Word: callases
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The props are simple: desk, music stand, stool, a pair of horn-rimmed glasses used occasionally as a baton. The cast is small: one piano accompanist, plus any of 25 young, nervous operatic hopefuls selected from a field of 300 applicants. The star and plot line are fantastic: Maria Callas...
This is the scene in La Callas' twice-weekly master classes at Manhattan's Juilliard School, the second series of which opened last week. As musical shows go, it is already one of the long runners. It is also one of the best. The audience thronging the school...
Sir: The statement that Beverly Sills "takes up where Maria Callas left off" cannot go unchallenged.
At least a dozen excellent sopranos have been compared with Callas since she departed the lyric stage. Beverly Sills possibly comes the closest, but she still has a long way to go.
Today the Sutherland voice towers like a natural wonder, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland...