@LohengrinO]

those critics are Imbeciles worshiping this or the other Imbecile singer whom with their little minds think approached perfection... Early Callas was an unrepeatable phenomenon... Well the scary thing is that I truly believe in Gauss' Curve regarding all natural phenomena, that means that in ANY given moment, in the Billions of people who live exist extremely rare natural phenomena in ALL possible categories, perhaps not someone as rare as Callas or Sutherland because their spectrum spans that of Centuries but at least ... where are they? with all the Imbeciles who make careers today, they dont even bother? stay at home??? SCARY! idea (same applies to pop artists and actors... where is today's Ella, Nina, Sarah, Judy, Barbra? are they type-writers and hairdressers and replaced by all these Porn Stars who flash us with their butts all the time? SCARYYYY!)

[@mscott3918]

I love your comment. One of the most accurate and insightful I have ever seen on the mediocrity that is KZbin comments.

[@clovisbasu4633]

The chest tones ! Good grief ! I went back and heard the earlier part and the latter part separately, many times over, just to get the contrast. Impossibly rich. How did she sing it to such depth and attendant drama?

[@numetutelare]

Una leggenda... ineguagliabile ...

[@andreatina1971]

Grande, cantato con sofferenza e pathos. Non per niente e' MARIA CALLAS !!!!

[@leroywlarsonjr6743]

Magnificent!

[@kastrafior1487]

Mystère d'une voix interstellaire, magie d'une comédienne instinctive, hors norme et passionnément vivante... Mystère de l'opéra, magie d'une représentation sous l'auspice des dieux de l'horreur et du bonheur....

[@Manartwork]

La castafiore à Montreal

[@tonygomes6306]

La Diva, ....... , " La Voce " , ......

[@contraelmuro5929]

Marvelous!!! When was that precisely? She is not only one of the greatest voices ever.... She's the greatest artist ever!!!

[@johnareiter73]

True..most true!

[@robertpalmer1435]

I'm somewhat late in replying to your question. I was a great opera lover since about 9 years old. At 15 when still in high school I was fortunate through a personal connection to usher at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. Lyric's first season was only 3 weeks but Carol Fox imported the entire La Scala company - sets, costumes, productions, conductors and singers including Maria making her American debut as Norma in 1954. I got her autograph backstage and met Serafin and so many other great artists. I'm almost 79 now and still remember those great days. The following season she returned and I am one of the few people still alive who saw the three performances of Butterfly she gave. Also saw her at the Met in Lucia, in a return charity concert with orchestra in Chicago and the farewell tour in Los Angeles. As someone here on youtube said, "an artist like Callas comes along once." So true.

[@operaebonyinc]

Yes! Yes!

[@tonygomes4910]

Contra Elmuro . AND JUSSI BÖRLING ......

[@sedekiman]

And Dame Margot Fonteyn.

[@danbarthy3819]

Artista única! Brava! 👏🌹

[@martincancino9475]

Forever Callas!!! The best Soprano ever...

[@fransnijhuis670]

Callas is pure emotie en zeur niet over technieken!

[@radames5855]

Esecuzione di Vissi D'arte eccellente...

[@josettenoiron2250]

Merci Madame

[@rachelgorman4928]

This is my favorite Tosca of hers, thank you for posting!

[@franckranaivo666]

DIEU ACCUEILLEZ DANS VOTRE PARADIS NOTRE CHÈRE MARIA CALLAS !!!❤🌿✝️🌿❤🎼🎶🎻🎶🎼❤🌿🐇🧖‍♂️

[@MaestroWenarto]

this is simply, amazing

[@Tevyeh613]

How right you are Maestro. But, truly, who could compare to your own magnificent renditions of the repertoire? Povera Maria. She never had dinner with you. And, fortified by those incredible meals that you cook, just think what La Divina might have achieved. (See if you can guess who this is!)

[@marshall62020]

La mejor Tosca !!!!

[@romearomeo]

Non ci sono parole per descrivere questo....

[@kait5470]

My grandmother had the best life! She grew up in Connecticut exactly across the street from Maria Callas .... when they were both young, and she got to listen to her practice everyday ..... imagine getting to hear her practice everyday as a young woman? ❤ .... they came from Italian American poverty!!

[@randywolfgang4943]

Callas never lived in Connecticut

[@NLidar]

Callas never lived in Connecticut. Or anywhere in the USA except New York.

