Maria Callas: A very short interview [January 31st, 1957] 

N. Lidar sad to say my friend that will never change those miserable vipers. Shades of Lady Diana etc etc etc Arnold Bourbon Amaral

Así es…

Maybe she was a bit introverted and not feeling that comfortable with all the attention drawn onto her as a public person…

Jajaja, I noticed that before. You are right

sayeth the philistine

Muy cierto. Saludos cordiales

Contraltos and basses casually rotting to dust in the backrooms : 🌚

Thanks for using that word. Impossible. I used it and was afraid of ruining my message with its hyperbole. But she is impossible indeed. How she came to be what she did how she did it how she manifest in her manifold guises both artistic and real. The artistic more real that than the real...

But the Callas widows all say her voice wasn’t as powerful after 1955, or as in 1950-53, but we know better!

Phaedra Ovid isn't it an accent of a New Yorker?

N. Lidar This was a part of the Callas persona that Maria created. In private, she spoke English with a thick Brooklyn accent.

Samuel Pedrosa III no

@@ciociosan She was born in Manhattan and spoke French, Greek and Italian fluently...

@@ciociosan well, it was depending on who she spoke to. If speaking to friends and family, she let her accent come through more. That happens to a lot of people though.

Anna Netrebko?

@@carloartificialintelligence that made me laugh lol

Luis Alberto Marquez To a certain extent I had a sense of relief when I first heard of her death. 😔 Like the Beautiful heart rendering spiritual "TROUBLE IN MY WORLD" No one really remembers the year of your birth But they do remember the date of your death especially if you left behind an incredible legacy as our Maya. Now she is at peace & can sleep until that great day when no one will say I am sick 😪 Physically, emotionally, mentally. With deepest sympathy & respect LA Divina para siempre. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

my baby gurl

No, l'inizio del suo tramonto era prima quando iniziavano i problemi della voce. Già in 1954 nel disco di arie di Puccini si sente problemi che diventavano più e più gravi.

And as for opera having the potential to be a great and wonderful thing, every time she opened her mouth to sing she became living proof of that possibility...

600 performances of opera alone + all the concerts.

Meno bella della Carteri o della Zeani,aveva un sorriso fascinoso,sottolineato dalle fossette,ed era felice di essere adorata a Milano,in via MonteNapoleone,dove appariva all'ora del thè.Non sembrava affatto tigre capricciosa,era lusingata dal dover firmare autografi anche a noi ragazzi.Spesso veniva con la Simionato.Meneghini non c'era mai.

@@saverioorlando ma come, la Callas era più bella della Carteri o della Zeani.

@@MaximTendu come lineamenti del volto,no,ma sembrava una dea

@@saverioorlando e tu l'hai vista dal vivo: che fortuna, Saverio. Io al massimo ho incontrato Justin Bieber anni fa, un ricordo che purtroppo, nonostante i miei sforzi, non sembro capace di estirpare dalla memoria.

her Artistic stature is for the centuries... but few people could actually love the Char, the so called tigress, the Not-pseudo-sweet, the Not-Hypocritical personality who could name things with sincerity and intelligence and suffer the consequences... I believe only Elisabeth Schwarzkopf truly loved Callas

Νope Elisabeth loved her, big difference.. the Cute sweetheart is in 100% of cases a very nasty and malicious person underneath

Kind she was with people who deserved it... she was intelligent in Genius levels and she could very easily sense when someone was Hypocritical and ofc untalented...

She was clearly very intelligent, but she was not educated above the sixth grade. She certainly was not an intellectual, which I think is a positive for an opera singer. Singers that are too cerebral (Scotto, Schwarzkopf, Norman) can come across as calculated and full of artifice, rather than art; one can always see the gears turning in their heads. Callas herself said that the mind has to work, but not TOO much. Callas's musical genius was something innate and visceral. She just felt what was right, without having to overthink it. Caballe told an acquaintance of mine that when Callas looked at a score, she would see every breath, every emphasis, every syllable, and every proper weighing of each note and phrase, and she couldn't understand why it wasn't so obvious to everyone else. She also said that Callas could look at a complicated passage, hum it, and then sing it perfectly in full voice, while Caballe herself had to work for weeks to get the passage "into the voice." Zeffirelli gave one of the best descriptions of the Callas genius: "The magic of a Callas is a quality few artists have, something special, something different. There are many very good artists, but very few who have that sixth sense, the additional, the plus quality. It is something which lifts them from the ground: they become like semi-gods. She had it. Nureyev has it, [Laurence] Olivier. But Olivier is also a case of an extremely rich knowledge of everything. He is completely coherent in his life, onstage. Whatever he does is part of a complete personality. Maria is a common girl behind the wings, but when she goes onstage, or even when she talks about her work or begins to hum a tune, she immediately assumes this additional quality. For me, Maria is always a miracle. you cannot understand or explain her. You can explain everything Olivier does because it is all part of a professional genius. But Maria can switch from nothing to everything, from earth to heaven. What is it this woman has? I don't know, but when that miracle happens, she is a new soul, a new entity."

I find Schwarzkopf's Liu the single most heartbreaking and full of raw emotions reading on recorded history... as for her Lieder, one listen to her Ruhe meine seele is enough to break your heart forever... I never believed and never will believe in "constructed flaws"... Norman is an Ocean of Emotions as well... (Scotto an ocean of Disaster and an Imbecile, if anyone ever called her intelligent he was retarded :D)

dana winsor My pleasure - I do too

Nuri Lidar, thank you for the interview, I never saw this before ! What a beautiful woman she was, really oozing charm ! There is still material out there that no one knows about, like the two TV concerts she did for English tv. I have found someone who owns them, but he refuses to share them with us ! Also the Japanese TV recorded two concerts she gave in Tokio, what they showed on tv is a compilation of the two concerts, so potentialy there should be more material somewhere ! Do you know something about this ? Greetings.

Why should Jolie play Callas, while there are ladies like Cate Blanchett or Annett Renneberg, who are naturally much more alike? A complete miscast!

@@zehnthaussteinbach5377 I agree. My toes will probably fall off from cringing so hard, if I ever watch it.