Word: callases
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"Italian opera," snorts one Milanese buff, "is going to the dogs because so many dogs are singing it today." Symptomatic of the problem was La Scala's season-ending production last week of a 147-year-old opera called Olympie, by Gasparo Spontini. It flopped, mainly because it lacked...
But not everyone was ready to join the Union. The Barber of Seville went smoothly enough, though Soprano Roberta Peters as Rosina was in woefully bad voice. At the end of one of her arias, someone shouted "Vive la Callas!"; Merrill, Corena and the 38-piece orchestra under Thomas Schippers...
Death and taxes are unavoidable. For most people, marriage and taxes seem equally inescapable. Not for tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas. By signing her name to a piece of paper in the American embassy in Paris and renouncing her U.S. citizenship, she shed not only her husband but a hefty potential...
Then Callas' lawyers told her that under Greek law Greek citizens are validly married only if the ceremony is performed in the Greek Orthodox Church-which hers was not. Eureka! By giving up her U.S. citizenship, she would become a Greek and nothing but a Greek. Which meant that...
"It was very painful," Callas insisted after she signed the necessary papers, even though "the Americans never really considered me an American." But then she admitted: "Freedom is so nice." It is indeed. It means virtual divorce from U.S. income taxes as well as from Meneghini. As an American citizen...