Why is Callas different from all other divas?
mainThere’s a fine article by Peter G. Davis in the new Opera News about the quality of Maria Callas – the quality that grates on the ear, the quality that sets her apart from every other soprano before or since.
Attempts to communicate the Callas phenomenon have always posed a challenge, even to her most devoted admirers. Music critics struggle to find analytical terms that can describe any singing voice; the vocabulary of similes never seems sufficiently precise. And the Callas soprano is particularly elusive.
Peter is probably the best writer on voice in America. Read the full article here.
She was a past master at presenting herself as an angst ridden diva.
Nothing ever changed with her except the costumes.
To compare her with other singers shows ignorance to the art . Other singers
presented themselves as singers Callas presented herself as Callas the great diva –
two different disciplines. She played this role to a T until the last dreadful screech ridden
farewell tour when even her most loyal fans fled in embarrassment.
Do you actually like any music or performer, as you seem to spend all your time castigating everything and anything that appears on this board……………….?
A word in your therapists ear my might prove beneficial!
Alas my therapist is tone deaf as you seem to be .
I believe he’s a big fan of Les Misérables.
Indeed, fled by the thousands. At the end, there’s hardly anyone left to applaud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1mO7_C3tCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9D9eL-8tf4
you should not have included the dreadful you tube yowling to prove your point’
And yes that tour was finally cancelled as the yowling from both became worse
and worse until saner folk and box office dictated the end.
The point is not her singing, it’s the fact that people were willing to listen to her. It shows that ardent fans don’t flee in embarrassment but remain in place (as genuine fandom often renders people as deaf as you claim your therapist to be).