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	Maria Callas
		Maria Callas was born Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos on December 2, 1923, in New York, New York.
		Maria had last seen her mother in Mexico in 1950 and had vowed that she would never meet or speak with her again (a promise she took with her to her death).
		Maria, against the orders of her doctors, went on stage but it was clear from her first note that her voice was in ruins.
	sopranos.freeservers.com /callas.htm (1813 words)

	Maria Callas - MSN Encarta
		Maria Callas (1923-1977), American-born Greek operatic soprano, the preeminent prima donna (lead female opera singer) of her day, and the first modern soprano to revive forgotten operas of the 19th-century bel canto repertoire.
		Callas revolutionized opera performances through her vocal and dramatic intensity, transforming what had traditionally been empty display pieces into serious drama.
		Callas joined La Scala in Milan, Italy, in 1951, becoming the prima donna of that opera house, where she sang most of the 37 roles of her repertory.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566692/Maria_Callas.html (655 words)

	Maria Callas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 3, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period.
		Callas' progress in the first six months was impressive, and this allowed her mother to secure another audition at the Athens Conservatoire with the well-known soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, who immediately agreed to take her as a pupil.
		Most of all, Callas and Tebaldi generally sang a different repertoire: in the early years of her career, Callas concentrated on the heavy dramatic soprano roles and later in her career on the bel canto repertoire; meanwhile Tebaldi concentrated on late Verdi and verismo roles, in which she was superb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_Callas (7861 words)

	Maria Callas Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Maria Callas was one of the greatest operatic voices of the 20th century.
		As Callas matured, she developed a close relationship with her music coach, Elvira de Hidalgo, and it was de Hidalgo who arranged for Callas's first professional performance at the National Lyric Theater in Athens in November of 1940.
		Callas developed a strong identity with the Druid priestess of the operatic tale, and once confided to Serafin, "It Norma will never be as good as it is now in my mind unsung." Whenever Callas performed in Norma, she reportedly became exhausted and drained from the physical intensity of her emotion.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/maria-callas (1790 words)

	CALLAS BIOGRAPHY
		In 1945, Callas returned to New York where she was heard by Zenatello who engaged her for La Gioconda in the Arena at Verona.
		Maria, against the orders of her doctors, went on stage but her voice was in ruins.
		In 1971-2 Maria Callas gave an extensive series of master classes mainly in New York and in 1973 and 1974 she emerged from a long period of retirement to make a concert tour with her former colleague, Giuseppe di Stefano.
	www.callasforever-themovie.com /callasbiography.html (655 words)

	Maria Callas: Opera Singer - Ten Best CDs
		And while we can hear Callas in almost all her roles and at various stages in her career, the plentiful photos unfortunately do not compensate for the skimpy live visual coverage.
		Callas is an artist who needed the stage to come to life; even if she brought fascinating moments to almost all of her studio incarnations, listening to some of the "unofficial" versions allows us to appreciate the artist at her full worth.
		Callas shows that comedy is also within her grasp, and she is partnered by Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, the ageless Mariano Stabile as the Poet, an exotic-sounding Nicolai Gedda shorn of most of his music and Franco Calabrese.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/cdreview/rhemaria.htm (1295 words)

	Random Works of the Web » Blog Archive » Maria Callas
		Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Καλογεροπούλου) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period.
		In April 2, 1939 Maria made her debut at the Olympia theater, as Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and in the fall of the same year she enrolled at the Athens Conservatoire in Elvira de Hidalgo’s class.
		This claim is corroborated by Lakintha (Jackie) Callas in her book Sisters, where she asserts that Devetzi conned the gullible sister out control of her half of the estate, while promising to establish the Maria Callas Foundation to provide scholarships for young singers.
	random.dragonslife.org /maria-callas-2/5353 (2184 words)

	Maria Callas
		Maria Callas had a distinctive vocal timbre which she could colour in a seemingly infinite number of manners.
		Maria Meneghini Callas was born Sophie Cecelia Kalogeropoulou (Kalos) (or Maria Anna Cecilia Sophia Kalogeropoulos) on 2 December, 1923 in New York.
		Callas also sang a small rôle (Smaragda) in Manolis Kalomiris' O protomastoras (17 in 1943-1944), her only contemporary rôle.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/1523/callas.htm (1046 words)

