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Her arms would move as if they had no bones, like the great ballerinas. In Medea , everything was angular. She'd never make a soft gesture; even the walk she used was like a tiger's walk.
Everything was very paced, proportioned, classical, precise She was extremely powerful but extremely stylized.
Her gestures were not many I don't think she did more than 20 gestures in a performance. But she was capable of standing 10 minutes without moving a hand or finger, compelling everyone to look at her.
He didn't know what he was singing, but she knew. Callas herself stated that, in opera, acting must be based on the music, quoting Serafin's advice to her:.
When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act onstage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that.
If you take the trouble to really listen with your Soul and with your Ears—and I say 'Soul' and 'Ears' because the Mind must work, but not too much also—you will find every gesture there.
Callas's most distinguishing quality was her ability to breathe life into the characters she portrayed, [28] or in the words of Matthew Gurewitsch, "Most mysterious among her many gifts, Callas had the genius to translate the minute particulars of a life into tone of voice.
Her secret is in her ability to transfer to the musical plane the suffering of the character she plays, the nostalgic longing for lost happiness, the anxious fluctuation between hope and despair, between pride and supplication, between irony and generosity, which in the end dissolve into a superhuman inner pain.
The most diverse and opposite of sentiments, cruel deceptions, ambitious desires, burning tenderness, grievous sacrifices, all the torments of the heart, acquire in her singing that mysterious truth, I would like to say, that psychological sonority, which is the primary attraction of opera.
Ethan Mordden writes, "It was a flawed voice. But then Callas sought to capture in her singing not just beauty but a whole humanity, and within her system, the flaws feed the feeling, the sour plangency and the strident defiance becoming aspects of the canto.
They were literally defects of her voice; she bent them into advantages of her singing. What stood behind me, the audience, auditorium, La Scala itself, seemed artifice.
Only that which transpired on stage was truth, life itself. Once one heard and saw Maria Callas—one can't really distinguish it—in a part, it was very hard to enjoy any other artist, no matter how great, afterwards, because she imbued every part she sang and acted with such incredible personality and life.
One move of her hand was more than another artist could do in a whole act. The last great artist. When you think this woman was nearly blind, and often sang standing a good feet from the podium.
But her sensitivity! Even if she could not see, she sensed the music and always came in exactly with my downbeat. When we rehearsed, she was so precise, already note-perfect She was not just a singer, but a complete artist.
It's foolish to discuss her as a voice. She must be viewed totally—as a complex of music, drama, movement. There is no one like her today.
She was an esthetic phenomenon. During the early s, an alleged rivalry arose between Callas and Renata Tebaldi , an Italian lyrico spinto soprano.
Although the singers agreed that neither would perform encores, Tebaldi took two, and Callas was reportedly incensed.
Tebaldi was quoted as saying, "I have one thing that Callas doesn't have: a heart" [13] while Callas was quoted in Time magazine as saying that comparing her with Tebaldi was like "comparing Champagne with Cognac.
No, with Coca Cola. According to John Ardoin , however, these two singers should never have been compared. Callas and Tebaldi generally sang a different repertoire: in the early years of her career, Callas concentrated on the heavy dramatic soprano roles and later in her career on the bel canto repertoire, whereas Tebaldi concentrated on late Verdi and verismo roles, where her limited upper extension [45] and her lack of a florid technique were not issues.
The alleged rivalry aside, Callas made remarks appreciative of Tebaldi, and vice versa. During an interview with Norman Ross Jr.
Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice. Being fully aware of the alleged rivalry, he recommended Zinka Milanov 's version.
A few days later, he went to visit Tebaldi, only to find her sitting by the speakers, listening intently to Callas's recording.
She then looked up at him and asked, "Why didn't you tell me Maria's was the best? Callas visited Tebaldi after a performance of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met in , and the two were reunited.
In , Tebaldi spoke warmly of her late colleague and summarized this rivalry:. This rivality [sic] was really building from the people of the newspapers and the fans.
But I think it was very good for both of us, because the publicity was so big and it created a very big interest about me and Maria and was very good in the end.
But I don't know why they put this kind of rivality [sic] , because the voice was very different. She was really something unusual.
And I remember that I was very young artist too, and I stayed near the radio every time that I know that there was something on radio by Maria.
In the opinion of several singers, the heavy roles undertaken in her early years damaged Callas's voice. Louise Caselotti , who worked with Callas in and , prior to her Italian debut, felt that it was not the heavy roles that hurt Callas's voice, but the lighter ones.
