Early Maria Callas sings Violeta with the Voice of Brunhilde (Supersonic end Eb6)

Highlighted comments from the commenters below:
-From Shahrdad:
Callas was a great actress because she was a phenomenal musician. Her acting was primarily floating the words on the music, and her physical acting was a direct extension of her connection to the music. She understood, instinctively, that once you sing something, it's no longer reality, and her acting reflected that. When you watch her in concert, it's almost like watching a ballet in slow motion: none of the gestures or realistic, but in the world she creates through the music, they are absolutely real. But take the music away and Callas was lost at sea.
At her best, her voice and its abilities were unique: We have heard prettier voices, or more agile, or with higher notes, but we haven't experienced the combination of musicality, agility, vocal weight and size, range, and expressiveness, and versatility in any other singer of the 20th Century. We haven't had any singer who could go from Brunnhilde and Isolde and Turandot to Puritani and Lucia. Or any one who would sing Lady Macbeth, Abigaile, Lucia, and Lakme in one concert and sing each definitively.
And that's just where she started.
-From Kastrafior
Un ouragan de feu, de passion et d'amour blessé comme jamais plus on n'entendra. Une ligne de chant extra-terrestre pour un personnage consumé par l'amour, la maladie et la frustration. L'opéra sur les braises de l'art total.
Humains, priez.

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