Maria Callas: Today interview with Barbara Walters (New York, April 15, 1974) NBC, at Stanhope Hotel Catalogue: MC-VID-092 www.mariacallasmuseum.org www.mariacallasmuseum.org
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@yerdenis86335 жыл бұрын
She was amazingly talented, extremely intelligent, educated, brilliantly honest! I can’t believe how in every interview I have seen of her, this “reporters” seem more like bullies, by trying to get attention towards them, by making disrespectful questions to her. She was definitely way ahead of her time and manage with grace every answer she ever gave.
@Maguirearch2 жыл бұрын
Like princess Diana..the newspapers hounded her...she was made out to be a Diva but she was only standing up for herself as management wanted her to perform when she was ill or she felt it was damaging her voice...plus an infamous photo of her shouting at an agent serving a writ from an old manager trying to get a percentage of her earnings, was used by the press to make out she was a difficult diva...she was in an era when women don't get the respect they now are starting to get with the "me too" movement. Also her mother put out a very damaging book about her. Callas never forgave her mother for making her perform for troops during the war which Callas found degrading....
@davisoregon12 жыл бұрын
***A Lady, that she was***
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
I always thought onasia was a pig
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
@@Maguirearchher mother was the worst kind of stage mom
@roseroyce156 ай бұрын
Agreed. They really trolled her. I don't understand why they were soooo disrespectful to her. Smh.
@elissavalle49538 жыл бұрын
How well Maria Callas fielded those questions. Beautiful, talented, humane.
@atroutflycrazy80574 жыл бұрын
Interrogation rather than an interview such a shame. Maria was dignified throughout. Theres no way anyone famous today would allow such brutal and cruel questions in an interview .
@xxcelr8rs Жыл бұрын
Well on top of it all, he was censored.
@DrumandPianoDude4 жыл бұрын
Maria is so elegant, refined, intelligent, and mature in all of her interviews. She so out-classed Walters, but Walters was no more than a ratings hound. We lost a great lady in Maria Callas to young.
@meboneme12 жыл бұрын
BARBARA WALTERS IS LEGENDARY FOR ASKING THE QUESTIONS THAT THE PUBLIC MIGHT WANT TO KNOW! Stay in your "primary reader" group and leave the INTELLIGENCE to the INTELLIGENT PEOPLE!
@baritonebynight Жыл бұрын
Actually, Walter's does a much better job that Mike Wallace who was down right disrespectful in his interview around this same time.
@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Жыл бұрын
@@baritonebynight barbara wawa is been bad to Callas also... one can easily feel it here... but mike wallace was actually so mean and visius in his interview that I literally believed he must hate her...
@NikolaTheodore9 ай бұрын
barbara walters is a hack and a tabloid journalist at best.
@steffaniepeters3735 жыл бұрын
Photographs never did her beauty justice. She was a beautiful woman. ❤️
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
She looks pretty good here though
@lanaofficiel40427 ай бұрын
I agree. Maria Callas had that fiery, Mediterranean, exotic beauty.
@brentaudi93549 жыл бұрын
Maria was so beautiful here. Hard to believe she died just two years later.
@nikolaacimovic88549 жыл бұрын
indeed hard to belive, I am so sorry that she died so young.Her make-up is different as usually.
@alejandrosotomartin97204 жыл бұрын
three years later. in 1977
@MissOrchid124 жыл бұрын
Alejandro soto martin Wow this was pre Botox era & she looks amazing
@northerncalifornia35664 жыл бұрын
It has been said that her assistant poisoned her. It was a close friend.
@Missditabomb3 жыл бұрын
@@northerncalifornia3566 Wow! Interesting! And why would her assistant poison her? To what end? To take beautiful possessions from her apartment? Surely, that can't be it!! Poor Maria. She was a good person, but life was not good to her, despite her amazing talent. She always struggled with emotional pain.
@Lederius186 жыл бұрын
Every interview I have seen with Maria Callas, it seems that the reporter is on a hunt to back Callas into a corner!
@edglebennett63125 жыл бұрын
I wonder why???
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
@@edglebennett6312 IMO, Walters is jealous of everything about Callas: her beauty, her grace, her soft-spokenness, her glamorous aura, to say nothing of her unparalleled artistic genius. Perhaps the thing that rankled Walters most (I am only speculating) is that, in this clip, Callas at age fifty looks ten times better than Walters at forty-four! Callas is like a goddess here, being pestered by a chihuahua.
@turboplazz5 жыл бұрын
That is what reporters do, they leave class at the door in favor of self promotion. Most reporters can be described best as POS.
