These next photos are a study in how true acting is not only in dashing around on stage with directors gimmicks and distracting the viewers, however fun it can be, but in the total concentration of an artist and their faith in the music and the message of the composer……. Maria Callas as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, receiving the doctor to hear about her “life” and “hope” as she struggles against the TB that is killing her, all the while fully aware she is awaiting death’s arrival with such sweetness and perfect vulnerability…… nobile.