Maria CALLAS. Master class n°11, Juilliard School (New York).

Master class n°11, 15 novembre 1971.
''L’altra notte in fondo al mare'', extrait de Mefistofele (BOITO).
Barrie SMITH est accompagnée au piano par Eugene KOHN.
De la nécessité, pour un soprano, de posséder un registre "de poitrine"...

[@kathryneast6919]

Love her speaking voice

[@asklepios6780]

Very serious in her words, but very gentle and empathetic, in fact ... You can tell she liked Barrie SMITH.

[@caiopandini8269]

Indeed!!!!

[@-blythe2986]

My goodness how lucky these students were. I am so glad this is on KZbin.

[@carlaceciliasilva8737]

Me too

[@tutankamon1975]

Everything in Callas sound so real... even teaching...

[@asklepios6780]

These master classes are an invaluable document! More than 40 hours of transmission of a Knowledge, which Callas had received from Elvira de Hidalgo, Tullio Serafin, Victor de Sabata, etc.

[@dawnadriennetaylor970]

What absolute heaven on earth to hear Callas sing this whilst teaching. Why would a student select this aria when she can't trill? Why, also, ask a question then keep on talking instead of waiting and listening intently to the wisdom?

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Callas sounds spectacular here

[@marlenehartley7742]

Gives me chills hearing Callas singing this. She brings life to everything she sings.

[@ivanofonseca248]

G Ggg

[@martinliebig8677]

My God! Callas voice is apocalyptic...

[@cristinad7142]

I need more of these candid Callas clips! What gold

[@janezamudio4940]

I would like to know how a woman whose voice is supposedly shot at this point can still sound so damn spectacular....

[@tutankamon1975]

Listening Callas singing La altra note in this stage of his career is a revelation... here sings much better than 73... but there are some recordings from 73 with Distefao and an orquestra in which she sounds very beautiful but it seems she change her techique, whith a voice more "white" and sometimes whith an ethereal quality... Callas voice was the ultimate mistery.

[@luisvillalobos3452]

There is a recording of Callas singing L’altra notte in 73? :O

[@tutankamon1975]

@@luisvillalobos3452 litle extracts in a master class!!

[@michaelamadivocalreality.2052]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 An incredible MASTERCLASS. Maria Callas's voice chest voice is so CLEAR and RICH. OPEN THROAT IS KEY!!! CLEAR VOWELS FROM BOTTOM TO THE TOP.

[@i.c.a.productionsbyr.p.]

Quando canta ed interpreta Maria la Terra si dischiude e respira di nuove voluttà! Che meraviglia. Indiscutibile. Non immagino il senso di subordinazione di certi allievi, che dovrebbero davvero cambiare stile di vita. O Sei, oppure MAI SARAI!!!

[@xxsaruman82xx87]

Callas is the BEST TEACHER EVER

[@sbeallvln]

I love how Callas is portrayed in the play “Master Class.” She comes across as “mean,” yet you can hear her deep care and concern for both the music and the student. She sounds like she is constantly contradicting herself, yet everything she says is right! The real Maria Callas in this video actually sounds more tolerant, less intimidating.

[@asklepios6780]

For listening to the 43 hours of these master classes, we can testify to the kindness of Callas for these students. She was particularly concerned about their health and nervous state, and advised them not to sing if they were not fit. If a student was mistaken, she immediately stopped the mocking laughter of the audience and recalled how difficult it was to be in their place ...

[@filipp721]

@@asklepios6780 is there any place where we can find all the recordings?

[@asklepios6780]

@@filipp721 www.divinarecords.com/dvn013/dvn013.html & www.divinarecords.com/dvn014/dvn014.html C'est passionnant, Filipp !!

[@tutankamon1975]

I saw the play and looks so odd to me... I never saw MC in that play... it seems they never listened to these recordings... they just invented a fantasy, a character based on her media being...

[@juanjosedubal]

@@asklepios6780 I spended 4 month to listen and repeat every piece of those masterclass records. I think i feel the power of Callas as an absolute music instrument like never before in my life. She and Caballé knew something about the "effect" that music can produce on people, of course each one with her different instrument ( Callas, for me a pipe organ and Caballé a violin). I think they succeded. The student girl is lovely, humble and very clever. ph, sorry but i am from Argentina, so my english is mmmmm.

[@casimiralexander]

Still Stupendous! Callas! Oh! Only Callas! Gorgeous! So emotionally true! The ego and arrogance of these students is astounding... My God! Shameful.

[@TulioHav]

Era tan maravillosamente musical...!!!

[@crazyorganist1609]

Holy hell even in the 70s she still had full control of her voice. That student was full of herself. . Love Callas's reply when she says "I know" Student: I know. Callas: Do you?

[@chrisbean]

That was obnoxious of her. Maybe she wasn't too aware of who Miss Callas was.

[@googleuser2609]

@@chrisbean likely.

[@crazyorganist1609]

@@chrisbean Callas was having none of it

[@nathelondon3719]

Arrogant, idiot American student. Every word she said wasted time that she could have learnt something. Idiot!

[@zehnthaus]

A friend of mine was a student there, and she later admitted they didn't!@@chrisbean

[@artdanks4846]

So much for the idea that Callas lost her voice! This proves she didn't at all!

[@YortOK]

Sounds intact. But in a live situation with full orchestra, colleagues in full voice,, in a large auditorium, the real nature of her decline would become obvious.

[@garygreen3845]

She lost her nerve...

[@artdanks4846]

@@garygreen3845 And her confidence.

[@catraube]

Cette Master Class illustre magnifiquement le génie de Maria Callas.

[@brunopicaude3092]

Old italian masters used to say: " Listen and imitate"... Of course, this sentence must be understood in the right sense.

[@ransomcoates546]

Since the comments on the clip are turned off, perhaps I can ask here if there is a story behind Julliard allowing a student to sing ‘Casta Diva’ in front of Maria Callas without knowing the correct notes.

[@ER1CwC]

I think that's the masterclass of Casta diva that was featured in the EMI release of excerpts of the Masterclass. The student is Pamela Hebert. There's an interesting story in one of the comments on the KZbin page of it. I don't know if the story is true or not.

[@kavindra1977]

It s good to dialogue plus it s public, they are defending their reputation, theydon t want to give a bad impression, fighting to become professuinal singers. Plus theu want to show Maestra Callas they have their own opiniin and thinking, and can sing well too. Remember Callas was a living legend it s like a parent and to grow you need to contest parents, argue, dispute, show your own way...

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

Maria was right about learning the notes, not being afraid of having and singing sometimes in chest voice, as well learning how to believably deliver, which was difficult in the past and now for many to master. Most seem to only care about the voice but opera is more than just having healthy technique, dynamics, and declamation and Callas came to realize that - thanks in part to Maestro Serafin. She demonstrates that during when she taught in other Masterclasses to other students - such as Shiela Nadler on how to deliver Amneris, Anita Terzian on how to deliver Marguerite, and Syble Young for how to deliver the Queen of the Night. It always astounds me when arrogant voice students downplay or even omit that truth.

[@carlaceciliasilva8737]

Excelente material

[@rogalesi58]

che portento, sempre brava

[@cantomas2381]

Callas was beautiful in that photo, all in black...

[@scataplaft]

The student is good tbh. I mean, she's a student, full of insecurities and with a lot to develop yet but she sounds very musical. Her phrasing is excellent. Even Callas says the thing is "good" (as a whole) and "on the way". The problem is that when Callas demonstrates how it's really done, it's like a nuclear bomb. Lol. Even in a classroom, with just a piano, after her prime, her voice is so unproportionally strong and precise that it's mind-boggling.

[@Shahrdad]

Every soprano should have chest notes, but teachers today make chest notes such boogyman that students are terrified of exploring that part of the voice. Yeah, a high soprano should live down there for long periods of time, but she should be able to go for short visits in that part of the voice.

[@basantidevi2305]

Calling it a chest voice is wrong. She is bringing the head tone down to low notes still singing in head tone. I'm an opera singer, I know.

[@Shahrdad]

@@basantidevi2305 Or she's mixing head with the chest.

[@laliantadze9240]

I love that students communicate with her and are not afraid to talk to her. It is a *class* after all.

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Just listened to callas recording of this aria from 1954, and she is nowhere near this chesty sounding. But she hears the student trying it hear and tries to help her with her conception of the aria.

[@pbt6775]

In the studio Callas (and many other singers) where advised not to be so chesty as to not overwhelm the microphones, when you compare with live versions

[@phillipreeves1214]

Brava, Maria! And she supposedly had no voice at this point? Please, she could still ousting the whole room...

[@FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ]

I would have pissed myself all over if Callas herself sang like that in front of me correcting me. I, in the place of this soprano, would have said: "ok, I'll go over there to change my underwear and I'll be right back, thank you."

[@toscadonna]

I think that student is frustrated and not from Callas. She’s got a nice voice, but I don’t think she either understands what her regular teacher wants from her, or the teacher doesn’t teach all that well. That’s what I get from this girl.

[@foropera]

If I were a soprano I would never try to propose an aria from Callas's repertoire. Plus the fact that you can recieve all the musical and interpretative advices, if you have not the right voice for a repertoire, or the sufficient technical background, you lose your time and the teacher's.

[@larscain3263]

I just cannot believe that anyone taking a master class would even think about talking above or while the teacher is trying to teach. The first student needs to get a job in Bloomies instead of opera. She is terrible

[@laurademilio8884]

No no, she just wants to do right and be up to muster for Callas's help and expectations. I think a lot of it is nerves for this stident -- over 50 years ago; I wonder who or where she is, but oh, the thrill of Teacher Callas demonstrating! And one heard her voice grow stronger and surer as she demonstrated -- each time she was more "there" doing Margharita. Even supposedly "past her prime" that extraordinary voice just bowls one over!

[@orianamoussali3344]

Thanks for the upload ! Truly Amazing to listen to her lessons. What does she Say at 7:11 ? That's why you have to do What ?

[@asklepios6780]

Callas conseille à cette jeune étudiante de travailler sa technique en utilisant les méthodes éditées par Heinrich Panofka (1807-1887) et Giuseppe Concone (1801-1861). Ces deux musiciens étaient sa référence et lui avaient été recommandés par sa Maestra, Elvira de Hidalgo, lorsqu'elle-même était élève au Conservatoire d'Athènes. Les bases du Bel Canto...

[@kingofmeereen]

Who was that female student that Maria Callas really liked? Like she barely had any criticisms for her.

[@asklepios6780]

Bonjour et merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire ! Je pense que vous faites référence à Barrie Smith.

[@caseyfranco3959]

It bothers me that these were the students chosen to even STAND on the same stage with la Callas

[@jamesmorrison2055]

Maybe because she was there to teach students? She was a singer, not a God for goodness sake.

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

Li scelse lei.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

@@jamesmorrison2055Amen.

[@zeynjenkins2073]

Hard to believe she lost her voice

[@evimendez857]

She was a smoker and had a muscular illness that only really affected her voice, she never lost it.

[@lestermatos9226]

I find that these students were so arrogant and disrespectful and challenging her instead of just listening

[@arslanferatovic135]

me as well!!! i would just listen and look at her inner at outer beatuy in awe!!!! this girl started several times to sing with the MC. WHAT???? And she is asking Madam Callas like if they were friends on a lunch break.. I mean cmon!!!!! perhaps they didnt know they were in the same room with the ultimate opera diva of all times...