@jimmyross43525 жыл бұрын
Jason Hurd I think you are right, I once heard someone say ''success is an island In a sea of jealousy''
@rossmerchant84354 жыл бұрын
The one with Mike Wallace is just downright sexist filth. He is speaking to someone who is revered as one of the most talented people in her field and instead of asking her about her art, he shames her for stupid tabloid gossip. She had to put up with a lot of bull****
@Artemisiainspain6 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful woman those later interviews were horrible and so disrespectful of such a gigantic talent and she was so ahead of her time
@raymondbeecroft4209 Жыл бұрын
The average ordinary person would never begin to comprehend such a woman. That is why many would not have any idea of who she really was and her amazing gift. Those people read scandal sheets, adore low life soap operas etc. It , however is not all their fault. It is the way much of society has been programed. You cannot be responsible for things you have never been exposed to or ever heard of. That is why there are a small number of PHD scientists in our universe.
@texan9037 жыл бұрын
It saddens me that the world had to lose this legendary woman, still in her prime, her story incomplete.
@chrisgatchalian372510 жыл бұрын
i love the smile callas flashes walters at the end of the interview--it's one of barely disguised disgust.
@Ronizetti6 жыл бұрын
Shame on you, Barbara! - Callas so honest and you so low. How I wish this poor woman had recieved the love from the one person she needed it from, the love that she recieves from us so freely she simply couldn't obtain - May she rest in peace and feel the love with which she is now eternally showered.
@jamesmorrison20552 жыл бұрын
Why all the hatred towards Walters? She’s just doing an interviewer’s job - asking the probing questions that many people may be wondering themselves. Sometimes questions may be controversial. A good, objective interviewer doesn’t spend the whole session just fawning over the subject and only giving them praises. No one wants to watch an ass-kissing journalist suck up the entire time. What a bore that would be. In my opinion Walters was being more than polite and fair.
@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesmorrison2055 evidently you're incredible of understanding that an interview of an artist is not supposed to be an interrogation.. ..and since when Barbara walters was good and objective interviewer... never! She was always arrogant and full of her self.. and nothing else..
@EliseGraham-bu5xm Жыл бұрын
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726tru
@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Жыл бұрын
@@EliseGraham-bu5xm ..of course..!
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
Pretty much always the case
@leeperkins45000010 жыл бұрын
Over 50 years old and such a beautiful woman,
@Cosmicfraud320924 күн бұрын
Mediterranean women Greeks.especially age well
@dans55232 жыл бұрын
The more you know her, the more you love her. She was so magnetic, genuine, talented & gracious
@sxnico Жыл бұрын
Maria is always so honest.
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
I do not think she was totally honest about onasis she did want him to marry her you can hear the pain in her voice. He was a pig
@MichaelOZimmermannJCDECS11 жыл бұрын
What an elegant and beautiful woman Maria Callas was... aside from being a powerful soprano!
@MercySomaes4 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest opera singers of all time and all they can asked her about is Onassis. I'm so disappointed.
@jackanthony9764 жыл бұрын
Did we watch the same interview? Walters did not ask Callas about Onassis until the end of the interview.
@alexandrastratanphotographer8 жыл бұрын
my God she is stunning
@alexandrastratanphotographer8 жыл бұрын
+Viking Song in every way beautiful, a virtuous and true, self aware, I think very respectable traits
@Menstral5 жыл бұрын
She is classy, smart, talented, feminine.... but she is probably more interesting looking than stunning, though attractive for sure.
@stillwill22159 жыл бұрын
she is an amazing woman. her responses are so deep. how could any man not have loved her?
@linanicolia13633 жыл бұрын
Onassis was a trophy hunter. He went for famous women, just to prove his manhood was winning, as he knew, deep down, it was really his money that attracted these women . That quality of life was hard to resist. They all fell for it.
@ccalcote91253 жыл бұрын
@@linanicolia1363 I Agree, Onassis wasn't a good looking man at all. The money and power were what drew those women.. Money makes men and women look better! I wish Maria could've had a nice partner at the end. She might have been to deep for Onassis.
@AnasSyriano3 жыл бұрын
Who said all men look for "deep"?
@davidsongarrett80875 жыл бұрын
Why didn’t she ask how did it feel to sing Norma or Traviata? Obviously. very few journalists know anything about opera. But Madame Callas will long be remembered when Miss Walters is long forgotten.
@Susan-lf2hl5 ай бұрын
Yes
@ternitamas11 жыл бұрын
She had a strong personality but I think she was very misunderstood having people say she had airs of diva. She was a perfectionist in her art, and the same discipline she applied to herself she expected from others.
@peterdavino44082 жыл бұрын
@temitamas/ Exactly. Very well said! It's so true and so simple yet so misunderstood.
@thecrystalcabinet6 ай бұрын
She was a master and a perfectionist at her craft. The sexism is how someone like Francis Ford Coppola gets perceived va someone like Callas. They both fought for their standards and visions.
@nathelondon371910 ай бұрын
She is 50 here and simply stunning. Are actresses aged 50 the same as they were aged 30? I saw her last concert in London. We bought seats but only used the edge. The leading voice teacher in Chicago said it was worth the price of a ticket to see her walk onto the stage. She was right. You could hear a pin drop and at the end was showered with flowers and had a ten minute standing ovation. I was a teenager and left in tears realising that it was the last time I would see her.
@leebiddies1062 ай бұрын
You are so lucky to have seen Maria perform..
@CyprusHot7 жыл бұрын
I love this classy lady. So intelligent.
@MovieJon6 жыл бұрын
In 1974 they didn't really have the sort of "magical" lighting for TV that the ladies of "Knots Landing" loved so much or that Joan Rivers employed on her talk show, yet Maria looks STUNNING, only a couple of years before her death.
@jello21998 жыл бұрын
She is a legend....She is very candid here..She had a very sad sad life...and never got "a man of her own"...that she wanted.
@jackanthony9767 жыл бұрын
Just because you don't have "a man of your own" doesn't mean you have a "sad sad life." Maria had a glorious career...and she may not have married Onassis but she did have him for a time....better than not having had him at all. Some people never get to experience love.
@weloveicecream22815 жыл бұрын
He never said her very sad life was mainly due to not having the man she wanted. You are just overreacting. She had problems with her family.
@Operacrazed9 жыл бұрын
What an exceptional woman as well as an exceptional singer.
@patrickr53599 жыл бұрын
i have watched many of the great Maria's interviews. It could not have been easy hearing every time that her voice was not what it was. This is a true example of a broken heart. I wish I was there to dry your tears for you.
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
Patrick R The sad part is that humans are really little, like Barbara Walters is in this interview, they do not understand the greatness of a true hard worker a true star... once again we missed that opportunity. It is revolting to see how they were after here
@jamesmorrison20552 жыл бұрын
@@phus2001 I don’t understand the hatred towards Walters by so many commenters here. It’s like in order to praise Callas people think they need to tear down Walters. It’s ridiculous. She’s just doing her job as an interviewer to ask difficult questions that many people may be wondering themselves. She’s not being rude or impolite. She’s just asking questions.
@santi7616 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesmorrison2055 I totally agree with you ,she's asking questions that all of us would ask but wouldn't dare ,so Walter's interview is really a very good one ,she makes interesting questions and allows maria to answer calmly ,I think walters was one of the best in her field. we have to be grateful to her for this unique interview specifically during such a difficult time for callas .
@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesmorrison2055 Barbara should be ashamed of her self... this is not and interview, it is an interrogation.. and a normal human being should know the defense.
@jamesmorrison2055 Жыл бұрын
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Now you're just being ridiculous. The reason why Barbara Walters was so successful as a journalist was because she asked probing questions that the public was interested in knowing. Maria Callas would've known full well going into this interview that she would be asked difficult questions because that's what Walters was known for. She was simply doing her job and she was never disrespectful in any way.
@janezmd111 жыл бұрын
The lady showed real class here.
@olivadelrosario1807 Жыл бұрын
Maria Callas was beautiful, talented, honest and gutsy! Some people could not handle a strong willed and outspoken woman back then! She always looked lovely in her interviews and was well spoken. Thank you for posting this interview.
@elizabethwilk96155 ай бұрын
They still can’t
@TheCedilia11 жыл бұрын
What a truly inspiring and classy lady.
@danarzechula376911 ай бұрын
But there is so much pain in her voice and eyes😢
@ronaldacarlson2115 жыл бұрын
Maria Callas fielded questions superbly with dignity and honesty. I had become fascinated with Ms. Callas (and her voice) when very young and read everything I could find about her.
@gmsoyls8 жыл бұрын
i love that maria never compromised her artistry, especially for the met, namely, rudolf bing. she is still the best soprano, musician, actress who stands head and shoulders above all the soprani before and after her. may she rest in peace. im sorry to have been born after her death and never heard her perform live.
@linanicolia13633 жыл бұрын
The quality of what we hear from recordings, is getting eroded. You can still hear that beautiful tone and range. It is still there.
@caterinat5583 жыл бұрын
Callas had so many exceptional gifts, a great speaker as well as a great singer and strikingly intelligent and full of such charm and magnetism and self assurance, you can't take yours eyes off her even for a second. She can waltz through any interview like pro. Walters must have sat in quite the admiration of this woman before her, every question she asked, Callas took over and beautifiully handled it , showing what a woman of substance she was.
@TaVo7810 жыл бұрын
10:00 "very good friends"... wow that is class
@yellowfever83368 жыл бұрын
I really admire Maria Callas.
@matthewlaguerre10 жыл бұрын
surprisingly refreshing and disarming, Maria conducted herself with such grace.
@meirwise11077 жыл бұрын
The ultimate Diva. RIP. nobody has equalled you and who even knows the names of the critics?
