Maria Callas Talks

[@WGARVA]

It takes a certain bravery to be this honest. She was an extraordinary woman.

[@JS-ou3ot]

I love her when she gets angry and speaks the truth. Sensitive and truly INTELLIGENT woman.

[@Dana_inc]

‘’ if I can make enemies go on their knees in front me! I can I will I must! Love this statement!

[@theannoyingnerd]

CRYING. If I was given one free time travel trip I would use it to go back in time and give this woman a hug.

[@meirwise1107]

The greatest female singer the world has ever known. She had everything ...beauty, the voice of the century, acting ability, dress sense, intelligence, several languages, charitable, a great teacher etc etc. she only had one flaw.....abysmal taste in men! RIP Ultimate Diva you died aged 53 and 53 years later nobody has come near you.

[@afritimm]

"abysmal taste in men" Waaaaal. Meneghini was of course boring, but he served a very important purpose. He provided stability and money so she could do exactly what she wanted and not sell out just to get money. Without the distractions of romance, children and money issues, she spent all of the 1950s doing nothing but practising and performing. Lucky for us! Then she decided to change. She said she was extremely happy with Onassis, even though it ended after 8 years. She said she had no regrets. Good for her!

[@Vision-yo8qx]

If she were still living, I'd definitely fight back to defend her! People like her, was extremely talented and successful, often draw jealousy. Any objective mind listending to a number of her interviews knows that she was a sincere, truthful, loving and unpretentious La Divina worthy of love and admiration!

[@consciousnessrenaissance7804]

I love how honest she is, how intelligent, how honest and she expresses emotions in all she does. It’s sad she never found true love 😢

[@Trismhmm]

She found her way into the frequency where Nikola Tesla is at peace. They both passed away in their hotel rooms seemingly alone: one in Paris and One in New York. However, their Ascension was not in vain. They have served others in the way God intended and they are meant for each other in thought.

[@ciociosan]

"because i am leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaving my god, use your mind a bit" hahahahahahahaha!

[@flowercy17]

I swear, if I could travel back in time, I would give her a hug. God, I would've done my best to defend her from the press - those vultures. Such woman told the truth that everybody needed to hear, yet they denied it and tainted her pure image. At least, she's at peace right now in heaven, singing and enjoying the afterlife with the choir of angels.

[@clintcallas6513]

AMEN...LA DAVINA, ALWAYS.

[@manolis.799]

The Greek tragedy of Callas. She gave everything for her art and her public was nearly nothing but terrible to her, attacked her. What she was missing was affection, love, one who cared for her. She yearned for it. Poor Callas, she was very lonely. She was the greatest singer of all time.

[@billobrien5118]

Extremely lonely!

[@mattm9042]

I was 16 when she died and I was crushed. Hearing this, I love her so much I could burst. I pray for her every day. May she rest in peace. Not only one of the greatest musicians of all time, but also one of the greatest human beings

[@crybabyland]

She is a true Sagittarius! Full of love, passion and absolute fire!

[@SilverSingingMethod]

I think most great artists see a lot of truth and stand for it. She was one of those people. And some people cannot see it or will not see it so it makes it hard for people like Callas. There is so much dishonesty in the world.

[@lefantome-anaudioserial9000]

There are many false Christian hypocrites who fail to practice what they claim to do. Christ warned of such.

[@jenniferrodgers57]

The audio is from a 1968 interview she did with John Ardoin. They did one interview, she became emotional, excused herself, returned and vented for an hour. This is part of that venting, with a few other clips added.

[@deadwalke9588]

Why do I feel like the elite of the Opera world, felt threatened by Callas (during the 40's, once again in the 50's when she became "La Callas" and again in the 60's). She spoke the truth that so many were afraid to speak about and then she was teared to shreds by the very media that helped her career. "Glory goes to people's head... not mine. It's a wine that goes to the head..." -- Callas, 1968.

[@jenniferrodgers57]

I would soooo wish to hear that hour in its entirety. But the core of her message was simple: She was just a person. And very misunderstood.

