When she says "I'm the happiest girl of Japan" I think about her sad fate and immediately pour myself in tears. I don't know why only Callas makes me feel like this.

@zainmehal9950

Жыл бұрын

Same :((

@fr1424

11 ай бұрын

Because ure old af

@1stEarlOfSurrey

8 ай бұрын

I don’t. She had the same choice to be happy that we all have. Why would you give that choice away to someone else to make for you, or even more absurdly, give that choice away to a circumstance. Callas had talent, enjoy it.

@correoprivado9953

Ай бұрын

@@1stEarlOfSurreyI think you missed the point of the character…

Callas goes above the choir and orchestra with infinite emotion!! DIVINA!!

Only Callas could sing like that. You can't imitate her. You don't see callas, you see Butterfly. She truly was a master singing actress without equal

@oPeRa1923

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Her majestic talent can only produce this great quality of singing. I can't be the only one who agrees.

@crazyorganist1609

4 жыл бұрын

@@oPeRa1923we're not.

@eberlinpascal2837

3 жыл бұрын

C'est dommage qu'elle n'ait chanté Butterfly qu'une seule fois à Chicago !! Elle est complètement Butterfly ,de part la voix et sa couleur ,spécialement adaptée ici par Callas ,et également par la prise de possession du personnage .

@AndreSantos-rb3dn

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy organist you are totally right, we must say that a genius can not be duplicated.

@crazyorganist1609

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndreSantos-rb3dn definitely not in Callas's case. She knew how to pour her soul into the music. Only she could do that

Magic voice! Everytime I sing Madama Butterfly it’s just impossible for me not to be inspired by the great Maria. There's always a bit of her in every note I play

It was Callas that made me love Butterfly's entrance. Her voice is beyond sublime ♥️✨

@lattrelylaya4093

2 жыл бұрын

Kaayo! ❤️❤️😭👌

@vinoveritas4921

2 жыл бұрын

It was Madama Butterfly that made me loving opera some 40 years ago, at that time I knew nothing about opera and I thought it was a ridiculous style of music for old snob people, but I wanted to make a try and I picked up the version with Maria Callas, because it was the only name I knew, and it has changed my life.

@luizfernandg

2 жыл бұрын

It's one of the best sang pieces of music there is, a miracle!

@htercas

Жыл бұрын

I so much agree! I was lucky enough to hear this beautiful piece in Callas voice for the very first time.

@zainmehal9950

Жыл бұрын

@@vinoveritas4921 I thought the same think, and I then I signed up to be in Madame Butterfly this month (first ever opera) and I feel like it has changed my life too.

An underrated Callas role

The supreme VOICE OF ALL TIME ❤️👑🌏

How lucky we are to have that little clip at the end revealing her acting genius. Just a tiny fragment. One can only imagine. And vocally - unsurpassed.

The last clip is a cultural treasure. Yet one more ( of the many) Callas' faces. Astonishing!

Grow up with opera music 1960 🎶🎵 love it till this day....thanks to my grand parents and mommy

Oh my... the expression of her voice is just phenomenal.

In the new documentary from Tom Wolf, they start with this clip in HD AND COLOUR. an absolute MUST SEE!

@hanonphantomhive

4 жыл бұрын

What's the documentary name? Where can I watch it? :o

@henkhartman3048

4 жыл бұрын

@@hanonphantomhive kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmuImq-zfJzepNY.html

@mistersmith1883

2 жыл бұрын

I know I saw it. It was like magical nostalgic. I was so enchanted by her acting

BEAUTIFUL AND TOUCHING ! BRAVISSIMA MARIA CALLAS 😊💟☺💚

I saw all three performances of Butterfly Callas did in Chicago. The cast included di Stefano and Eunice Alberts as Suzuki with Rescigno conducting. Not Bjoerling and Simionato as stated below.

@ationyeung4000

7 жыл бұрын

u so lucky

@xax2087

7 жыл бұрын

Please do tell us about it...!!!!

@lukasmiller486

6 жыл бұрын

Is there a pirate recording of it???

@danawinsor1380

6 жыл бұрын

Someone once described this scene to me: on stage the foreground was higher than the background, so when Butterfly and the other geisha were approaching, you could only see the tops of their heads. Finally, you saw Butterfly for the first time as she sang the high Db. I would love it if you would either confirm that this is true or else tell me what the scene was actually like. Thank you.

@75patpat

6 жыл бұрын

the sound and the video are in the film Maria by Callas playing now in Paris!

This makes me so happy and so very SAD to watch La Divina...I always dream of watching her, or if I've had a chance to, I WOULD HAVE BEEN PUT OUT for chearing and sobbing uncontrollably and not giving her a chance to sing🤭...SHE IS, and please note, I say, SHE IS EVERYTHING to Opera as she's still singing from the Aegean.💖❤️💖

@joseejaja279

6 ай бұрын

So very true and may I add, very well said.