@AllanArmstrong7 жыл бұрын
This video says a lot about Callas's extraordinary grace. She refuses to diminish herself in the face of badgering & handles everything with élan, including the here yenta-ish Walters. To have told Barbara to "go to hell" or to leave the interview would be reactionary & as tacky as Walters herself. So sticking to her guns and telling Babs she felt no remorse or jealousy (even if the truth lie elsewhere) she is the bigger person of all people involved (including Jackie, Onassis, AND Barbara Walters). I love her bit about integrity also, VERY true. And she did pay the ultimate price.
@santieloubser75417 жыл бұрын
A strongArms
@iwinitall36385 жыл бұрын
@Ari Onassis-Sugen She was the better person than Barbara Walters due to her grace and poise in the face of Barbara's inappropriate questioning. She was better than Jackie O. because she let Onassis go- which took so much strength, whereas Jackie held on to the man for dear life. Ms. Callas was a true diva, she never let the world see her sweat.
@CyprusHot3 жыл бұрын
Maria Callas is so classy! A true Diva in all aspects
@lanaofficiel40427 ай бұрын
Yes. I agree 💯 percent.
@YanyongW12 жыл бұрын
a beautiful woman and her eyes look so sad.
@Highinsight79 жыл бұрын
I ADORE MARIA... LA CALLAS... FOREVER...!!!!
@jmiller059 жыл бұрын
It's a shame Maria had to constantly keep justifying herself in these American interviews, to people who knew hardly anything about her or her art.
@jackanthony9765 жыл бұрын
What is she trying to justify?
@paullewis24135 жыл бұрын
@@jackanthony976 Maybe that she was, vocal flaws notwithstanding, the greatest opera singer in recorded history?
@apartmentsixeleven40934 жыл бұрын
Americans were perfectly aware of her art and magic, as they were with Yma Sumac. Both had extraordinary (and long lasting) appeal internationally. Admittedly interviewers and the press were more crude in the United States and especially the UK. But as we know, the press and critics do not represent the general population.
@floreentan80204 жыл бұрын
They have been doing exactly the same to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. If Celine Dion was an american, I am sure she would face the same problem
@jasonhurd43794 жыл бұрын
@@floreentan8020 Please do not compare the prostitutes Carey, Houston and Dion to the transcendent Maria Callas.
@Thunderstormwitch10 жыл бұрын
Although this interview was done in 1974, the style and content of mainstream interviews in the American media are often as cryptic as this one for artists, especially great artists. So much effort is made to make the artist appear to be like everyone else in an attempt to garner ratings with tabloid like techniques that often betray a sense of respect and class from the reporter, just like what went down in this interview, conducted by Barbara Walters.But despite this Maria Callas knocked it out of the part with her honesty and intelligence that in my view is only upstaged by her legendary status as one of the greatest opera singers of all time. La Divina indeed!
@mmadsen19689 жыл бұрын
what a beauty
@jameslongmore38303 жыл бұрын
Much like yourself gorgeous my dear 😊🥰
@l.robinson58337 жыл бұрын
Barbara Walters was asking some messy and rude questions!
@spencerwinellcomposer5 жыл бұрын
Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters exemplify "How not to conduct an interview" in their interviews with Mme Callas.
@augustschweigeryt5593 жыл бұрын
I wonder why. ?? ;)
@Khalito228 жыл бұрын
wow this woman had so much artistry and musicianship; all she can ask is about Onassis and and her voice..Nothing about her legendary performances, her perfectly pitched and spun high C's...Ringing high E6's. Such a wasted interview. There are a plethora of things to ask. How did she achieve perfect legato trills staccato diminuendo her passagios. Her breathing technique pre weight loss...nothing but b.s. questions.
@jackanthony9767 жыл бұрын
Actually, Maria does talk about her pitch and her high C's in other interviews. Maria talks about her work extensively in some of her other interviews. Maybe Maria doesn't want to talk about the same thing in every interview.
@robbybonfire99446 жыл бұрын
Bear in mind, when you criticize Barbara Walters for her sophomoric interview...American audiences are totally ignorant of the fine arts, except for society people. Also, Walters was no doubt instructed not to have an in-depth interview, just to keep it shallow and at at level simple-minded Americans could understand and not tune out.
@francesca70935 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree. Barbara was not interested how talented she was. She was interested in exposing the bad in Callas. Why? The Media is owned by the Elites. Callas didn't settle. She was a Virtuous woman. She didn't sleep with the directors or with the producers. She made it to the top only by her abilities to sing. All the Media was there to take her down from her pedestal. That's a shame. This means that no one is allowed to succeed on her or his own merit. Shame on Barbara Walters !!!!! Shame on those who sent her.
@francescastillo82434 жыл бұрын
Issa Bop: Walter's didn't ask questions like you propose because she doesn't know anything about opera. I don't either but I think questions should be relevant to Maria Callas' career and not her personal life. Her personal life is nobody's business.
