Since September 16th 1977, rumors immediately began swirling of the unknown Callas this, or the forgotten Callas that. Some have been more intriguing to a collector such as myself than others. Who after all, does not want to believe Mrs. Corelli had in fact recorded the 1956 La Scala Fedora involving Miss Callas and her husband? Over the years a considerable amount of video footage, some ‘unknown’, of Miss Callas has become widely available thanks largely to the global reach of YouTube. Through my connections, I have been given to understand the final 3 minutes of the confrontation scene of Miss Callas as Anna Bolena exists in grainy footage with no sound. If this tantalising video does exist, it will revolutionise the way we understand Miss Callas as the great tragedienne on stage. COMMANDOpera is currently in negotiations to purchase the rights to exclusively bring this historic film to the reach of the public domain .
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It would be amazing if such footage exists! The best of luck for obtaining this bit of film and sharing it with the rest of the world.
Hello!
I was wondering if the Bolena footage really DOES exist, and when it would be delivered to the Callas lovers. Also, from which performance is it? If its the premiere, you could just match the sound with the footage!
Thanks
Olivier Bergeron
Unfortunately, the footage turned out to be something of a hoax. COMMANDOpera knows of no other footage in existance.
I have just come upon your site…I was a student and lived in Milano from
beginning 1953 until 1958….I had occasion to see Callas live at least 50 times.
I heard her first in her last La Scala Gioconda beginning of 1953…..I heard her
comeback in Anna Bolena…..it was quite extraordinary…..she had been exiled from Scala after the Rome Norma walkout…..when she came on stage there wasn’t one
handclap….dead silence….Simionato came on stage in a brilliant red costume and there was thundering applause…..if you had lived in the Callas era one thing would
be apparent….if her audience booed or dared her, she became suddenly transformed and seemed to thrive on challenges…..the Bolena night was one such
evening…the opera builds and she was becoming more and more extra-ordinary..
I believe that the mad scene was performed on a stairway with many ladies in
waiting all wearing the Tudor white headress…the stage lights were dimmed and
focused only on her…the rest was sheer magic…..after the performance she was carried around the square…..
I only wrote this because so much baloney has been written by people who never really saw the real thing!!! Thanks and good luck…John Ritter