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Maria Callas [a] Commendatore OMRI [1] (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; [b] December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American and Greek soprano [2] and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.
Maria is a 2024 biographical psychological drama film directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, and is an international co-production between Italy, Germany, and the United States. The film stars Angelina Jolie as opera singer Maria Callas , and follows the seven days before her death in 1977 Paris as she reflects on her life and ...
The film depicts the life and work of opera singer Maria Callas in her own words by using her interviews, letters, and performances to tell her story. [4] Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs—nearly all of which have never been shown to the public—the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose ...
The Maria Callas Museum is a biographical museum dedicated to the renowned Greek soprano Maria Callas. It opened on 26 October 2023, and is situated near Syntagma Square at 44 Mitropoleos Street in Athens , Greece.
Soprano Leontyne Price [7] and justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [8] named Callas' Tosca as their favourite recording. When Herbert von Karajan was making his own recording of Tosca in 1962, he would often ask his producer John Culshaw to play selections from the de Sabata/Callas recording to him. Culshaw reports that "One exceptionally tricky ...
Medea is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the ancient myth of Medea.The film stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role and is largely a faithful portrayal of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and the events of Euripides' play Medea.
"La mamma morta" (The dead mother) is a soprano aria from act 3 of the 1896 opera Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano. [1] It is sung by the character Maddalena di Coigny to Gérard about how her mother died protecting her during the turmoils of the French Revolution.
He later became an entrepreneur, creating an Argentine import-export company, going into business for himself and making a fortune importing English-Turkish tobacco to Argentina. [11] He reportedly told Maria Callas that he made his fortune in Buenos Aires by forming a shipping company used for trafficking heroin. [12]