These two must be the two greatest in their categories in operatic history!Callas gave so much and her voice is inimitable and Bastianini is God's example as how a perfect baritone sounds IMO

Bastianini è incredibile, voce meravigliosa, affascinante…indimenticabile!!!

@raffaelestante6169

3 жыл бұрын

Quando ascolto queste voci mi vengono i brividi. Insuperabili!

@sueshuman126

2 жыл бұрын

Exquisite!

If I could go back in time, I would book a first row seat for this performance.

@giuseppinazaltron8351

2 жыл бұрын

Anch'io!!!!!!!

@user-qy8ut8gt6q

Жыл бұрын

Κι εγώ. Οι φωνές τους ταιριάζουν απόλυτα

@daphnewilson7966

9 ай бұрын

These riches on KZread are stunning to me, age 70. I only just "discovered" Bastionini. Heard many greats in San Francisco back in the Adler days, but never either of these two.

Callas and Bastianini are beyond perfection, there's no word. But above all, what a scene Verdi wrote here, based on the French play by Dumas... There's one of the most heartbreaking and excruciating scenes of all the operas ever. I'll never get used to it.

@Nobilangelo

Жыл бұрын

Garbo's 1936 movie, Camille, also.

@pkuvincentsu

29 күн бұрын

This is such a masterfully composed scene by Verdi, I normally love to listen to its every detail, every note, every progression of the characters' emotions. However, with Callas and Bastianini here, I can't. It's too overwhelming, too real, too raw. These two legends have brought this scene to such a height, everything became real. I just can't deal with Violetta/Callas being so cruelly pushed to desperation by the calculating Germont/Bastianini. The following scene is equally painful. Simply legendary.

Callas is of course heartbreaking. Bastianini's performance is so forceful and at the same time empathetic; you cannot hate the character. His voice is a flow of molten bronze. He was 33 here!

@Oldschoolsingers

4 жыл бұрын

Something similar happens to me with his Rigoletto, it is the voice of a noble, not the voice of a jester. At the 10:10 minute "Ah! Dite alla giovine", the Callas Lab is a bit out of tune. It is one of the first times that I approve and embrace a detune, it is so according to what she is singing, it seems that she does it on purpose

@angalafan

3 жыл бұрын

Old School Singers I think like you that she did it not on purpose, she probably would never except such an effect, but it might also come for the type of recording which was certainly not very safe. Anyway willingly or not it's absolutely overwhelming !

@giulianapozzarle3840

3 жыл бұрын

Non si possono fare confronti con nessuno!!! Unici ed insuperabili.!!! Emozione fortissima!!!

@Khalid7a

2 жыл бұрын

@@Oldschoolsingers Callas isn't out of tune, the recording is slowed, a very common problem with older recordings when transferred to digital which makes the whole recording out of pitch.

@amneris78

2 жыл бұрын

@@Khalid7a 👍👍👍🤝

Così Verdi deve essere eseguito- passione nelle voci , loro bellezza interpretazione- si piange di commossa partecipazione- Ettore, sei una gloria della nostra Siena- grazie-

My absolute favourite! No other baritone is so beautiful and soul reaching as Bastianini, for me. Thank you for posting ❤️

@laprimmadonna2341

2 жыл бұрын

Totalmente de acuerdo, Bastiniani es único. La auténtica voz de barítono, magistral dueto. Saludos cordiales.

Now, there is the score... all the notes, everything, each dynamic Verdi wrote, each little point, accent, everything... and Callas SINGS IT ALL, each note, each indication, each accent... and she creates something UNIQUE, SUBLIME, INCOMPARABLE... and she achieves all that BY SINGING EACH OF VERDI'S INDICATION... already that places her ABOVE ANY OTHER SINGER, ANY!!! This capacity to sing every indication of a score, like a pianist or violinist does, is call TECHNIQUE... technique is not to have a beautiful, sweet, pleasant voice.... that is NATURE, the rest, all what you do with that voice, and the way one reads a score and sings it AS IT IS WRITTEN, now THAT is technique.... Callas is the only one who does it, maybe also Gencer, sometimes... most sopranos use their technical possibilities TO SERVE THEIR VOICES, to sound beautifully, to impress the audience with the beauty of their sound, ... well, not Callas: she gives us what Verdi wrote, plus her unique interpretative genius. It is for us to choose.

@moirbasso7051

3 жыл бұрын

I would disagree, but it's all semantics. Knowing HOW to sing, to do all the things Callas did, was TECHNIQUE. One spends YEARS learning how to make the voice do as you wish. What you wrote here: "

@rugby8-Philadelphia

3 жыл бұрын

You do realize that 20-30% of the markings, breaths, etc were added by editors, Not by the composer 😎😎😎

@moirbasso7051

3 жыл бұрын

@@rugby8-Philadelphia if you're talking about Bel canto composers, yes. But Verdi et al. was a bit more specific.

