Perugia, 1949.
In 1977, Callas related an incident when she heard her voice for the first time on a recording made during the broadcast of Stradella’s oratorio San Giovanni Battista in Perugia.
“I will tell you about the first time I heard myself, it was in Perugia. A very beautiful church. It was the first time they broadcast it on the radio. They had the tape. It was in 1949, I believe. We listened to the playback in the intermission between the two parts of the work. You wouldn’t have an idea how hard I cried. I didn’t want to continue. I was desperate. Others were desperate, too. I am horrified by myself. I can recognize my voice among all others, the way I sing, the world I bring to the singing. I don’t like myself as a voice; it is out of question. But I don’t struggle anymore. I listen to myself with an undeceived ear.”
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The Telegraph has a beautiful slide show of photos from the new Daniel Buren installation in Paris’s Grand Palais for Monumenta 2012, “Excentrique(s).”
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