The Art of Soprano: Maria Callas (Opera Documentary) 

There are sopranos and there is Maria Callas.

What made CALLAS so great was that on stage she did not "sing " Floria Tosca- she was Floria Tosca. She could break your heart like no other opera soprano, before or since...

There was La Divina Callas and then the others in a pack trying to catch her. They never did. She set the bar too high. Unique. Unequalled. RIP Maria. Your legend and legacy remains unchallenged.

She was pure electricity. Outstanding stage presence. She could move you, ever with her gestures.

You can find beautiful voices, great coloraturas sopranos, dramatic, but Callas was beyond all these, she was something incredible divine. She is the best.

MARIA CALLAS Is For Me The Most Beautiful Soprano Voice Without Any Doubt Ever And For Always

here is no words that define her uniqueness, she was and still is the best opera soprano in my heart

I forgive the world because we had La Divina. Maria Callas (together with Montserrat Caballe’) are the most wonderful gifts given to human ears. Thanks for this! 💯❤️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

She is a legend and she still alive in our hearts ♥️ Every time I hear her singing I’m transported to the aether.

I wish I had just one ounce of her integrity as an artist. Her dedication. Her conviction and above all...her passion.

Unmatched Unmatchable . La Diva, ..... Goddess, .... , left us too soon....... Thank, Maria for what you left for to us to enjoy

We should be eternally grateful to this magnificent artist for the legacy she left behind, her many commercial and pirated recordings to relish her remarkable voice and its moving dramatic qualities.

Thank you for the great documentary. I allways cry, when I hear the outstanding, intense voice of Maria Callas.

My love Maria. Maria was, is and will always be the best.

You have no idea how much this made me happy.

Irrespective of the irrelevant opinions of the critics, Callas was and remains to this very day, a Goddess. 🌹

She was the outstanding soprano of the 20th century. She is the outstandind soprano of all times.

Talk about the ability to make a person well up with tears! Tragedy and Beauty all rolled into one glorious Voice!!

When she is filling the air with that voice, her beauty and presence commanding my attention on film or photograph, I feel as though those moments are some of the best in my life. She makes me feel alive.

dhe became the most famous opera diva not only for her extraordinary talent on stage but for her dramatic life.she lived in real life what she was acting on stage.and she died like madam butterfly with a broken heart

Her voice is really incredible so beautiful like a singing bird colourful brilliant and magnificent !

What a fantastic memory of Miss Callas to love.

Thank you so much, Perspective - a wonderful documentary. Callas Rules Forever!

Amazing, wonderful, extraordinary, I have no words to say about her...!

I recognize her voice! But I had never known her name or her story. Thank you for introducing this icon!

The “in the know” … know. They are very aware Luchino Visconti made Callas reach her full acting potentials like he made Zeffirelli reach his- Since she is not here to tell us her story, lots of people abuses her character, persona for personal gains… perhaps Zeffirelli was among those people at some point of their life. The impression is that many around her gained from her presence more than what she did gain from them….and Onassis is to be included in that mix!

MARIA CALAS THEBEST FROM THE BEST

A beautiful genius.

I refuse to hear anything other than divinity in her voice. She was impeccable!

I made a big mistake when entering into the world of opera music, I began by listening to Callas first and it makes other opera singers dimmed by comparison.

Tosca, Violetta, and NORMA-Absolutta!

Incomparable, divine Callas forever ❤❤❤❤❤

She was amazing.

A beautiful noble intelligent hard working lady who fell in love with a selfish mean greedy short little man named Onassis. She deserved much better in life.

The only human on her was that love killed her heart. She wasnt from this world. This planet cant "afford" something from another dimension, so "nature" will find a way to exterminate it, to restore the "balance". Thats why she left that early. Opera has two periods, before Callas and at her reign. NOTHING after. She raised the bar that high, that nobody will ever gonna reach it. We dont have here just music and singing abilities, we have most of SOUL. She was Medea, she was Norma, she was Tosca, she was Lucia, etc etc. when she performed. She embraced every role that above and beyond any perfection, that EVERYBODY else sopranos after her are just followers. One and only. La Divina.

I listen to her and I know I'm listening to PERFECTION, none like her, NONE LIKE HER (at least for me, and at a very distant second place Montserrat Caballé)

I've never heard so powerful, emotionally deepen voice..Just Great!

