Great podcast guys, really enjoyed that not knowing much about her. look fwd to hearing more of her music

Even greater is Che tua madre from Madame Butterfly, recorded the following year with Karajan. In that Act II scene, Callas not only lives the character, she is the driving force behind the surge and ebb of the orchestra, forging word and music with an organic, inevitable rightness that reveals Puccini as a composer who is more than inheritor of the legacies of Verdi and Wagner. Details like subtle vocal nuances...a sudden diminuendo that touches off a surge of intensity in the orchestral sound which in turn carries the voice to its shattering climax, all without deviating an instant from the psychological path of the drama. This interwoven activity between voice and orchestra, each feeding the other, here primarily instigated by the soprano (Karajan would surely agree) gives the work of Puccini a quality that surpasses anything found in the works of Verdi or Wagner. The Italian music critic Luciano Berengo gives his personal view on the way Callas manages to surmount both the technical and emotional aspects of the music she sings: "She brought hidden meaning to the music. The music was what told her how to articulate the words. It is different from having perfect diction. It wasn't only diction - hers was perfect - but the accents that were special. There was a special way that Callss had of rising to a consonant and then opening out on a vowel. The result was that the word became a kind of sculpture, three-dimensional. And it lived in an incredible way. It's disconcertingly modern." (Passio, French video recording,)😅

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