Maria Callas, the Voice of the Century
(Audio CD) by Carlo Forti
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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
March 17, 1998
Studio:
EMI Classics
Composer:
Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, Alfredo Catalani, Gustave Charpentier, Leo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti, Umberto Giordano, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Camille Saint-Saens, Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
Alceo Galliera, Franco Ghione, Georges Prêtre
Number Of Discs:
2
Average Customer Rating:
based on 20 reviews
Track Listing:
Disc: 1
1.
Act 1. Casta Diva
2.
Act 1. Compagne, teneri amici...Come per me sereno
3.
Act 1. Una voce poco fa
4.
Act 1. Regnava nel silenzio...Quando, rapito in estasi
5.
Act 1. Gualtier Maldè!...Caro nome
6.
Act 1. È stano!...Ah, fors'è lui...Sempre libera
7.
Act 1. Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì
8.
Act 3. Donde lieta uscì (Mimi's Farewell)
9.
Act 2. Un bel dì vedremo
10.
Act 2. Vissi d'arte
11.
Act 2. In questa reggia
12.
Act 1. Ebben? ne andrò lontana
13.
Act 3. La mama morta
Disc: 2
1.
Act 5. J'ai perdu mon Eurydice
2.
Act 1. Divinités du Styx
3.
Act 2. Ombra leggiera (Shadow Song)
4.
Act 1. Ah! Je veux vivre (Waltz song)
5.
Act 3. Les grand seigneurs...Ah! je ris
6.
Act 2. Dov'è l'indiana bruna? (Bell Song)
7.
Act 1. Printemps qui commence
8.
Act 2. Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix
9.
Act 2. Me voilà seule...Comme autrefois
10.
Act 1. l'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)
11.
Act 2. Les tringles des sistre tintaient
12.
Act 3. De cet affreux combat...Pleurez mes yeux!
13.
Act 2. Je ne suis que faibless...Adieu, notre petite table
14.
Act 3. Depuis la jour
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Queen of opera.!!Nov 05, 2008 Great voice,great person,and great music.
Shes the queen of opera but without the crown.
There will never be a kinda person like her.!!
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Almost too much of a good thing.Aug 15, 2007 Turns out I already had this album when I bought it again from Amazon. Oh well. I find this much Callas too much for one sitting. One CD is too much. However, pick and choose what you are in the mood for. For me, it's Casta Diva from Norma. Every time I take out the CD, it's Casta Diva...and that's enough. Perfection, nobility. I don't want to plow through the repertoire after that.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Beautiful Collection of SongsJul 15, 2006 I have listened samples of 5 Callas CDs before buying this one. This one has a very beautiful collection of songs on just 2 CDs. he sings with so much expression. Most the recordings are from the fifties and early sixties when her voice was very young and lovely. I'll try to get her on DVD so I can see her sing.
13 of 15 found the following review helpful:
A Legend in all.....La Callas.Apr 24, 2005 I would just like to refer to an article that was published by a German Newspaper in 1959, mentioned on the Callas Edition (CED:100342)
'...her voice is of unparalleled beauty, having an inimitable, completely own timbre of sopranos and altos...a performance of superior musical quality..a phenomenon amongst contemporary singers'
' ...One of the most spectacular Verdi arias, of Elizabeth from Don Carlo, and one, In Germany tottaly unknown, terrific scene from Bellini's opera Il Pirata were enough to enchant huge numers of television viewers, who can say at her next performance: 'we have seen La Callas''(Hamburg concert 1959)
'- from the contra-alt-f to the f - thats Callas' voice range, spanning over 37 half-tones. Callas herself has drawn the range of her voice. In her concert repertoire the contra-alt-f can be found in e.g. the aria from I Vespri Siciliani. In an aria from Rossini's opera Armida she reaches the 'F'. five half-tones above the high C. Normal voices couldnt possibly even whistle this high F. Though there are other singers, whose voices contain these three octaves - Erna Sack with her coloratura soprano, the lyrical singer Ema Berger and the dramatical singer Zinka Milanov from the New York Metropolitan Opera - simple fact is that the phenomenon Meneghini-Callas lies in her fabulous vocal versatility. She is a coloratura singer, drama-player and lyrist in one person - and an exceptionally talented ac-tress at that.'
Excuse from a journalist of the German Newspaper for the Diva :
Article Title : 'I am sorry!'
'I owe Maria Callas an apology. She is a unique vocal talent, a great artist. She is a primadonna. And she has her moods. Moods for which i ask her to forgive me. Because i misunderstood them - and many others too. That much i gathered from her latest television concert. Even in the flickering of the screen this woman's nervousness and enormous effort were visible.
La Callas is a fragile, rather shy person. Her moods are fear of failure. The moloch audience expects her to always go to any lenght, show the brilliance others just dont have. She is not allowed to get weak. Decent country singers are not decapitated for a false note. La Callas, on the other hand, is the identifying mark of the extraordinary. Even the slightest hint of a mistake would cost her her uniqueness, her stardom....a perverse triumph for all bathtube singers.
That explains her inhibitation to perform when she isnt well, her cancellations when she is not in the right mood. I understand them now. If she werent moody, she wouldnt be a primadonna, would not be La Callas.
Stars like her do not fit in our world of standards and programmed data. They pay dearly for their moods, have to put up fights and, undoubtedly, shed many a tear. So one more, my apologies, Maria Callas'
(Hans im Bild)
That's all folks!:D
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Excellent compilation of La Divina's ariasMar 21, 2005 This is one of the best compilations EMI has ever made for Maria Callas' arias. Each and every aria lets us listen to the best of her voice from each period of her career. An excellent collection!
Holly Mathews doesn't know how to appreciate art. Kathleen Battle and Renee Fleming themselves have admitted to the supremacy of Callas' singing over theirs, even if their voices seem more beautiful than La Divina. Why else would Callas be a legend and they wouldn't? They are equally good in their own right, but none of them would surpass the accuracy of La Divina's singing and phrasing. Holly Mathews' left side of the brain must be made of clay or foam, dead material that couldn't absorb any beauty.
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