@rugby8-Philadelphia

3 жыл бұрын

@Moirbasso A bit more - but still, many of the notations are by the man who edited the score for the publishing house. Hence, Muti (and others) began in the 1980s researching, and performing, "the original " -- one that comes to mind is Rigoletto .....that was the big push (and has been) - to search for the Urtext and strip out the "improvements" that editors and copyists, etc have added over low the last many years

@hodgrix

Жыл бұрын

@@rugby8-Philadelphia I agree. The whole "Callas sticks closest to the score" thing is a bit overblown imo. She frequently takes liberties with rhythm and dynamics but what she does do imo is understand the harmonic structure of the composer and brings out her role completely through this, one detail at a time. In other words the heart of the piece. There's a greater depth of musical feeling and meaning and strictness with her than other singers.

On both sides profound love for the same man, here profoundly expressed.

What’s to say but: amazing and iconic! She was one of a kind! Goosebumps and tears. She didn’t sing Violetta, she was Violetta! Ettore simply magnificent

MONUMENTAL!

hanno raggiunto il vertice del bel canto immensi insuperabili due mostri di bravura

Questi non sono cantanti, sono la prova che Dio o Madre Natura esiste...

@user-qy8ut8gt6q

2 жыл бұрын

Sono d' accordo

@arminbabayan1383

9 ай бұрын

It's been truly said! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@lirica3209

2 ай бұрын

Sono più propenso per madre natura. Da una parte un dio sarebbe stato troppo ingiusto nei confronti degli altri miliardi di essere umani, dall'altra sarebbe stato un vero sadico a toglierci così presto due creature sovrumane come Maria ed Ettore, e Verdi ecc. ecc.

Выворачивают душу и этим все сказано.

Una coppia lirica stupenda

Masterclass, so glorious, with right touch of artistry from these two finest old school representatives... love! bravo!!

@laprimmadonna2341

2 жыл бұрын

Bien dicho, clase magistral. Saludos cordiales.

Так передать чувства своих персонажей могли только великие оперные певцы, спасибо, что их голоса звучат и сейчас

GRANDES VOCES Y LA TRAVIATA COMO SIEMPRE '''''''''''''''''''UNICA''''''' BRAVOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

This is a great treasure!

Che dire, ogni parola è superflua, si tratta "solo" di pura arte!! Meravigioso suono, sarebbe bello avere l'intera opera con questo suono, anzi tutte le opere della Csllas dal vivo..Aspettiamo con fiducia. What can I say, every word is superfluous , it's just pure art.!!!! What a wonderful sound. It would be nice to have all the opera with this sound, if is it possible all Callas operas 🙏

Oh dear. Insuperabile, heartbreaking.

Due mostri. Imbattibili:

Insuperabili!

Meraviglia assoluta❤️❤️🙏

This excerpt, I believe, is from the LIVE 1955 performance which I have complete. Even DI Stefano is on his best behavior here singing without spreading on his higher range, maintaining accurate intonation & rhythmic values. The duet here is among the finest I have heard both for dramatic expression & vocal beauty.

Un'emozione grande: sono invaso da brividi pungenti e non riesco ad esprimere la grandiosità della Divina Callas e di Bastianini...❤

GRACIAS ETTORE POR HABER EXISTIDO Y POR HABER SIDO EL BARITONO QUE FUISTE SOS Y SERAS . UNICO INCOMPARABLE PERFECTO . GRACIAS GRACIAS GRACIAS

Превосходно! Спасибо!!!

A great performance of a great scene.

Deux interprètes immortels ! Grazie d'averci lasciato questo regalo per l'eternita R.i.p.

Non c'è artista che tenga, Violetta è solo lei💐

Uau uau uauuuuuuuu! Sempre bellissimo!

Thank you very much💝💝💝

Masterclass!

we can hear listen to two of the great voices in our time. Bastianini was enorm and loved by the Operaworld. But iven he are in she shadow beside CALLAS.

Sublime

Fascinosa Maria, nonostante qualche eccesso stridulo. Ettore: nessun interprete dell'antipatico Germont sr., è più... simpatico e gradevole di lui!

Bloody ad algorithm ruined me this excerpt. Thank you very much, alg!

It may be the 1955. I believe it's in '55 where "pentimento mio" becomes "pentime, hento mio".

@Lorenzo-be1nm

3 жыл бұрын

Pity, that is all you retained?

@grig035

3 жыл бұрын

😜

@mcalos2814

3 жыл бұрын

Where did you hear hento with h?😃 in Italian we don't prononce h.

Is this the 1955 or the 1956? Giulini conducts on both.

@Oldschoolsingers

4 жыл бұрын

28/05/1955 in La Scala!! Thanks for asking Elizabeth!!

@johnfalstaff2270

2 жыл бұрын

@@Oldschoolsingers. There are two performances recorded. In one Alfredo was Giuseppe di Stefano. In the second his role was taken by Gianni Raimondi.

E papà Germont è solo lui❤

Undeserved beauty for human beings

non plus ultra

Who was Alfredo? Franco Corelli?

@auntiezy4008

Жыл бұрын

Di Stefano.

@aldolanini3815

Жыл бұрын

Di Stefano