The Art of Soprano: Maria Callas (Opera Documentary)

[@XaralabidisGR]

She was pure electricity. Outstanding stage presence. She could move you, ever with her gestures.

[@jiwanhawk]

You can find beautiful voices, great coloraturas sopranos, dramatic, but Callas was beyond all these, she was something incredible divine. She is the best.

[@31.01]

MARIA CALLAS Is For Me The Most Beautiful Soprano Voice Without Any Doubt Ever And For Always

[@crisd7142]

I’m such a fool. For years I found her voice steely and too harsh. With age and wisdom I now see I was so wrong

[@victorianguyen6620]

And she was a coloratura soprano.

[@nathelondon3719]

There was La Divina Callas and then the others in a pack trying to catch her. They never did. She set the bar too high. Unique. Unequalled. RIP Maria. Your legend and legacy remains unchallenged.

[@giannislarch]

Amazing, wonderful, extraordinary, I have no words to say about her...!

[@AM-br4ix]

Talk about the ability to make a person well up with tears! Tragedy and Beauty all rolled into one glorious Voice!!

[@nordlys3432]

Thank you for the great documentary. I allways cry, when I hear the outstanding, intense voice of Maria Callas.

[@roblessusan19]

Yes, I still think she died of a broken heart not a heart attack.

[@nordlys3432]

@@roblessusan19 I think so, too.

[@AM-br4ix]

Ditto for me too!!

[@tonygomes4910]

Unmatched Unmatchable . La Diva, ..... Goddess, .... , left us too soon....... Thank, Maria for what you left for to us to enjoy

[@andrewviscountdeloire6756]

She is a legend and she still alive in our hearts ♥️ Every time I hear her singing I’m transported to the aether.

[@Schwe1899]

My first experience with Maria Callas was in my youth (in the 1960). My mother always played, on the christmas eve, a recording with Maria Callas - Ave Maria, on the record player.

[@Frank-mm2yp]

What made CALLAS so great was that on stage she did not "sing " Floria Tosca- she was Floria Tosca. She could break your heart like no other opera soprano, before or since...

[@shayanmardanbeigi2697]

And yet it wasn’t even her best role😳😳 She perfected Norma, Traviata, Trovatore, Puritani, Sonnambula, Rigoletto, Medea, and Tosca

[@roblessusan19]

Yes I love it so touching!!

[@kbhprinsesse]

What made Callas so great was her infinitely superior technique and musicianship. This is was made her capable of inhabiting her roles so completely on an emotional level. It wasn't something that just "happened" on a spontaneous emotional level, it was the result of many years of incredibly hard work.

[@Gipsi711]

Well said..she was unique and professional

[@carolinedecastro4171]

Maria Callas was one of a kind. Brilliant women intellectually and her voice we have never heard again. She was the best opera singer, the world has ever know. She loved her singing, sang with passion.

[@mamuka1276]

Incomparable, divine Callas forever ❤❤❤❤❤

[@alinequeiroz24]

My love Maria. Maria was, is and will always be the best.

[@walternicolas6927]

Hello pretty ❤

[@bigdigger87]

You have no idea how much this made me happy.

[@raybercse1]

We should be eternally grateful to this magnificent artist for the legacy she left behind, her many commercial and pirated recordings to relish her remarkable voice and its moving dramatic qualities.

[@principeturandot4593]

I forgive the world because we had La Divina. Maria Callas (together with Montserrat Caballe’) are the most wonderful gifts given to human ears. Thanks for this! 💯❤️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@arnoldamaral7406]

So true my friend 😢💜💙 VIVA OPERA. 👑👑 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@principeturandot4593]

@@arnoldamaral7406 Yes, indeed! :)

[@cotacabezas3729]

I wish I had just one ounce of her integrity as an artist. Her dedication. Her conviction and above all...her passion.

[@catherinegow1744]

How could Angelina Jolie represent this amazing voice. She can't

[@alexandrajohnson4156]

Could anyone do her justice in a movie in your estimation? She was divine. ​@@catherinegow1744

[@iTube22100]

She was the outstanding soprano of the 20th century. She is the outstandind soprano of all times.