Soprano Carol Neblett once said, "A woman sings with her ovaries—you're only as good as your hormones.
Critic Henry Pleasants has stated that it was a loss of physical strength and breath-support that led to Callas's vocal problems, saying,.
Singing, and especially opera singing, requires physical strength. Without it, the singer's respiratory functions can no longer support the steady emissions of breath essential to sustaining the production of focused tone.
The breath escapes, but it is no longer the power behind the tone, or is only partially and intermittently. The result is a breathy sound—tolerable but hardly beautiful—when the singer sings lightly, and a voice spread and squally when under pressure.
You just got shivers up and down the spine. It was a bigger sound in those earlier performances, before she lost weight.
I think she tried very hard to recreate the sort of "fatness" of the sound which she had when she was as fat as she was.
But when she lost the weight, she couldn't seem to sustain the great sound that she had made, and the body seemed to be too frail to support that sound that she was making.
Oh, but it was oh so exciting. It was thrilling. I don't think that anyone who heard Callas after really heard the Callas voice.
Michael Scott has proposed that Callas's loss of strength and breath support was directly caused by her rapid and progressive weight loss, [21] something that was noted even in her prime.
Of her recital in Chicago, Robert Detmer wrote, "There were sounds fearfully uncontrolled, forced beyond the too-slim singer's present capacity to support or sustain.
Photos and videos of Callas during her heavy era show a very upright posture with the shoulders relaxed and held back.
Commercial and bootleg recordings of Callas from the late s to —the period during which she sang the heaviest dramatic soprano roles—show no decline in the fabric of the voice, no loss in volume and no unsteadiness or shrinkage in the upper register.
The many top B's have a brilliant ring, and she handles the treacherous tessitura like an eager thoroughbred. In recordings from immediately after her pound weight loss and thereafter, "not only would the instrument lose its warmth and become thin and acidulous, but the altitudinous passages would to her no longer come easily.
There were others, however, who felt that the voice had benefitted from the weight loss. Of her performance of Norma in Chicago in , Claudia Cassidy wrote that "there is a slight unsteadiness in some of the sustained upper notes, but to me her voice is more beautiful in color, more even through the range, than it used to be".
Callas's close friend and colleague Tito Gobbi thought that her vocal problems all stemmed from her state of mind:. I don't think anything happened to her voice.
I think she only lost confidence. She was at the top of a career that a human being could desire, and she felt enormous responsibility.
She was obliged to give her best every night, and maybe she felt she wasn't [able] any more, and she lost confidence. I think this was the beginning of the end of this career.
In support of Gobbi's assertion, a bootleg recording of Callas rehearsing Beethoven 's aria " Ah! I have a theory about what caused her vocal decline, but it's more from watching her sing than from listening.
I really think it was her weight loss that was so dramatic and so quick. It's not the weight loss per se —you know, Deborah Voigt has lost a lot of weight and still sounds glorious.
But if one uses the weight for support, and then it's suddenly gone and one doesn't develop another musculature for support, it can be very hard on the voice.
And you can't estimate the toll that emotional turmoil will take as well. I was told, by somebody who knew her well, that the way Callas held her arms to her solar plexus [allowed her] to push and create some kind of support.
If she were a Soubrette , it would never have been an issue. But she was singing the most difficult repertoire, the stuff that requires the most stamina, the most strength.
However, writing about dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt in shortly after her pound weight loss after gastric bypass surgery , music critic Peter G.
Davis brings up comparisons with Callas and notes an increasing acidity and thinning in Voigt's voice that recall the changes in Callas's voice after her weight loss:.
A change has also come over Voigt's voice lately, though it's hard to tell if it's from weight loss or normal aging—controversy still rages over whether Maria Callas's drastic diets contributed to her rapid vocal decline.
Not that Voigt as yet exhibits any of Callas's technical problems: Her voice continues to be reliably supported and under control. What is noticeable, however—earlier this season in Verdi's La Forza del Destino and now in Tosca—is a marked thinning of quality at the very center of the instrument, together with a slight acidity and tightening of the tone that has definitely taken the youthful bloom off, especially at the top.
Much of what I did with my weight was very natural, vocally. Now I've got a different body—there's not as much of me around.
My diaphragm function, the way my throat feels, is not compromised in any way. But I do have to think about it more now.
I have to remind myself to keep my ribs open. I have to remind myself, if my breath starts to stack. When I took a breath before, the weight would kick in and give it that extra Whhoomf!