Callas as butterfly was incredibly unique, even though she always thought that this role wasn’t for her

@panospoupou7834

3 жыл бұрын

Και μην ξεχνάμε και τις «μαγικες» οδηγίες του μεγάλου Κάραγιαν. Για την Καλλας δεν συζητώ. Το πως μετατρέπει την φωνή σε αυτή την την όπερα. Από την είσοδο της μέχρι το τέλος...

@frankmaiorana66

Жыл бұрын

Other than the La Scala recording under Von Karajan with Nicolai Gedda as Pinkerton, the only other time Callas sang Butterfly was in a Chicago production in 1954 with Pippo Di Stefano as Pinkerton. I think she received a summons backstage from her former manager Baragozy before the curtain rose. A critic wrote he never wanted to hear Callas Butterfly again he would end up liking this dreadful opera.

@wendyzollinger9183

Жыл бұрын

​@@frankmaiorana66 Her Butterfly in Chicago was in 1955. I, as a 15 year old, was at the 3rd performance. "THE LEGENDARY MADAME BUTTERFLY " It was just after the performance that the incident occurred. We in the audience, as we were leaving, could hear her furious screams.

@philipc67

Жыл бұрын

@@wendyzollinger9183goodness you were there! Any memories to share please?

@frankmaiorana66

8 ай бұрын

@@wendyzollinger9183 WOW!! That must have been most interesting.

Thank you for providing this. Incredibly beautiful + wonderful visuals.

prezioso!!!!! emozionante!!!! sara stato merabiglioso a Cicago quando lo hanno fatto!!!! se la vede benissimo!!!!

@fabriziomariagarzi5534

7 жыл бұрын

Sicuramente...beati loro. Pensa che io sono nato mentre la Maria cantava Cio Cio San...ci sono molto affezionato.

pochi gesti,il canto sempre imprevedibile e la sposa bambina è delineata

Leggendaria davvero..... che spettacolo deve esser stato quello... emozione forte la clip.anche se per pochi secondi....

Goosebumps …. Puccini’s music with callas ❤️

BRAVO! BRAVISSIMO! VIVA LA CALLAS! Thank you Maria for making Opera better.

the most magic moment at the opera.... Callas Divina!

Si émouvant ,cela déchire le coeur ! On est dans la légende . Et le suraiguë à la fin lancé de façon magnifique car il est solide et fragile en même temps ,ce qui le rend très expressif .

최고의 소프라노! 노래와 미모, 그리고 연기까지 과연 신의 경지로다!!

You all talk about the voice but what’s Behind the voice musicality! The pain ! Joy ! Tears ! Expression ! This is art !

@danawinsor1380

Жыл бұрын

What you are talking about is her interpretive genius. This kind of thing can't be taught. Her ability to live her roles was unequaled.

Maria divina ora e per sempre!

Grazie OMW! for this amazing, precious, and rare photos! for me this video is more then any holliday season gift! thank you again for this precious, and peaceful holiday!Opera My World!;D

OMG, the clip is included here, thank you

Como siempre, INCOMPARABLE

La unica voz de Madame Butterfly !!! ❤

@ginomondragonaguirre1476

3 жыл бұрын

He escuchado interpretaciones de otras sopranos. Son buenas interpretaciones pero ninguna se compara a la interpretación de María Callas. Ella te lleva al cielo.

@alejandraponce5629

2 жыл бұрын

No has escuchado a Toti dal Monte?

Слушаю и мурашки по коже от неземного голоса Марии Каллас! В её голосе вся любовь Земли!

la primera voz y la primera opera qué me cautivo

The Db at the end is so effective. This is such a beautiful scene

@zamyrabyrd

2 жыл бұрын

It's awful in my opinion, doesn't make any dramatic or musical sense, and not in the original score by the composer.

@MissAlexia

2 жыл бұрын

It’s actually amazing so subtle and nice

@zamyrabyrd

Жыл бұрын

@electricxcircus Not in my score. The high Db doesn't make any musical or dramatic sense. As the dominant note it prevents closure to that musical section. Dramatically, it is simply weird. Butterfly is supposed to be the humble maiden, instead trails off with a inexplicable wail made worse when sung full voice..

@christophersokolowski

Жыл бұрын

@@zamyrabyrdit’s the same melodic and harmonic material as the end of the duet she has with Pinkerton… so in the brain of Puccini, it makes perfect sense:-)

@zamyrabyrd

Жыл бұрын

@@christophersokolowski I have the musical score, in fact, several, also the orchestral version where the high Db does not appear for soprano.

Sounds magical

Sublime...Heaven on Earth!

