Maria Callas - Vissi d'arte (Tosca) - Covent Garden, London - 1964
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- January 21, 1964, after an absence of almost a year and a half, Callas makes a triumphant return to the stage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a memorable production of Tosca directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
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Once one has heart this aria by Maria Callas, there's no room for someone els. She did not play the character of Tosca, she became Tosca. This woman understood music at a level the rest of us mortals aren't even awere exists. No one will ever come close to this Diva
Il più bel vissi d'arte in assoluto
Meraviglioso
Maestro Carlo Felice Cillario made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London at the request of Maria Callas, conducting her now famous series of Tosca performances with Tito Gobbi.
Following London, debuts at the San Francisco Opera followed in 1970 (Tosca) and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1972 (La sonnambula). He became one of the favorite conductors of Montserrat Caballé, conducting at her Covent Garden debut in 1972 (La traviata with Nicolai Gedda and Victor Braun), in a London concert performance of Caterina Cornaro, and shortly after in an RCA studio recording of Norma. Maestro Cillario began conducting seasonally in Australia in 1968, working with the Australian Opera (now Opera Australia) at the Sydney Opera House, becoming principal guest conductor in 1988, before retiring in 2003; leaving behind a legacy of musicianship and phrasing evident in his surviving music scores at the Opera Australia library.
Carlo Felice Cilliaro stands as one of the most singer-friendly of all conductors a reassuring and solid presence both in the opera house and in the recording studio.
Performed #otd in 1964 💐💐💐
Il testamento della Divina
Callas doesn't act. There is only Tosca.
Does a full color version exist? Amazing work!
IIRC, this is an excerpt from the documentary 'Maria by Callas' - so no, only this clip was coloured for the purpose of it.