Throughout the 1950s, Maria Callas was the leading star of the international opera circuit and arguably the most flamboyant, most sought-after performer in the world. With the unrivaled quality of her opulent voice and her much-publicized personal exploits, she became an international sensation. Ultimately, she was the most transformative force in twentieth-century opera: largely due to "La Callas," opera evolved from a fashionable pastime into a popular obsession. Born in America in 1923 to recent Greek immigrants (without a drop of Italian blood), she was an unlikely future diva. As a child she was myopic, chubby, and spoke in the unrefined accent of her native New York. In 1937 her mother returned with her to Greece, where she began her studies at the Athens Conservatory and made her debut at the Athens Opera. Driven and passionate, by 1949 she was already recognized internationally as an original interpreter of the Italian bel-canto repertory. Maria Callas's rise was meteoric, and her demise seemed just as abrupt. Through the triumphs, and often self-imposed miseries of her life, she burned with the passions of a true prima donna. Maria Callas revolutionized the art of opera, influencing repertoire and singing style more than any artist this century. This book pays homage to this extraordinary diva through an enlightening text and a series of stunning photographs which capture "La Callas" in her most famous roles, at rehearsals, at recordings, and with adoring fans. We follow her first performance of Bellini's Norma at the tender age of nineteen, through the highlights of her career in the late 1950s, and her triumphant performances of opera's greatest heroines. Yet behind the success lies a more haunting story. The great star's destiny echoed that of the tragic heroines she so often portrayed: she lived her roles, both on and off the stage, so intensely that she was devoured by them, both physically and emotionally. She spent her final years in silence and solitude, unaware of the great legacy she would leave, or of the dazzling legend that she had become.

La Callas (Universe of Stars)

Biographies & Memoirs

Tubeuf, André

Arts & Literature

Universe

The success of the Ballets Russes was legendary, but there is more to the legend than its name: the actual story, the adventure, conceived by one man and lived by a few, that lasted only eight seasons and three summers. From 1911 to 1914, Serge Diaghilev, driven by conviction and stubbornness, turned his vision into reality. He collaborated with the likes of Leon Bakst, Igor Stravinsky, and Picasso to create an explosion of creativity in Western Europe which had never before been seen in the world of art. Thanks to Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the most glorious page in the history of ballet, one of the most magnificent moments in the adventure of Art, was written. To turn the pages of this stunning book, which offers rare documents from the legendary Ballets Russes from 1911 to 1914 (Monte Carlo years), is to follow Diaghilev on his creative questa journey that continues to influence art, theater, ballet, and fashion to this day.

Ballets Russes

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Assouline Publishing

Le Festival de Salzbourg (French Edition)

Sand

La Quatorzième valse

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Actes-sud

La Callas

Assouline

This book tells all about a lost, authentically legendary species: the divas. They were the first movie stars before Pickford and Garbo, there was Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri, and Mary Garden. They were the most stunning opera singers, their personalities perhaps even bigger than their voices. Their success and their lives filled the gossip columns. Their fans loved them, grand dukes covered them in jewels. They represented both the splendorous excesses of an era of elegance and luxury, and its swan's song. There is almost nothing that survives of them today. Thankfully, their image remains and reveals all. Along with unpublished pictures of the greatest divas of this century, rediscover their voices in the accompanying CD produced specially for this publication. Track listing 1. Fanny Heldy: "Air du miroir", Thaïs by Jules Massenet (currently playing) 2. Maria Jeritza" "Lute aria", Die Tote Stadt by Erich Wolfgang Korngold 3. Lina Cavalieri: "In quelle trine morbide", Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini 4. Claire Dux: "Elle est aimée", Mignon by Ambroise Thomas 5. Emma Calvé: "Magali 6. Maria Kousnezoff: "Adieu notre petite table", Manon by Jules Massenet 7. Berta Morena: "Air de Rachel", La Juive by Jacques Fromenthal Halévy 8. Eidé Noréna: "Air d'Ophélie", Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas 9. Rose Caron: "Des présents de Gunther", Sigurd by Ernest Reyer 10. Fritzi Jokl: "The last rose of summer", Martha by Friedrich von Flotow 11. Jarmila Novotna: "Poem" by Zdenek Fibich 12. Sigrid Onégin: "Prêtres de Baal", Prophète by Giacomo Meyerbeer 13. Aino Ackté: "Air des bijoux", Faust by Charles Gounod 14. Lotte Schöne: "Ich lausche", Die Schöne Falathea by Franz von Suppe 15. Zinaida Jurjevskaya: "Jenufa's prayer", Jenufa by Leos Janacek 16. Georgette Leblanc: "Bois épais", Amadis de Gaule by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Lost Divas

Photography & Video

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