[@rockymoore6859]

When she is filling the air with that voice, her beauty and presence commanding my attention on film or photograph, I feel as though those moments are some of the best in my life. She makes me feel alive.

[@otrebor7529]

here is no words that define her uniqueness, she was and still is the best opera soprano in my heart

[@michaelrg3836]

Thank you so much, Perspective - a wonderful documentary. Callas Rules Forever!

[@giuseppersa2391]

Irrespective of the irrelevant opinions of the critics, Callas was and remains to this very day, a Goddess. 🌹

[@brookegoslin]

Her voice is really incredible so beautiful like a singing bird colourful brilliant and magnificent !

[@AndreSantos-rb3dn]

There are sopranos and there is Maria Callas.

[@heididonaldson1700]

What a fantastic memory of Miss Callas to love.

[@walternicolas6927]

Hello pretty ❤

[@letlotlosibanda]

I refuse to hear anything other than divinity in her voice. She was impeccable!

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Cheers and Vivat for Mrs Maria Callas !

[@kimricketts9891]

I had the same experience, heard her first, nobody comes close.

[@minasmina9866]

MARIA CALAS THEBEST FROM THE BEST

[@Aspett0]

At 23:56 ... You're thinking of Visconti. He staged Vestale, Sonnambula, Ifigenia, Traviata and Anna Bolena especially for Callas. He was the one to help her fulfill her potential as an actress (just look at the rehearsal pictures from la Vestale in 1954). Apart from Il Turco In Italia in 1955 (which was not a huge success), Zeffirelli only worked with Maria Callas later on and would stage Norma and Tosca for her in Paris and London in 1964/1965. I really don't understand why this program is constantly referring to Zeffirelli as a sort of Pygmalion to Maria Callas. Elvira de Hidalgo, Tullio Serafin and Luchino Visconti were her Pygmalions and teachers. Zeffirelli wishes he was one of them, but he really didn't have that kind of influence over Maria Callas' career and répertoire.

[@stefanodepeppo]

Well said! I think they made up that story because the director of “Zeffirelli Foundation” (Pippo Zeffirelli) was there making up stories!

[@angalafan]

Yes it’s strange to hear that Zefirelli was her master on stage ! He was Viscontis’s assistant in the 50’s but not her director. Not serious indeed

[@tonirose6776]

So true. Can't understand why these alternative facts are in a documentary.

[@mistersmith1883]

I never understood that either about this documentary. Never cared for ziff.

[@artdanks4846]

I suspect that they were confusing Callas for Sutherland. Because Zeffirelli worked extensively with Sutherland in her first Lucia di Lammermoor in 1959, to help her develop dramatically (which unfortunately she never really did).

[@vocalistpianist2639]

She did not have the most beautiful voice, yet no one was more thrilling. I can listen over and over to her recordings and they give me chills every time!

[@oscarsouza5977]

MARÍA CALLAS. lo más grande que la ópera puede llegar a ser.

[@ecnash8272]

She was amazing.

[@phus2001]

The “in the know” … know. They are very aware Luchino Visconti made Callas reach her full acting potentials like he made Zeffirelli reach his- Since she is not here to tell us her story, lots of people abuses her character, persona for personal gains… perhaps Zeffirelli was among those people at some point of their life. The impression is that many around her gained from her presence more than what she did gain from them….and Onassis is to be included in that mix!

[@h.lloydweston4506]

THIS DOCUMENTARY IS QUITE A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT ARTIST AND OPERATIC STAR, MARIA CALLAS. She was more than the superlatives that were attached to her voice and her career. Her extraordinary voice and her acting ability evoked genuine tears and never-ending applause in her audience worldwide. She is still being applauded to this day. She was a force of nature. We are grateful for the beauty of her voice and also for her existence, brief though it was. The legend lives on. Rest in Peace, Madame Callas. Thanks for your contribution to the operatic world and to the pantheon of world culture!

[@siegfriedderheld7806]

Tosca, Violetta, and NORMA-Absolutta!