@Valentina-Steinway4 жыл бұрын
Issa Bop ~ YESSSS
@mikerainham Жыл бұрын
I’m not really into opera but she was fantastic. Maria put everything into her art, she was very frank in interviews, quite blunt at times but equally charming.
@daichanislove10 жыл бұрын
Wow this was a really interesting interview to me. Although I hate the way they interviewed her, so many interruptions, but I loved Maria's answers and I agree with her beliefs. I find it amazing that she stood firm to her beliefs, especially the one about marriage and the way she wanted to work with others. Beautiful.
@e.l.2734 Жыл бұрын
Brave and honest Callas always gave us her everything.
@GG773310 жыл бұрын
It sounds to me like Onassis was basically like any powerful man, he wanted complete control of her, after all she's a possession and she apparently would not allow that even though she did love him. Any man who would tell you that you must give up something of yourself to be with him is absolutely not worth the sacrifice. She seems fully aware that she's made poor decisions, but cannot change how she feels.
@jackanthony9765 жыл бұрын
Men rarely give up anything when they marry. It is the woman who is expected to give up her life's work and her creative juices when she marries.
@linanicolia13633 жыл бұрын
We hear the opposite that he did not want her to stop her singing, but that she actually wanted the break. She wanted to totally give herself to the relationship with Onassis while expecting the same from him. He could not do this !!!! not in his style. The moment his honeymoon with Jackie started, he was off to a business meeting. He was already done with her, before the honeymoon started. Typical of that man. Women were trophies......everyone of them was !!!!
@GarageStudio73 жыл бұрын
@@linanicolia1363 Exactly, it wasn't the case that he couldn't have her; she surrendered it all to him even whilst she was married (& he was married) and he used and unfortunately discarded her.
@elisabethdakak8782 жыл бұрын
Onasis did not care for women, only power
@PlayIt4MeAgainSam11 жыл бұрын
A good interview w/a talented lady! I see such sadness in her eyes.
@themiddlekid19667 жыл бұрын
I love Maria Callas
@billybergendahl35154 жыл бұрын
She was the very best at what she did.
@lorettabell65274 жыл бұрын
Absolutely adore you❤️🙏🏾❤️
@brober6 жыл бұрын
. With in months of marrying Jackie, Onassis was back sleeping with Maria. They never really separated. Ari and Maria were soulmates. When Onassis died Maria followed a few years later. An operatic love story indeed.
@stephaniesoprano4 жыл бұрын
Bruce Robertson they’re true twin flames💕
@GarageStudio73 жыл бұрын
A "soulmate" who drugged, abused, insulted & basically dumped her in public? Hmm that's a different kind of "soulmate".
@brober3 жыл бұрын
@@GarageStudio7 Hope you fall in love some day.
@GarageStudio73 жыл бұрын
@@brober If that's what "falling in love" has to offer then I gladly decline.
@MissAlexia2 жыл бұрын
What a Legend !
@lanaofficiel40427 ай бұрын
This great lady Maria Callas is legendary. She left us too soon, at the young age of only 53. Rest in Peace, Madame Callas.
@Roots5679 жыл бұрын
perfection
@sxnico Жыл бұрын
i wish i had been her friend!
@faviolabloisa46964 жыл бұрын
I think apart of being a exceptional opera signer! She had a beautiful soul! And very hungry for love ! Se la vide! Some people found love and some others spend all their life looking for love and never find it,,,,
@SPTN588 жыл бұрын
Barbara Walters, you are not WORTHY to interview Maria Callas.
@infrantasi8 жыл бұрын
+Perry Nelson On the button, Perry Nelson. Walters has a very bourgeois mind that has no sense of what to present to an artist of Callas' stature. She only wants sensational answers to her foolish questions. Remember it was Baba Wawa who asked Katharine Hepburn, "If you could be a twee . . . what koind of twee would woo bee?" Shut up, byotch!
@jackanthony9767 жыл бұрын
Who is worthy enough to interview Maria Callas?
@paullewis24135 жыл бұрын
@@jackanthony976 George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, who knew Maria Callas personally and also knew all about opera. Unlike Walters he was not interested in Onassis and all that irrelevant nonsense about Jackie Kennedy.
@linanicolia19945 жыл бұрын
so true.
@baritonebynight5 жыл бұрын
She did a much better job than Mike Wallace who was rude and disrespectful to Callas.
@miumiuamarcord16205 жыл бұрын
La Divina!!! 😘😘❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎼🎼
@jacquesrichard38353 жыл бұрын
Talented and beautiful 😊
@lf14963 жыл бұрын
I love this woman. When a woman stands up to be who she imagines herself to be, the world picks her apart. Callas lived her life on her own terms, not paying any attention to the CULTURAL HEGEMONIC roles laid out for women in a patriarchal world. The Americans could NEVER understand this kind of freedom. She was a complicated, proud, dynamic human spirit
@georgeelliott2073 жыл бұрын
very well said. she was ahead of her time in many ways.
