Maria Callas - Lucia di Lammermoor - Mad scene - Live - June 26, 1952 Mexico City

Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Scène de la folie / Mad scene / Scena della pazzia
Enregistré en public à Mexico le 26 juin 1952
Live performance in Mexico City june 26, 1952
Choeur et orchestre du Palace des Beaux-Arts dir: Guido Picco
Choirs and orchestra from Palacio de Las Bellas Artes conductor: Guido Picco

[@luisrossetto5247]

Mancano le parole. Quel fraseggio, legato ,esplosioni di coloratura , emozioni senza fermata, non ci sono parole. Impossibile non piangere ad ascoltare bel canto di questo calibro.!! Ci tengo tantissimo a Callas, Divina,unica assoluta ❤❤❤❤❤

[@costingeorgescu3314]

❤The supreme voice of all time❤❤❤The supreme CALLAS❤

[@brunobalzano7566]

Viene voglia di piangere già dalle prime tre parole. Architettura di fraseggio unica e spettacolare, controllo del respiro come nessuna, legati, smorzati, trilli e acuti da pelle d'oca, diaframma d'acciaio, estensione vocale funambolica. E poi la passione, la tenerezza, pioggia di delicata dolcezza, interpretazione inimitabile. Lezioni di coloratura. Inarrivabile Maria. Scolpita nell'eternità.

[@123pailin]

A miraculous meeting of voice and intention. Lucia s madness, her moodswitches, her despair, her hopes, her aspirations and deceptions expressed with an intensity never equalled. Callas ability to transmit emotions with that particular voice of her s is still unmatched. Her aerial view of this aria, the keeping in constant flow, never relishing in intensity and stamina, the coloratura beeing expressions of joy, madness, saness, the colouring of the voice, the thousand and one little details and yet never losing the whole view of the mad scene is unique. And in 1952 she could outsing anyone...a miracle never to be repeated, not even by herself.....

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Your not listening closely - she is actually vocally acting, not just with her technique, dynamics, and declamation alone.

[@KarlaMatus79]

Yo me aprendí esta pieza escuchando a María. Hay excelentes intérpretes de esta obra como Sutherland ó Devia, pero la Callas se te mete por la piel. Tenía eso que llamamos ángel 😇 fue única e irrepetible. Gracias por compartir. Saludos cordiales desde Nicaragua 🇳🇮

[@lilianalai9093]

Fare un commento ? Per me angelo paradisiaco! La duttilita' vocale la dolcezza di espressioni e il pianto che solo Callas possedeva!!

[@orion8835]

This early recording of the Mad Scene live in Mexico is fascinating to listen to for many reasons. The fact that the voice is so very Sfogato is I think one of the second most reasons this is amazing. The first being that the pathos and agility and staccatti and arpeggio are so very true and coloratura. It is like a dramatic soprano and Hilda Guden in one voice. Callas really did learn the coloratura technique on her very big voice ( from De Hildago) and it really made it so much better in so many ways and dimensions. The vocal tone is not always terribly pretty nor is always easy on the ears. But overall it it's metallic intensity and dark hues allied with her acuti etc are extraordinary. I think this made her unparallelled in the works of Verdi and Bellini. Her Traviata and Norma are almost impossible to beat. This aspect of coloratura technique and natural metallic Greek tone also made her overwhelming as a Tosca.

[@fransalazar66]

Sometimes people get engaged in the concept of a beautiful voice or a great technique - those are good things to have of course, but IMHO Opera requires way more than just a beautiful voice or a perfect technique. An outstanding singer is the one that communicates the feeling and the meaning of each word convincingly. Maria here is telling a story of suffering, of happiness, of dreams, she has an altered mind. She moves through multiple feelings w an outstanding agility and make them credible

[@mateodedios4507]

Francisco Salazar beauty is subjetive Technique for a dramatic soprano who sing like this is so mutch perfect than others... Callas and the others... Caruso and the others...

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Opera is also a visual medium as well as audible. I disagree that Maria has accomplished moving me as Lucia, but her technical prowess is commendable.

[@joemiller6975]

When Callas was good she was the best! It is as a coloratura in the bel canto repertoire that she most amazes and moves me .Callas could and did sing anything well in her hey day but it is in the bel canto that nobody could touch her!

[@steph1806able]

You don't listen Lily Pons version 😉 bye bye Callas. Lily Pons was a real and great coloratura soprano

[@Fanfanbalibar]

@@steph1806able POUAH !

[@Fanfanbalibar]

QUI PARLE ENCORE DE LILY POnS?