[@LostSoulAscension]

I know everything about Maria Callas, she was amazing. I know so much about her that I know things people may not know about. One simply does not just understand how amazing she was.

[@hyekyongkim5741]

I've never heard so powerful, emotionally deepen voice..Just Great!

[@jeanmooney9770]

I'm

[@boubou230910]

The only human on her was that love killed her heart. She wasnt from this world. This planet cant "afford" something from another dimension, so "nature" will find a way to exterminate it, to restore the "balance". Thats why she left that early. Opera has two periods, before Callas and at her reign. NOTHING after. She raised the bar that high, that nobody will ever gonna reach it. We dont have here just music and singing abilities, we have most of SOUL. She was Medea, she was Norma, she was Tosca, she was Lucia, etc etc. when she performed. She embraced every role that above and beyond any perfection, that EVERYBODY else sopranos after her are just followers. One and only. La Divina.

[@helloschoales]

A beautiful genius.

[@shayanmardanbeigi2697]

33:50 That little newsreel enrages me everytime on how inaccurate it is, the bloody clip that ur supposed cameraman got was from 3 years before in a concert version of Norma sung in Rome, u can clearly fact check this because as u see in the supposed clip Mario Del Monaco is the tenor, whereas the tenor on the Rome performance was Franco Corelli, I cant believe they actually thought they could fool ppl

[@abrahamdiazr.1698]

I listen to her and I know I'm listening to PERFECTION, none like her, NONE LIKE HER (at least for me, and at a very distant second place Montserrat Caballé)

[@elmerbaez6784]

This was unbelievable!!! There will Never Be a MARIA CALLAS!!!!!

[@emanueladestri9392]

THE GREATEST FEMALE OPERA SINGER AND SHE'LL REMAIN SO FOR EVER!

[@shaundudley4576]

Did you even bother to do proper research? This was so unworthy of her. The nonsense about Zeffirelli teaching her to act is just the most egregious mishandling of this dull effort. Callas does not do dull. Visconti not Zeffirelli (who was a young upstart then and only did one production with her in her prime) was the one with whom she did her Great La Scala productions. He worked with her on her theatrical Artistry. Please.

[@stefanodepeppo]

Well said! I think they made up that story because the director of “Zeffirelli Foundation” (Pippo Zeffirelli) was there making up stories!

[@sanfordpress8943]

Oh my 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sanfordpress8943]

They're all dead. She was the best. End of story

[@Khalito22]

Zeffirelli was a user and used her to further his own career.

[@jefolson6989]

Made for the casual listener. Opera buffs already know about her , but also spot the falsehoods here. Guess the producers didn't think any would notice. They don't know opera lovers!

[@didierduplenne2325]

A great documentary !

[@francosmith4935]

I sometimes think Maria was too polite. She should have extended her middlefinger to the naysayers. If any of them could sung the historic roles, why didnt they. She had a gift that was greater than herself, - she knew it and very few understood it. The maestra should have been granted a little more support in her years of vocal decline. It came about her commitment to give the world what was forgotten for more than a hundred years. She served her purpose. Her personal life, eventhough much in the public eye, became an angle to attack her as a flawed human being, as most of us are. If educated opera directors and opera houses aknowleged this womans phenomenal skill set and musical gifts, who is to report about all kinds of non important instances. La divina rest in peace. Lets remember her for what matters most, Maria Callas the voice never to be forgotten.

[@peterbradshaw8018]

Never met the gal but can not get enough of her.

[@smtaz7631]

Thank you just simply a great video. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@viciouspoodle5543]

Maria Callas IS Tosca!

[@brianlandrytenor]

“You never know who might stumble across these videos on here!” 🙋🏻‍♂️ Brilliant. Can’t wait to watch more (been binging all morning).

[@eliaskounelis]

Eternamente Maria Callas...!!! Diva Assoluta Eterna...!!! La Unica Divina Greca...!!! ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@johnmcclellan9020]

A beautiful noble intelligent hard working lady who fell in love with a selfish mean greedy short little man named Onassis. She deserved much better in life.

