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Book The Ultimate Maria Callas Collection

Download or read book The Ultimate Maria Callas Collection written by Callas (Maria.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Definitive Maria Callas

Download or read book The Definitive Maria Callas written by Marzotto Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of opera singer Maria Callas along with letters, personal photographs and Callas's private collection of recipes.

Book Maria by Callas

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  • Author : Tom Volf
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-04
  • ISBN : 9781614285502
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Maria by Callas written by Tom Volf and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographic history of Maria Callas' life with her own recorded comments s commentary.

Book Maria Callas

Download or read book Maria Callas written by Anne Edwards and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Maria Callas

Download or read book Maria Callas written by Arianna Huffington and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Maria Meneghini Callas

Download or read book Maria Meneghini Callas written by Michael Scott and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Maria Callas Collection

Download or read book Maria Callas Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cast a Diva

Download or read book Cast a Diva written by Lyndsy Spence and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Maria Callas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Callas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Maria Callas written by Maria Callas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maria Callas collection

Download or read book The Maria Callas collection written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maria Callas

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  • Author : Jürgen Kesting
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Maria Callas written by Jürgen Kesting and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maria Callas Remembered

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  • Author : Nadia Stancioff
  • Publisher : Da Capo Press
  • Release : 2000-04-14
  • ISBN : 9780306809675
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Maria Callas Remembered written by Nadia Stancioff and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2000-04-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after her death Maria Callas remains one of the most renowned and compelling of all divas. Although much has been written about Callas the prima donna, the consummate stage magician, and the tragic lover of Aristotle Onassis, this is the first account of Maria the woman by someone who was close to her. Stancioff, a longtime friend, shares memories of the Maria who gave impromptu concerts of Beatles hits and Mexican ballads; of the Maria who starved herself to conform to the image of a celebrity but would go into rhapsodies about a plate of pasta. And to her own warm reminiscences, Stancioff adds the insights of Maria's friends, colleagues, and family. The figure that emerges is intriguing, infuriating, mystifying—and endlessly fascinating.

Book Jackie and Maria

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  • Author : Gill Paul
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-08-18
  • ISBN : 0062952501
  • Pages : 527 pages

Download or read book Jackie and Maria written by Gill Paul and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Maria Callas

Download or read book Maria Callas written by Stelios Galatopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Callas Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Ardoin
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Callas Legacy written by John Ardoin and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of every recording made by Maria Callas, one of the most prolific recording artists of all time. John Ardoin's recommendations in this biography through sound, guide both the opera neophyte and opera fanatic to the best of all Callas's many recordings, all of which have been reissued on compact disc. He also specifies the live performances captured on so-called pirate recordings and the live recordings that have the best sound.

Book The Callas Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Ardoin
  • Publisher : New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Callas Legacy written by John Ardoin and published by New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International. This book was released on 1991 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ardoin analyzes every recording made by Maria Callas, the most influential of twentieth-century opera singers and one of the most prolific recording artists of all time. John Ardoin's expert recommendations in this biography through sound will guide both opera neophyte and opera fanatic to the best of Callas' many recordings, all of which have been reissued on compact disc, including the legendary live performances captured on so-called pirate recordings, and Ardoin also specifies which live versions have the best sound. With a new epilogue, analysis of newly discovered performances discussed in no other book, previously unpublished photographs, as well as an essay on Callas by playwright Terrence McNally written especially for this compact disc edition, the Callas Legacy remains, as Beverly Sills says, the only book on the soprano "completely worthy of her artistry."--Back cover.

Book The Very Best of Maria Callas

Download or read book The Very Best of Maria Callas written by Callas (Maria.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: