Word: marias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rounding out their first full week as man and diva, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas stayed quietly on the Onassis superyacht, anchored off the Greek coast, until the soprano decided she was having a "sentimental crisis." Off she flew on Onassis' lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then...
...women's half, the story was more of the same. In the first all-foreign women's final since 1937, Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, the dark-haired Wimbledon champion, beat Christine Truman, Britain's power-hitting six-footer. It was the first time in the 79-year history of the U.S. championships that no American appeared in either title match...
...Maria Meneghini Callas, a famous diva. . .Soprano Giovanni Meneghini, her aging husband. . .Bass Elsa Maxwell, her trusted confidante Baritone Evangelia Callas, her estranged mother. . .Contralto Aristotle Onassis, a wealthy shipowner. . .Tenor Athina Onassis, his beautiful young wife. . .Mezzo...
...climactic aria belonged to Mamma Callas, who works at the Manhattan jewelry shop of Mamma Gabor. Last week she recalled with gratitude how Meneghini once sent her $40, while Maria sent her nothing. Said Evangelia of her daughter: "Meneghini was a father and a mother to Maria. Now she no longer needs him. But Maria will never be happy; my soul says it. Women like Maria can never know real love...
Tammy Grimes was a perfect Maria. Skedaddling about with devastating infectiousness, Miss Grimes made it clear that Maria's wits were as sharp as her own nose and chin. The other two superlative performances were the Dancing Zany of Geoffrey Holder, who designed the choreography and also sang; and the light-footed Singing Zany of Russell Oberlin, the world's finest countertenor. In other major roles, Fritz Weaver's Malvolio, Zachary Scott's Orsino, and George Mathews' Sir Toby were disappointing...