Norma an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma by Alexandre Soumet. It was first produced at La Scala in Milan on December 26, 1831. The opera is ...

Her fans, and they are many, call her “La Divina,” the divine one, and “Maria By Callas” shows the reasons why. Closer to a deity than a singer to her devotees, Maria Callas was an extraordinary opera ...

There was once a more mysterious version of celebrity. The wall that separated a famous artist’s performance from that same artist’s private life was more difficult to scale. Popular singers didn’t ...

Maria Callas as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbieri di Siviglia, at Milan's La Scala theater in 1956. The legendary – and controversial — soprano Maria Callas, who would have turned 100 on Dec. 2, ...

Jolie plays the superstar soprano Maria Callas in the new movie “Maria.” We went to the Metropolitan Opera with her and the director Pablo Larraín. The Great Read Jolie plays the superstar soprano ...

ATHENS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - From a sample of her hair to a blue velvet dress she wore after the memorable 1955 performance of Verdi's La Traviata in Milan's La Scala, visitors to Athens can now marvel ...

Callas would have turned 100 on Dec. 2. She and her flash of a career remain beacons of artistic integrity and profundity. By Zachary Woolfe The centennial of Maria Callas’s birth is inspiring renewed ...

Ava Buchanan, a veteran actress with Theatre Tuscaloosa, stars as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's "Master Class." The play follows Callas in her later years as she teaches a master class at the ...

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