Maria Callas sings Bolena’s Aria (rare remastering) while the audience calls her "Divina"

Highlighted comments from the commenters below: -From Folgore Dasangimignano: From the story of a listener who was in the loggione that night, I knew that you could not see no gesture, no particular poses during this aria, but only a small kneeling figure at the center of the great black dress lying on the ground, and these sounds that filled the whole Scala, as if singing was already the queen’s ghost (Visconti’s idea?) Folgore Dasangimignano: I do not think so. Many of gestural Boleyn solutions are usually attributed to Callas instinct: the hands towards the tenor, the affront to the public in Giudici ad Anna!, the final gestures. Compared with the Traviata, is a role where the fusion of vocal color, gesture and psychology of offense queen reached an expressive summit: it was a clear sign that Callas was no more distinction between real life and the stage characters, but it was also the beginning of a great inner solitude -From Carel van der Merwe: Not only the grea
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