Maria Callas

Author : Arianna Huffington
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781461624295

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Maria Callas by Arianna Huffington Pdf

For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "...the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is brought brilliantly to life, from her transformation from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent, celebrated soprano, to her conflict with her larger-than-life image. Huffington makes this struggle, which was at the center of her life, also the center of the biography. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material and numerous first-hand interviews, Huffington documents Callas' interminable conflict with her mother, her deeply emotional relationship with her voice, the gradual unraveling of her first marriage, her passionate love affair with of Aristotle Onassis, her agony and humiliation at his leaving her, and her secret abortion.

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250293916

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Maria Callas by Anne Edwards Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling biographer Anne Edwards comes the irresistible true story of the lives and loves of the great opera diva, Maria Callas. Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us decades after her death, not only because she was indisputably the greatest opera diva of the 20th century, but also because both her life and death were shrouded in a Machiavellian web of scandal, mystery and deception. Now Anne Edwards, well known for her revealing and insightful biographies of some of the world's most noted women, tells the intimate story of Maria Callas—her loves, her life, and her music, revealing the true woman behind the headlines, gossip and speculation. The second daughter of Greek immigrant parents, Maria found herself in the grasp of an overwhelmingly ambitious mother who took her away from her native New York and the father she loved, to a Greece on the eve of the Second World War. From there, we learn of the hardships, loves and triumphs Maria experienced in her professional and personal life. We are introduced to the men who marked Callas forever—Luchino Visconti, the brilliant homosexual director who she loved hopelessly, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the husband thirty years her senior who used her for his own ambitions, as had her mother, and Aristotle Onassis, who put an end to their historic love affair by discarding her for the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy. Throughout her life, Callas waged a constant battle with her weight, a battle she eventually won, transforming herself from an ugly duckling into the slim and glamorous diva who transformed opera forever, whose recordings are legend, and whose life is the stuff of which tabloids are made. Anne Edwards goes deeper than previous biographies of Maria Callas have dared. She draws upon intensive research to refute the story of Callas's "mystery child" by Onassis, and she reveals the true circumstances of the years preceding Callas's death, including the deception perpetrated by her close and trusted friend. As in her portraits of other brilliant, star-crossed women, Edwards brings Maria Callas—the intimate Callas—alive.

Author : Lyndsy Spence
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750997782

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Cast a Diva by Lyndsy Spence Pdf

Maria Callas (1923–77) was the greatest opera diva of all time. Despite a career that remains unmatched by any prima donna, much of her life was overshadowed by her fiery relationship with Aristotle Onassis, who broke her heart when he left her for Jacqueline Kennedy, and her legendary tantrums on and off the stage. However, little is known about the woman behind the diva. She was a girl brought up between New York and Greece, who was forced to sing by her emotionally abusive mother and who left her family behind in Greece for an international career. Feted by royalty and Hollywood stars, she fought sexism to rise to the top, but there was one thing she wanted but could not have – a happy private life. In Cast a Diva, bestselling author Lyndsy Spence draws on previously unseen documents to reveal the raw, tragic story of a true icon.

Author : Robert Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574671839

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Maria Callas by Robert Levine Pdf

Maria Callas was almost as well-known for her personal life - her jet-setting, her staggering weight loss, her tigress-like temperament, her affair with Aristotle Onassis (he threw her over for Jacqueline Kennedy) - as she was for her singing. Of Greek parentage, the New York - born, internationally famous Callas was the most influential soprano of the 20th century, reviving a school of singing - bel canto - that had been shunted aside, if not forgotten, for 75 years. Unlike most of her generation of sopranos, she was a superb actress both vocally and physically: her voice encompassed many colours and she embodied each character she portrayed. After seeing or hearing her in a role, it was said, it was difficult to imagine another singer attempting it, so fierce was her individual stamp. Her status went beyond cult; her triumphs and failures appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world. This profusely illustrated book covers Callas' life and career without dwelling on unimportant details; the facts are all here, but it is primarily a musical biography. The final third of the book is devoted to an analysis of the tracks on the two CDs that accompany the text - in short, they describe what made Callas unique, what made Callas Callas. Her voice was controversial; there were those who had negative visceral reactions to it, finding it ugly and weird. Millions of others worshiped it - and her. Listening to her now, more than 30 years after her early death at 54, there is no real argument: listen for yourselves to "La Divina" ('the divine one'), as the Italians dubbed her, and be amazed.

