"and later successfully establish reputations abroad is Maria Callas, the greatest of the country's opera performers and a leading singer of the century. Born in the United States, she signed her first professional contract with the Greek National Opera on June 20, 1940, and returned twenty years later, with Kostas Bastias once again, for performances at The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. In 1960, she sang Norma in the Bellini opera, and in 1961 took the role of Medea in Cherubini’s ""Medea"". Other important singers have included Elena Souliotis, Kostas Paskalis, and Nicola Zaccaria and Agnes Baltsa. Since 1955, when the"
"Maria Callas Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (; ; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano. She was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her ""bel canto"" technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical ""opera seria"" to the ""bel canto"" operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as ""La Divina"". Born in New"
"Remastered Edition"", consisting of her complete studio recordings totaling 39 albums in a boxed set remastered at Abbey Road Studios in 24-bit/96 kHz digital sound from original master tapes. Sources Maria Callas Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (; ; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano. She was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her ""bel canto"" technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical ""opera seria"" to the ""bel canto"" operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of"
"was not her real father. Maria was born from a relationship between her mother and the marquise Orazio Del Monte, Christina's chamberlain. According to 17th-century sources, she was born in Hamburg where Christina's court periodically sojourned, although the date of her birth has variously been given as 1667, 1668, and 1670. Maria spent her entire childhood and youth at the court of Queen Christina where she was trained as a singer and was known by the diminutive ""Mariuccia"". By the late 1680s there are records of her regularly performing in private musical evenings at Queen Christina's court in Rome. She"
"She was born at Flower Hospital (now the Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center), 1249 5th Avenue, Manhattan, on December 2, 1923, to Greek parents, George Kalogeropoulos (c. 1881 – 1972) and Elmina Evangelia ""Litsa"" (née Demes; originally Dimitriadou; c. 1894 – 1982), although she was christened Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos (). Callas's father had shortened the surname Kalogeropoulos first to ""Kalos"" and subsequently to ""Callas"" in order to make it more manageable. George and Litsa were an ill-matched couple from the beginning; he was easy-going and unambitious, with no interest in the arts, while his wife was vivacious"
"a boy; her disappointment at the birth of another daughter was so great that she refused to even look at her new baby for four days. Maria was christened three years later at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in 1926. When Maria was 4, George Callas opened his own pharmacy, settling the family in Manhattan on 192nd Street in Washington Heights where Callas grew up. Around the age of three, Maria's musical talent began to manifest itself, and after Litsa discovered that her youngest daughter also had a voice, she began pressing ""Mary"" to sing. Callas later recalled,"
"Maria Callas. After years abroad in Italy, France, England and the United States, where he lived for more than ten years, he was from 1972 to 1996 Director of the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Trieste and he comprehensively renovated and modernised the Opera House. From 1978 to 1986 he was Director of the """" (""Festival of the two worlds"") in Spoleto, Italy. He became famous for his compositions, which were performed worldwide and received countless honours and recognitions, such as the Italian """"; in 1994, through François Mitterrand, he became a Grand Cavalier of the . He died at his"
"for a Golden Globe Award for her role in the NBC sitcom ""Sister Kate"" (1989–90). Her other television roles include Phyl Oswyn in the ITV prison-based drama series ""Bad Girls"" (2003–06), Martha Fraser in the long-running ITV soap opera ""Coronation Street"" (2009), and Lorraine in the Sky One sitcom ""Trollied"" (2012). On stage, she starred as Maria Callas in a 2010 UK touring production of the play ""Master Class"". Beacham, one of four siblings, was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Joan, a housewife, and a father who was an insurance executive and the managing director of the"
"the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in ""Master Class"" (1996). She is protective of her private life, rarely gives interviews, and makes very few public appearances. After romantic relationships with Jerry Schatzberg and Marcello Mastroianni, Dunaway married twice, first with singer Peter Wolf and then with photographer Terry O'Neill, with whom she had a son, Liam. Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith; 1922–2004), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr. (1920–1984), a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army. She is of Scots-Irish, English, and German"
"lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa"" (1990); and the ""Premio Strega"" for ""Buio"" (1999). In 2013, the documentary ""I Was Born Travelling"" about her life portrayed the story of her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan, to the legendary journeys around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia, her close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. Maraini was born in Fiesole, Tuscany. When she was a child, her family moved to Japan in 1938 to escape Fascism. They were interned in a Japanese concentration camp in Nagoya from 1943 to 1946 for refusing to recognize Mussolini's Republic"
"Rosa Maria Calles Rosa Maria Calles (born October 15, 1949) is an Hispanic American artist, playwright, producer, and director. Calles' writing has been published in La Confluencia Magazine, Fiesta USA by Penguin Books, and the Victorian Gazette. Calles' work has been shown at the Mexican American Museum in San Francisco, California; San Juan, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, California; and several other major US cities. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of International Folk Art, the Millicent Rogers Museum, and the Museum of Heritage and Arts all in New Mexico, and the Sacred Arts Museum in Eureka"
"Cadaqués, Spain. Mary Callery was born June 19, 1903 in New York City and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Julia Welch and James Dawson Callery, the President of the Diamond National Bank and Chairman of Pittsburgh Railways Company. In 1923, she married Frederic R. Coudert Jr., lawyer (and future member of Congress). They had one daughter, Caroline, born in 1926. Mary sought a divorce from Coudert in 1930 and in 1931 married Italian textile industrialist and fine art collector Carlo Frua de Angeli. This second marriage also ended in divorce. Following the beginning of the Second"
"in America I am known as the cuchi-cuchi girl. That’s okay because cuchi-cuchi has taken me all the way to the bank."" Born as María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, her official date of birth is listed as January 15, 1951 (though original documents from Spain report her birth date as March 13, 1941), in Molina de Segura, Region of Murcia, Spain. Her father was reportedly a lawyer who fled to Casablanca during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, while her homemaker mother stayed behind in Murcia, raising their children. Charo has occasionally claimed that she was enrolled in"
"June 19, 1941, in Paoay, Ilocos Norte, to Lucas D. Carpio, a Justice of the Peace (now equivalent to a trial court judge), and Maria Claudio Carpio. Her father was a member of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, while her mother was Catholic. She was baptized as a Catholic. When she was younger, she played marbles, climbed the Paoay Tower, and memorized Shakespeare's passages on the urging of her father. She said that she wanted to be a princess and perform in front of people, especially during fiestas. She also had dreams of being an opera singer. She says she did"
"Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy. Luisa Ranieri Luisa Ranieri (born 16 December 1973) is an Italian actress and TV presenter. She has been seen in a number of miniseries on RAI, and has appeared in numerous films, including 2004's ""Eros"". Ms. Ranieiri is best known for her television movie portrayal of the opera diva Maria Callas in the 2005 Italian television film Callas e Onassis, which began her acting career. Though a number of fiction and nonfiction movies as well as documentaries have been done on the late shipping magnate billionaire Aristotle Onassis, and separately Maria Callas, the"
"with 63.5 million certified albums. In 2012, she was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won 5 Grammy Awards, 19 World Music Awards, 10 American Music Awards, and 14 Billboard Music Awards, and has been consistently credited with inspiring generations of singers. Mariah Carey was born in Huntington, New York. Her father, Alfred Roy Carey, was of African American and Afro-Venezuelan descent, while her mother, Patricia (née Hickey), is of Irish descent. The last name Carey was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather, Francisco Núñez, after he came"
"was born in Santa Maria Maquixco, Temascalapa, Mexico, in 1923, the daughter of Lorenzo Morales and Candelaria Sanchez. Her father was a farm laborer and her parents were of Indigenous Mexican ancestry. She had nine siblings, including her sister Maria, and her family was poor. Her mother encouraged Morales and her siblings to go to Mexico City to find work. She had extended family already working in Mexico City, including her cousin Petra, and when she first arrived she held odd jobs. She began working as a maid for a rich family, who had their staff living in poor conditions."