[@RobinGoodFellovv]

She was born in New-York, then went back to Greece, and her accent is Mid-Atlantic English (or Transatlantic): a cultivated kind of speech developped by some American personalities in the 40's, which made them sound almost British (when they say "can't" for instance) but which kept features of the American dialect (being more "rhotic", i.e. pronoucing the "r", than BBC-received-pronunciation English): Cary Grant, Orson Welles, Grace Kelly and Katherine Hepburn, amongst others, spoke like that.

[@CalifaJohn]

I find the comments here really revealing about opera fans. Rather than hearing WHAT she says, they are critiquing the mechanics of the voice. What Callas understood was communicating through music.

[@SiEtIn1]

i could listen to her speaking for hours i love it

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Honestly, even though I’m not the biggest opera fan, I’ve always been fascinated by this lady and her life. Why there hasn’t been a biopic made about her, I don’t know.

[@shwrma2647]

funny you say that, Maria is gonna be released soon, look out for that

[@SilverSingingMethod]

YES YES YES! People don't appreciate the price it pays to be honest.

[@henrytudor8537]

even that last note at the end tells u what hell of a performer she is. she cant be doubled. he was right.

[@foropera]

Magnificent. But it hurts. "Miserably alone" as she says.

[@Dana_inc]

One could only dream of knowing such an impressive woman.I wish I grew up around people like her! Very rich with talent and knowledge! Truly impressive!

[@luvxl]

Divina, Divina... This is so sad and still I just can't stop listening Divina.

[@takokvrivishvili9180]

Gosh i feel so sad for her i just want to hug her and not let her go

[@dexdroid29]

There are people you'd hate after seeing the slightest shade of their dark side. Then there are people you just can't hate like callas.

[@francoisegareau9411]

After Onassis betrayal in 1968, Callas left for Dallas, conforted by Larry Kelly, Mary Carter and John Ardoin who recorded this tape in order to share a conversation about opera on the radio. In fact, this recording allowed Maria to free the many resents, hard moments of her career and life with Onassis too.

[@04nbod]

There is a reason she is the most famous Medea of all. Listen to her, she is the Legend made flesh.

[@henrytudor8537]

04nbod your right, and also the best Tosca and Norma like ever!!

[@MissAlexia]

She is the most famous opera singer in the world period and the best

[@Zva26]

She may have been the greatest operatic artist of the century, but she suffered from insecurities all her relatively short life. She was frightened, mistrustful of others, used poor judgement in becoming involved with Onasis, used equally poor judgement in the way she managed her great voice, and ended up falling into an abyss of pills, etc. This greatest of all operatic artist was a figure out of a Greek tragedy. Yet she was/is still so loved and revered.

[@pennyaltiparmaki1793]

+Larry M. ....So ...none else had any responsibility ....She was the only guilty for every unjustice against her.....!!!?????!!!....

[@pattipage2122]

I love you Maria.

[@Empoweredwoman1234]

She is absolutely right.

[@SweetJeopardy]

Having to ask yourself "If people love you, why do they love you?" Every one I guess has asked themselves this at one point or another in their lives. But for someone as Maria -who had such an extraodinary gift, but grew up with no sense of self worth at all (aside from her voice)- the significance of this question is heartbreaking :'(

[@DjeddaPixie]

Extremely moving video. There is a very famous photo of family Callas of 1924. Maria is only 1 year old on it, but her eyes shake me, they are already precisely such as on this video from a concert in Hamburg - the same expression, the same tragic element, it seems she is on a stage, she obviously foresaw her destiny.

[@TheYouthquaker]

Is this the family photo where she already looks unbelievably wise?

[@artdanks]

Brava, La Divina!

[@magicmonkichi]

A real human. Expressing herself. A rarity nowadays.

[@vabbana]

thank you... scrivo in italiano, la mia lingua...è così toccante sentirle dire certe parole... "io sono un essere umano e nessuno si preoccupa del fatto che sono un essere umano..." ti spezza il cuore...se fosse stata lì...sono nata troppo tardi...

[@SilverSingingMethod]

And, actually, I know people who said that Del Monaco's speaking voice - especially after performing - was so loud. Same with Nilsson and most dramatic voices.

[@njangel4]

You can hear her Greek constantly, and I adore that!

[@gohardemirxanyan3978]

Мое сокровище!!!!!!!

[@annajeehee]

There will be no one like her until maybe in the next century

[@josiepalmer4562]

Brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

[@gguuyy22]

I listen to here her now 2018! And can’t wait for the new movie !

