The immortal La Divina Maria Callas singing Leonora’s great arias ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee……Miserere’ from Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore. Singing that eclipses any other vocal imagining of Leonora. A gargantuan swell of a voice commanded to undertake the most beautifully intricate lines Verdi ever wrote with the ease of a virtuoso. Amazing expanse of a middle voice, fully supported with a seminal mixture of colour, supremely accented trills, portamento that sounds like she simply isn’t breathing and a display of vocal dynamics that is quite unbelievable. Going from a High C in mezza forte into a blast of a Db6 with immense heroic impact, creating a musical language of emotions all of her own. Callas is the voice of Opera. She makes everyone look so tiny in comparison.

The immortal La Divina Maria Callas singing Leonora’s great arias ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee……Miserere’ from Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore.

Singing that eclipses any other vocal imagining of Leonora. A gargantuan swell of a voice commanded to undertake the most beautifully intricate lines Verdi ever wrote with the ease of a virtuoso. Amazing expanse of a middle voice, fully supported with a seminal mixture of colour, supremely accented trills, portamento that sounds like she simply isn’t breathing and a display of vocal dynamics that is quite unbelievable. Going from a High C in mezza forte into a blast of a Db6 with immense heroic impact, creating a musical language of emotions all of her own.

Callas is the voice of Opera. She makes everyone look so tiny in comparison.

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