A 1987 Documentary Film by Tony Palmer.
Combination of archival footage, performance and interviews including numerous operatic recital performances from such as Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Il Trovatore, Tosca, etc.
Maria Callas was one of the most …
A 1987 Documentary Film by Tony Palmer.
Combination of archival footage, performance and interviews including numerous operatic recital performances from such as Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, Il Trovatore, Tosca, etc.
Maria Callas was one of the most accomplished of musicians, and not only among singers. Everything she did had purpose and precision. The respect she earned among instrumental musicians and conductors for her ability to bring a musical score to life has no parallel. She is mostly called La Divina and she has been awarded as the greatest opera singer in the world.
Maria Callas was born in 1923 in New York to Greek parents. In 1937, her family moved to Athens and she attended music courses in the Conservatory of Athens. Soon, her teachers appreciated her warm and heavy voice. After some performances in the Greek National Opera, she moved to Italy and started to perform in La Scala di Milan. Her career reached its peak in the 1950s and then it decreased, either from a vocal decline or because she wanted to focus on her personal life, which was marked by an unlucky marriage, a devastating affair to Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis and loneliness. Maria Callas was unique. There will never be another like La Divina. She holds the title.
Content:
- Introduction
- Childhood on both sides of the Atlantic
- Studies in Greece
- First triumphs and metamorphosis
- Marriage to Meneghini
- An affair with Onassis
- Years of desperate loneliness
Track list of arias:
1. Una Voce Poco Fa - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia
2. O S'Io Potessi - Il Pirata
3. Nacqui All'Affanno - La Cenerentola
4. Tu Che La Vanità - Don Carlos
5. Habanera - Carmen
6. Tacea La Notte - Il Trovatore
7. Ah, Non Credea... - La Sonnambula
8. Vissi D'Arte - Tosca
9. Oh Mio Babbino Caro - Gianni Schicchi
