Concordo totalmente

In short, divine...La Divina. Greetings from California.

@@juanfranco-amigo412 well, indeed. Greetings from La Habana.

@@victorruiz2309 Estimado Sr. Ruiz: What a surprise!, que al comentario que respondía yo en esta red KZfaq había sido escrito desde La Habana. [ I don't know if you speak Spanish; do you? ] Anyway, me alegra. Tampoco sé si Ud. es cubano, yo sí: guantanamero. Le recomiendo que lea la biografía de María Callas escrita por su marido Giovanni Battista Meneghini, es hasta ahora, y mire que yo he leído y visto mucho de la Callas, lo más fidedigno sobre su vida. Qué no hubiera escrito José Martí de existir ésta antes o durante la vida del 'Apóstol'. Reciba otro cordial saludo desde North Hollywood, California. P.S.: prevéngame si me he excedido en la confianza.

@@juanfranco-amigo412 ¡Qué sorpresa! Sí que estamos dispersos por todo el mundo. También soy cubano, de La Habana. Muchas gracias por la recomendación, trataré de conseguir el libro. Y no, no se preocupe, no se ha excedido en el nivel de confianza. Creo que, en promedio, los niveles de tolerancia de los cubanos a la socialización son bastante altos. Saludos.

Exactly. The use of chest voice in last phrases from 5:00 onwards is a touch of pure genius.

what an ugly chest voice Callas

Not L'amo but l'Amor, the last phrase is " io son l'Amor" (I am Love)

@@fabriziocigni6945 Thank you for the clarification but let's be honest here -- how many sopranos are going to pronounce the "r" at the end of that sustained G4? This is an area where a legit soprano should revel in without the constriction of singing on the consonant "r" when you could just sing on the long [o] vowel.

@@deadwalke9588 but one only has to go to any studio recording of the aria in question, that of Callas herself 1954, or even more so to that of Mirella Freni, to hear that the last word is "amor," not the verbal form "amo", regardless of pitch (each performer then accentuates the final consonant more or less)

Serious damage. Not a dry seat in the house.

Lol are they still alive?

El de la tabaquera de calle san martín. Ppsta

E absuluta e il mostro del belcanto, insomma...¡La Divina! Saluti dalla California.

Yes this is sung splendidly but I think you are being unfair to others.

Although we get a glimpse of the wobble that she will have in the future in the final high note

Comment être indifférent devant tant de laideur, non seulement une voix laide, désagréable, mais une garce comme elle chante, elle a des goûts horribles, ce n'est pas Maddalena de caractère, c'est une sorcière. Ça n'a jamais été Maddalena, la preuve c'est que je ne l'ai chanté qu'1 fois et c'était dingue. Renata Tebaldi a été Maddalena di Coigny pendant 25 années consécutives de 1945 à 1970 dans tous les plus grands théâtres du monde

That’s nice to know. She makes us all cry, as well!

Who would be crying... she was real Maddaelena on stage that night.

What pompous arrogance

Sadly, most singers sing on tone. Callas however, follows the line of great singers like Tetrazzini and Claudia Musio and sings on vowels. What's the difference? Open and clear vowels penetrate. A voice singing on vowels has the space to get lots more consonant in. Low larynx allows the voice to engage at the bottom and be compellingly large at the top. It sounds simple doesn't it? It's a heck of a lot of work, and that's what modern singers aren't encouraged to do. They take the easy way out and sing on tone.

@@patrickgallagher3513 it could be the case but I have heard also Caballe sing this great and she has a lightier voice than Callas, while in other hand another heavier singer as Olivero sings the song in the wrong way, and she was supposedly singing in the old fashion way as Callas whereas Caballe wasn´t or so I recalled to knew about it. So I don´t know if it´s just vowels alone, furrtherly some recording of Muzio or some older singer very legendary before Callas had the same odd way of singing the troublesome part of the aria before the climax, evethough less noticeable as latter singers after Callas, so that mushy-rushed issue happened before Callas actually.

@@lhadzyan7300 Yes, but irrespective of the size of the voice, singing on vowels as Callas and Caballe did allows for much more intensity, a cleaner sound that can get much more edge. If you listen to Caballe singing Zarzuela when she was very young, it's thrilling.

@@patrickgallagher3513 oh, I get it. Well they learn the proper good way of singing whereas most of sopranos just develop the practical-easiest way of singing but it got troubles latter on siging for heavier-dense roles done for darker-mature voices. whereas lightier-brighiter and younger-voice roles are far better suited early on for that alternative way of singing. The older vowel technique indeed also helps singing well the lightier-younger roles HOWEVER it gives them some old-fashion and darker tune that didn´t match the proper performance for those roles alone, which might sound cleared but eerie unrealistic for being too much mature-tuned for the characters or style they´re singing, for which the modern mode of singing is better than the older one, but ONLY for those roles! A good singer might be able to blend, mixing or alternating on use BOTH techniques depending on what she is singing and how fitted her voice is done by nature for that or not that role alone or a part of the musical writting too as there are roles which EVOLVE during the whole opera so might sound very different at the beggining and at the end of the story, for sample, Violetta Valery of La Traviata.