Now it doesn't do that. If I don't remember to get rid of the old air and re-engage the muscles, the breath starts stacking, and that's when you can't get your phrase, you crack high notes.
Callas herself attributed her problems to a loss of confidence brought about by a loss of breath support, even though she does not make the connection between her weight and her breath support.
My best recordings were made when I was skinny, and I say skinny , not slim, because I worked a lot and couldn't gain weight back; I became even too skinny Even for my first time here in Paris in when the show was broadcast through Eurovision, I was skinny.
Really skinny. And shortly before her death, Callas confided her own thoughts on her vocal problems to Peter Dragadze:.
I never lost my voice, but I lost strength in my diaphragm. Because of those organic complaints, I lost my courage and boldness. My vocal cords were and still are in excellent condition, but my 'sound boxes' have not been working well even though I have been to all the doctors.
The result was that I overstrained my voice, and that caused it to wobble. Gente , October 1, [22].
Whether Callas's vocal decline was due to ill health, early menopause, over-use and abuse of her voice, loss of breath-support, loss of confidence, or weight loss will continue to be debated.
Whatever the cause may have been, her singing career was effectively over by age 40, and even at the time of her death at age 53, according to Walter Legge , "she ought still to have been singing magnificently".
A study by Italian vocal researchers Franco Fussi and Nico Paolillo revealed Callas was very ill at the time of her death and her illness was related to her vocal deterioration.
According to their findings, presented at the University of Bologna in , Callas had dermatomyositis , a rare, connective tissue disease that causes a failure of the muscles and ligaments, including the larynx.
They believe she was showing signs of this disease as early as the s. Fussi and Paolillo cite an initial report by physician Mario Giacovazzo, who in revealed he had diagnosed Callas with dermatomyositis in Treatment included corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents, which affect heart function.
At an event hosted by the journal Il Saggiatore Musicale , Fussi and Paolillo presented documentation showing when and how her voice changed over time.
Using modern audio technology, they analyzed live Callas studio recordings from the s through the s, looking for signs of deterioration.
Spectrographic analysis showed that she was losing the top half of her range. Fussi observed video recordings in which Callas's posture seemed strained and weakened.
He felt that her drastic weight loss in further contributed to reduced physical support of her voice. Fussi and Paolillo also examined restored footage of the infamous Norma "walkout" in Rome, which led to harsh criticism of Callas as a temperamental superstar.
By applying spectrographic analysis to that footage, the researchers observed her voice was tired and she lacked control.
She really did have the bronchitis and tracheitis she claimed, and the dermatomyositis was already causing her muscles to deteriorate.
The latter half of Callas's career was marked by a number of scandals. Following a performance of Madama Butterfly in Chicago in , Callas was confronted by a process server who handed her papers about a lawsuit brought by Eddy Bagarozy, who claimed he was her agent.
Callas was photographed with her mouth turned in a furious snarl. In the same year, just before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera , Time ran a damaging cover story about Callas, with special attention paid to her difficult relationship with her mother and some unpleasant exchanges between the two.
Her contract was for four performances, but due to the great success of the series, La Scala decided to put on a fifth performance.
Callas told the La Scala officials that she was physically exhausted and that she had already committed to a previous engagement, a party thrown for her by her friend Elsa Maxwell in Venice.
Despite this, La Scala announced a fifth performance, with Callas billed as Amina. Callas refused to stay and went on to Venice.
Despite the fact that she had fulfilled her contract, she was accused of walking out on La Scala and the festival. La Scala officials did not defend Callas or inform the press that the additional performance was not approved by Callas.
Renata Scotto took over the part, which was the start of her international career. The day before the opening night, Callas alerted the management that she was not well and that they should have a standby ready.
She was told "No one can double Callas". She was accused of walking out on the president of Italy in a fit of temperament, and pandemonium broke out.
Doctors confirmed that Maria had bronchitis and tracheitis , and the President's wife called to tell her they knew she was sick.
However, they made no statements to the media, and the endless stream of press coverage aggravated the situation. A newsreel included file footage of Callas from sounding well, intimating the footage was of rehearsals for the Rome Norma , with the voiceover narration, "Here she is in rehearsal, sounding perfectly healthy", followed by "If you want to hear Callas, don't get all dressed up.
Just go to a rehearsal; she usually stays to the end of those. Callas's relationship with La Scala had also started to become strained after the Edinburgh incident, and this effectively severed her major ties with her artistic home.
