The Explorations Of Callas's Singing Arts

Maria Callas was a well-known musician as well as the greatestsinger in the twentieth century. With stretching voice, bright and pleasanttimbre, wide and flexible diapason, Callas possessed brilliant dramaticqualities which enabled her to be an omnipotent soprano who owned thesinging techniques of all the three voice parts. Callas was not only aconsummate musician, but also good at physique performance, having asublime and meaningful sculpture beauty. She had a deep understandingof music works, and could also perform them perfectly. Her singingperformance was not only to pursue the most magnificent and splendidvoice surface, but also provided Bel Canto with deeper inner meaning. InCallas's mind, she thought that sound should serve the emotion and thecontents of dramas. So she was full of revolutionary spirit. Therefore,Callas contributed a lot to the development of the singing arts.The thesis tries to explore the singing arts of Callas from threeaspects. The first is to start with vocal techniques to analyze her voicethrough four aspects, that is, breath, resonance, phonation and language.The second is to start with her singing style to illustrate her singingcharacteristics. The third is to start with her singing practice to analyzeher two classical arias elaborately, and then make a further exploration tothe charm of her singing arts. The three aspects discussed above are thecentre of the thesis. The structure of the article is as follows:IntroductionChapter One: the main elements that have formed Callas's artcharacteristics; Chapter Two: the explorations of Callas's vocal techniques;Chapter Three: the explorations of Callas's singing style;Chapter Four: the explorations of Callas's methods of dealing withworks;Chapter Five: the reflections caused by Callas's singing arts.Conclusions...