[@RobinGoodFellovv]

I agree. She must have spoken Greek most of the time as a child when she lived in America. She learnt English, it's not her native tongue. She makes "mistakes" when she speaks sometimes, with past participles for example. In this video, she says "since ages" instead of "for ages". But her English is very good. Whenever she is looking for a word, she says "shall we say". Her French and Italian are very good too.

[@jasonhurd4379]

She must have had some German as well, though to my certain knowledge she never sang in that language. Her mother forced her to entertain the Nazi officers in wartime Athens, so she must have spoken a bit of German, though it's also possible they conversed in French.

[@michaelmontagu3979]

Apparently her most spoken language was English. Although of Greek heritage she was born and grew up in New York. She certainly never sang in German but could speak it. But she learned from Greek tutors.

[@XxQueenChristinaxX]

An Opera Queen of Sass.

[@UncleLouie867]

Hey- you did a great job making this tape. I CAN. I WILL- and I MUST!! Well, you did.

[@NemesisTheInevitable]

Lol this tape was made by me.

[@yobhsiFehT]

A VERY well-made video! Thank you!

[@GG_giorgiag]

Maria Callas was the example that perfection is shit. Thank you beautiful donna for what you did, art needs emotions not perfection

[@peterdavino4408]

I agree. Yes because without true emotions, without feeling, perfection doesn't mean anything at all. In fact perfection is actually cold blooded and sterile.

[@njangel4]

I LOVE YOU, CALLAS!

[@luistaus]

Maria Callas is excellent. His voice gives us great joy, just a moment just to listen but listen well so that you can go to develop the wonderful feeling in our body. Callas was brilliant, wonderful, excellent and surprising. He renewed the scene of the twentieth century was is and will be extraordinary. The truth can be said: Callas Forever. Inglés. Luis Taus Argentina

[@manelemsb]

this makes me cry so much

[@bodiloto]

divina !

[@alexandercallasti3420]

I wish at I could have possible to meet her and know her..but I was 7 when she past away I have been lucky to meet and know her colleges in Milano. Tebaldi Corelli and Elvira Biki her Couturier 27 years Neace of Puccini We all miss her..and she went away too early in heaven.. But I know she is looking us from some where in there and sittng in cloud....like in aria of La Wally.. ebben..

[@Tdvc]

Her life deserves an Opera production. But alas, who would manage to sing the part? Bloody nobody, and God knows how many sopranos they would need to sing her repertoire.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

That is very true.

[@MrChandler73]

EVERYONE LOVES CALLAS!

[@Aryanebg]

Thank you for posting

[@CarloQuinto]

Poor Soul, There she was. the Queen of Opera, she commanded the stage like no other but couldn't enjoy it, couldn't command her personal life. The Champagne of singers, the rest are merely coca cola.

[@Paddy818]

Bad destiny! Such a great, sad life!!

[@SilverSingingMethod]

With everything she is saying and how she is illuminating problems with the opera hierarchies etc. that is the thing you get from this? Her mind is working too fast here to have been drinking. :)

[@saverioorlando]

Bravo,il ritratto viene commosso e intelligente.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

And she had every right to have one.

[@robertsfelix1583]

Viva La Callas!!

[@SilverSingingMethod]

@argentin She grew up in NYC - Washington Heights I believe - and moved back to Greece at age 13.

[@christinec.6685]

It is ridiculously unprofessional not to have an understudy. Of course they couldn't replace her; that's not the point. This is on the management of the house.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

I would think that being born and American and growing up speaking English everywhere, but at home that her English would have formed well. Leaving at 13 and not returning until her early 20's would have made her lose some of her accent and grammar I suppose.

[@CorinaTag]

@JesusFan I'm with you, JesusFan. I love this woman. She is, and she was, "The Diva"

[@DCFunBud]

It is a shame they did not line up Anita Cerquetti to substitute for Callas who was singing Norma in Naples at the time.

[@francoisegareau9411]

This is Callas' catharthis in 1968 when after Onassis drop down, she was in John Ardoin's home.