Everything she committed to is a notch above all the others. We often think of her as the greatest Norma, Violetta, etc. but one role does not necessarily come to mind when thinking of Callas is Butterfly, However, when I listen to her, she IS Butterfly. OMG look at the movement at the end of this video, she was amazing!

La sua arte mi fa soffrire tanto è sublime

La Callas is the ONLY Madame Butterfly. No one else can do it like how she did it. And I'm glad. She's the only diva I listen to. 🥰

The footage at the end is so nostalgic & beautiful.

Awesome video! Thank you!!

Splendiforous.

With a little luck and money, one could have watched Nureyev & Baryshnikov dance, Pavarotti and La Callas sing...and then die in peace. it won't get any better.

@Mimi-ey5ej

3 жыл бұрын

I saw everyone of those, except Callas, but I would have traded them all for one Callas Butterfly!

Amazing footage!

Thank you so much for this rarity! I'm in tears as I watch!

Rest her soul the Great One ☝🏼❤️

thanks callas! gave something new for opera ! a myth !

Gracias!!! Maravilloso.

マリアカラスの蝶々夫人の映像を初めて見ました。感動。

Vielen herzlichen Dank OperaMyWorld für die wundervolle Auftrittsarie von La Divina als Butterfly-sie singt ein grandioses D-flat !!!!!

Madama Butterfly was the first opera i saw. It was 1984 in St. Petersburg ( Leningrad )

UNICA.LA.DIVINA.CALLAS.

Her Butterfly is and will be by far the best for ever and ever and ever...here we can hear so clearly that she never "sang the voice", like many great singers did, Milanov, Tebaldi, Flagstad, Jessy Norman, Joan Sutherland... Callas, like Malibran or Pauline Viardot Garcia, always sang the music, and sang it all, from contralto to light or dark colloratura. This way of singing finished at the later part of the nineteenth century, when singers became more specialized and we began to have altos, mezzos, soprano spinto, leggiero, dramatico and so on... It seems that when the voice is better placed in a "natural tessitura", they go on longer, but I wonder if it's worth it... Callas sang well for about ten years, if one thinks that she started early in Athens and soon also in Italy. Leontyne Price, whom I also adore, did not sing opera much longer than that, even with a perfectlly placed voice and half a dozen operas on her repertoire...Joan Sutherland does not sound so good after her first ten years of interantional career, although she could hit the e flat on Lucia right up to the end... but her husband had to keep transposing sections for her, because if she had to go up, she could not go down, and vice versa... So, for instance, I Puritani, that is an opera that bellini keeps the soprano on the low register and ocasionally goes up to the top, she soon dropped from her repertoire! So, Callas may have kept her fenomenal voice and technique for less time beacuse of the risks she was never afraid to take to construct a role: here, in Butterfly, we hear three voices: the voice of Amina, for instance, at the begginig, representing the 15 years old, the voice of Aida, in the second act, as the woman who suffers, and the voice of Norma in the final aria, when Butterfly is alone for the first time on the whole opera! And we could keep writing about it for pages, and pages, and every time we hear her sofisticated art, we still find something else. I, personally, think that Butterfly is one of her best achievements on the studio! There are fantastic live performances of other operas also to enjoy, but here she is certainlly at the peak of her art! Great as she was also as Medea, Norma, Aida, Leonora, Carmen, Lady Macbeth (terribly difficult role that we never here sang really well these days), Lucia, Gilda, Tosca, Turandot, and so many others... Bravissima!

@kesinskii

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite a realistic statement about her vocal life. Her 1959 Lucia with Tagliavini was her best (Conrad L. Osborne, Andrew Porter, Tovey, all thought so too), her 1957 live Un Ballo is superior to all others, including her own studio recording done the previous year. Her studio Rosina clicks in every way that her life performance two years earlier did not. Of course many factors were involved. She could have remained at the top for another twenty years, but she got wildly distracted along the way and her voice punished her. In Butterfly, the way she articulated the text,..Che tua madre... the way the orchestra responded to her like waves in the ocean responding to some goddess of the sea... wow, Puccini is suddenly elevated above Verdi and Wagner.

@nixon9346

Жыл бұрын

Price is best

Este es el Olimpo señores míos jamássssssssss tendremos la oportunidad de encontrar a alguien como el "Monstruo Sagrado" de la CALLAS Jamássssssssss,punto..........

When I play this song, my neighbours think that is the sound of some ozn s 😂 #theyhavenoculture

All the great "Butterfly" diva's point to Callas as their inspiration. Here, I can see why. Otherwordly!

Να μην υπαρχει ολη αυτη η οπερα σε βιντεο......εγκλημα.

Opera lovers will recognize the gentleman in the Naval uniform in the video at the end, Pippo Di Stefano

CALLAS ETERNA

Now This is a D6.

