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1) Diva
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Language
English
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"New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the richest men in the world. In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. With her glorious voice, instinctive flair for the dramatic and striking beauty, she was the toast of the grandest opera houses in the world....
Author
Language
English
Description
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world's richest man and...
3) Operatic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"About to graduate from middle school, Charlie is preoccupied with a crush, Emile, and the absence of Luka, a boy in her class, who has not come to school in days. In Mr. P's music class, she hears the songs of opera singer Maria Callas and falls in love with opera. Maria's story helps Charlie navigate her own world."--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
For millions of people, the great soprano Maria Callas (1923-1977) remains the focus of such unparalleled fascination that there is still no higher praise for singers than "...the best since Callas." In this biography, Callas' career is brought brilliantly to life, from her transformation from a chubby, painfully shy girl into a magnificent, celebrated soprano, to her conflict with her larger-than-life image. Huffington makes this struggle, which...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Special features: Q&A with Joyce DiDonato; Q&A with Tom Volf; theatrical trailer.
The definitive portrait of one of history's most extraordinarily talented women. Go beyond Callas, the original diva, and meet Maria, the woman who longed for a normal life. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, the film is the first to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American opera singer completely in her own...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling biographer Anne Edwards comes the irresistible true story of the lives and loves of the great opera diva, Maria Callas.
Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us decades after her death, not only because she was indisputably the greatest opera diva of the 20th century, but also because both her life and death were shrouded in a Machiavellian web of scandal, mystery and deception. Now Anne Edwards, well known for...
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Mucho se ha escrito y dicho sobre María Callas, uno de los mitos del siglo XX, pero casi nadie ha tenido acceso a su correspondencia privada, unas cartas en las que María expresaba su yo más íntimo. Alfonso Signorini, un hombre devoto desde la infancia de la voz de la gran artista tenía entre manos estos documentos cuando se puso a escribir La vida de María Callas. Tan fiera, tan frágil, la biografía novelada de la diva que nació en Nueva...
14) Callas forever
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the final years of opera singer Maria Callas.
17) Maria by Callas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The definitive portrait of one of history's most extraordinarily talented women. Go beyond Callas, the original diva, and meet Maria, the woman who longed for a normal life. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, it is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American opera singer completely in her own words with never-before-seen footage.