@peterdavino44082 жыл бұрын
Beautifully said.
@mosesa.33867 жыл бұрын
You can tell she was broken hearted. In that magical voice of hers you can sense all the times she must have cried and tried to endure. Her beautiful idealistic point of view in regards to love was smeared and smirched by those who never truly understood her nor her artistry nor her importance to history as a whole. I personally have felt and currently am feeling the pain of a deep heartbreak. But not being on her level, I can only imagine that whatever pain ordinary people like I can feel - Callas felt it 10 times worse. And it's illustrated by her early death. It's tragic and sad and shouldn't have happened the way it did, it does make me tear up a little just wishing she could have found the relief her Spirit needed. God had to intervene, rescue her, and bring her home. 😔🎈❤
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
Moses A. Humans are truly limited like Barbara Walters shows in this interview. They cannot grasp the fortune of a hard worker and perfectionist... sadly, Maria suffered of N autoimmune disease that at time time was only treated with a type of cortisone that, among other side effects, brings heart attacks. Thankfully, Maria was a strong women that has blessed us all with amazing memories and amazing performances- I have not yet encountered anybody able to bring opera so close, perhaps except Pavarotti, but he was a guy!
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
This journalist are vaulters. They live only because of the greatness of people like Maria Callas. A men that interviewed her taking over Barbara Walters was sooooo crass asking her about money, that she had a good living etc. what a joke!
@elainelotcpeich10 жыл бұрын
Fascinating interview! To me, she comes across as very intelligent but had no idea of how magnificent she was and the power that she had as a women! The fact that she thought that a women to have a man love her was to make HIM happy?? But, I do believe that she knew what she wanted and what she did was RIGHT FOR HER! GOD BLESS HER!
@infrantasi10 жыл бұрын
She also said she didn't believe in marriage, which is quite a bohemian attitude. Sad or happy, she was a great, great human being and a brilliant artist, the most innovative singer in the history of opera.
@elainelotcpeich10 жыл бұрын
Agree with you completely.
@RicharddtheStar9 жыл бұрын
I agree
@mariedewitt5033Ай бұрын
Barbara is horrible with her relentless prying
@jameswynn22218 ай бұрын
Miss Callas was an Extraordinary woman,La Divina indeed ❤
@MissAlexia9 жыл бұрын
she is so right here.... most of the singers just do what is required from them without putting any extra effort they sing take the money and go home while MAria wanted everything to be perfect and was genuinely caring for art and development of art ..... such a shame she is no longer here :(
@wotan109503 жыл бұрын
I think it’s a very good interview. Callas shows her human feminine side, and Walters asks questions that Callas admits are honest questions. I am actually not a Callas fan, but I find her endearing in this interview.
@maruzik8 жыл бұрын
When the interviewer's ego pretends to overwhelm the greatest voice, let alone, the greatest soul...
@RicharddtheStar9 жыл бұрын
I suspect that either Callas was either really depressed in her later years or overcame the reality of her life. Had this interview happened 10 years earlier Callas would have walked out , she really let her guard down in her later years.
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
RicharddtheStar No, she has an autoimmune disease that at the time was only treated with cortisone... that,among many side effects, it also bring heart attacks. Look at how people adore her nowadays... everybody at the time could see non equals to Maria where around in the opera world. We are blessed and opera has been blessed to have her
@Valentina-Steinway4 жыл бұрын
RicharddtheStar ~ I agree
@EliseGraham-bu5xm Жыл бұрын
Maria's voice change did not negate the fact that she was the BEST!...she had a wonderful gift that she,herself,didn't understand...she was a supernova...burned brighter than the rest then was gone.....she is very much loved and missed
@laurecorbani95218 жыл бұрын
M.A.G.N.I.Q.U.E Maria Callas !
@globalcitizenn7 жыл бұрын
She was like the Michael Jackson of the Opera world.. A genius perfectionist constantly attacked and undermined.. being forced to defend and assert her achievements.. I have seen many interviews where the interviewers (usually male) are shockingly rude and condescending to her. Focusing more on her personal life than professional achievement. Is it envy and jealousy that makes us treat our very best talents this way?
@wandaloskot5 жыл бұрын
Well, she didn’t molest sexually anyone, let alone little children.
@jasonhurd43794 жыл бұрын
Please do not compare the psychologically damaged pedophile Michael Jackson to the incandescent and unapproached artiste Maria Callas.
@medusachristo37253 жыл бұрын
Michael Jackson is innocent. Learn facts before commenting.
@maximilian29743 жыл бұрын
@@medusachristo3725 no he isn't the was a sick pervert
@Magnus0552 жыл бұрын
Callas was never rattled when poorly interviewed. She had great composure.
@kathrynmolesa16415 жыл бұрын
Poor Maria! All she wanted was peace. I think she found it in her later years.
