Word: divas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still scarred by memories of his war with the tempestuous Maria Callas, Impresario Bing tried to absolve his conductor and soothe his diva. Miss Dernesch, he explained, had merely been engaged as an understudy: "Even Madame Nilsson, as immortal as she is, can get sick occasionally." But since the Austrian soprano was coming all the way to New York, he added, she at least deserves the chance to give one performance in Von Karajan's critically acclaimed production of the Ring. From Vienna, the conductor supplied an obbligato of support to Bing's explanation...
...party celebrating the 75th anniversary of Maxim's in Paris, Diva Maria Callas was reported to have remarked: "She did well, Jacqueline, to give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators were still disproportionately distressed, like the Italian columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways...
Tina Onassis won an Alabama divorce in 1960 on the ground of mental cruelty, and later married the jet-set Marquess of Blandford. The split resulted from Onassis' liaison with Diva Maria Callas, now 44, a decade-long affair that ended only five months ago at Ari's initiative. During their often fiery involvement, La Callas sometimes occupied a suite in Monte Carlo's L'Hermitage hotel, near Onassis' apartment and offices; a tunnel connected the two. Though Callas was most frequently photographed aboard the yacht, it had been Tina who inspired "Telis," as his friends call...
...plays, Time Present and The Hotel in Amsterdam, are sad, sour, personal-and curiously oblique and lethargic. Osborne has never been much of a plot shaper, relying instead on arias of invective and hysteria. He is as much at the mercy of his voice as an operatic diva. This time his voice is overheard rather than heard. Instead of hurling anathemas, he bitches cattily. Instead of scalding, he scolds...
...recovery showed that Suliotis has the temperament of a true diva. She has the vocal equipment too-power, range, a rich, natural voice and a keen instinct for drama-but at this stage of her career it is marred by an occasional lack of control, exaggerated effects and some forcing at both extremes of her range. Also, she may be gambling with her voice's future by singing taxing roles at such an early age. Still, such all-or-nothing assaults on the heights are in the spirit of Callas' own career, and the older soprano may have...