One of the greatest opera stars in history, Maria Callas lived a life of high drama and high fashion, and her jewellery ...

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 ...

The equally astounding Angelina Jolie portrays the late, great soprano Maria Callas – one of the most talented opera singers of ... in wartime Athens – in Tosca, aged 18.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Maria Callas’ death ... earning the title role of the Royal Opera of Athens’ production of Puccini’s Tosca – playing a 19th-century Roman prima donna driven to a tragic death ...

This film is a detective story: what was it that made Maria Callas lose her voice ... he was lucky enough to see Callas perform Tosca at the Royal Opera House in 1964. Although relatively late ...