Make Offer. See all 2 brand new listings. About this product Product Identifiers Record Label. According to her extraordinarily long list of stage roles, Maria Callas appeared over times in 41 different operas and two operettas between April 2, , and July 5, An astonishing number of these performances have been captured on fascinating recordings. Greek-American soprano Maria Callas was one of the most influential opera singers of the twentieth century.
Critics worldwide praised her bel canto technique, wide range, and dramatic interpretations. Her skill, musicality, and dramatic talents led her to being hailed as La Divina. Show More Show Less. New New. A great actor makes us feel we have never heard 'To be or not to be' before and we become as one with a troubled young prince we know as Hamlet. With a good actor, we mouth the speech silently along with him and congratulate ourselves on how much of it we still remember, but we are always aware that we are watching a Great Moment from a Great Play.
Listening to Callas is never such a passive experience. With Callas, you are there as Violetta pleads with Germont or Norma contemplates killing her children. Other sopranos only sing 'Vessi d'arte' in Tosca. Only Callas talks to God. She does this in a voice some found 'beautiful', others not. But apart from the wobble, Callas is very close to perfection. She has true legato and phrases like a master cellist. Trills and coloratura hold no terror for her.
She has a voice that is unmistakable after one tone. Today's cookie-cutter voices are not identifiable after an entire act on the radio. She was beautiful on stage.
Her acting was minimal in that she did very little has there ever been a more restrained Tosca, a stiller Norma? Callas made opera mean something again. Her limitations pale beside her interpretive genius and her intuitive gifts. The entire world should have idolised Callas in her lifetime.
The fact that it does so now is ironic. The critics and CD buyers, who were the first to deny her, are now the first to ride the Callas bandwagon. La Divina, the sobriquet, has become a universal truth. But the Callas beloved by one and all and still bigger than the Three Tenors is not the Callas I will take to the grave. Local Shopping. Past month. Anytime Past day Past week Past month. About , search results. Ad related to: Maria Callas. End Date: December 16, Searches related to Maria Callas.
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