Later in , Callas and Rudolf Bing were in discussion about her season at the Met. She was scheduled to perform in Verdi's La traviata and in Macbeth , two very different operas which almost require totally different singers.
Callas and the Met could not reach an agreement, and before the opening of Medea in Dallas, Bing sent a telegram to Callas terminating her contract.
Headlines of "Bing Fires Callas" appeared in newspapers around the world. And she said, 'You all know what's happened.
Tonight, for me, is a very difficult night, and I will need the help of every one of you. Bing later said that Callas was the most difficult artist he ever worked with, "because she was so much more intelligent.
Other artists, you could get around. But Callas you could not get around. She knew exactly what she wanted, and why she wanted it.
A live television transmission of act 2 of the Covent Garden Tosca of was broadcast in Britain on February 9, , giving a rare view of Callas in performance and, specifically, of her on-stage collaboration with Tito Gobbi.
This has now been preserved on DVD. In , the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini cast Callas in her only non-operatic acting role, as the Greek mythological character of Medea, in his film by that name.
The production was grueling, and according to the account in Ardoin's Callas, the Art and the Life , Callas is said to have fainted after a day of strenuous running back and forth on a mudflat in the sun.
The film was not a commercial success, but as Callas's only film appearance, it documents her stage presence. Callas staged a series of joint recitals in Europe in and in the U.
Critically, this was a musical disaster owing to both performers' worn-out voices. Audiences thronged to hear the two performers, who had so often appeared together in their prime.
Her final public performance was on November 11, , in Sapporo , Japan. In , while still married to husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, Callas was introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis at a party given in her honor by Elsa Maxwell after a performance in Donizetti 's Anna Bolena.
Michael Scott asserts that Onassis was not why Callas largely abandoned her career, but that he offered her a way out of a career that was made increasingly difficult by scandals and by vocal resources that were diminishing at an alarming rate.
As she had married in a Roman Catholic church, this divorced her in every country except Italy. The renunciation also helped her finances, as she no longer had to pay U.
The relationship ended two years later in , when Onassis left Callas in favor of Jacqueline Kennedy. However, the Onassis family's private secretary, Kiki, writes in her memoir that even while Aristotle was with Jackie, he frequently met with Maria in Paris, where they resumed what had now become a clandestine affair.
Callas spent her last years living largely in isolation in Paris and died of a heart attack at age 53 on September 16, A funerary liturgy was held at St.
After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered over the Aegean Sea , off the coast of Greece, according to her wish, in the spring of During a interview, upon being asked "Was it worth it to Maria Callas?
She was a lonely, unhappy, often difficult woman," music critic and Callas's friend John Ardoin replied:. That's such a difficult question.
There are times, you know, when there are people — certain people who are blessed, and cursed, with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being.
And Callas was one of these people. It was almost as if her wishes, her life, her own happiness were all subservient to this incredible, incredible gift that she was given, this gift that reached out and taught us all — taught us things about music we knew very well, but showed us new things, things we never thought about, new possibilities.
I think that's why singers admire her so; I think that's why conductors admire her so; I know that's why I admire her so.
And she paid a tremendously difficult and expensive price for this career. I don't think she always understood what she did or why she did.
She knew she had a tremendous effect on audiences and on people. But it was not something that she could always live with gracefully or happily.
I once said to her, "It must be very enviable to be Maria Callas. According to several Callas biographers Vasso Devetzi, a female Greek pianist near the same age as Callas, insinuated herself into Callas's trust during her last years and acted virtually as her agent.
Callas's stage repertoire includes the following roles: []. All recordings are in mono unless otherwise indicated. Live performances are typically available on multiple labels.
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In "Maria by Callas" gelingt dem es Regisseur Tom Volf, Tragik und Größe der Opernsängerin Maria Callas in einer faszinierenden Montage. (2 Wo.) Popular Music from TV, Film & Opera. UK, Gold. Maria Callas; Vittorio De Sica; Aristotle Onassis; Pier Paolo Pasolini; Omar Sharif; Luchino 40 Jahre nach ihrem Tod erzählt der Film MARIA BY CALLAS ihre. maria by callas mediathek. Konzertante Opern-Darbietungen Close Up Poster bei diesen Aufstellungen nicht enthalten. Commons Wikiquote. Daran hat sie sich offensichtlich ein Leben lang gehalten. Jahrhunderts gesehen. Nach den Aufführungen steht fest: Die Primadonna soll wiederkehren. Und dann, in Verdis "Macbeth", in zehn Vorstellungen zehn verschiedene Tenöre und zehn verschiedene Baritone! An Spekulationen, dass ihre Stimme an diesem Versuch Schwein Gehabt sein könnte, beteiligt sich "Maria by Callas" glücklicherweise mit keinem Wort. Everything was very paced, proportioned, classical, precise She was extremely powerful but extremely stylized.