"the bodies of their children for burial. Instead she keeps them from him, while he is held back by the fire she has lit, telling him that nothing can be done anymore. Medea (1969 film) Medea is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the ancient myth of Medea. Filmed in Göreme Open Air Museum's early Christian churches, it stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role. She does not sing in the movie. The first half sums up the story of Jason and the Argonauts as they travel to Medea's barbarian land in search of the"
"London, New York and other American cities. His post-war operatic work included celebrated collaborations with Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, most notably his famous recording of ""Tosca"" with Callas in 1953. His career was cut short by a heart attack that same year. Victor de Sabata was born in Trieste, at the time part of Austria-Hungary, but now part of Italy. His Roman Catholic father, Amedeo de Sabata, was a professional singing teacher and chorus master, and his mother, Rosita Tedeschi, a talented amateur musician, was Jewish. De Sabata began playing the piano at the age of four, and composed"
"Luisa Ranieri Luisa Ranieri (born 16 December 1973) is an Italian actress and TV presenter. She has been seen in a number of miniseries on RAI, and has appeared in numerous films, including 2004's ""Eros"". Ms. Ranieiri is best known for her television movie portrayal of the opera diva Maria Callas in the 2005 Italian television film Callas e Onassis, which began her acting career. Though a number of fiction and nonfiction movies as well as documentaries have been done on the late shipping magnate billionaire Aristotle Onassis, and separately Maria Callas, the TV movie Callas e Onassis is the"
"praise. ""Maria by Callas"" currently has a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Maria by Callas Maria by Callas (French: ""Maria par Callas"") is a 2017 French documentary film about the life and career of opera singer Maria Callas. 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. Her letters and unpublished memoirs are read by opera singer Joyce DiDonato. ""Maria by Callas"" had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival in November 2017. The film had a limited release in"
"Giuditta Pasta Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta (née Negri; 26 October 1797 – 1 April 1865) was an Italian soprano opera singer. She has been compared to the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas. Pasta was born Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Negri in Saronno, near Milan, on 26 October 1797. She was born of the Negri family, who came from Lomazzo, where the family practiced medical art. Her father, Carlo Antonio Negri, was a supporter of the Napoleonic Army. She studied in Milan with Giuseppe Scappa and Davide Banderali, and later with Girolamo Crescentini and Ferdinando Paer among others. In 1816, she"
"her life was formally styled ""Lady Hall"". The couple divorced in 1990. Their daughter is the actress Rebecca Hall. As of 2003, she lived in Sussex, England. Maria Ewing Maria Louise Ewing (born March 27, 1950) is an American opera singer who has sung both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She is noted as much for her acting as her singing. Ewing was born in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. the youngest of four daughters. Her mother, Hermina M. (née Veraar), was Dutch and her father, Norman I. Ewing, was an American of Sioux Native American, African American and Scottish ancestry. She studied"
"they prepared to drive from their villa in Diani, a coastal resort near Mombasa on the Indian Ocean. The singer was still unconscious a week after the attack and was fed intravenously, and underwent several operations. After two surgeries in Mombasa, Di Stefano was flown to the San Raffaele clinic at Milan in December 2004, where he slipped into a coma. Eventually he awakened from coma, but his health never fully improved. He died in his home in Santa Maria Hoè, north of Milan, on 3 March 2008 at the age of 86. Di Stefano and Maria Callas recorded many"
"exulted in publicizing Callas's temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her ""the Bible of opera"" and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, ""Opera News"" wrote of her: ""Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists."" The name on Callas's New York birth certificate is Sophie Cecilia Kalos."
