Word: callases
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Blissfully Giddy. The only person who can resolve the voice question is Sills herself. Last week she did, in a way that should silence doubters and suggest to everyone else that she will go on singing for at least another ten years. At the New York City Opera, Sills took...
"London always meant the most to me," exulted a magnanimous Maria Callas, 50, after she had ignited the Royal Festival Hall's S.R.O. audience. Ending an eight-year absence from the London stage, Callas shared a program of four duets and three solos each with Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano...
A soprano cannot always be prima donna assoluta, but Maria Callas, 49, does not stop behaving like one. With only three days to go before her first concert in eight years, Callas bowed out with an eye infection, plunging London Impresario Sandor Gorlinsky and 3,000 fans, some of whom...
Perhaps deciding not to waste any of her remaining high Cs in what looked suspiciously like aria-to-aria combat, Callas withdrew into doctor-ordered seclusion until rehearsals start for her second scheduled Royal Festival Hall appearance on Nov. 26.
She was not permanently retired after all. Maria Callas, the volcanic soprano whose last role was Tosca at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1965, explained that she had "developed some bad vocal habits. So I retired to start again." Now a worldwide Callas tour that would begin in...