Maria callas is one of the most extraordinary and influentialfigures in the history of opera. Anima viva. You must serve music because music is so enormous and can envelop you into such a state of. Of perpetual anxiety and torture. When music fails to agree to the ear in other words, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses then it has missed its point. She enjoyed the Bright Lights of fame and endured its dark side. Her every word and move scrutinised by press and public. When a public loves you so much, you want to do so much more. They cant just applaud the legend if you dont give them something. And after all, what is the legend . The public made me. Maria callas was born in new york in December 1923 and christened Cecilia Sofia anna maria kalogeropoulos. Her parents, george and evangelia, left greece for america shortly before her birth, where they abbreviated the family name to callas. In 1937, after the marriage broke down, evangelia moved back to athens with her two daugh
In a recent Melbourne concert at Hamer Hall, Callas shared the stage with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Schlosberg, creating a unique musical and visual "marriage."