Maria Callas - The Callas Conversations (EMI Classic Archive)
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Actor: Maria CallasBrand: EMD
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: EMI Classics
DVD Reviews of Maria Callas - The Callas Conversations (EMI Classic Archive)
DVD Review: Abstract review of Callas by Kele Agi
Summary: 4 Stars
I just listened to a wonderful new CD called "Callas: Rare and Unreleased". This CD includes a very brief recording that's even later than Callas' "last" recording that I mentioned a while ago. The one I mentioned before was from 1976; this is from August 1977, only about a month before she died. It's very short; less than a minute, I think. (The CD doesn't give the timing.) I can't really tell from so brief a recording what condition Callas' voice was in, but it seemed to me that her voice had actually improved since 1974. (There are also excerpts from some of her 1974 concerts on this CD.) I certainly thought it sounded better than the 1976 recording. I could be completely wrong, though. By the way, in the 1977 recording, Vasso Devetzi accompanies her on the piano, and I thought that was very upsetting to listen to, after what I read about Devetzi in Galatopoulos' new biography of Callas.
Going back to my question about Callas as the youngest Tosca: I was reading the archives of an e-mail list called Vo2calist; this list is meant for singers, so I'm not a member, and most of the technical discussions go way over my head, but I saw a message from a girl who was 16 at the time she wrote it (this was last year); she said she wanted to sing Vissi d'arte at her high school concert. Other people responded (some very rudely, I thought), saying that any teacher who lets a girl sing Vissi d'arte at 16 must be crazy. Someone said, "don't go near Vissi d'arte for at least another ten years". I immediately thought of Callas, who sang not just Vissi d'arte, but the whole role of Tosca, when she was not much older than this girl. This discussion on Vocalist made it seem even more likely that Callas was the youngest Tosca. And it makes me think, even more, that singing Tosca and other heavy roles so young contributed to Callas' vocal decline.
Posted by Kele at dimanche, octobre 16, 2005 (42 comments)
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