Word: callases
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When in Rome, she does as she always does. There were some boos after the first act of a gala opening-night Norma in 1958, and Soprano Maria Callas stomped out without further ado. So the Rome Opera canceled her contract for three additional performances. Their mistake. The reason for...
Other nights he spends at the movies, laughing convulsively at the cartoons. His one abiding passion besides dancing is music. He has a collection of more than 4,000 records-Chopin, Bach, Callas arias, Scriabin, and every album Peggy Lee ever put out. He never travels anywhere without his portable...
At midnight the day before tickets went on sale, fans began lining up outside Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper. Was Callas singing? Tebaldi? Sutherland? None of them, but a Canadian-Greek girl named Anastasia Strataki, known in the world of the opera as Teresa Stratas.
Soup & Chicken. "I sang every maid in the operatic repertory," Teresa recalls. But reviewers noticed her in the small parts, called her "the baby Callas." She had the brash drive of an expectant star. After a lunch at the White House with President Kennedy in 1961, she told reporters: "The...
Whether it will ever return in full flower is a matter of conjecture. Meanwhile, Callas remains indisputably the most exciting operatic presence of her generation. Asked afterward how she thought her performance went, she could only say: "You find a word. I can't." But who could put Callas...