[@tenisfin]

Funny, I don't perceive them as challenging her, but rather nervously justifying themselves.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

If Maria had a problem with it, she would have said so. Do you hear her rebuke them for questioning her? No.

[@janezamudio4940]

I know. If Maria Callas told me to do something, I'd do it, damnit!

[@chrisbean]

If I would be in front of a genius like Miss Callas I would be ashamed to even open my mouth in front of my teacher, music is discipline as well. That student was so obnoxious, talked too much.

[@nathelondon3719]

Callas was the most intelligent, multitalented, multilingual singer and teacher of the 20th century. The students were idiots to even speak in front of her. They were privileged to study from the greatest Diva perhaps ever.

[@Tatiana-yp2bk]

What is the piece that they are singing?

[@CClarinet123]

L'altra notte in fondo al mare

[@ancientmariner7372]

From Boito’s Mephistophele

[@ladivinafanatic]

1:15

[@Mimneska]

such disrespectful student, im shocked

[@fredericplanchon2669]

Ta omorfi tragoudia helliniqui phoni sas efkaristo para poli maria

[@asklepios6780]

Merci pour ce commentaire, Frederic !

[@fredericplanchon2669]

En Grèce c est là que l on trouve les plus belles voix.. n est ce pas! Je pense a dallaras aussi le grand stellio kazantzikis,, qui est mort depuis un moment! Mais il nous a laissé ces émotions intenses jusqu'à la fin de nos jours!!! Zito i hellada.merci asclepsios. Ta omorfi onoma.

[@fredericplanchon2669]

Elvira de d'hidalgo disait à maria c est en Grèce que l on trouve les plus belles voix, mais c est en italie que l on apprend à chanter, tout au moins dans l opéra . Je suis un fan du rebetiko également! Avec un texte simple cela se transforme, que seul un grec capte d une autre émotion , que seule la langue grecque nous parle. Sos ta!

[@Tkimba2]

Lei ci aveva provato... Nessuno la ha ascoltata

[@aidepaul534]

Chest voice: "Let it vibrate in the throat."

[@asklepios6780]

😄

[@jerryarispi8386]

Who was this annoying ass student who seems to need to always have the last word.

[@asklepios6780]

C'est vrai, Jerry ! Et pourtant, on sent que Callas avait de sympathie (et de la patience) pour cette jeune impertinente...

[@lestermatos2989]

That student is the most annoying arrogant ever

[@Bumblebeebeebee]

I respect her very much as an artist, but her kind of teaching doesn’t seem very effective. She obviously likes to sing along and show a bit off (what is ok for a big star), but she doesn’t really explain and so the students copy her as good as they can but they don’t understand what to do and so they are not improving. Still a very interesting recording.

[@CClarinet123]

I don't think she's showing off at all. You need to exemplify how it should be done when teaching music. She tells her what she needs to improve and shows her how it's done. But again, this is a masterclass, not a one on one class. The singer should've known how to trill in the first place.

[@ransomcoates546]

With an artist of Callas’s stature it is insulting to ask her to teach students basic technique at a Master Class. And is this girl crazy? She says to MARIA CALLAS ‘I’m going to sing the ‘Mefistofele’ aria but I can’t trill.’ Unbelievable stupidity and impertinence.

[@daniels.4014]

@@ransomcoates546 that's true

[@eddue12345]

She is Not singing to show off here. After the hundreds of studio and live recordings, she does not need to show off anymore. She is singing to demonstrate to the pupils how it should sound. Furthermore, i hear her stop them the instant they do something improper and immediately explain exactly what it was and how it should be instead and why with deep explanations. Are you and I even listening to the same recording here?????

[@eddue12345]

@@ransomcoates546 yes. I think as a student (wich I also am) I would have said something like this: I would really like to sing the Mefistophele aria but I have not been able to figure out how to trill yet. I really need help with that.

[@yuliakom]

The only one Maria Callas. She was so beautiful and extremely talented.

