Everyone knows the story of how the great opera star Maria Callas lost her voice at the peak of her career, and everyone has their own theory of how that happened. Today, the spectre of La Divina herself has come to point out that there’s something they’ve all missed…
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Download a copy of the rare "Puritani" record here (one of only 3 records made by Callas on shellac 78rpm): www.ziazan.co.uk
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Footnotes
With thanks to Lyndsy Spence for her 2021 biography, “Cast a Diva”.
Callas speaking of her myopia: • Maria Callas In Conver...
Muscular Dystrophy Telethon with Jerry Lewis: • Maria Callas and Jerry...
Opinions on her vocal decline: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_C...
Vocal improvement in 1970s: • Maria Callas's Vocal I...
60 Minutes interview with Mike Wallace, Paris, February 3, 1974: • Maria Callas: 60 Minut...
Maria by Callas (2017): • Maria By Callas | Offi...
Speaking to Philippe Caloni, Radio France Musique, April 1977
“Why Callas lost that voice“, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 15, 2002
“Opera Legend Maria Callas ‘Didn't Die Of A Broken Heart’ “, La Stampa, December 21, 2010
“Callas & Tomatis”, Voicetalk, 31 December, 2012
“Maria Meneghini Callas”, Michael Scott, 1991
“My Wife Maria Callas”, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 1981
“A Life Among Legends” Jacques Leiser, 2016
“The Tongs and the Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood”
www.ehlers-danlos.com/brochures/
Unofficial list of comorbidities in EDS as observed in the online community: ohtwist.com/about-eds/comorbi...
Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and the Cusack Protocol (Facebook group)
www.lipoedema.co.uk/about-lip...
www.nhs.uk/conditions/mitral-...
www.theguardian.com/society/2...
22 июн 2024