MARÍA CALLAS. lo más grande que la ópera puede llegar a ser.

At 23:56 ... You're thinking of Visconti. He staged Vestale, Sonnambula, Ifigenia, Traviata and Anna Bolena especially for Callas. He was the one to help her fulfill her potential as an actress (just look at the rehearsal pictures from la Vestale in 1954). Apart from Il Turco In Italia in 1955 (which was not a huge success), Zeffirelli only worked with Maria Callas later on and would stage Norma and Tosca for her in Paris and London in 1964/1965. I really don't understand why this program is constantly referring to Zeffirelli as a sort of Pygmalion to Maria Callas. Elvira de Hidalgo, Tullio Serafin and Luchino Visconti were her Pygmalions and teachers. Zeffirelli wishes he was one of them, but he really didn't have that kind of influence over Maria Callas' career and répertoire.

This was unbelievable!!! There will Never Be a MARIA CALLAS!!!!!

She did not have the most beautiful voice, yet no one was more thrilling. I can listen over and over to her recordings and they give me chills every time!

“You never know who might stumble across these videos on here!” 🙋🏻‍♂️ Brilliant. Can’t wait to watch more (been binging all morning).

33:50 That little newsreel enrages me everytime on how inaccurate it is, the bloody clip that ur supposed cameraman got was from 3 years before in a concert version of Norma sung in Rome, u can clearly fact check this because as u see in the supposed clip Mario Del Monaco is the tenor, whereas the tenor on the Rome performance was Franco Corelli, I cant believe they actually thought they could fool ppl

Maria Callas was one of a kind. Brilliant women intellectually and her voice we have never heard again. She was the best opera singer, the world has ever know. She loved her singing, sang with passion.

Cheers and Vivat for Mrs Maria Callas !

Maria Callas IS Tosca!

I sometimes think Maria was too polite. She should have extended her middlefinger to the naysayers. If any of them could sung the historic roles, why didnt they. She had a gift that was greater than herself, - she knew it and very few understood it. The maestra should have been granted a little more support in her years of vocal decline. It came about her commitment to give the world what was forgotten for more than a hundred years. She served her purpose. Her personal life, eventhough much in the public eye, became an angle to attack her as a flawed human being, as most of us are. If educated opera directors and opera houses aknowleged this womans phenomenal skill set and musical gifts, who is to report about all kinds of non important instances. La divina rest in peace. Lets remember her for what matters most, Maria Callas the voice never to be forgotten.

THIS DOCUMENTARY IS QUITE A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT ARTIST AND OPERATIC STAR, MARIA CALLAS. She was more than the superlatives that were attached to her voice and her career. Her extraordinary voice and her acting ability evoked genuine tears and never-ending applause in her audience worldwide. She is still being applauded to this day. She was a force of nature. We are grateful for the beauty of her voice and also for her existence, brief though it was. The legend lives on. Rest in Peace, Madame Callas. Thanks for your contribution to the operatic world and to the pantheon of world culture!

Did you even bother to do proper research? This was so unworthy of her. The nonsense about Zeffirelli teaching her to act is just the most egregious mishandling of this dull effort. Callas does not do dull. Visconti not Zeffirelli (who was a young upstart then and only did one production with her in her prime) was the one with whom she did her Great La Scala productions. He worked with her on her theatrical Artistry. Please.

THE GREATEST FEMALE OPERA SINGER AND SHE'LL REMAIN SO FOR EVER!

vou morrer e jamais verei alguma outra que chegue perto do que foi Maria Calas.

I had the same experience, heard her first, nobody comes close.

MariaCallas preformed in Venice which a huge turning point for her career. Margarita Corrozio was due to sing but fell ill. I wonder how Corrozio felt after hearing the audience in Venice went absolutely nuts for Callas.

Best opera singer ever existed, simply said.

The first time I went to Italy, which was in 1997, our tour group visited La Scala in Milan. We also visited Verona and Venice.

Thank you just simply a great video. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

The most distinctive voice ever!

Never met the gal but can not get enough of her.

Someone taught her what to do with her gift. EVERYONE has a teacher. She acknowledges Serafin as her mentor and teacher.

