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Maria Callas

Author : Arianna Huffington
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461624290
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Maria Callas written by Arianna Huffington and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was at the center of her life, also the center of the biography. Using a wealth of previously unpublished material and numerous first-hand interviews, Huffington documents Callas' interminable conflict with her mother, her deeply emotional relationship with her voice, the gradual unraveling of her first marriage, her passionate love affair with of Aristotle Onassis, her agony and humiliation at his leaving her, and her secret abortion.

The Autobiography of Maria Callas

Author : Alma H. Bond
Publisher : Alma Bond
ISBN 13 : 9780913559482
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Maria Callas written by Alma H. Bond and published by Alma Bond. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalised account of the well-known and not so widely known details of the tempestuous and passionate, creative and private life of the internationally acclaimed diva. The soaring heights of her talents, the fears of her decline, written from a psychological, highly controversial perspective.

Maria Callas

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 125029391X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Maria Callas written by Anne Edwards and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 her revealing and insightful biographies of some of the world's most noted women, tells the intimate story of Maria Callas—her loves, her life, and her music, revealing the true woman behind the headlines, gossip and speculation. The second daughter of Greek immigrant parents, Maria found herself in the grasp of an overwhelmingly ambitious mother who took her away from her native New York and the father she loved, to a Greece on the eve of the Second World War. From there, we learn of the hardships, loves and triumphs Maria experienced in her professional and personal life. We are introduced to the men who marked Callas forever—Luchino Visconti, the brilliant homosexual director who she loved hopelessly, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the husband thirty years her senior who used her for his own ambitions, as had her mother, and Aristotle Onassis, who put an end to their historic love affair by discarding her for the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy. Throughout her life, Callas waged a constant battle with her weight, a battle she eventually won, transforming herself from an ugly duckling into the slim and glamorous diva who transformed opera forever, whose recordings are legend, and whose life is the stuff of which tabloids are made. Anne Edwards goes deeper than previous biographies of Maria Callas have dared. She draws upon intensive research to refute the story of Callas's "mystery child" by Onassis, and she reveals the true circumstances of the years preceding Callas's death, including the deception perpetrated by her close and trusted friend. As in her portraits of other brilliant, star-crossed women, Edwards brings Maria Callas—the intimate Callas—alive.

Maria Callas

Author : Stelios Galatopoulos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Maria Callas written by Stelios Galatopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stelios Galatopoulos first met Maria Callas as a fan, at a performance of La Giocononda in 1947. Aged 24, she was still a large woman, hiding the gaunt dramatic figure she was to become. Galatopoulos was there at her debut at Covent Garden in 1952, and by 1957 had become a friend.

Cast a Diva

Author : Lyndsy Spence
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750997788
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Cast a Diva written by Lyndsy Spence and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Callas (1923–77) was the greatest opera diva of all time. Despite a career that remains unmatched by any prima donna, much of her life was overshadowed by her fiery relationship with Aristotle Onassis, who broke her heart when he left her for Jacqueline Kennedy, and her legendary tantrums on and off the stage. However, little is known about the woman behind the diva. She was a girl brought up between New York and Greece, who was forced to sing by her emotionally abusive mother and who left her family behind in Greece for an international career. Feted by royalty and Hollywood stars, she fought sexism to rise to the top, but there was one thing she wanted but could not have – a happy private life. In Cast a Diva, bestselling author Lyndsy Spence draws on previously unseen documents to reveal the raw, tragic story of a true icon.

The Unknown Callas

Author : N. Petsal_s-Diom_d_s
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670592
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Callas written by N. Petsal_s-Diom_d_s and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). In this award-winning biography, Petsalis-Diomidis closely examines Maria Callas's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945. These years have been largely absent from previous works about Callas, but were crucial to her professional and personal growth. The author examines her professional development, her studies, her concertizing, and her work with the Greek National Opera. He also recounts Callas's daily life, her friendships, her rivalries at the conservatory, and her personal life. Though it is a detailed historical biography, the writing and pace are novelistic. HARDCOVER.

Greek Fire

Author : Nicholas Gage
Publisher : Vision
ISBN 13 : 9780446610766
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greek Fire written by Nicholas Gage and published by Vision. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with newly uncovered secrets, this account of the romance of Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis and opera diva Maria Callas reveals their full story. Drawing from the private papers of Callas, the author tracks their relationship, from Onassis's pursuit of Callas throughout Europe to the strange covert courtship conducted prior to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy.

Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too!

