Tosca did not deserve to be booed Oct 27, 2009
Mattila might not be a natural Tosca, with the hard-edged spinto of, say, a Callas, but she brought drama and fidelity to the role by making it believable and frightening. The Argentinian tenor Marcelo Alvarez has a real Italianate voice, the sort of tonal quality one associated with Mario del Monaco in his prime. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
At 60, soprano Kirkby’s expressive voice is still on the mark Oct 26, 2009
Indeed, it might be said she has done for that period what Maria Callas did for 19th-century bel canto singing. In the early 1970s, when she began, her sound was startling; now many sopranos sound like Kirkby, though few sing with her attention to detail. (Boston Globe)
Alex Ross: “Tosca” at the Met. Sep 30, 2009
If you happen to have Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi on hand to play the diva and the heavy, you get high-low bliss, like a B movie directed by Rembrandt ... (Zeffirelli in his younger days was another matter: his direction of Callas and Gobbi in Act II of Tosca, as seen on a 1964 telecast from Covent Garden, is remarkable both for its attention to detail and for its ferocious formal control. (New Yorker)
Today in History - Sept. 17 Sep 17, 2009
In 1977, Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at age 53. In 1982, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children by Israeli-allied Lebanese militiamen began in west Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
This day in history Sep 16, 2009
In 1977, Maria Callas, the American-born prima donna famed for her lyric soprano and fiery temperament, died in Paris at 53. In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert slammed into the Mexico coast for the second time in three days. (Boston Globe)
* Diva fever Aug 31, 2009
Were well past the days of defining diva in a Maria Callas sense. Pop culture has adopted the word from the opera world to represent its standout leading ladies X the brash and the brassy, the silky and the sassy. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
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Hand-in-hand British musician, wife commit suicide : North County Times - Californian 07-15-2009. Entertainment Extras. (North County Times)
Holding hands, British conductor and wife commit suicide Jul 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009. Breaking News/Updates. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Dramatic opening Jul 9, 2009
Wainwright knows some audiences will compare her with Maria Callas. Indeed he studied BBC television interviews with Callas from 1968 as research ... The opera borrows from the life of Maria Callas but is not about her. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Susan Boyle's dowdy image fuels fantasy May 28, 2009
What has inflamed the public imagination isn't the discovery of a new Mariah Carey or Maria Callas so much as the notion that an ordinary singleton from a run-down industrial village can seize her chance at glory and translate it into fame. For that is what Boyle has done. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
• Get more Cannes news, reviews May 17, 2009
Eva Mendes will play Maria Callas in 'Greek Fire,' a script by Julian Fellowes about the love affair between the opera singer and Aristotle Onassis. Marion Cotillard stars in a generational tragicomedy about a group of friends who head to the coast for their summer holiday. (Variety)
How Impressed Should I Be by Susan Boyle's Vibrato? Apr 18, 2009
Others, like opera singer Maria Callas, develop a warble late in their careers. (As singers age, they often find it more difficult to control their throat muscles. (Slate)
Soul on stage Apr 13, 2009
In CNCSs collection are costumes worn by renowned opera singer Maria Callas and ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, made exactly to their needs ... Between the seams of Callas costume, there is elastic. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
* [HARDCOVER: US] The tumultuous life of the queen of the blues Apr 12, 2009
Just a few people could do it, Callas, Rubinstein and me, Nina wrote. Nina Simone mixed humility with hubris and it was a deadly cocktail. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Take a free tour Mar 25, 2009
Where else on earth can you choose between old 45s of Maria Callas, Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti and Mario Lanza. And what better soundtrack to a late-night toast than a scratchy recording of an Enrico Caruso aria. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
