Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris
1958 · 91 MIN · IMDB 8.9 · 59 VOTES · DIR. Roger Benamou
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 467 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:40 The Paris Opera House, one of the finest in the world, perhaps the most beautiful.
00:02:18 singers, dancers...
00:04:01 Malibran and Patti had sung it and it was always one of Callas's greatest successes.
00:07:45 Brenno's sword can remain no longer idle.
00:18:45 and first to fall before our wrath shall be the Proconsul of Rome.
00:23:58 But the main thing here is the emotion which the work unleashes.
00:32:22 fill the air with baleful terror!
00:38:11 which can switch from the tessitura of a dramatic soprano to a lyric soprano...
00:47:28 Act 2 of Tosca, with sets and costumes.
00:49:45 A chamberlain has just gone to look for her.
00:53:00 and of these God-like works l mean to taste my full.
00:55:00 Such violence.
00:56:58 You deny you gave him food? - l deny it.
00:59:33 What about the fan?
01:01:20 so that they spurt blood at each denial.
01:03:42 Monster, do you laugh at this ghastly torment?.
01:06:02 ln the well, in the garden... - Angelotti is there?
01:08:01 when he was 24.
01:10:37 How much? - How much?
01:13:40 Even so, even so l want you!
01:19:10 Look at me, oh, behold! With clasped hands l beseech you!
01:21:29 Spoletta, shut the door.
01:24:25 Help! l am dying! Help! l die!
01:29:09 Callas is present among us. For ever.