Author : John Gruen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Callas Kissed Me...Lenny Too! written by John Gruen and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fantastical beginnings - his mother went into labour while gambling at a French casino - to escaping Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and ultimately conquering New York City, John Gruen's life has been anything but ordinary. As a boy unable to speak a single word of English, Gruen was determined to make it in America. Anxious to learn about his adopted country, Gruen ventured to the midwest to attend Iowa University, emerging five years later as a fully Americanised graduate student on his way to a PhD. Here is a subtly revealing self-portrait of a truly remarkable man.

Franco Corelli

Author : Ren Seghers
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574671636
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Franco Corelli written by Ren Seghers and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). His exceptional good looks made him a matinee idol, and Franco Corelli the Prince of Tenors was dubbed "Mr. Soldout" for 20 consecutive years. In 1958, just seven years after beginning his career, he was already the highest-paid tenor in Italy. Following his Met debut in 1961, he was celebrated as the greatest tenor in the world, a position that he retained until his departure from the Met in 1975. His charismatic performances in such operas as La Vestale and Fedora (both in collaboration with Maria Callas), coupled with a formidable mystique, as well as a number of notorious and colorful incidents, including his real-life sword fight with Boris Christoff in Rome, the Callas walkout there, the beating up of a spectator in Naples, and the alleged biting of Birgit Nilsson on a Boston tour of Turandot , created a mania for Corelli. Nearly a decade in the making, this definitive biography is based on the author's extensive research of theater archives and interviews with the opera star's numerous friends, family members, colleagues (Nilsson, Pavarotti, and many others), as well as the management of some of the world's leading opera houses.

I Never Walked Alone

Author : Shirley Verrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Never Walked Alone written by Shirley Verrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-05-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Puccini

Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535308
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Puccini written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer

Ari

Author : Peter Evans
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 : 9781557730060
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Ari written by Peter Evans and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, Ari Onassis personally summoned Peter Evans to write his life story. After months of exclusive conversations, years of extensive research, and in-depth interviews with Onassis's friends, lovers and rivals, Evans produced the only true, full account of the charismatic and ruthless Aristotle Onassis. To be a major ABC miniseries in February. 32 pages of photos.

Can't Help Singing

Author : Eileen Farrell
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534066
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Can't Help Singing written by Eileen Farrell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-anticipated memoir of one of the greatest and most celebrated American singers of the twentieth century

My Wife Maria Callas

Author : Giovanni Battista Meneghini
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374217525
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book My Wife Maria Callas written by Giovanni Battista Meneghini and published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. This book was released on 1982 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relenting after decades of silence, the husband of Maria Callas writes to set the record straight about his wife's tempestuous life, career, and love affairs

Callas

Author : Stelios Galatopoulos
Publisher : London : Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Callas written by Stelios Galatopoulos and published by London : Allen. This book was released on 1976 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Grand Surprise

Author : Leo Lerman
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307495744
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Grand Surprise written by Leo Lerman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Condé Nast, and man about town at the center of New York’s artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman’s contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as Mademoiselle and The New York Times. He was features editor at Vogue and editor in chief of Vanity Fair. He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new talents, fashions, and ideas. He was a legendary party host as well, counting Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, and Truman Capote among his intimates, and celebrities like Cary Grant, Jackie Onassis, Isak Dinesen, and Margot Fonteyn as part of his larger circle. But his personal accounts and correspondence reveal him also as having an unusually rich and complex private life, mourning the cultivated émigré world of 1930s and 1940s New York City, reflecting on being Jewish and an openly homosexual man, and intimately evoking his two most important lifelong relationships. From a man whose literary icon was Marcel Proust comes an unparalleled social and emotional history. With eloquence, insight, and wit, he filled his journals and letters with acute assessments, gossip, and priceless anecdotes while inimitably recording both our larger cultural history and his own moving private story.

The Bravest Voices

Author : Ida Cook
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369704304
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Bravest Voices written by Ida Cook and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timeless memoir documents two sisters’ bravery leading up to WWII—a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity’s darkest hours. Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable jobs—Ida as a budding romance novelist and Louise as a civil service typist. But in 1923, a chance hearing of an aria from Madame Butterfly sparked a passion for opera in the sisters that led to the formation of friendships with some of Europe’s leading singers and their network, many of them Jewish. As the Nazis rose to power, Ida and Louise began working with the opera world’s insiders to save members of the community from persecution and death. Through ingenuity, thrift and bottomless goodwill, the sisters eluded the suspicion of the Nazis and helped secure safe passage for dozens of refugees. No one would have predicted such daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook—but that underestimation is exactly how they were able to save lives. First published in 1950, Ida’s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital and entertaining as the woman who wrote it, and is a moving testament to the extraordinary acts of courage by two everyday heroes.