@MissAlexia2 жыл бұрын
“There are no chains for love “ !!!
@carolinedecastro41716 ай бұрын
Maria Callas was very beautiful and highly intelligent. She was an amazingly wonderful woman. Her voice was lovely. Such a pity she died so young. Died from a brocken heart.
@davideferrari57022 жыл бұрын
Una donna molto affascinante indubbiamente... nonostante il suo talento la sua carriera i trionfi il successo la fama...si ritrova sola svuotata sempre alla ricerca qualcuno da amare ed essere amata...come se oltre il palcoscenico non ci fosse altro non si era creata una sua vita propria ..finiti i fasti del successo il nulla...mi da questa impressione nonostante fosse amata e lo è tuttora...
@MrFalconford9 жыл бұрын
barbara walters is nothing but a gossip columnist, curious interview and rather insulting, maria is and always will be remembered as a class act, not a married house frow! viva maria !
@ssamgroup45056 жыл бұрын
Well Said! Madam Maria Callas was a Powerful First Class Artist !!
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
Barbara is sooo crass
@ticolandia1005 жыл бұрын
Donnie Mrkacek i noticed Barbara Walters kept going asking her about Jackie Kennedy Onassis !!!! Maria was very Polite to answer !!! Very. ! Me I would have stopped her
@mckavitt134 жыл бұрын
Donnie Mrkacek House Frau, or hausfrau.
@jackanthony9764 жыл бұрын
Callas must have had an agenda if she consented to be interviewed by a "gossip columnist" as you put it. I'm sure Callas was prepared to answer gossip columnist type questions when she consented to be interviewed by Barbara Walters.
@jasonhurd43795 жыл бұрын
8:08: 'The most important thing, in a woman, is to have a man of her own and make him happy.' This is a fascinating remark from such a great artist as Callas. It shows that, for all her vaunted ambition and musico-dramatic genius, she had a profound need for love and, in a way, to serve a man ('make him happy'). What a complex, paradoxical woman she was.
@noname-jh3bd3 жыл бұрын
That was also her problem... Thinking that she needed a man in her life to make her happy
@PhaedraTify2 жыл бұрын
It’s not fascinating. It’s sad and totally against feminism. She was so much better than being a woman serving a man and she is giving this up so easily? It’s one thing to love and it’s another thing to serve. It’s great to love someone but serving is not.
@jasonhurd43792 жыл бұрын
@@PhaedraTify Then all I can say is that you have lived a crabbed, parched existence. A life of service to others is the most fulfilling, rewarding life one can live. Feminism has robbed nigh on to three generations of women of the rich dimensionality of a humble life of service by making it appear oppressive and punitive. For shame.
@PhaedraTify2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonhurd4379 I didn’t say anything bad for you so I think it’s rude of you to judge me especially when you don’t know me. And I didn’t mean that offering to others is bad but serving a grownup man? What’s the point? Can’t he take care of himself? He’s not handicapped, he is not impotent. Why sacrifice something great to serve him? Was he serving her in return? Women are not slaves of men. We have our own life and needs, same as men do. And by the way by singing she was serving the humanity in a much greater way than by taking care of a man
@jasonhurd43792 жыл бұрын
@@PhaedraTify The humblest, most loving thing a person, whether man or woman, can do is to sacrifice the greatest gift they possess in the interest of serving another. Many people in 2021 are self-regarding and vain, and this causes the vast majority of the problems we face. Tearing ourselves away from the mirror and devoting ourselves to others is the first step in correcting this situation.
@alme-vd3jh10 жыл бұрын
Callas bellissima come non mai!
@jeh50011 жыл бұрын
Few knew all she overcame and personal demons and struggles long before she became a major force. She was once obese. The problems with her mother were serious and ongoing. She was diligent about her craft. Onassis changed her life. She set the bar high - and was crushed if she didn't live up to that. Overall, she was respectful and demanded the same. The career that made her also destroyed her. She died too young - alone & sad. But what a legacy. Brava. brave lady.
@acacia-bloom7 жыл бұрын
Most interviewers seemed to have such pleasure in cornering Callas - there were always such aggressive and sadistic undertones in most of their questions - I have never have fathomed why they always put her through the grinder every single interview. It always hurts me just listening and I should imagine for Callas it must have been hell! It is really so sad..........
@nicolasbouyiouclis47265 жыл бұрын
..one will think all those obnoxious indervisers have something in common ??? For some reason they are trying so hard to diminish her and destroy her image or to... so much hatred.. See the Mike Wallace interview! It's very similar! So sad!
@jackanthony9764 жыл бұрын
I think Callas must have liked being put through the grinder or she wouldn't have continued to consent to these endless interviews.
@joesie743 жыл бұрын
agree!!