Perdón, pero si hay algo que No tuvo es una bella voz, después está el gusto personal, sin duda respetable

@@mariateresaschniebs4929 No estoy de acuerdo...a mi me parece una versátil y bella voz la de María Callas...respeto su opinión, gracias🙏

A mi me parece una voz bellísima. El color es increíble. Y la emotividad que imprime es de otra galaxia. La soprano más importante de la historia de la Ópera

@@carlosrapita7546 100%de acuerdo Carlos!!! 🙌😊🎶🙏

It made the movie

Most healthy humans have the ability to forget about death altogether. I do not know how but they ignore it for the most of their lives. We know that it is there but some how we do not let it affect our everyday activities. We keep ourselves busy with jobs, raising kids and etc. I think we question our own mortality when our own parents die. The parents go away forever but their love and memories stay with us forever. Love is more stronger than death. But death is a reality and all humans have to face it one day. No exceptions. I guess this makes all humans equal. I think if we keep reminding ourselves that we will die one day then we will be able to do some good for others. I have not seen any actor in any movie who delivered such a great performance about death and life. I have seen many many movies but no one has moved the audience like Tom Hanks did about death. Tom is not offering any solutions or asking any question or asking for pity because he is dying. He is just pointing to the fact that most of us ignore consistently. Death is inevitable and it will come. He is telling the story of a girl who lost her mother and questioning her own mortality. Denzel also did a great job. His perspective changes about his own life in this scene. He is not frustrated with Tom about not preparing the answers for the court room, he is not worried about hating the opera or even Tom's condition. He is concern about his own mortality now. He realized that he has been ignoring this question for a very long time. He has no answer. He just rushes back to home and hug his child like he will never get the chance to hug his kid again. Someone said " Always plan like you have to live forever and live everyday like it is your last day"@@mrod1204

Eccezionalmente unica ed assoluta

Prima tante , dopo nessuna

@@leonardoumbriano4515 nessuna neanche prima regge il minimo confronto Almeno su disco

​@@Tkimba2 adesso poi vuoto cosmico.

@@fabriziogarzi9892 adesso meno di nessuno. Cifre negative

@@Tkimba2 come l'imperatore romano, pollice verso.

Vraiment ou légende ?

4:53 - 4.57 here is a scream

@@ginopietracupa4305hahahahahah!!! It’s Perfect go listen to Tebaldi to understand what underpitch scream means!

@@OperaMyWorld Your pathology of hatred towards Tebaldi is very evident, especially creating your videos of Tebaldi to insult her. The reality is that Tebaldi was never strident, neither in 1950 nor in 1970, and that Maria Callas is strident. But also Callas's high notes are full of "irregular vibrations" and are light in color. Callas could never have "the color" that Tebaldi has in the high notes and Tebaldi's vibrato is so unwavering that she just "doesn't have irregular vibrations". Tebaldi never screamed but her voice is powerful therefore her high notes are made of granite, huge and I repeat "without irregular vibrations". Here you are not on your channel where you are a dictatorship and you would delete this message. Read it here so you get sick

High notes is what tebaldi never has sorry for the not understand the colour of high notes and better wat you are seeing about La DIVINA but every wobble or high notes going wrong better than FLAT AND CREAK

@@JanneMalik-tq8bv Tebaldi's high notes are perfect, clean, firm and full bodied and with unwavering vibrato. Tebaldi's vibrato is so perfect her high notes simply do not have irregular vibrations . Callas never could have the color Tebaldi has in the high notes and Callas high notes are strident, clear in color and full of irregular vibrations, Callas never could sing an A natural and a Bflat properly . Tebaldi is not flat but Callas sings sharp because Callas forced

January 8th, 1955, Theatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy

BFD = Big Fucking Deal

If I remember correctly, Callas learned this role in something like a week, after Mario del Monaco decided he wanted to sing Andrea Chenier instead of Trovatore.

​@@matthewbbentonPas cool de la part de MDM

... but who cares.

Ну так ступайте вон!

@@amneris78 per niente...esci tu!!! apprezzo anche la versione Callas ... ascolto e giudico ... preferisco un'altra versione...quale è il problema....

No tienes idea de lo que hablas

​@@nachoignacio9350tu non tieni idea ...se capisci di lirica di canto .. siete tutti soggiogati dalla greca ...ma vocalmente non era adatto a questo repertorio