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TIME'S Nov. 26 review of Maria Callas as Tosca is the final straw. As one who was present at this dull performance, I can testify that Callas looked like Audrey Hepburn, acted respectably and sang like a member of a second-rate road company. Your music critic either...
Callas is dynamic, explosive and colorful but . . . she can't sing very well.
There was a young lady named Callas Who never did play the old Palace -but if she had, she could scarcely have put on a better vaudeville act than she and some of her colleagues did last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. It began, more or less, during...
As Sordello tells it, Callas grabbed him and whispered loudly: "Don't hold that note!" He held on for dear life. In the in termission. Callas told him: "You will never sing with me again." Then she canceled her next performance of Lucia, to put pressure on Manager Rudolf...
Callas agrees that Sordello did indeed hold the high note, and that during intermission she told him "it wasn't a nice thing to do." To which, said Diva Callas, he replied: " I am going to kill you'-meaning vocally, of course." She did not even mention the...