Maria Callas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas
Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977), was a Greek-American soprano, and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.
Born in New York City and raised by an overbearing mother, she received her musical education in Greece and established her career in Italy. Forced to deal with the exigencies of wartime poverty and with myopia that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career. She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal decline and the premature end of her career. The press exulted in publicizing Callas's temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "the Bible of opera" and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists
Maria Callas - Best Of Collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCmXMNUD3SY
Maria Callas - Ave Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8KL63r9Zcw
Maria Callas- Mike Wallace Interview- Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrDb5c7BAg
Maria Callas- Mike Wallace Interview- Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jki3K1LPGQ4
Maria Callas: Today interview with Barbara Walters (New York, April 15, 1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBAqTAYSdk
Rarity!! Maria Callas - La Traviata - Verdi (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhPbsZTB7c
Maria Callas a Paris 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1PnVd1YXvc
Puccini, Tosca. Callas,Gobbi - Regia di Zeffirelli. Covent Garden 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-86OtwzDI
Maria Callas's jewelry Collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxGwwdscXvw
Unknown Facts About Maria Callas || Pastimers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_lk85hsbJc
Maria Callas and the Rome Walkout (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWf7RUp0LU
Callas 1958 Rome Walkout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4avxvONZZI8
Accadde all'opera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4HvChbgxY
Maria Callas Roma (different version) 1958 Norma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdo37xuWFwI
Maria Callas at Lisbonne and MET interviews 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HqwEb67Ez0&t=3
Maria Callas: Arriving at the Met for Adriana Lecouvreur with Renata Tebaldi (NY, Sep. 16, 1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmnKavFV0sE
Maria Callas - Ernani! involami (1962) dir. Georges Prêtre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhAm5Sq69DY