Word: callases
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The loyal fans of Soprano Renata Tebaldi had a hard time in recent years detecting the girlish silhouette of Mimi, say, or Leonora beneath their favorite's puffed-up form. Unlike her archrival Callas. who had the theatrical canniness to diet to a sleek whisper of her former self...
The figure was famous. And for one breathless moment, the 15,000 people in Madison Square Garden thought they were going to see all of it. Onto the stage sashayed Marilyn Monroe, attired in a great bundle of white mink. Arriving at the lectern, she turned and swept the furs...
Trained as a naval engineer, Corelli did not start studying singing until he was 24, learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun "by pure good luck" when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini'...
Sweeping around West Germany on a four-city concert tour. Soprano Maria Callas, 38, was guilty of not one prima donnybrook, seemed to be newly tranquilized. Though an eye inflammation bedded her down for a day in a Bonn hospital, she gamely went on with the show the next evening...
Maria Callas: Great Arias from French Operas (Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, conducted by Georges Prêtre; Angel). Callas deserts the Italian roles in which she became famous for the heroines of Gluck, Bizet, Gounod, Charpentier. The voice is predictably wobbly in spots, but the interpretations...