Author : Tom Volf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1614285500

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Maria by Callas by Tom Volf Pdf

Photographic history of Maria Callas' life with her own recorded comments s commentary.

Author : Gill Paul
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062952509

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Jackie and Maria by Gill Paul Pdf

From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined—and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man. The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world... Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful—man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world’s richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man... Little by little, Maria’s and Jackie’s lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.

Author : Nicholas Gage
Publisher : Vision
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0446610763

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Greek Fire by Nicholas Gage Pdf

Packed with newly uncovered secrets, this account of the romance of Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas reveals their full story. Drawing from the private papers of Callas, the author tracks their relationship, from Onassis's pursuit of Callas throughout Europe to the strange covert courtship conducted prior to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555531466

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Maria Meneghini Callas by Michael Scott Pdf

Penetrating, sometimes controversial insights into her genius, commenting on her choice of repertory, and speculating about the reasons behind the concert cancellations that brought her so much publicity. The book also features a discography, a complete list of Callas's performances, and 31 photographs, many previously unknown. With enthusiasm and vitality, Michael Scott has brilliantly captured Callas's life and artistic milieu in a fascinating exploration of one of.

Author : Evangelia Callas,Lawrence Goldtree Blochman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Singers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042411145

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My Daughter Maria Callas by Evangelia Callas,Lawrence Goldtree Blochman Pdf

Author : Stelios Galatopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015041784763

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Maria Callas by Stelios Galatopoulos Pdf

Stelios Galatopoulos first met Maria Callas as a fan, at a performance of La Giocononda in 1947. Aged 24, she was still a large woman, hiding the gaunt dramatic figure she was to become. Galatopoulos was there at her debut at Covent Garden in 1952, and by 1957 had become a friend.

Author : Paul Wink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190857745

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Prima Donna by Paul Wink Pdf

Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment by Aristotle Onassis and the rapid deterioration of her voice, Callas's midlife disintegration reflects deep psychological vulnerabilities. In this book, Wink utilizes cutting-edge advances in research on developmental psychology and narcissism to shed light on Callas's puzzling personal deterioration during the last nine years of her life. Lacking a cohesive and integrated sense of self, Callas sought affirmation and vitality from adoring audiences and older men including her husband Battista Meneghini and her long-term partner Onassis. The propensity to fuse her identity with stage roles contributed to her artistic greatness, but envy and the lack of an intrinsic sense of meaning and worth intensified her vulnerability to life's vicissitudes. Prima Donna is both a powerful study of Callas's life and a contribution to the greater body of work on the psychology of artists.

Author : Stelios Galatopoulos
Publisher : London : Allen
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007946851

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Callas by Stelios Galatopoulos Pdf

Author : Marina Abramovic
Publisher : Damiani Limited
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 8862087314

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Marina Abramovic: 7 Deaths of Maria Callas by Marina Abramovic Pdf

A clothbound companion to Marina Abramovic's tribute to Maria Callas, a new performance that recreates the iconic opera diva's famous onstage death scenes An opera production conceived by the legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic (born 1946), 7 Deaths of Maria Callasis a continuation of the artist's lifelong meditation on the female body as a source of both power and pain. Here Abramovic turns her focus to renowned opera singer Maria Callas, whose stunning soprano voice captivated audiences around the world in the mid-20th century. Though she remains one of opera's greatest singers, Callas' life was beset by struggle and scandal. Today, the opera diva is remembered for having been a figure of both talent and tragedy. Through a mix of narrative opera and film, Abramovic recreates seven iconic death scenes from the American-born Greek singer's most important roles--in La Traviata, Tosca, Otello, Madame Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoorand Norma--followed by an interpretive recreation of Callas' own death performed onstage by Abramovic herself. This clothbound volume serves as a companion to the live performance and provides insight into the conception, planning and execution of Abramovic's project, probing the many creative elements that make up this dynamic exploration of female suffering.

Author : Jackie Callas
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0312039344

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Sisters by Jackie Callas Pdf

The author shares her memories of her sister, Maria Callas, and desribes how artistic talent can be a great burden on the artist

Author : Robert Sutherland
Publisher : Constable Limited
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048572138

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Maria Callas by Robert Sutherland Pdf

In 1973 pianist Robert Sutherland was invited to help Maria Callas prepare for her comeback tour. He stayed, travelling with her for 15 months and then working with her in the studio until shortly before her death.