Her gestures were not many I don't think she did more than 20 gestures in a performance. But she was capable of standing 10 minutes without moving a hand or finger, compelling everyone to look at her.
He didn't know what he was singing, but she knew. Callas herself stated that, in opera, acting must be based on the music, quoting Serafin's advice to her:.
When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act onstage, all you have to do is listen to the music.
The composer has already seen to that. If you take the trouble to really listen with your Soul and with your Ears—and I say 'Soul' and 'Ears' because the Mind must work, but not too much also—you will find every gesture there.
Callas's most distinguishing quality was her ability to breathe life into the characters she portrayed, [28] or in the words of Matthew Gurewitsch, "Most mysterious among her many gifts, Callas had the genius to translate the minute particulars of a life into tone of voice.
Her secret is in her ability to transfer to the musical plane the suffering of the character she plays, the nostalgic longing for lost happiness, the anxious fluctuation between hope and despair, between pride and supplication, between irony and generosity, which in the end dissolve into a superhuman inner pain.
The most diverse and opposite of sentiments, cruel deceptions, ambitious desires, burning tenderness, grievous sacrifices, all the torments of the heart, acquire in her singing that mysterious truth, I would like to say, that psychological sonority, which is the primary attraction of opera.
Ethan Mordden writes, "It was a flawed voice. But then Callas sought to capture in her singing not just beauty but a whole humanity, and within her system, the flaws feed the feeling, the sour plangency and the strident defiance becoming aspects of the canto.
They were literally defects of her voice; she bent them into advantages of her singing. What stood behind me, the audience, auditorium, La Scala itself, seemed artifice.
Only that which transpired on stage was truth, life itself. Once one heard and saw Maria Callas—one can't really distinguish it—in a part, it was very hard to enjoy any other artist, no matter how great, afterwards, because she imbued every part she sang and acted with such incredible personality and life.
One move of her hand was more than another artist could do in a whole act. The last great artist. When you think this woman was nearly blind, and often sang standing a good feet from the podium.
But her sensitivity! Even if she could not see, she sensed the music and always came in exactly with my downbeat.
When we rehearsed, she was so precise, already note-perfect She was not just a singer, but a complete artist. It's foolish to discuss her as a voice.
She must be viewed totally—as a complex of music, drama, movement. There is no one like her today. She was an esthetic phenomenon.
During the early s, an alleged rivalry arose between Callas and Renata Tebaldi , an Italian lyrico spinto soprano. Although the singers agreed that neither would perform encores, Tebaldi took two, and Callas was reportedly incensed.
Tebaldi was quoted as saying, "I have one thing that Callas doesn't have: a heart" [13] while Callas was quoted in Time magazine as saying that comparing her with Tebaldi was like "comparing Champagne with Cognac.
No, with Coca Cola. According to John Ardoin , however, these two singers should never have been compared. Callas and Tebaldi generally sang a different repertoire: in the early years of her career, Callas concentrated on the heavy dramatic soprano roles and later in her career on the bel canto repertoire, whereas Tebaldi concentrated on late Verdi and verismo roles, where her limited upper extension [45] and her lack of a florid technique were not issues.
The alleged rivalry aside, Callas made remarks appreciative of Tebaldi, and vice versa. During an interview with Norman Ross Jr.
Sometimes, I actually wish I had her voice. Being fully aware of the alleged rivalry, he recommended Zinka Milanov 's version.
A few days later, he went to visit Tebaldi, only to find her sitting by the speakers, listening intently to Callas's recording.
She then looked up at him and asked, "Why didn't you tell me Maria's was the best? Callas visited Tebaldi after a performance of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met in , and the two were reunited.
In , Tebaldi spoke warmly of her late colleague and summarized this rivalry:. This rivality [sic] was really building from the people of the newspapers and the fans.
But I think it was very good for both of us, because the publicity was so big and it created a very big interest about me and Maria and was very good in the end.
But I don't know why they put this kind of rivality [sic] , because the voice was very different. She was really something unusual. And I remember that I was very young artist too, and I stayed near the radio every time that I know that there was something on radio by Maria.