[@golden-63]

@Kait: Callas never lived in Connecticut and she was Greek American, not Italian American.

[@Gabriel-hs9mv]

Just learning now CT is across the street from NYC

[@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492]

La sta cantando con enfasi !!!!!!!poiché è una preghiera !!!!!!!meravigliosa !!!!Mari

[@francinegaltier9128]

As Robert PALMER said, to see CALLAS is to believe !!!

[@acac2001]

soberba....grandiosa.....divina!!!!

[@cubanm81]

LA MAS GRANDE DE TODAS.

[@silvinaprioris5207]

Maravillosa

[@kmusiclover]

god given gift

[@vxhorusxv]

Just imagine that this really happened on a random night in a random year on a random ball of water and rock in an otherwise utterly unremarkable solar system.

[@LohengrinO]

I dont have the right to Pin comments anymore :p

[@vxhorusxv]

@@LohengrinO 😉

[@dantewalston2755]

Bravissimo

[@barbaraandreagiovanna9270]

Fosti spettatore; e ben vedesti...

[@phaidonnikolaus9841]

Maria both revitalised and, in many ways, turned the entire world of opera into a circus of sound-alikes. She fought for standards which she alone could set and meet. But, from us, this is a defeatist attitude. What she gave us cannot be exceeded but can be faced, head on, and every note, even when that note is a lesson to learn from and not what she would have really wanted to produce, is humbling for us. Of course there can never be another Maria. Her legacy must make us want anther genius who will lead us into another space. Meanwhile, we have her.

[@celesteaida48]

❤❤❤❤

[@francinegaltier9128]

As Robert PALMER said : to see CALLAS is to believe !!!

[@zuzzo7]

...... ed io, Maria, ... vivo d'amore per te ...

[@rosebud3971]

And to think that she did not like Vissi D'arte as it stopped the flow of the opera!

[@LohengrinO]

I dont think she ever liked Tosca in general...

[@rosebud3971]

I didn't know that.

[@LohengrinO]

She had said once that the reason she was so good as Tosca is because she never really liked the opera so she had to put double effort into making the role (now that's a reason to be absolutely phenomenal in something... not to actually like it...)

[@wpdremak6896]

from her master classes, she explained that she felt the aria was too early and should be AFTER she kills Scarpia. As an actress, she felt that it held up the tension line, but was a way for us to forgive her(Tosca) for committing murder.

[@cosimoepicoco7022]

.....il rozzo Onassis avrebbe meritato di essere pugnalato come Scarpia! ,Lui! e' stato lo spietato Scarpia della Divina..

[@hectorhugomoyano9518]

ÙNICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aetion]

Her first and last role. As to the ovation, what are you expecting after such a rendition? Thank you, dear friend.

[@CyprusHot]

My heart is happy and sad at the same time. Callas forever

[@deadwalke9588]

Can we just focus on her exemplary usage of her chest tones here from the last 4-5 minutes of the duet? Good lord they are some of the most Wagnerian-Baritonish notes I've ever heard from a female singer. And to think they really want to present Pretty Yende as the face of Opera now? God forbid we forget legendary Callas we'd be doing a disservice to all who call themselves an opera lover/buff.

[@LohengrinO]

this is exactly the reason I include the second part... solid rock chest tones of the most impressive quality!!!

[@tobiasandrews3778]

where was this performance? If it's early Callas, I am thinking maybe Rio or Mexico City.

[@tobiasandrews3778]

@deadwalke listen to her Suicidio from Gioconda.

[@hildegerdhaugen7864]

Pretty Yende are an interesting newcomer. Mrs Gus Christie on the other hand is a fucking disaster.

[@tobiasandrews3778]

@Hildegerd Haugen An absolute Disaster.

[@stevejorfi9086]

A full 2 minute ovation.

[@andreweinberger1305]

Please,give all details of this live performance where, and other artists performing with Callas,thanks,Rene

[@LohengrinO]

no way, thanks, Theo

[@debrabolton6475]

Maria Callas is one of my favorite female opera singers. She was so gifted, a joy to listen to. My other favorites include Rene Fleming, Frederica Von Stade, and Beverly Sills.

[@GIAMI180]

❤❤❤🌹❤❤❤🌹❤❤❤🌹❤❤❤

[@LohengrinO]

all the flowers of the world for Maria