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Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris (1958) [N/A]

Release Date:
December 19, 1958

Original Title:
Maria Callas: Débuts à Paris

Alternate Titles:
La Grande Nuit de l'Opéra
Maria Callas: Toujours - Paris 1958
la callas...toujours - Paris 1958

Genres:
Documentary | Music | TV Movie

Production Companies:
Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
Warner Classics

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
FR: TP 

Runtime: 91

Callas making her belated Paris debut at the sumptuous Paris Oryoga in 1958

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Compositor:
Giuseppe Verdi
Vincenzo Bellini
Gioacchino Rossini

Conductor:
Georges Sébastian

Director:
Roger Benamou

Music:
Vincenzo Bellini
Giuseppe Verdi
Gioacchino Rossini

Sound Engineer:
Peter Mew
Andy Walter

Writer:
Vincenzo Bellini
Giuseppe Verdi
Gioacchino Rossini

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