90.obljetnica rodjenja Marie Callas
Maria Callas
http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas
Maria Callas (grčki: Μαρία Κάλλας; New York, 2. prosinca 1923. – Pariz, 16.
rujna 1977.), operna pjevačica grčkoga podrijetla. Znamenita primadona druge
polovice 20. stoljeća
Maria Callas - Ave Maria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cF5GGqVWo
Maria Callas Tosca 1956 New York .mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKF3njDhl-A
TRES RARE "Tout premier document video de la Divine
CALLAS"
New York
25 Novembre 1956
Avec George London
(Scarpia)
Orchestre
de la NBC dir. Dimitri Mitropoulos
Tosca Act II (Puccini)- Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi 1958
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI-sjm_Ztn0
Tosca Act II
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Tosca: Maria Callas
Scarpia: Tito Gobbi
Mario Cavaradossi: Albert Lance
Louis Riallard
Jean Paul Hurteau
Jaque Mars
Orchestre et Choeurs du Thèâtre National de l'Opéra de París
(Palais Garnier)
Geroges Sebastian-Conductor
Live December 19 1958
Maria Callas: Casta diva (1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rjGwS20V94
Maria Callas as Norma
in Bellini's opera live in Paris.
Rarity!! Maria Callas - La Traviata - Verdi (video)
(Lisbonne 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OpXyzqzfmw
La grande
nuit de l'opéra (Paris, 19 décembre 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnaFvEQmywc
Callas, Monti, Votto - La Sonnambula, Koln
1957 - BJR Vinyl Comp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDQdQvHl304
The wonderful clarity of BJR presents the fantastic Koln
Sonnambula - the diminuendo on the E flat int the finale is to die for! Again,
some faint pops and clicks remain.
Maria Callas: Amina
Nicola Monti: Elvino
Nicola Zaccaria: Il conte Rodolfo
Fiorenza Cossotto: Teresa
Mariella Angioletti: Lisa
Dino Mantovani: Alessio
Franco Ricciardi: Un notaro
Antonino Votto conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
di Milano
Recorded 4 July, 1957, Koln,
Germany
Callas, Gobbi, Alva - Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Live La Scala
1956 FULL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGEsrluhuuY
Also check out my video of Act 2.
Maria Callas: Rosina
Tito Gobbi: Figaro
Luigi Alva: Il conte d'Almaviva
Nicola Rossi-Lemeni: Basilio
Melchiorre Luise: Bartolo
Anna Maria Canali: Berta
Pierluigi Latinucci: Fiorello
Giuseppe Nessi: Un ufficiale
Carlo Maria Giulini conducts the Orchestra del Teatro alla
Scala di Milano
16 February, 1956 Milan
Maria Callas
Google Doodle: Late Soprano Honored On Her 90th Birthday
http://www.latintimes.com/articles/10757/20131202/maria-callas-google-doodle-late-soprano-honored.htm#.Up3x_eVRpjs
Maria Callas was
honored with a Google doodle on what would have been her 90th birthday. The
American-born Greek soprano was born on December 2, 1923 and died on September
16, 1977. Callas was born in New York City by an overbearing mother and
received musical education in Greece and established her career in Italy. Time
magazine called her the “undisputed queen of the world’s opera” and ”a woman
for whom the term prima donna could have been invented.” Callas grew up
self-concious of her body and weight. In a cover story of Time in 1956 she
wrote, "My sister was slim and beautiful and friendly, and my mother
always preferred her. I was the ugly duckling, fat and clumsy and unpopular. It
is a cruel thing to make a child feel ugly and unwanted... I'll never forgive
her for taking my childhood away. During all the years I should have been
playing and growing up, I was singing or making money. Everything I did for
them was mostly good and everything they did to me was mostly bad."
One rumor that
followed her was that she swallowed a tapeworm to lose weight, which the Los
Angeles Times denies it ever happened. "At one point, the 5-foot-8 singer
was believed to have weighed more than 200 pounds. Urban legend has it that the
soprano ingested a live tapeworm in an attempt to shed fat. Another rumor has
her experimenting with a special kind of pasta. Callas rejected the gossip,
claiming that she lost weight naturally." Another juicy gossip that was
invented was that she continued an affair with Aristotle Onassis during his
marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy. Onassis left Callas to marry Jackie in 1968 and
rumor has it that they continued seeing each other. A book by Nicholas Gage
titled "Greek Fire" that explores the love affair has Onassis
knocking on Callas' door to be let in.
Callas spent her
last years living in Paris and died at the age of 53 from a heart attack.
Shortly before her death she talked about her vocal problems saying, "I
never lost my voice, but I lost strength in my diaphragm. ... Because of those
organic complaints, I lost my courage and boldness. My vocal cords were and
still are in excellent condition, but my 'sound boxes' have not been working
well even though I have been to all the doctors. The result was that I
overstrained my voice, and that caused it to wobble."