By Dan Baumgardt Maria, the new biopic being released in cinemas and on Netflix, is the third in Pablo Larraín’s cinematic ...
Let me quote from my centennial piece: Many sopranos, when they sing “Vissi d’arte” (Tosca ... Carlo Maria Giulini said that Callas embodied the “trilogy” of opera: “words, music, ...
When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...
Maria Callas did indeed spend her final isolated days in Paris, and her struggle with her declining voice was something ...
The documentary is Maria Callas: The Final Act ... 45-minute live television relay of act two of Tosca at the Royal Opera House in 1964. How we would love to see more of this famed operatic ...
One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery ...
a luscious soundtrack and fresh insight to her final years In 1964 Simon Schama spent a night at the opera. Maria Callas was singing Tosca at Covent Garden. It was, he recalls having listened back ...
Two films shed new light on one of opera’s darkest episodes “At my stage of the game, anything to survive.” Maria Callas was only ... Act Two of the Tosca she sang at Covent Garden ...
Maria Callas had a storied career on the Royal Opera House stage. From making her Covent Garden debut in Norma in 1952 to performing her last ever opera to a packed London audience in Tosca in ...
Angelina Jolie’s portrayal of Maria Callas beautifully captures the soprano’s final days in Paris, yet it is only fitting ...
As Bono once commented about Luciano Pavarotti, “the opera follows him off stage”. Legendary soprano Maria Callas would have known exactly what he meant, and she herself said “an opera begins long ...