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The "mother of performance art" Marina Abramovic has been obsessed with Maria Callas for many decades. Abramovic first heard La Divina's voice when she was just 14 years old. Now in her seventies, she has created a tribute to the great diva that's appearing for a short run at the Coliseum, marking her birth 100 years ago. And it's the diva who is at the forefront here. First of all, it's important to point out that, though this is part of English National Opera's autumn season, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas is not an opera. Instead, it takes seven tragic operatic heroines and recreates their death scenes and their arias: Violetta from Traviata, the eponymous Tosca, Madam Butterfly, Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, Carmen and Desdemona from Otello. All have died for love and in all of them we are encouraged to see the character as part of Callas's own, their deaths and isolation a reflection of the great soprano's own tragedies. Abramovic herself is pr

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