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-From James Mccourt:
No, after a recital she was ready for her favorite word and activity, , "conversation," and in every city but especially in Barcelona and Madrid (a city she greatly preferred to her own. She was Spanish, not Catalan (and Catalan women don't seem to know who they are at all), And conversation for her meant listening as much as talking. She was an egalitarian and never a divav--although when her elder son brought home a puppy, they both decided to call her "Diva," The roles: The Countess Almaviva, Manon, Butterfly and Melisande. Since this is a page dedicated to Maria Calls, I will tell two things. Maria hated New York and the Metropolitan. She said of Victoria "She is the rose in the middle of all the weeds." Some time in the 70s, Victoria was giving a recital at the Salle Wagram in Paris, and an enormous basket of the most beautiful red roses was delivered backstage without a card attached. "But who sent these beautiful roses -- and so many!" "The sender wishes to remain anonymous, Madame." Then I cannot accept them," After a long pause, the man said," Well, Madame theyare from Madame Callas." Victoria said '"Well, I am going to call her up," and she left the dressing room and went into the executive offices and did so. Thus there developed a friendship, by telephone, for both women were shy (Yes, Maria in her later years was shy.) I asked her about this but she never said a word about it until Maria died. Victoria was the first person Bruna called that morning, and heard the telephone fall to the floor, and no sound but weeping on the other end. Years later, when Victoria was chosen to open the Maris Callas Atheneum in Athens, she held up her hand to stop the voluminous applause and said, "Please may we all give a standing ovation to Maria Callas?" It was that night I attempted to "get at" this friendship of theirs -- it was then that she said "Nobody could touch her," and all she would say to me, her eyes full of tears was "I was trying to get her to keep the heart heart Up."
Sincerely yours, James McCourt
-From BZBlaner:
I think Callas is the only singer who starts the ascending trills on middle-low (E4)
-From Leo Henry:
maria callas didn't exist! it's all a dream
-From Lohengrin O:
Callas sounding Heavier than Elena Nicolai and more Heroic than Birgit Nilsson
Негізгі бет Callas' contraltoish In mia man against young Franco Corelli
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