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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Callas is dynamic, explosive and colorful but . . . she can't sing very well.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War at the Opera | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War at the Opera | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: War at the Opera | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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