La voce infantilo …in perfection

Come si fa a non amare la lirica. Grazie

Freni, even though she wouldn't sing it live has the best high note.. check out her recording with pavarotti

It's great to have actual footage, I wish more can be eventually found. However, the high Db in the end of her introduction aria is not in the vocal score. It doesn't make any sense to hold it as the note is the dominant. In fact, it does sound screechy towards the end. Renata Tebaldi sang it the way Puccini wrote it, ending in Gb, the tonic note.

@nw6070

2 жыл бұрын

Musically that note and holding on to it while the orchestra resolves is incredibly striking. Labeling notes has no meaning when something intuitively makes sense. I agree towards the end it sounds slightly screechy. There’s another 1955 video in colour where she does the same not and it sounds better with a lovely echo of the note ringing on after.

@zamyrabyrd

2 жыл бұрын

@@nw6070 The Db sounds downright screechy, not what Puccini wrote for the soprano. If we are talking about verismo, this here was a modest, humble Butterfly. Tebaldi gets the point across without it. Freni does a diminuendo on the Db, this might be halfway acceptable but again it makes no musical or dramatic sense.

@stephenfletcher6801

Жыл бұрын

@@zamyrabyrdthere is only one reason Tebaldi didn’t sing the D flat; she simply couldn’t. And speaking of “screechy”: Tebaldi never sang any notes above the staff without screeching….and always flat.

Have you seen the actual video of her hitting the high Db? I just came across it today here on youtube. they show her entrance and then cut to the High Db.

@OperaMyWorld

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Its from Maria by Callas by Tom Wolf film!

@Tdvc

2 жыл бұрын

@@OperaMyWorld oh alright, I didnt recall seeing that part on the film. Thanks!

É uma pena que neste vídeo o dom seja de tão má qualidade!

This is from Chicago?

@vladscripnikow9424

7 жыл бұрын

Maria performed the role of butterfly at only one time in 1954 in Chicago Lyric Opera. Unique footage and photos from this performance. There is Milan, the studio recording of this opera. But the staging was just in Chicago...Ah, the legendary three performances of Maria Callas in this role!!! Say that the success after each performance was stunning/

Слушаю, хотя есть и лучше голоса, но коль сделали иконой, пусть рвет публику , и деренчит, тем более, что магия присутствует.

Whats the songs name

@barbararamires1191

3 жыл бұрын

Ancora un passo or via :)

which aria ?????

@marcoscorvo2514

4 жыл бұрын

Long Mai oh quanto cielo! Quanto mar!

Ηθελα να ξερω ποιος κανει dislike

@OperaMyWorld

4 жыл бұрын

Kostantinos Nikolaidis Προφανώς κάποιος κωφός!

@boubou230910

3 жыл бұрын

Ιταλιανος στα σιγουρα, διοτι η Tebaldi ηταν οτι καλυτερο ειχαν απο σοπρανο, αλλα παντα μπροστα τους θα βρισκουν το μεγαλειο που λεγεται Καλλας. Κομπλεξικοι και αμουσοι εν ολιγοις.

@gr__msk

Жыл бұрын

@@OperaMyWorld ολοι οι οπερα φανς youtubers ειναι Ελληνες βλεπω! 😂

William bondage , 60 year ago was audio not sho good . Of you need a ear docter! of you dont nohting about technic..

Her singing is good, here... but high D flat is squeezed and wobbling.

En este papel no le llega ni a la suela del zapato a Victoria de los Ángeles. Lo suyo era el bel canto ni Mimí ni Butterfly van con su voz y su carácter.

@natanaelgorrin9473

4 жыл бұрын

Hubiera querido Victoria de los Ángeles haber tenido voz para cantar todo lo que cantó Callas. La Divina era magnífica en cualquier papel, Victoria era voz para alguno y no era muy buena interprete, siempre de vieja escuela y de paso mala actriz.

@mateodedios4507

4 жыл бұрын

Victoria fue un Ángel como lo dice su nombre pero tu afirmación Roberto demuestra que no es lo tuyo ni el arte ni la sensibilidad para captar algo fuera de serie como lo que hizo Callas en esta oportunidad, su decir y expresión para el papel es algo que no tiene paralelo en ninguna lo siento

Sorry, not for me, my ears hurt.....

@mateodedios4507

4 жыл бұрын

william bondar go out idiot

@johnmorley7178

4 жыл бұрын

Then get your ears checked! You are obviously missing what is happening here.

@shaundudley4576

3 жыл бұрын

They should. To punish your bland brain and shit for soul.

@SymphonyBrahms

2 жыл бұрын

It's because you have bad taste. Go listen to Katy Perry. She's more your style.

@xavieralberto1176

2 жыл бұрын

Why is everyone attacking him? He’s entitled to his opinion- if you don’t like it - Well, that’s life And freedom of speech! I don’t agree with him either- so what?