[@MultiZahl]

Diese Aufnahme hat Seltenheitswert------die Stimme von Maria Callas ist mirakulös--Ich freue mich sehr diese Aufnahme aus Mexiko City hören zu können --Danke,danke IoSonoCallas !!!!!!

[@romearomeo]

Un documento sonoro memorabile della Divina Maria

[@beachfanatic2010]

Callas' voice as a thick woman was so heavy and huge, it could move furniture! The crazy part is that regardless of her having the heaviest voice of recorded history, she also had the most precise coloratura and craziest agility on top of that. She has been the only Lucia of recorded history, there hasn't been another one.

[@russellwright1324]

chosentenore chosentenore wow! Move furniture! You should be a music writer/critic! I love your family assessment of her talent. Someone once called her the "great ugly voice" I like that but it only begins to touch in her greatness. You have Nailed it!

[@alioffe4321]

Don't know about furniture, but word has it she was notorious for pulsating chandeliers and Meneghini with her voice :)

[@Fanfanbalibar]

@@alioffe4321 For Meneghini she was right ! He was abusive!

[@oooooo2062]

Por esto los mexicanos amamos a la Callas, la reina del BelCanto

[@mateodedios4507]

ooo ooo ustedes y cualquiera que sepa algo sobre el verdadero arte que es cantar ópera como nunca más alguien pudo Lo mismo que Caruso

[@TheStyle106]

Me encanta la versión de la Divina, es única.

[@dzahuitos]

Su bel canto es bellísimo, no hay nada igual!

[@fobesq]

Always moved by this goddess.

[@357CLOUDY]

11:00 On ...my eyebrows are stuck in a raised position! She owned this performance.

[@bellini7verdi]

decir semejante cosa....de una de las mejores voces..del mundo................insultar.....no es bonito..................y mucho menos cuando.............la calidad de voz es la que es..............simplemente insuperable............en toda una trayectoria de mas de 40 años................

[@ioSonoCallas]

40 ans???

[@jermainebrown3938]

Phenomenal singing!

[@mvaurelio]

this interpretation remains always the best I've ever heard no matter what :)

[@rodantkapoor9721]

What a songbird she was..

[@user-ic5xu4jh6z]

Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce! Ah, quella voce m'e qui nel cor discesa! Edgardo! io ti son resa, Edgardo, mio! fuggita io son de tuoi nemici. Un gelo me serpeggia nel sen! trema ogni fibra! vacilla il pie! Presso la fonte meco t'assidi al quanto! Ohime, sorge il tremendo fantasma e ne separa! Qui ricovriamo, Edgardo, a pie dell'ara. Sparsa e di rose! Un armonia celeste, di, non ascolti? Ah, l'inno suona di nozze! Il rito per noi s'appresta! Oh, me felice! Oh gioia che si sente, e non si dice! Ardon gl'incensi! Splendon le sacre faci, splendon intorno! Ecco il ministro! Porgime la destra! Oh lieto giorno! Al fin son tua, al fin sei mia, a me ti dona un Dio. Ogni piacer piu grato, mi fia con te diviso Del ciel clemente un riso la vita a noi sara.

[@TheFioresi]

come si fa ad ascoltarti seduti? Bisognerebbe mettersi in ginocchio!!Grazie, Maria!!

[@georgemosarm1345]

Ohime!!!

[@manolis.799]

Yia Sou Maria

[@1fiordiligi]

dopo di lei non riesci ad ascoltare nessun'altra

[@ioSonoCallas]

È vero!

[@mqartinmoura3576]

Cosi vero!

[@ferrykalos]

Is there something better? I really think of no. Thanks godness.

[@mariangelacaronia7462]

Oppure cedere all'estasi e lievitare verso l'empireo

[@uchibauki2515]

She is a legend but why she only has bad quality videos? So sad 😞

[@mooresc46]

Thank you for uploading this moment in Music! Can you help? Where may one find a full copy of this recording? S. Moore

[@chiclanolecter]

mooresc46 at Amazon

[@fabriziomariagarzi5534]

Ma cari, ragionate, e' la Callas....

[@alragarp]

MARÍA CALLAS ES DIVINA Y DISCUTIRLA ES TOTALMENTE ESTÚPIDO!!!

[@bellini7verdi]

sutherland es quien es...en la historia de la musica................para todos los tiempos..................aunque usted diga.................con insultos...........catalogaciones animalisticas...............hacia una mujer......que bien guapa que fue..........en su momento joven y potente........pero que para mi lo fue siempre hasta el final de sus dias.....................incluso hasta el caballo es el mejor ejemplo que se puede tener..hacia un ser humano.......................un ser extraordinario.............el caballo.................es de lo mas bello..........y si sutherland.es un caballo...........para usted..para mi........................es una manada de caballos................lo mas hermoso.........correr.libremente.................por todo el terreno......sin que alguien pueda controlarlo.................

