Maria Callas singing “Ecco:respiro appena. Io son l’umile ancella“ (Cilea - Adriana Lecourvreur )

Maria Callas singing “Ecco:respiro appena. Io son l’umile ancella“ (Cilea - Adriana Lecourvreur ) “See: I am barley breathing. I am the humble servant of the creative Genius: he gives me the word, I pass it on to people’s hearts. I am only the accent of his verse, the echo of the human drama, the fragile instrument he plays on with his hand. Mild, joyous, atrocious, I am called Faithfulness: my voice is a breath which will die on the morrow.