	Callas Corner - Opera Singer Maria Callas, Callas CD's & Merchandise - Opera
		Callas was truly the heir to a lost tradition, the essence of Bel Canto.
		Maria burned brightly in the operatic heavens far too briefly, then her glittering fire splintered and died.
		" 'Maria, Maria!...' the thunder-like hand clapping and the clamorous cries, the Callas entrance was sensational, her floor length dress hugged her slender body, her dark hair pulled back with a cascade of thick curls.
	members.aol.com /OmbraRecds (596 words)

	Maria Callas Photo Gallery
		"As a person Maria, despite her appearance of great assurance, was a fragile person, and she tried to overcome that for the press.
		Callas was performing Medea at La Scala on 11 December 1961.
		Callas made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 28 October 1956 as Norma.
	www.homestead.com /eocm5/Callas_Quotes.html (1491 words)

	Pasolini, Maria Callas, Drawings
		While preparing the film "Medea" (which features Maria Callas)on the isle of Saphon as well as at his friend's place(Giuseppe Zigaina), Pasolini made a whole series of portrait-sketches of the Diva.
		A second series of Callas portraits came to life one year later, in the wake of "Medea", on the Scorpios island.
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	www.karaartservers.ch /pasolini/callas.html (427 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Maria Callas - The Voice of the Century: Music: Vincenzo Bellini,Gioachino Rossini,Gaetano ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Twenty years after Maria Callas' death in 1977, EMI honoured one of its most faithful recording stars by re-releasing her entire output.
		Admittedly Callas at times forcibly subdued co-singers and conductors, but this was certainly not the case when she communed with the La Scala orchestra and Tullio Serafin, with whom the Greek "maestra" shared a love and affinity for the leisurely paced Italian bel canto tradition.
		Callas' takes on the French repertoire (disc two) leaves her more open to stylistic scrutiny--the 1961 Gluck recordings "Che faro" and "Alceste" fall victims to heavy handed romanticism.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Maria-Callas-Century-Tullio-Serafin/dp/B0000267WQ (861 words)

	Maria Callas
		Maria Callas was born in New York on 1923-12-04 (or 12-02) and died in Paris on 1977-09-16.
		An article about Maria Callas and the auction of her possessions in Paris in December 2000.
		Callas herself tells the story in an interview which has been recorded (might be available on CD) so she blew everybody's mind by singing Brünnhilde one day and then Elvira a few days later...
	www.serendipity.li /callas.html (524 words)

	Amazon.com: Maria Callas Remembered: An Intimate Portrait of the Private Callas: Books: Nadia Stancioff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nadia Stancioff was Maria Callas's friend during the diva's unhappy final years, starting as a publicist for Callas's film of Medea.
		Maria's family was kept in luxury during World War II by her sister's boyfriend; Maria ate out of garbage cans.
		A publicist who met Maria Callas in 1969, when the opera singer was filming Medea, here describes their friendship during the next eight years and disputes myths about Callas.
	www.amazon.com /Maria-Callas-Remembered-Intimate-Portrait/dp/0306809672 (1859 words)

	Astrology Software for Research - Maria Callas - astrology chartMaria Callas
		Callas was born in Manhattan to Greek immigrant parents who changed the family name from Kalogeropoulos to Callas when her father opened a drugstore in the borough.
		Callas rehearsed tirelessly, singing everything whether it fit her voice or not.
		Since Callas was prone to fragile health, he would not let her bear children, thinking it might harm her physical well-being as well as her career.
	www.astrodatabank.com /NM/CallasMaria.htm (1103 words)

	Celebrities/maria callas had tapeworm
		According to Maria, there was no secret diet or potion; the answer was a taenia, or tapeworm, which is sometimes acquired from raw or rare meat.
		Maria told me she had one twice, which made me wince in disgust.
		Tb[by Maria Callas]: Her weight loss was due to a tapeworm.
	tafkac.org /celebrities/maria_callas_had_tapeworm.html (1129 words)

	Maria Callas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maria Callas wore her heart on her sleeve.
		Maria Callas was one of the greatest artists in history!
		I consider the astrological referenda for Maria Callas' notorious temper to be the sesquare aspect from Mars-conjunction-Saturn at 28 Libra to Uranus at 13 Pisces.
	www.astrodatabank.com /nm/FeedbackPRT.asp?ChartID=227 (3413 words)