[@CorinaTag]

I'm with you, JesusFan. I love this woman. She is, and she was, "The Diva"

[@reneeitzen6744]

Poor Callas

[@hectorhugomoyano9518]

ÙNICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SilverSingingMethod]

It is a bit put on though. It is not there all the time and no one from New York speaks that way. When she is angry she loses it quickly! LOL! Or in later interviews as well.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

Oh but that was all for the camera. Not that she wasn't refined - she certainly was - but I know people who knew her personally. And she was much more firm and strong behind the scenes. The "soft" feminine tone was for interviews. The strong tone - while still feminine - was for real!LOL!

[@ransomcoates546]

Seems strange in these days that an opera singer could generate so much drama and that people would care. (The ‘Pirata’ finale is late and the final note has a bad wobble. It is most unfortunate that we do not have live tape of Callas in her best years. What a thing it would be to see her sing the ‘Armida’ aria.)

[@Distefano5]

There's no wobble in here, it's not even a high note for a soprano. although slightly shrill.

[@annajeehee]

Wish I met you at Juilliard when I was there

[@letBIGGIErest]

she could of been a poet

[@eternalsilverlight]

What performance is the last performance cause she sounded amazing

[@Yoavmw]

Josias Ara final scene of Bellini-I Pirata I think from 1958

[@eiriniseltsika8697]

Σπουδαία καλλιτέχνις, ξεχωριστή προσωπικότητα, εντυπωσιακά ομορφη γυναίκα , τα ειχε ολα εκτός απο την αληθινή αγάπη, όμως τα εκατομμύρια των θαυμαστων σε ολο τον κόσμο της πρόσφεραν ολοψυχα θαυμασμό και σεβασμό

[@SilverSingingMethod]

@Adlih91 It is clips from all different years.

[@christinec.6685]

She wanted to create art when she was working - to realize the opera's full potential. Unfortunately, a lot of opera is simply a classical version of The Lawrence Welk Show.

[@SilverSingingMethod]

Amen to that.

[@Tkimba2]

1:38 her tone is so different. She sounds so depressed

[@gingin3919]

She must have split with Onassis

[@findshell]

Wow what is this footage from? Its fascinating.

[@peterdavino4408]

Well what happens is that people are fine with you being a great artist.. that's not the problem. The problem arises when you are a little too great. Then you're somehow making everybody else look smaller which they will not tolerate. So they have to take you down a few pegs just to make themselves feel better.

[@dariaboru4578]

please someone tell me what is playing in the background! I know it so well but i cant remember what it is!

[@danbarthy3819]

Scarpia's murder. Tosca II act.

[@dariaboru4578]

@@danbarthy3819 Thank you! Later that night i remembered but thank you anyways !

[@danbarthy3819]

@@dariaboru4578 Welcome! 😃🕊

[@distefano13069609]

@argentin Mix of where she's been.... London, NYC...

[@sgonz9475]

Could someone tell me what's the Aria at the beginning of this video?

[@tonioruben]

thank you !

[@SilverSingingMethod]

ROFL! If you say so. I have never head that from anyone in my life.

[@naicosir]

What is playing in the background?

[@SilverSingingMethod]

Tosca

[@vabbana]

what does she says from 2:58 to 6:59? pleeeeaaase!!!

[@findshell]

I am still discovering ! So can you help? Thanks :)

[@mosesa.3386]

@ 2:59 🎈❤️😔

[@artdanks]

SOOOOOOO sad!!!

[@fanaberia7778]

Does anyone know what music is in the background, throught whole clip? Pls help!

[@danbarthy3819]

Opera Tosca II act ! A moment before Tosca stabbed Scarpia. This passage is short in the execution of the opera but very important.

[@fanaberia7778]

@@danbarthy3819 Thank you very much!!!!

[@NLidar]

Please, what is the interview in 4:47? I'm desperate, please help lol.

[@danbarthy3819]

Interview with John Ardoin (1968). 😉

[@NLidar]

@@danbarthy3819 Are you sure? Because the John Ardoin interview I am aware of is the one where she speaks about the Macbeth mad-scene and vocal things.

[@timh4500]

What performance is that note from at the end?

[@MissAlexia]

from "Il Pirata" By Bellini

[@stevendaniel8126]

She was so unhappy.....

[@vabbana]

there's something I understand with more difficult...

[@avilacaionogueira]

do you still have the sources???

[@Bhavatam]

I mean: I understand what she says: perfectly