[@bellini7verdi]

DECID LO QUE QUERAIS...........................

[@bellini7verdi]

y esto era en 1952.....cuando se suponía tenia que estar en el mejor de los momentos.....ahí queda eso........sin dejar de ser una versión buena.....no es precisamente la panacea del belcanto ni de cerca.....;a mi CALLAS como de las mejores...en verismo la mejor....pero en belcanto.....de las mejores pero para mi gusto es un segundo puesto belcantista....y todos saben quien era y es la numero uno....y no la nombro ...porque las pasiones las levante cada uno desde su propio pensamiento.....

[@MarcoCallas]

Wash your ears and listen again, or study belcanto, as you might not know what it is ;-)

[@chiclanolecter]

bellini verdi Vergogna sei Pazzo!!!

[@mateodedios4507]

Te refieres a la falsetista?

[@giovanninonne9087]

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[@steph1806able]

Je préfère largement la version de Lily Pons à écouter en urgence 😉

[@ioSonoCallas]

C'est votre avis. Lily Pons que j'aime beaucoup, a fait tout au long de sa carrière étalage de ses dons vocaux avec musicalité certes mais sans aucun sens de l'expression, de la caractérisation des rôles qu'elle interprétait. Elle disait "Ma voix est comme le son d'une flûte, pas besoin de forcer pour l'entendre!". Cela en dit long!

[@steph1806able]

@@ioSonoCallas Je vous remercie pour votre avis, au vu de votre pseudo vous êtes une grande admiratrice de Callas, ce qui peut se comprendre au vu de ses qualités de soprano, mais Callas elle même s'entraînait à la chanter sur les chansons de Lily Pons quand elle était petite, apparemment pour elle c'était un exemple à suivre. Pour en revenir à la question cette magnifique interprétation de Lucia di lammermoor alors oui Callas la chante très bien mais à tout ceux à qui j'ai fait écouté la version de Lily Pons (la version du film où elle chante en public) et à mon entourage de mélomanes ils sont unanimes, la version de Lily Pons dépasse de loin celle de Callas, mais juste parce que s'en doute Lily Pons exploitait un registre qui était (peut être) et hors de portée pour Callas. Callas était une magnifique soprano Lily Pons était une coloratura soprano hors pair avec Mado Robin qui était rappelons-le la voix la plus haute du monde. Ces 2 femmes pouvaient faire des choses que d'autres ne pouvaient pas, y compris à l'époque d'aujourd'hui, elles restent irremplaçable ! Et une toute petite dernière pensée pour ma soprano de cœur c'est Deanna Durbin dont chaque note qu'elle pouvait chanter était une passion et une émotion à elle seule. Il suffit de la voir chanter l'Ave Maria pour comprendre ce que je dis (surtout à la fin de sa chanson) l'émotion et extrêmement palpable et vous la transmet sans effort. Aucune soprano passée n'avez réussi cet exploit à ce niveau d'intensité. Passez une bonne journée.

[@steph1806able]

Juste pour info voici le lien de la vidéo du passage où Lily Pons la chante : kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6TLnmSAh62UoLM

[@bellini7verdi]

leer.semejante comentario................me parece..................fuera de lugar........e inexistente .............el comentario.........pues eso no es verdad...................

[@christiandellen2272]

Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce! Ah, quella voce m'è qui nel cor discesa! Edgardo! io ti son resa. Edgardo! Ah! Edgardo, mio! Si', ti son resa! fuggita io son da' tuoi nemici. Un gelo me serpeggia nel sen! trema ogni fibra! vacilla il piè! Presso la fonte meco t'assidi alquanto! Si', Presso la fonte meco t'assidi. Ohimè, sorge il tremendo fantasma e ne separa! Qui ricovriamo, Edgardo, a piè dell'ara. Sparsa è di rose! Un'armonia celeste, di', non ascolti? Ah, l'inno suona di nozze! Il rito per noi s'appresta! Oh, me felice! Oh gioia che si sente, e non si dice! Ardon gl'incensi! Splendon le sacre faci, splendon intorno! Ecco il ministro! Porgimi la destra! Oh lieto giorno! Al fin son tua, al fin sei mio, a me ti dona un Dio. Ogni piacer più grato, mi fia con te diviso Del ciel clemente un riso la vita a noi sarà.

[@uchibauki2515]

She is a legend but why she only has bad quality videos? So sad 😞

[@-giakhanh--kayden-8337]

Recording technology came too late to capture her greatness