Maria Callas

...ball at the end of the game. He makes Diana Ross look like a humble Pip. At 180 pounds, Pedro is bigger than Aretha Franklin. He's Maria Callas, Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion. His heart will go on. He is a prime-time performer with a Bill...

In this article: Pedro Martinez, Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Boston, 2009 World Series, Mango, World Series, Game 6, and 2004 World Series

...at Waitangi Park. Dancer Philippe Priasso performs a breathtaking duet with a mechanical digger to the dramatic voice of Maria Callas. "We continue our SchoolFest educational programme that offers performances and behind the...

In this article: New Zealand, Nina Simone, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Wellington, Ravi Shankar, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and Joan London

...ignore women singers. Hoffman says that in the world of opera, some women have an impressive range. Contrast two arias sung by Maria Callas: the coloratura aria "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's Barber of Seville; and the mezzo-soprano aria...

In this article: Placido Domingo, Barber of Seville, Samson and Delilah, Camille Saint-Saens, and Luciano Pavarotti

...of the "50 Great Voices" radio series in 2010. This reporter's five? In no particular order (except for The King): Elvis Presley, Maria Callas, Roy Orbison, Robert Plant and K.D. Lang. Obviously, my selections betray a generally 20th...

In this article: NPR, Elvis Presley, E mail, Robert Plant, Stevie Wonder, Roy Orbison, Judy Garland, K.D. Lang, and Dolly Parton

Stage » Anne Cullimore Decker's anti-diva style and a career's worth of craft helps the actor transform herself into the aging Maria Callas. Actress Anne Cullimore Decker gets into costume backstage at the Salt Lake Acting Company theater...

In this article: Master Class, Salt Lake City, Knee replacement, University of Utah, and Aristotle Onassis

...to them, always fondly and sometimes hilariously as on the famous occasion when, aged 14, he appeared on the stage at Covent Garden with Maria Callas in Bellini's Norma as one of the two children the heroine had decided to stab to death. Frank...

In this article: Frank Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, The Spectator, Boris Johnson, Norma, Norman Tebbit, Dennis Skinner, Daily Telegraph, and Enoch Powell

...bone ("Is this a family broadcast?" she quickly asked). Mattila might not be a natural Tosca, with the hard-edged spinto of, say, a Callas, but she brought drama and fidelity to the role by making it believable and frightening. The...

In this article: Tosca, Karita Mattila, Act I, James Levine, Marcelo Alvarez, Alex Ross, New York, Sant'Andrea della Valle, and The New Yorker

...and fine diction to revive solo music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Indeed, it might be said she has done for that period what Maria Callas did for 19th-century bel canto singing. In the early 1970s, when she began, her sound was startling;...

In this article: Emma Kirkby, Cambridge, Silver, and Joan Sutherland

...Wiel's stylish costumes. David Evanoff's rich sound design supplies counterpointing touches of the real Callas. Everything Maria Callas did was larger than life. This production does a superb job capturing the bright burst and sudden...

In this article: Master Class, Terrence McNally, Salt Lake City, Juilliard, and Aristotle Onassis

...extract from a new collection edited by his widow, he recalls the thrill of performing at Covent Garden, aged 14, with the legendary Maria Callas Frank Johnson was master of the parliamentary sketch Experience has taught me that one...

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