This is so interesting!👍😊🌹

I can't believe she died that young

Thank you for these documentaries. Might you consider producing one about Leontyne Price?

A great documentary !

çok değerli bir youtube kanalı harikasınız sizi seviyorum iyi ki varsınız!!.

Wonderful soprano, hoped years ago Onassis would marry her, that would have completed her world :)

Thank you for this video

In the end if you have a stable life you can have a long carrear.If you don't it's impossible.Maria was a queen that died young.Caballe had a very successful and long life in opera.When you give yourself to others so tremendously you need some love and feedback.If you don't get it it's over sooner or later.Bless them both for their art and for respecting each other so much.

*Merci infiniment pour cette documentaire exceptionnelle aussi sous-titre. Johnny de Bangkok, directement de la THAILANDE tropicale*

Fantastic

Divaaaaa Amazing MARIA 🇬🇷❤️

Eternamente Maria Callas...!!! Diva Assoluta Eterna...!!! La Unica Divina Greca...!!! ⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘ ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

the rehearsal at 33:55 of Norma....that rehearsal was TWO YEARS prior to the actual 'famed' Norma cancelation performance. That's the media for you...so shady.

WHERE IS VISCONTI? HE CAME BEFORE ZEFIRELLI. HE WAS THE KEY TO HER PERFORMANCE STYLE. Hmmm...NO, PEOPLE, TRY AGAIN.

マリア・カラスさんは、個性的でカリスマ性がある。 迫力がある素晴らしいステージで心に残る。 でも、彼女の人生が幸せだったようにみえない。 彼女の素晴らしい歌と演技は彼女の魂と生命を搾り取って生まれてるような印象がある。 私も同じような年齢でこの世を去りたい。

I have just learnt to appreciate classic works

Our Maya had the ability to use her voice to be the most telling & true in the greatest art form in the world. End of discussion my friends. 💙🌍🌏🌎🇫🇷🎶🎼🎵🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

It was sexism at every turn that messed her up: from her mother who had wanted a son, to Ghiringhelli & Bing who were irrational, emotional types who had more power than she, to Onassis who was the classic controlling mansplaining jerk. And of course the public who always expect a woman to correct every flaw in herself and others.

Maria Callas e la regina del belcanto e unica e divina per sempre!

Τι καριέρα κ τι κρίμα που την άφησε για έναν άνθρωπο που ήταν τόσο άδικος απέναντι της Κρίμα

There is so much that this documentary gets wrong. Zeffirelli never met her in Verona. First time he heard her was several years later when she was singing Kundry.

My Mother once told me that Oanasis destroyed her emotionally by dumping her after years of being together, for Jackie O. After that Callas was never the same.

Could any soprano right now could measure up to maria callas.?

22:43 - Really, Professor? in Verdi's "Eye vespri"?

She was fantastic voice of callas

Dallas was one of the Greatest opera singers in the world so beautiful

LA PIU BRAVA

Imagine, she started singing heavy roles at 14!!!! That something.

Hey guys!!! Help me here... I thought Callas sang Santuzza in ¨School¨ and her professional debut was Boccaccio... Right?

Well do you pair the two. So did Maria.

Because of Callas there was a brief moment when opera ceased to be an esoteric art for the few and interest in opera and singers like Sutherland, Caballé, and Olivero spread to a large section of the public.

This must be funded by the Zeffirelli Foundation. Aside from too much talk from Pippo Zeffirelli, it greatly exaggerates Franco’s artistic influence on Callas, claiming he taught her how to act. Rubbish. Visconti was by far the major influence on Callas’ acting. Zeffirelli was just a costume and set designer until late in Callas’ career when he finally started directing. Visconti never really considered him a serious director.

PRIMA DONNA

If she had not done as much as she did in the early years would she have become as great as she became? Perhaps it was a necessary ingredient. 31:09

She reminds me of Susan Lucci

Of course she was courageous. She was from New York.

Our Gods Approve !.....They have placed Her now on an Olympian Throne next to .....Eternal

Are there more videos in this series?

dam just dam

Really? Danielle de Niese talking about good singing? Please...

Very sorry to say this is not a accurate depiction of Our Mayas early career. Need I say more? I think not! Arnold Bourbon Amaral