[@sanfordpress8943]

She made the best of the hand she was dealt ;like all of us .

[@sanfordpress8943]

She made adult choices . She and Jackie Kennedy were grown ass women . No tears.

[@sanfordpress8943]

I disagree. They were Grown women who were also greedy and entitled

[@sanfordpress8943]

Noble. No

[@kellicoffman8440]

She sure did deserve more than she got from Onassis and bing

[@billbergendahl2911]

The first time I went to Italy, which was in 1997, our tour group visited La Scala in Milan. We also visited Verona and Venice.

[@mildredwilliams8107]

This is so interesting!👍😊🌹

[@invinciblecucumber]

Best opera singer ever existed, simply said.

[@acac2001]

vou morrer e jamais verei alguma outra que chegue perto do que foi Maria Calas.

[@mistersmith1883]

MariaCallas preformed in Venice which a huge turning point for her career. Margarita Corrozio was due to sing but fell ill. I wonder how Corrozio felt after hearing the audience in Venice went absolutely nuts for Callas.

[@hada9568]

Margherita Carosio

[@colingodwin5104]

Magnificent! and Amazing Such a voice and presence.

[@katrineuche9183]

dhe became the most famous opera diva not only for her extraordinary talent on stage but for her dramatic life.she lived in real life what she was acting on stage.and she died like madam butterfly with a broken heart

[@sanfordpress8943]

Someone taught her what to do with her gift. EVERYONE has a teacher. She acknowledges Serafin as her mentor and teacher.

[@fahrettinresul2790]

çok değerli bir youtube kanalı harikasınız sizi seviyorum iyi ki varsınız!!.

[@phoebusapollo4677]

The most distinctive voice ever!

[@mannyespinola]

Thank you for this video

[@AlvaSudden]

It was sexism at every turn that messed her up: from her mother who had wanted a son, to Ghiringhelli & Bing who were irrational, emotional types who had more power than she, to Onassis who was the classic controlling mansplaining jerk. And of course the public who always expect a woman to correct every flaw in herself and others.

[@J1allison]

I’m so surprised it took me scrolling through so very many comments before coming to one which cuts through to the truth of it. She had an amazing gift, incredible strength and drive but was ultimately betrayed by her most important relationships, unfortunately mostly men but some women. I have seen many of her interviews and the media painted her, not as a driven talent, but as a temperamental unfulfilled woman with all of the negative and degrading assumptions that conjures. If she lived in a different era, with better support, I’m sure we would have seen the true extent of her talents. Shame on the world😞

[@dorindabarnes1227]

Wonderful soprano, hoped years ago Onassis would marry her, that would have completed her world :)

[@richardk8821]

Thank you for these documentaries. Might you consider producing one about Leontyne Price?

[@MaríaAdrianaFragaEstévez]

In the end if you have a stable life you can have a long carrear.If you don't it's impossible.Maria was a queen that died young.Caballe had a very successful and long life in opera.When you give yourself to others so tremendously you need some love and feedback.If you don't get it it's over sooner or later.Bless them both for their art and for respecting each other so much.

[@legalnurse9478]

Madame Callas was superb!

[@davidmarsden8008]

Fantastic

[@MarthaRamirez-mm6un]

I can't believe she died that young

[@ChiakiShirakawa]

マリア・カラスさんは、個性的でカリスマ性がある。 迫力がある素晴らしいステージで心に残る。 でも、彼女の人生が幸せだったようにみえない。 彼女の素晴らしい歌と演技は彼女の魂と生命を搾り取って生まれてるような印象がある。 私も同じような年齢でこの世を去りたい。

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Our Maya had the ability to use her voice to be the most telling & true in the greatest art form in the world. End of discussion my friends. 💙🌍🌏🌎🇫🇷🎶🎼🎵🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@orion8835]

A sfogato soprano is a very rare thing. It has been a challenge to find the words to describe this type of sound similarly that of the ling lost castrato. It is a voice that combines the voice female fachs of smooth lyric the large dramatic, the also profundity and coloratura agility and acuti notes. All of those fachs types in a dark veil of a singular voice. Its very difficult to describe in any language Callas and her vocal delivery. Very much allued in a Mediterranean tone of course but she possesed this freakish sfogato classification. She has not been the only one who has this, yet she remains dominant and the best example for good reason.

