Callas and Corelli sing the Act I duet of Puccini's Tosca in 1965 (much better sound!) 

Lucky you

I think so :))

Really divine!....

Sono divini! Voci e temperamenti ineguagliabili unici

It doesn't matter how she will sing, even if she will sing at all. This is a cult and the audience is here to worship, not listen. The legend about Callas is bigger than Calls herself.

This is exactly what I was thinking as I looked for this recording. This is how the public thanks her for the years she devoted her life to her art.

@@mariaruskova6054 her earlier years before losing so much weight so fast, being unable to support her, and a disease of the ligaments and muscles in her larynx caused her voice to suffer after the mid 50s

@@mariaruskova6054 The Met audience was always kind to singers, they did the same to Tebaldi, Milanov, and Nilsson on their return. Unlike the Italian audience that booed even Volpi past his prime. Callas' legend is the result of her hard work and special qualities, not magic or cultism as idiots believe.

Bing similarly had a time with Nilsson, another insufferable primadonna. Though, at least, and, from what I'm aware of, Nilsson did not denigrate her (capable) tenor counterparts. The same can't be said for Callas, who badmouthed Filippeschi and pretty much buried Polas's career.

​@@PedroZamagnacallas badmouthed filipeschi? I've never read about that before. That's interesting. Can have the source for this?

@@tsquare076 'Callas is forced to make her way unaided by the tenor Giorgio Kokolios- Bardi, a crude artist. She was plagued by bad luck with tenors in the early years of her career (Sinimberghi, Baum, Filippeschi, Baldelli, et al.)' And there are about 5 other remarks about denigrating Filippeschi. I'll have to look for the one where it's more objectively, and directly, from Callas.

@@tsquare076 "Maria had never stopped blaming di Stefano for the Mexican Rigoletto fiasco, and she was terrified of spending too much time with the almost ethereally handsome Corelli because she was falling in love with him, and did not know how she would handle cheating on her husband, if the crunch came. She, therefore, ‘compromised’ by deciding upon ‘Mario Filippeschi, a tenor she positively loathed, and when Antonino Votto expressed his disapproval, Maria told him that he would not be conducting in any case - but Tullio Serafin! This resulted in an out-and-out row with Ghiringhelli, who would not allow the sessions to take place at La Scala. The opera was therefore taped at the Cinema Metropol ... with very few tantrums. Here she was briefly interviewed by Martin Meyer of the American High Fidelity magazine, telling him minutes after a violent, expletive quarrel with Filippeschi."

​@@PedroZamagnaPoor Maria.

Me too...

It's called technic

@@1UShawn lmao

@@1UShawn If it were technic alone other tenors, even if a small minority of them, could have attained it. Imho we are confronted here with a vocal phenomenon without equals.

​@@aflethgsb There is many raw talent that matchs the one that Corelli had, what is lacking is proper development and technic, in other words, vocal education. “Each time a child does not meet their full potential, It is Mozart we assassinate! For each and every child who does not become who they could have pretended to be, it is Mozart we have assassinated!” -Antoine de St-Exupery

@@1UShawn Do you realize that you have written a tribute to the vocal teachings of Lauri-Volpi? Fine with me!

New Yorkers are considered the best audience by most performers.

Who got the 15 minute welcome. She is thecstar, wobble and all.

Only one God...He gave them these magnificent talents.

But Corelli is beautiful

Tebaldi... so COLD... dispassionate... and stiff!

Tebaldi... so COLD... dispassionate... and stiff!

I don’t long for Tebaldi in 65 either. Her Toscas were worse because she couldn’t color the words like Callas and she was consistently under pitch.

Yes tebaldi which voice scream en Flat Flat End More Flat End acting like an amateur

Quite right!

She was already a living legend, no opera singer with the best of the best voice becomes such an ovation today. And she in full decline got it. That really means something.

@@annam3533 I think you mean 'receives' such an ovation.

Ja! More than one would like to be in "full decline" and recive that kind of ovation...

@@annam3533 bien dicho.