@isabellas.c.scanderbeg26707 ай бұрын
Moving and sincere answers by Maria Callas, courageous and patient to some brutal questioning by an interviewer only interested in getting gossip and audience. She became very rich with this US TV style of interviewing and her jewels are being sold on auction right now 🌿
@callahanstudio11 жыл бұрын
In retrospect, these "journalists" who interviewed Callas (especially the impudent Mike Wallace) squandered a unique opportunity. They were obsessed with prying loose a tabloid confession for purposes of self-aggrandizement rather than bringing to light the life lessons and artistic insight she had to offer. Their work now looks shabby.They should be ashamed. Yet Callas was incandescent when she spoke of the high cost of the integrity and honesty that were the foundation of her art and life.
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
callahanstudio Very well put. Mike was a garbage human and so was his interview... I hope Callas got lots of money for it... she was way more intelligent than him and Barbara Walters and you can see it
@MrGremoful9 жыл бұрын
She end the interview this tears in her eyes...She really fell in love with Onassis.
@mashtali19 жыл бұрын
Luis Gómez with his money.
@hannahp72528 жыл бұрын
+Ali A You're such a callas hater! Why do you even bother to watch, comment on, and reply to this video? Please give this woman the respect she deserves if you respect the art of opera and what she has done for it.
@th-wp7zc8 жыл бұрын
+Ali A you're right, callas was a bitch. with the voice of a witch, and ugly face, and attitude.
@mashtali18 жыл бұрын
Hannah Harrelson ok Hannah.
@adamlarsson38284 күн бұрын
i love Maria’s honesty and i relate to her in every possible way. her demands are not so great, especially for a person of her sensitivity and absolute connectedness to the music.
@zizeus8 жыл бұрын
Barbara Walter questions are so cheap, equal to a high school level, childish. Really what a shame , this is absolutely not professional. when you have the opportunity to interview a legend Like Maria callas, you make sure you're ready and prepared. Callas should have asked her the questions before the interview and denied the interview. Thank god times have changed. Maria looks stunning here ,amazing more in the american traditional way way than European style. but still amazing.
@NYCBG8 жыл бұрын
+Constantin Giakoumakis Well, that IS Barbara, or Baba Wawa as she was so hilariously parodied by Gilda Radner in the original SNL. Cheap questions, constantly probing for something salacious or scandalous. Cheap, cheap, cheap...
@jackanthony9767 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed the interview. I think the interview gave Maria Calllas a human face. What question would you have asked that Barbara did not?
@phus20016 жыл бұрын
Constantin Giakoumakis Absolutely right... Barbara like her colleagues are so crass!
@Valentina-Steinway4 жыл бұрын
Constantin Giakoumakis ~ you are right!!! Maria is in our heart ❤️ forever!
@jackanthony9764 жыл бұрын
Callas wasn't stupid. Callas knew what kinds of questions she would be asked if she was being interviewed by Barbara Walters.
@mrkongsimr10 жыл бұрын
That´s a bit better interview , than that arrogant Wallace did with her . He just ripped her apart rudely and arrogantly . She got very little change in her come back even though she was not what she used to be. She died for years after his disgusting attack . Even she was a difficult person , she deserved a change after a difficult life , mostly of her own doing , but we would have wanted that for our self.
@jackanthony9765 жыл бұрын
Callas's ghost still haunts her old house and some of the old opera houses. Callas's mother stated that she feared Callas's ghost and would be very apprehensive when she felt that Callas's ghost was in the room...Callas's mother knew Callas had a score to settle with her.
@Avidcomp2 жыл бұрын
@4:38 Ms Callas just articulated a very good life lesson for me. The next time someone says to me "You should (do this, that or the other)" I will begin by asking them to merely ask if I would.
@discount85082 жыл бұрын
the queen of fabulous
@Arron4136 ай бұрын
I love this woman! She was so mistreated by the media.
@francescastillo82434 жыл бұрын
Why does Maria Callas have to answer any questions about her personal life, like the stupid questions Walter's was asking about her relationship with Aristotle Onassis, etc. It is none of her business. I would have told her, "It is none of your business." Oh, by the way, for those who say that Maria Callas was not beautiful, I think she is beautiful.
@Valentina-Steinway4 жыл бұрын
Frances Castillo ~ who knows..... she felt like she had to.
@galnic6111 жыл бұрын
barbara walters was so cruel
@eduardobasuino23925 жыл бұрын
Walters is nothing but a gossip cheap personality Callas should have chosen not to give interviews like these Didn’t have to explain herself Sad Such a talent!!!
@jackanthony9764 жыл бұрын
Yes, but Callas did choose to explain herself of her own free will. Nothing wrong with that. Better to explain yourself than have the tabloids do it for you.
@minasmina9866 Жыл бұрын
MARIA KALLAS THE BEST SINGER
@texan9037 жыл бұрын
Barbara is rude, disrespectful and insensitive to keep probing Ms. Callas on her relationship with Mr. Onassis; there's no reason for her to be friends with Mrs. Onassis, whatsoever.