In the opinion of several singers, the heavy roles undertaken in her early years damaged Callas's voice.
Louise Caselotti , who worked with Callas in and , prior to her Italian debut, felt that it was not the heavy roles that hurt Callas's voice, but the lighter ones.
Soprano Carol Neblett once said, "A woman sings with her ovaries—you're only as good as your hormones. Critic Henry Pleasants has stated that it was a loss of physical strength and breath-support that led to Callas's vocal problems, saying,.
Singing, and especially opera singing, requires physical strength. Without it, the singer's respiratory functions can no longer support the steady emissions of breath essential to sustaining the production of focused tone.
The breath escapes, but it is no longer the power behind the tone, or is only partially and intermittently. The result is a breathy sound—tolerable but hardly beautiful—when the singer sings lightly, and a voice spread and squally when under pressure.
You just got shivers up and down the spine. It was a bigger sound in those earlier performances, before she lost weight.
I think she tried very hard to recreate the sort of "fatness" of the sound which she had when she was as fat as she was. But when she lost the weight, she couldn't seem to sustain the great sound that she had made, and the body seemed to be too frail to support that sound that she was making.
Oh, but it was oh so exciting. It was thrilling. I don't think that anyone who heard Callas after really heard the Callas voice.
Michael Scott has proposed that Callas's loss of strength and breath support was directly caused by her rapid and progressive weight loss, [21] something that was noted even in her prime.
Of her recital in Chicago, Robert Detmer wrote, "There were sounds fearfully uncontrolled, forced beyond the too-slim singer's present capacity to support or sustain.
Photos and videos of Callas during her heavy era show a very upright posture with the shoulders relaxed and held back. Commercial and bootleg recordings of Callas from the late s to —the period during which she sang the heaviest dramatic soprano roles—show no decline in the fabric of the voice, no loss in volume and no unsteadiness or shrinkage in the upper register.
The many top B's have a brilliant ring, and she handles the treacherous tessitura like an eager thoroughbred. In recordings from immediately after her pound weight loss and thereafter, "not only would the instrument lose its warmth and become thin and acidulous, but the altitudinous passages would to her no longer come easily.
There were others, however, who felt that the voice had benefitted from the weight loss. Of her performance of Norma in Chicago in , Claudia Cassidy wrote that "there is a slight unsteadiness in some of the sustained upper notes, but to me her voice is more beautiful in color, more even through the range, than it used to be".
Callas's close friend and colleague Tito Gobbi thought that her vocal problems all stemmed from her state of mind:. I don't think anything happened to her voice.
I think she only lost confidence. She was at the top of a career that a human being could desire, and she felt enormous responsibility.
She was obliged to give her best every night, and maybe she felt she wasn't [able] any more, and she lost confidence.
I think this was the beginning of the end of this career. In support of Gobbi's assertion, a bootleg recording of Callas rehearsing Beethoven 's aria " Ah!
I have a theory about what caused her vocal decline, but it's more from watching her sing than from listening. I really think it was her weight loss that was so dramatic and so quick.
It's not the weight loss per se —you know, Deborah Voigt has lost a lot of weight and still sounds glorious. But if one uses the weight for support, and then it's suddenly gone and one doesn't develop another musculature for support, it can be very hard on the voice.
And you can't estimate the toll that emotional turmoil will take as well. I was told, by somebody who knew her well, that the way Callas held her arms to her solar plexus [allowed her] to push and create some kind of support.
If she were a Soubrette , it would never have been an issue. But she was singing the most difficult repertoire, the stuff that requires the most stamina, the most strength.
However, writing about dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt in shortly after her pound weight loss after gastric bypass surgery , music critic Peter G.
Davis brings up comparisons with Callas and notes an increasing acidity and thinning in Voigt's voice that recall the changes in Callas's voice after her weight loss:.
A change has also come over Voigt's voice lately, though it's hard to tell if it's from weight loss or normal aging—controversy still rages over whether Maria Callas's drastic diets contributed to her rapid vocal decline.
Not that Voigt as yet exhibits any of Callas's technical problems: Her voice continues to be reliably supported and under control.
What is noticeable, however—earlier this season in Verdi's La Forza del Destino and now in Tosca—is a marked thinning of quality at the very center of the instrument, together with a slight acidity and tightening of the tone that has definitely taken the youthful bloom off, especially at the top.