[@beachfanatic2010]

Callas chest voice is incredible! Compare a mortal soprano’s chest tones like this students with Callas’ chest voice, Callas sings sounds like a powerful baritone even at this point of her life.

[@SSBMsounds]

Both Callas and Ponselle had the biggest chest tones of all sopranos. People often say that Callas's chest tones brought her vocal demise, however, that chest voice remained intact even in the 60's.

[@toscadonna]

@@SSBMsounds Her chest voice is what saved her voice. Singing high is what ruins the voice. That’s why the low voices last the longest. One of my first teachers was a basso profundo, and he was still singing at age 80. The higher you sing for long periods of time, the easier it is to get out of alignment. And when you’re singing show after show, when you get out of alignment, you can get into real trouble. Hidalgo approached Maria about her voice when it first started having issues, and she didn’t want Elvira’s help. When she finally went back to Elvira, it was too late (according to my teacher who knew them both). I know from my own voice that has a lot of chest to it, whenever I sing high for too long, that’s when I can get tight and have trouble. I actually warm down after a concert to ground my voice back into the chest, speaking voice, and that seems to help. But Callas was a phenomenal singer and artist, and nothin can change the recordings and wisdom she left on earth for us to listen to.

[@EmilyGloeggler7984]

@@toscadonnaYou mean singing with a high larynx destroys the voice. Having a high voice doesn’t necessarily destroy the voice - listen to soprano Nellie Melba and you will hear her voice was still intact.

[@basantidevi2305]

She's not using her chest voice. She has dropped her head tone, keeping head tone for resonance for low notes. She is always in her head voice. Opera singers never change registers. It must be seamless.

[@robertzsombok7661]

Callas knew life! she knew the truth of the all-encompassing human experience of life. She lived what she sang. She meant what she sang.

[@MrQbenDanny]

CALLAS sounds GREAT.

[@sea1song]

It's almost embarrassing that she would have to tell students at Julliard that they need to learn notes.

[@meyou-dv8ns]

Not really, that's why they are students they want to learn from the best

[@sea1song]

@@meyou-dv8ns I Understand that they are students, but by the time one gets to the Julliard School of Music, one should know learning the proper notes of a piece of music is necessary. Insturmentalists would never dream of it, and neither should singers.

[@ciociosan]

@@sea1song especially if they have to sing for Maria!

[@baritonebynight]

Just because they may have exceptional talent doesn't mean they are still in college and doing what every college student does.......which sometimes gets in the way of your academics.

[@grr8048]

They are learning regardless they are in a good school or not. Consider that they must have learned a wrong way from some other professionals along the way in the past, considering they are talented students at a prestigious school.

[@ggrobbins9353]

I’d love to have seen a stroboscopy of Callas cords and larynx.

[@pbt6775]

Also to see how her palate looked!

[@difusoseinfinitoslasidorem2241]

Precios disímil..Gracias..habrá un poco de Vídeo ?? Ah muy difícil claro..

[@fabriziomariagarzi5534]

Callas...non mi pare "finita"...

[@saverioorlando]

che trillo la maria sembra in forma......giusto

[@fabriziogarzi9396]

@@saverioorlando, boh, Maria poteva in quel momento, se non rientrare in teatro, registrare tutto quello che voleva...tante occasioni perdute per sempre, Monteverdi, Handel, Bach... oggi non avremmo tra i piedi i "baroccari" e i cosiddetti sopranisti e contraltisti perche', Maria, essendo un genio del canto e dell'interpretazione, avrebbe dato la "giusta svolta",la chiave per andare avanti e riscoprire un mondo. Ci provo' la Sutherland riuscendo in parte e splendidamente. Brava Maria, sempre. Saro' pure di parte. Cordiali saluti.

[@Tkimba2]

@@fabriziogarzi9396 si dalla parte della ragione 😉

[@fabriziogarzi9892]

@@Tkimba2 , grazie caro.

[@hectorhugomoyano9518]

ÙNICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!