	Amazon.fr : Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography: Livres en anglais: Anne Edwards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But the author lays out the familiar facts deftly, nailing each of the forceful personalities who shaped Callas' destiny, from the obsessively ambitious mother who pushed her into performing and denied her a childhood to Onassis, the great love of her life, who broke her heart after a nine-year affair when he married Jacqueline Kennedy.
		Most forceful of all is Callas herself, who transformed opera with the revelation that great singing became even greater when buttressed by great acting.
		Edwards recounts, too, the star's death at 53, her dispiriting funeral ("A high wind rose just as the ashes were being offered to the blustery sea, and some of them flew back and landed on the clothes of the mourners") and the grifters who swooped in to feed on Callas's financial remains.
	www.amazon.fr /Maria-Callas-Biography-Anne-Edwards/dp/0312310021 (723 words)

	Maria Callas News
		Maria Guleghina filling in for Andrea Gruber in "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera.
		Maria Callas sings 'd'amor sull'ali rosee' from the opera 'Il Trovatore', by Verdi in a concert in Paris, 1958.
		In many ways the story of operatic tenor Marcelo Alvarez is an uplifting one, as it proves that in a day and age when future classical singers can hardly be bred and brought up for the purpose, as they once...
	www.topix.net /who/maria-callas (617 words)

	Maria Callas Web Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Further information about Maria Callas, with links to sites concerning the operas and characters which she sang.
		Lloyd Schwartz attended two of the master classes given by Maria Callas at the Julliard School of Music in New York in 1971, and here's what he writes about the experience.
		Maria Callas (in German) has a gallery of Callas pics.
	www.serendipity.li /callas/call_lnx.html (310 words)

	ARIANNA ONLINE - Books: Maria Callas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Already hailed by critics as "an astounding achievement," "a stupendous story", "the finest biography of Maria Callas ever written," Marie Callas is a wonderfully readable, intimate life of one of the most talented and spellbinding women of our century.
		For millions of people, Callas was the focus of unparalleled fascination -- the enigma of a highly publicized and yet intensely private personality.
		Written with a profound empathy for its subjects, the biography is alive with Maria's passion, her emotional presence, making us feel the psychological conflicts that triggered her astonishing career and the tragedy that unfolded behind it.
	www.ariannaonline.com /books/callas.php (396 words)

	Maria Callas \| TIME Europe Magazine \| 60 Years of Heroes
		Maria Callas remains an icon with an instantly recognizable voice.
		Callas had a direct influence on the first steps of my career.
		At 19, I was called to perform at a gala in Paris devoted to her memory.
	www.time.com /time/europe/hero2006/callas.html (258 words)

	Maria Callas At Juilliard - The Masterclasses \| ArkivMusic
		Maria Callas At Juilliard - The Masterclasses
		Maria Callas, Eugene Kohn, Kyu Do Park, Pamela Hebert, Luba Tcheresky,
		It is not performed continuously, being interrupted during Maria Callas's lecture.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=3614 (513 words)

	CALLAS AS MEDEA
		Excerpts from Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend by Arianna Huffington.
		Maria Callas is extraordinary as Medea in Pasolini's
		from Maria Callas, who uses her few lines of dialogue to great effect.
	www.cpinternet.com /mbayly/callasasmedea.htm (1021 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Maria Callas - Live In Concert Hamburg 1959 And 1962 (1959/62): DVD: Maria Callas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is not just a concert performance of operatic arias, it is much more than that - introducing a whole gallery of characters, each of them in a specific manner and exceptionally plausible.
		Listening to any aria performed by Maria Callas it becomes immediately clear that this is more than just sung notes - this is an insight into the contents and, the most important of all, revival of the personages, living with their lives.
		Callas is a first class actress, it is remarkable to see her face expression change in every aria, in every single detail; it is like seeing in person the operatic characters themselves.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Maria-Callas-Live-Concert-Hamburg/dp/B00003JA6N (477 words)

	Maria Callas 2002
		Below are links to a variety of web sites, where information regarding the life and career of Maria Callas can be obtained.
		Maria Callas - The Fate of a Woman and her Voice
		Callas A Paris II - Liner Notes (by Michel Roubinet)
	www.homestead.com /eocm5/Maria_Callas_Links.html (91 words)

	Maria Callas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Maria Callas in Concert - Hamburg 1958 and 1962 (1962) (TV)....
		Maria Callas: La Divina - A Portrait (1987) (TV)....
		Find where Maria Callas is credited alongside another name
	us.imdb.com /Name?Callas,+Maria (320 words)

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