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Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris (1958)

ALL 12/19/1958 (fr) Music, Documentary, TV Movie 91 Min
  • Release
    12/19/1958
  • Production
    Warner Classics, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
  • Rotten tomato
    85%
  • Original title
    Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. María 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

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Casts : 6 , Crews : 13

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Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris (1958) 91 Min

ALL 12/19/1958 (fr)
Music, Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 12/19/1958
  • Production
    Warner Classics, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
  • Original title Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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