Maria précise...

The most beauatiful of all Traviatas -Callas/ Viscont/Zeffirelli at

Sweet and pretty.

La Traviata de Londres

Con su papá.... qué vida difícil tuvo María..... sufrió mucho.

The best Anna Bolena EVER!!!!

Svanì per sempre il sogno mio d'amor

A rare, tender moment between Maria Callas and Ari Onassis.

With Omar Sharif

Maria and Ari at the Lido

The immortal La Divina Maria Callas singing Leonora’s great arias ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee……Miserere’ from Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore. Singing that eclipses any other vocal imagining of Leonora. A gargantuan swell of a voice commanded to undertake the most beautifully intricate lines Verdi ever wrote with the ease of a virtuoso. Amazing expanse of a middle voice, fully supported with a seminal mixture of colour, supremely accented trills, portamento that sounds like she simply isn’t breathing and a display of vocal dynamics that is quite unbelievable. Going from a High C in mezza forte into a blast of a Db6 with immense heroic impact, creating a musical language of emotions all of her own. Callas is the voice of Opera. She makes everyone look so tiny in comparison.

The immortal La Divina Maria Callas singing Leonora’s great arias ‘D’amor sull’ali rosee……Miserere’ from Verdi’s opera Il Trovatore.

Singing that eclipses any other vocal imagining of Leonora. A gargantuan swell of a voice commanded to undertake the most beautifully intricate lines Verdi ever wrote with the ease of a virtuoso. Amazing expanse of a middle voice, fully supported with a seminal mixture of colour, supremely accented trills, portamento that sounds like she simply isn’t breathing and a display of vocal dynamics that is quite unbelievable. Going from a High C in mezza forte into a blast of a Db6 with immense heroic impact, creating a musical language of emotions all of her own.

Callas is the voice of Opera. She makes everyone look so tiny in comparison.

http://youtu.be/dObANnzSIMc

Maria Callas after 16 curtain calls in her Metropolitan Opera debut in Bellini’s Norma on October 29, 1956. she-speaks-poniards maria callasoperanormaBellinithe metropolitan operasorry the quality is shitI got it from Arianna Huffington's bookwhich is the best book written about maria callasI love maria callas so much my heart hurts

Pasolini, Ninetto, and Callas

Maria Callas, Lucia.

Maria Callas, Lucia Di Lammermoor. La Scala, 1955.

Maria Callas As Lucia di Lammermoor. La Scala. Milan, 1954.

Queen Elizabeth II and Maria Callas at Royal Opera House in 1958

Bellisima

Giovanni Meneghini and Maria Callas

Luchino Visconti assists Maria Callas during makeup for Luigi Cherubini’s Medea in the Théâtre de l’Opéra in Rome in March, 1955.

Maria Callas in Medea, 1969

Maria Callas, Giovanni Meneghini and Marlene Dietrich

Pier Paolo Pasolini y Maria Callas en el set de Medea, 1969, por Tazio Secchiaroli

Pasolini, Callas. Medea (1969).

Maria Callas e Pier Paolo Pasolini sul set di “Medea” (1969)

Maria Callas and Pier Paolo Pasolini

#quotes #mariacallas

“I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.”
—  Maria Callas

Maria Callas as Medea, rehearsal at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 1959

Maria Callas

Maria Callas talking about the pressures of fame.