Kallas Wikipedia Biography

Not only beautiful music was hidden behind her, but also a great idea of ​​interpretation. She gave us, those who should follow her, to do what was hardly possible before her. The fact that I am compared with Callas, I did not dare to dream. This is not true. I am much smaller than Callas. She is perfection. One can say only one thing: that it borders on a miracle and that she is always a surprise; For example, I never expected such a gilde from her.

They say that this was her best party. Now we can listen, thanks to the technique, collapsing in an armchair and drinking whiskey, this unique diva. Is this not strange? It was clear that the form of communication with people and with God for Callas was singing. The soul of Callas sang, because they don’t sing in a voice, so they sing their lives.

Callas sang in Italian, with long frequent “singing” vowels, as if this language was created in order to sing on it. But it was necessary to sing. The heroine of Goncharov captured Ilya Ilyich precisely to Aria Bellini. I began to learn aria in Italian. Every day after the rehearsal on stage, I went down to the music room, and the patient Herochka's accompanist stoically withstand my howl on the theme of Bellini.

It would be better if I did not listen to this goddess Callas. As soon as I opened my mouth and sang the first words: “Caste Diva”, I began to disassemble the laughter above myself and over my attempts. She had big problems with the tops, and I told her that she could easily avoid criticism, transposing her party a couple of tonality down. All the same, most of the public would not have noticed anything.

I asked her about it. I begged to be prudent. But she refused. Callas should sing the score as it is written. ” No one could convince her. As a result, on one performance on the “before” of the third octave, her voice failed and broke. The Grand Opera Hall screamed with horror. The orchestra stopped. I still remember the horror in the eyes of the musicians. Maria stood on stage completely white.

She looked at the floor for a minute, then raised her hand, asking for silence, and then, proudly raising her head, she gave me a sign to start over again. She sang the same passage the second time. This time everything worked out. I heard people sobbed in the hall. I myself could not hold back tears. What a fantastic courage. Tebaldi, then a critical person may note that her voice is not large enough.

But, meanwhile, the audience loves this soprano, and newspapers write about her benevolently. This is due to the fact that she, like Maria Callas, is on stage as a fantastic, bright individuality. When Tebaldi goes to the public, everyone feels that everyone and everyone gives everything that she has, all her heart in Verona Maria Callas was combined with the marriage with the Italian industrialist Giovanni Batti Menengini, who was 30 years older than her.

Nevertheless, their marriage was nevertheless happily proceeded until a fatal meeting in the year on the Christina yacht with its owner Aristotle Onassis. After the divorces, Maria and Aristotle discussed the issue of marriage for a long time, and the discussion ended that in the year he married Jacqueline Kennedy, and the great singer was left alone. She died in a year of life.

The last words of Maria, when I, Jacques and Christian, went down the stairs after the visit of the only one in her Parisian apartment, were: “Do not forget and do not lose the thread between us” ... But still the thread was interrupted. He shows Callas more in life than in art, and therefore the result is vain and prosaic. We are windy there with her husband Menegini, with Onassis, even with Winston Cherchyl, then a monument was opened to her, and during the opening ceremony the incomparable voice of this outstanding singer of our time sounded, many could not hide tears from excitement.

He performed in La Scala after a large break. At one time, he sang a lot with Maria Callas, and even this capricious prima donna spoke about Di Stefano, not only as a good partner, but also as a beautiful person. In her book, she warmly wrote how Tito Hobbie and Giuseppe Dee Stefano helped her a lot in difficult times for her when she almost lost her voice.

They sing perfectly. Finally, fresh voices sounded in large, and we do not have to blush in front of foreigners for the country's main theater. Thank God that young people are singing ... - Vladimir Sorokin, a “blue tablet”, Kallas is much higher than the rest. Tebaldi had a fantastic voice like an angel. But even when the voice of Callas was not perfect, she had a lot of interpretations.

The opera is a story. The acting should be mobile. And Callas had everything. I’ll start with the statement of Mario del Monaco: "Maria Callas took the path of rivalry with the young and equally aggressive star Tebaldi." Mario Del Monaco knew both a star well. In different years, he sang performances with one or the other. It was later that they became stars, and the Great Callas. They came to La Scala almost simultaneously, by the way, M.

Kallas younger than their rival for one year. Two, albeit as long as rising, but still the stars of this size were crowded. One of the rivals was to leave the theater. But which of them?Who will decide voluntarily, at the beginning of his career, leave the First Theater of the World? Each in his hands had his own performance, which was a trump card. Tebaldi associated her hopes with the performance of A.

Katalani “Walli”, and M. Kallas was supposed to shine in Kerubini's “Medea”. Both roles are complex in all respects and, of course, tragic. Each of them was prepared in its own way. So, Maria Callas decided to lose weight, and dropped in a short period, as many as 36 kilograms. Both spectators and criticism were ready for the battle of two world singers. Milan was divided into “Tebaltists” and “Callasists”.

Were they in equal terms before the battle? Judge for yourself. Callas husband was a brick magnate. The name Callas did not leave print magazines. He was also a friend of Valley Tuscanini, who had a permanent chair in the directorship. Friendship of Callas with the daughter of Tuscanini, an outstanding woman with a musical education, also was of great importance. Together, all these circumstances, merging together at the same time, created unusually favorable conditions for Callas.

All this with a fatal way crossed Renata Tebaldi or, in any case, pushed her to the background.

Once, Mario del Monaco threw Callas in the face: "Do not worry, here will come to Tebaldi and bring you to life." It was said in the burnties, but you need to know the character of Callas. With her scandals, quirks, unpredictable actions, she attracted additional attention to herself. Del Monaco describes her outbreaks and aggressiveness as follows: “Before Callas, everyone was somehow timid.

A woman of outstanding talent, she demanded, however, complete submission to herself and everything. ” After Tebaldi's performance in Valley, Kallas realized that this was possible, the only case to equal the rival, and took up the thorough preparation of Medei. Losing weight, she looked like a figurine. Of course, such a sharp weight loss could not but affect the voice, but later her voice will dull, and at that moment she was good in every way!

In short, R. Tebaldi leaves Milan. The audience lost no less than the great singer, although completely different in temperament and manner. Again, I quote Mario del Monaco: “Passions raged around an amazing performer, capable of performing with a variety of repertoire, an actress with a thin artistic instinct, and a large classical singer with a bright and clean voice, the singer unforgettable”!