[@magicmonkichi]

the rehearsal at 33:55 of Norma....that rehearsal was TWO YEARS prior to the actual 'famed' Norma cancelation performance. That's the media for you...so shady.

[@carmenpeters728]

A normal error. Don't be so trash-trump.

[@user-sx9er5jc1b]

Divaaaaa Amazing MARIA 🇬🇷❤️

[@ritaranee4787]

I have just learnt to appreciate classic works

[@gataca1976]

WHERE IS VISCONTI? HE CAME BEFORE ZEFIRELLI. HE WAS THE KEY TO HER PERFORMANCE STYLE. Hmmm...NO, PEOPLE, TRY AGAIN.

[@stefanodepeppo]

Exactly my thought! Zeffirelli’s relative (Pippo?) and the blonde lady made up the story that Franco basically taught her to act! Visconti was in her life a few years before Zeffirelli, who directed her in Milan in 1955 (Turco in Italia) for the first time!

[@afritimm]

Yes, I said this above also before reading your comment. Z was basically a costume designer until late in Callas’ career.

[@marie-claudeelsen2141]

Visconti was the great director of Maria Callas in her greatest stage appearances : Traviata, Ann Boleyn, Lucia di Lammermoor, Glück's Iphigénie, etc. He attended all her performances in his private box at La Scala as Coumt Luchino Visconti. He adored her. Zeffirelli was a stage decorator, second-hand to Luchino Visconti. He did stage her last trafic Norma in Paris....

[@marie-claudeelsen2141]

Sorry : tragic...

[@jonathanng3653]

@@marie-claudeelsen2141 Not just omitting Visconti’s significant impact on Callas as an actress, the information between Zeffirelli and Callas is not all truth. It seems like It is on purpose to give credit to Zefrelli instead of Visconti because the Zefrelli Foundation is involved in this film. These people in the fiim, the way they talk is like they met Callas in person. But some of them may not even born when Callas died in 1977. The information of these so called document is just repeating what you can find from other previous documents. I would not recommend anyone to watch this “Perspective” due to the misinformation.

[@MARÏLYN-0h]

Oh NO!!! I was just starting to play this as I concurrently glanced at the comments…and just from reading half way through the very first comment I have pressed pause to write this, as I am pretty sure I don’t need to continue watching, purely from what this first comment is saying!! If you have in fact communicated what this person is stating then it’s already an absolutely done deal I’m afraid!! Neither Visconti OR Zeffirelli ‘taught’ Maria ‘how to act’!!! If you bothered to do your due diligence then you would be in possession of the knowledge/ fact that they were FANS of hers and followed her as she performed around Italy!! Visconti left film making to SPECIFICALLY work with Maria!! She even explained it herself in her televised interview with Lord Harewood when he asked her how she ‘found how to act on stage’ and she replied by explaining that SERAFIN had given her the biggest insight on how to act on stage when he told her that “when you want to find how to act/ move on stage, all you have to do is LISTEN!! The composer has already thought/ seen to that!! If you take the time to listen, with your soul and your ears…the mind must work, but not too much also, you will find every gesture there!!” And she was speaking (I’m pretty sure) about either her first Gioconda’s in Verona, or her Puritani and Valkyrie in Venice, which were YEARS before her Scala Vestale!! I specifically remember Di Stefano moaning about Visconti paying too much attention to her Scala Traviata and how he asked her for a couple of specific POSES he wanted from her, like the praying hands and a couple of other things…but even THEN he got annoyed with her because she would always let the hat he wanted her to wear and die in at the end of the opera, fall to the floor, as she wanted her face to be seen!! And Zeffirelli said words to the effect: “what could you teach her about any of these characters or scores, she knew them inside out!!” So I’m afraid I shan’t be watching the rest of this as I wish to maintain my blood pressure lower than boiling point!! I will only just say, that I find it deeply offensive and borderline disgusting that you would bother to go to the trouble of making a film about this once in a lifetime magnificent woman, and then be so insulting as to not bother doing your homework to actually understand WHO it actually is you’re supposed to be paying homage to!! The fact that you’re just spouting incorrect nonsense lowers this to basically a vehicle with which to make money from, and so turning it from an homage to Callas, to lightweight trash!! If you had any integrity you’d be ashamed of yourself!! I have the distinct feeling that I would be asking to much for that to be the case!! Atrocious!! 😔

