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19/12/1958 Music, Documentary, TV Movie 1h 31m
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Callas making her belated Paris debut at the sumptuous Paris Oryoga in 1958

Overview

The career of Maria Callas was just a bit too early and too brief to receive full and satisfying video documentation like that now being accorded to such singers as Renée Fleming and Luciano Pavarotti. This black-and-white televised recital (Callas's Paris debut) took place at the Paris Opera on December 19, 1958 when television was still in its infancy. We might wish that it had happened earlier, when her voice was in better condition, or later, when video recording technology was more advanced--so that, for example, we would not have to take the narrator's word that Callas is wearing a red dress. But this is probably the best available Callas video recording, and her fans will welcome it warmly. Visual elements were as important as the vocal dimensions in her art.

  1. Roger Benamou

    Director

  2. Vincenzo Bellini

    Writer

  3. Giuseppe Verdi

    Writer

  4. Gioachino Rossini

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Maria Callas

    Norma / Leonora / Tosca (Soprano)

  2. Tito Gobbi

    Scarpia / Figaro (Baritone)

  3. Albert Lance

    Self - Tenor

  4. Louis Rialland

    Self - Tenor

  5. Jean-Paul Hurteau

    Self - Bass

  6. Jacques Mars

    Self - Bass

  7. View more

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Reviews

A review by Sigmund Kühßeir
Written by Sigmund Kühßeir on 2024-11-24
**Maria Callas - Paris 1958**

Callas’s Paris debut came relatively late in her career. She sang her first opera in 1939, had her first Italian successes at Verona in 1947, made her South American debut in 1949 and reached La Scala in 1950, London acclaimed her in 1952, Chicago in 1954, Berlin in 1955, Vienna ’56. That same year also saw her long-expected, long-delayed arrival at the Metropolitan, New York, and the next brought her back home to Athens. Venice, Rome, Palermo, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Dallas, Madrid, Lisbon and Edinburgh were other cities to witness the triumphs and cont...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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