Much of what I did with my weight was very natural, vocally. Now I've got a different body—there's not as much of me around.
My diaphragm function, the way my throat feels, is not compromised in any way. But I do have to think about it more now. I have to remind myself to keep my ribs open.
I have to remind myself, if my breath starts to stack. When I took a breath before, the weight would kick in and give it that extra Whhoomf!
Now it doesn't do that. If I don't remember to get rid of the old air and re-engage the muscles, the breath starts stacking, and that's when you can't get your phrase, you crack high notes.
Callas herself attributed her problems to a loss of confidence brought about by a loss of breath support, even though she does not make the connection between her weight and her breath support.
My best recordings were made when I was skinny, and I say skinny , not slim, because I worked a lot and couldn't gain weight back; I became even too skinny Even for my first time here in Paris in when the show was broadcast through Eurovision, I was skinny.
Really skinny. And shortly before her death, Callas confided her own thoughts on her vocal problems to Peter Dragadze:. I never lost my voice, but I lost strength in my diaphragm.
Because of those organic complaints, I lost my courage and boldness. My vocal cords were and still are in excellent condition, but my 'sound boxes' have not been working well even though I have been to all the doctors.
The result was that I overstrained my voice, and that caused it to wobble. Gente , October 1, [22]. Whether Callas's vocal decline was due to ill health, early menopause, over-use and abuse of her voice, loss of breath-support, loss of confidence, or weight loss will continue to be debated.
Whatever the cause may have been, her singing career was effectively over by age 40, and even at the time of her death at age 53, according to Walter Legge , "she ought still to have been singing magnificently".
A study by Italian vocal researchers Franco Fussi and Nico Paolillo revealed Callas was very ill at the time of her death and her illness was related to her vocal deterioration.
According to their findings, presented at the University of Bologna in , Callas had dermatomyositis , a rare, connective tissue disease that causes a failure of the muscles and ligaments, including the larynx.
They believe she was showing signs of this disease as early as the s. Fussi and Paolillo cite an initial report by physician Mario Giacovazzo, who in revealed he had diagnosed Callas with dermatomyositis in Treatment included corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents, which affect heart function.
At an event hosted by the journal Il Saggiatore Musicale , Fussi and Paolillo presented documentation showing when and how her voice changed over time.
Using modern audio technology, they analyzed live Callas studio recordings from the s through the s, looking for signs of deterioration.
Spectrographic analysis showed that she was losing the top half of her range. Fussi observed video recordings in which Callas's posture seemed strained and weakened.
He felt that her drastic weight loss in further contributed to reduced physical support of her voice. Fussi and Paolillo also examined restored footage of the infamous Norma "walkout" in Rome, which led to harsh criticism of Callas as a temperamental superstar.
By applying spectrographic analysis to that footage, the researchers observed her voice was tired and she lacked control. She really did have the bronchitis and tracheitis she claimed, and the dermatomyositis was already causing her muscles to deteriorate.
The latter half of Callas's career was marked by a number of scandals. Following a performance of Madama Butterfly in Chicago in , Callas was confronted by a process server who handed her papers about a lawsuit brought by Eddy Bagarozy, who claimed he was her agent.
Callas was photographed with her mouth turned in a furious snarl. In the same year, just before her debut at the Metropolitan Opera , Time ran a damaging cover story about Callas, with special attention paid to her difficult relationship with her mother and some unpleasant exchanges between the two.
Her contract was for four performances, but due to the great success of the series, La Scala decided to put on a fifth performance.
Callas told the La Scala officials that she was physically exhausted and that she had already committed to a previous engagement, a party thrown for her by her friend Elsa Maxwell in Venice.
Despite this, La Scala announced a fifth performance, with Callas billed as Amina. Callas refused to stay and went on to Venice. Despite the fact that she had fulfilled her contract, she was accused of walking out on La Scala and the festival.
La Scala officials did not defend Callas or inform the press that the additional performance was not approved by Callas.
Renata Scotto took over the part, which was the start of her international career. The day before the opening night, Callas alerted the management that she was not well and that they should have a standby ready.
She was told "No one can double Callas". She was accused of walking out on the president of Italy in a fit of temperament, and pandemonium broke out.
Doctors confirmed that Maria had bronchitis and tracheitis , and the President's wife called to tell her they knew she was sick.
However, they made no statements to the media, and the endless stream of press coverage aggravated the situation. A newsreel included file footage of Callas from sounding well, intimating the footage was of rehearsals for the Rome Norma , with the voiceover narration, "Here she is in rehearsal, sounding perfectly healthy", followed by "If you want to hear Callas, don't get all dressed up.
