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Maria Callas, Luchino Visconti, Elsa Maxwell - Tu che le vanità...

Description There is someone talking at times, so you know... Per una volta, anziché proporre l'arte vocale (sostenuta da uno strumento non certo privilegiato in sé, anche se immediatamente riconoscibile a livello timbrico, e come tale imitato da schiere di improvvide emule) di Maria Callas, preferiamo ascoltare le parole della cantante, in un'intervista offerta alla televisione italiana: "Callas - Intervista sugli spettacoli alla Scala"    • Callas - Intervista sugli spettacoli alla ...   Parole che, a fronte di domande non particolarmente profonde o innovative, risultano illuminanti, chiarificatrici e soprattutto connotate da assoluta onestà intellettuale e totale autocoscienza. Buon ascolto e ottime conseguenti riflessioni. ------------------------------------- "I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life." In her generation, Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963) pioneered being famous for being famous. She described herself as "a short, fat, homely piano player from Keokuk, Iowa, with no money or background, [who] decided to become a legend and did just that." Wikipedia describes her as an "American gossip columnist, author, song writer, and professional hostess. Her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day earned her the nickname 'the hostess with the mostest' ... Maxwell introduced Callas to Onassis." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Max... Sadly, Maria Callas would wake up with a severe cold, a fever, and no voice for the Norma prima on 1/2/58. But the Rome management had no cover for Callas. We all know what happened next... one of the most unjust crucifixions of any artist by the press. It makes watching this great performance even more poignant. Maria Callas, Norma act I, Roma, 02 January 1958:    • Видео   ------------------------------------- (1:30) La Scala mounted many new productions specially for Callas by directors such as Franco Zeffirelli and, most importantly, Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). Visconti stated later that he began directing opera only because of Callas, and he directed her in lavish new productions of La Vestale (1954), La Traviata (1955), La Sonnambula, and Anna Bolena (1957). Here Visconti recalls the short sighted Diva picking up some radishes from the stage... ------------------------------------- (2:35) Concert in Hamburg. May 15, 1959. Nicola Rescigno conductor. "Nel dì della vittoria" from Macbeth. The first high C in the recitativo cracked on her... You can see the wry eye connection she makes with the conductor after the slightly missed note: as though she were saying: "Hold on, its gonna be a bumpy night...!" Look at her disappointment and sadness, but look also how she immediately controls her emotion, gets concentrated again and "puts herself together" to be able to continue this concert... Ah, the Diva in all her magnificence: (2:48) Don Carlo, Elisabeth's aria - Tu che le vanità conoscesti del mondo E godi nell'avel il riposo profondo, Se ancor si piange in cielo, piangi sul mio dolor, E porta il pianto mio al trono del Signor. You who knew the emptiness of the pomp of this world, you who enjoy at last a sweet, profound peace, if one sheds tears even in heaven, by weeping bring my tears to the feet of the eternal one!