[@TimKnockston]

22:43 - Really, Professor? in Verdi's "Eye vespri"?

[@paulmornaila5769]

Maria Callas e la regina del belcanto e unica e divina per sempre!

[@arnoldamaral7406]

WORD

[@toddmurphy523]

( 24:54 ) "She tended to over act". What an absurd comment in this video. It was her acting AND her magnificent voice that made audiences drawn to her in masses.

[@lorettashum9984]

I made a big mistake when entering into the world of opera music, I began by listening to Callas first and it makes other opera singers dimmed by comparison.

[@kellicoffman8440]

I love that we can’t all be Callas

[@LifeAccordingtoMaria]

My Mother once told me that Oanasis destroyed her emotionally by dumping her after years of being together, for Jackie O. After that Callas was never the same.

[@bonniemattocks4396]

So sad how young Maria was when she passed. How hard should one talent have to fight to achieve a shred of desired and needed love...??

[@richardque4952]

Could any soprano right now could measure up to maria callas.?

[@braddavis6219]

Are there more videos in this series?

[@shayanmardanbeigi2697]

@Banele Mkhize None about Corelli, Del Monaco, De Los Angeles, Caballe, and Sutherland?

[@ΠανοςΔημακης-σ5ο]

🇬🇷💖 MARIA LA BELLA DIVA 🇬🇷

[@nicolettemitchell3146]

Dallas was one of the Greatest opera singers in the world so beautiful

[@markdarenvillanueva7740]

WHAT'S THE ARIA AT 3:30 ?

[@castadivanorma8478]

Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni

[@CalifaJohn1]

Of course she was courageous. She was from New York.

[@Pilgrim06]

You’ve obviously never met a Greek woman of that generation😊 it’s the hardships of life in Athens, and the Nazi occupation of Athens, followed by the civil war, that shaped her, not to mention the expectations of a Greek mother. For Greek parents, until recently, a child was never good enough unless they reached the very top….

[@afritimm]

This must be funded by the Zeffirelli Foundation. Aside from too much talk from Pippo Zeffirelli, it greatly exaggerates Franco’s artistic influence on Callas, claiming he taught her how to act. Rubbish. Visconti was by far the major influence on Callas’ acting. Zeffirelli was just a costume and set designer until late in Callas’ career when he finally started directing. Visconti never really considered him a serious director.

[@umasonne]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Requiredfields2]

If she had not done as much as she did in the early years would she have become as great as she became? Perhaps it was a necessary ingredient. 31:09

[@calvinliu6304]

She was fantastic voice of callas

[@tzanidisalexandros-xd8wn]

Τι καριέρα κ τι κρίμα που την άφησε για έναν άνθρωπο που ήταν τόσο άδικος απέναντι της Κρίμα

[@Shahrdad]

There is so much that this documentary gets wrong. Zeffirelli never met her in Verona. First time he heard her was several years later when she was singing Kundry.

[@OctPSfever]

Around 60's all beautiful women in the world bumped into Onasis. He played his game globally. Elizabeth Taylor was his friend too. I understood that Jackie Kennedy wanted to move out of US, but how the hell she felt for this guy so as Maria Callas. For him it was a game, and after he got tired then he dumped his toy and bought new ones

[@RikVermont8]

Because of Callas there was a brief moment when opera ceased to be an esoteric art for the few and interest in opera and singers like Sutherland, Caballé, and Olivero spread to a large section of the public.