Just go to a rehearsal; she usually stays to the end of those. Callas's relationship with La Scala had also started to become strained after the Edinburgh incident, and this effectively severed her major ties with her artistic home.
Later in , Callas and Rudolf Bing were in discussion about her season at the Met. She was scheduled to perform in Verdi's La traviata and in Macbeth , two very different operas which almost require totally different singers.
Callas and the Met could not reach an agreement, and before the opening of Medea in Dallas, Bing sent a telegram to Callas terminating her contract.
Headlines of "Bing Fires Callas" appeared in newspapers around the world. And she said, 'You all know what's happened.
Tonight, for me, is a very difficult night, and I will need the help of every one of you. Bing later said that Callas was the most difficult artist he ever worked with, "because she was so much more intelligent.
Other artists, you could get around. But Callas you could not get around. She knew exactly what she wanted, and why she wanted it.
A live television transmission of act 2 of the Covent Garden Tosca of was broadcast in Britain on February 9, , giving a rare view of Callas in performance and, specifically, of her on-stage collaboration with Tito Gobbi.
This has now been preserved on DVD. In , the Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini cast Callas in her only non-operatic acting role, as the Greek mythological character of Medea, in his film by that name.
The production was grueling, and according to the account in Ardoin's Callas, the Art and the Life , Callas is said to have fainted after a day of strenuous running back and forth on a mudflat in the sun.
The film was not a commercial success, but as Callas's only film appearance, it documents her stage presence. Callas staged a series of joint recitals in Europe in and in the U.
Critically, this was a musical disaster owing to both performers' worn-out voices. Audiences thronged to hear the two performers, who had so often appeared together in their prime.
Her final public performance was on November 11, , in Sapporo , Japan. In , while still married to husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini, Callas was introduced to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis at a party given in her honor by Elsa Maxwell after a performance in Donizetti 's Anna Bolena.
Michael Scott asserts that Onassis was not why Callas largely abandoned her career, but that he offered her a way out of a career that was made increasingly difficult by scandals and by vocal resources that were diminishing at an alarming rate.
As she had married in a Roman Catholic church, this divorced her in every country except Italy. The renunciation also helped her finances, as she no longer had to pay U.
The relationship ended two years later in , when Onassis left Callas in favor of Jacqueline Kennedy. However, the Onassis family's private secretary, Kiki, writes in her memoir that even while Aristotle was with Jackie, he frequently met with Maria in Paris, where they resumed what had now become a clandestine affair.
Callas spent her last years living largely in isolation in Paris and died of a heart attack at age 53 on September 16, A funerary liturgy was held at St.
After being stolen and later recovered, they were scattered over the Aegean Sea , off the coast of Greece, according to her wish, in the spring of During a interview, upon being asked "Was it worth it to Maria Callas?
She was a lonely, unhappy, often difficult woman," music critic and Callas's friend John Ardoin replied:. That's such a difficult question.
There are times, you know, when there are people — certain people who are blessed, and cursed, with an extraordinary gift, in which the gift is almost greater than the human being.
And Callas was one of these people. It was almost as if her wishes, her life, her own happiness were all subservient to this incredible, incredible gift that she was given, this gift that reached out and taught us all — taught us things about music we knew very well, but showed us new things, things we never thought about, new possibilities.
I think that's why singers admire her so; I think that's why conductors admire her so; I know that's why I admire her so.
And she paid a tremendously difficult and expensive price for this career. I don't think she always understood what she did or why she did.
She knew she had a tremendous effect on audiences and on people. But it was not something that she could always live with gracefully or happily. I once said to her, "It must be very enviable to be Maria Callas.
According to several Callas biographers Vasso Devetzi, a female Greek pianist near the same age as Callas, insinuated herself into Callas's trust during her last years and acted virtually as her agent.
Callas's stage repertoire includes the following roles: []. All recordings are in mono unless otherwise indicated.
Live performances are typically available on multiple labels. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Callas disambiguation. American-born Greek operatic soprano.
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Retrieved August 23, Archived from the original PDF on April 13, Retrieved March 8, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Asa ca, daca va plac: Callas, "Carmen", Jeremy Irons, baietii frumosi Gabriel Garko , taioarele scumpe si filmul-biografic-romantat, duceti-va sa vedeti "Callas Forever".
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