MARIA CALLAS
Sir-With reference to your article in the issue of February 15 on the "Willowy, Ash-blonde and Wild" Signorina Maria Callas, there are one or
two points in her singing the writer has missed. When I first heard Callas on a record at a friend’s home we differed as to the lady’s voice, and especially on the harshness and thinness of her upper register due to faulty breathing. To find out the true position I wrote for an opinion of the Callas to a musical authority in London, and this was the reply: "I heard Callas in the flesh at La Scala and I can vouch for her being a very fine soprano of many fine sopranos in Milan today. I don’t like her as much as Tebaldi (also at La Scala), but she is very good indeed. I don’t like her as much as Sylvia Fisher, an Australian here at Covent Garden." Since the Callas record I have heard Tebaldi, also on a record, and I think the latter is a very fine soprano with a greater control and command of the upper register. I would respectfully ask your writer to listen to the recorded voice of Mado Robin, a French coloratura soprano. To me Robin is the best
of the four
PHIL
BOX
(Gisborne).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 917, 8 March 1957, Page 11
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