"an adage during the following decade. Mario Vargas Llosa was born to a middle-class family on March 28, 1936, in the southern Peruvian provincial city of Arequipa. He was the only child of Ernesto Vargas Maldonado and Dora Llosa Ureta (the former a radio operator in an aviation company, the latter the daughter of an old criollo family), who separated a few months before his birth. Shortly after Mario's birth, his father revealed that he was having an affair with a German woman; consequently, Mario has two younger half-brothers: Enrique and Ernesto Vargas. Vargas Llosa lived with his maternal family"
"since 2002. Chenoa was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina on June 25, 1975, although her family moved to Majorca, Spain, when she was eight. She grew up in a musical family; both parents were musicians who used to sing in hotels at live music shows. At the age of 16, Chenoa began to sing professionally, taking part in her parents' show. When her mother fell ill, Chenoa had to stand in for her. Her fathers family is of Italian descent and her maternal grandmother is Lebanese. She graduated as a nursery school teacher and started performing in the Casino"
"appeared in the plays ""MARIA, the life and loves of Maria Callas"" (by Alma H. Bond) and as the Nurse in the Euripides/Jeffers version of ""Medea"". Joy Davidson Joy Davidson (born August 18, 1937, Fort Collins, Colorado) is an American operatic mezzo-soprano, actress, and pedagogue. She has performed internationally in many of the world's great opera houses. A native of Fort Collins, Colorado, Davidson is a graduate of Fort Collins High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College in 1959. She worked briefly as an elementary school music teacher before pursuing graduate studies in opera at"
"and ""Midnight Mary"". Born Catherine Scola in Paterson, New Jersey, on November 6, 1891, she was the elder daughter of Giuseppe (Joseph) Scola (1859-1900), an Italian immigrant silk dyer from Naples, Italy, and his Irish immigrant wife, Mary Scola, nee King, (1871-1943). The Scolas had a younger daughter, Angela (1894-1989), who married Henry Louis Noland (1892-1931), a plumber and musician, and had three sons and one daughter. H.L. Noland, an alcoholic, died of myocarditis, in Ely, Nevada. Kathryn Scola wrote a number of her scripts in collaboration with other Hollywood screenwriters, the most frequent being Gene Markey. In 1933, Scola"
"Marie Kraja Marie Kraja or Marie Paluca (24 September 1911 – 21 November 1999) was an Albanian opera singer, who is particularly known for her delivery of Albanian folk songs. Kraja was born in 1911 in Zadar, Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in a Roman Catholic family. She was a relative of Mother Teresa, and she would later organize the funeral services for her mother and sister. When she was six, her family moved to Shkodra. Although she was an immigrant, her family were Albanian and she had lived in a small Albanian community in Zadar. In Albania"
"Carla Maffioletti Carla Maffioletti (born c.1980 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian/Italian opera singer. Born in Brazil, Maffioletti shares both Italian and Brazilian nationalities. She began her singing career under the guidance of the Brazilian soprano Neyde Thomas and Classical Guitar at UFRGS University in her homeland. At the age of 15 Maffioletti was already touring throughout Brazil and South America with the pioneering guitar ensemble Camerata Consort during a period of 7 years. From 1998 to 2000 she studied Opera and Lied repertoire with Mya Besselink at the Maastricht Conservatorium in the Netherlands, where"
"Maria Alice ""Maria Alice may also refer to a Portuguese fadista"" Maria Alice de Fátima Rocha Silva (born 23 October 1971), better known as Maria Alice, is a Cape Verdean singer. She was born and raised on the island of Sal. Cape Verde's international airport is based on Sal, and Maria's unique voice drew the attention of many Cape Verdean musicians who passed through the island on their way to and from Europe, America, and Africa. She soon moved to Lisbon, Portugal and began performing and recording with established artists such as the renowned clarinettist Luís Morais. She first snag"
"Medea (1969 film) Medea is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the ancient myth of Medea. Filmed in Göreme Open Air Museum's early Christian churches, it stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role. She does not sing in the movie. The first half sums up the story of Jason and the Argonauts as they travel to Medea's barbarian land in search of the golden fleece. In fitting with the soundtrack (which features Iranian classic music, Japanese traditional music and other folklore pieces), Pasolini depicts Medea's people as a tribal people who perform rituals and sacrifices"