Full Description
The sound of Maria Callas, artist and woman.
Maria Callas was one of the most influential and renowned opera singers of the 20th century. Callas 100 recounts the diva's unparalleled career and epoch-making moments through exclusive images and previously unpublished documents, such as her debut at La Scala in 1950, her 1958 Norma at the Rome Opera, her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1956, and her Lucia di Lammermoor at the Dallas Civic Opera in 1959.
Intimate conversations with friends and collaborators, anecdotes and photographs from personal archives introduce the unprecedented journey into the life of the artist beyond the curtain, from her stay in Ischia with her friend Giovanna Lomazzi to her trip to Africa with the writer Dacia Maraini, from her lessons at the Julliard School in New York to the private lessons she gave to the Soprano Sylvia Sass in Paris.
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
Editor's Note
Overture
Giampaolo Guida An Incarnate Voice
Carlo Fontana Remembering Maria Callas
Act one
Gina Guandalini The Voice and the Repertoire
Giovanna Lomazzi Everything Can Be Achieved, Everything Can Be Lost
Giampaolo Guida A Miracle Comes
Piero Mioli The Voice
Intermezzo
Sergio Ragni Armida, or the Transformations
Gina Guandalini An Unknown Performance
Marco Guardo "I Romani a cento a cento". The Unfinished Norma of Callas
Act Two
Nadia Stancioff Maria, the Woman
Raina Kabaivanska I Became a Singer 'Because of ' Maria Callas
Sylvia Sass A Day with Maria Callas
Eugene Kohn Master Class
Dacia Maraini A Frightened Child
Finale
Alejandro Abrante Don't Say it Was a Dream
Plácido Domingo Memory
Fabio Ceppelli The Inner Light
Choral
