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Life & Art
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by Capitol
Sales Rank: 55150
Price: $24.98
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Long before the media's obsession with celebrity scaled its current heights, Maria Callas commanded headlines and column inches equal to any of the jet-setting elite of her time. In those terms alone, and much as opera purists might flinch at the idea, she was the Madonna of her day. But that is only one reason why her legend extends well beyond her place in the pantheon of great sopranos and so long after her death in 1977. <p> An excellent companion to Tony Palmer's 1987 documentary <I>La Divina</I>, <I>Maria Callas: Life and Art</I> provides a well-rounded picture of an extraordinary talent who defended her art with the courage of a tigress, but whose turbulent private life gave her little except restless grief. It is crammed with concert footage and archive interviews. She was, as contributor Franco Zeffirelli says, a genius of hair-raising stature and one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. But she was also a rather fragile human being. The tension between the two makes the telling of her story utterly compelling. The DVD includes chronologies of Callas's life and the many roles she played during her career. <I>--Piers Ford</I>
Viewer Reviews
Opera's greatest diva. What can I say? A friend of mine made a comment to me one day about Maria's nose being "large" and I shot back, "Don't say anything about her nose, she looks like Lou." (Lou was my late wife's name.) My friend took my stinging remark in stride and proceeded to say only nice things about Maria from that point on. When I first saw Maria's picture it was as if Lou was looking from the "other side" directly into my soul. Lou died over seven years ago. To this day, I literally shudder and weep when I see Maria's picture. While worlds apart in almost everything, Maria and Lou had their beauty in common. Maria was married to a very wealthy man. That allowed her to pursue her career. Still married, she later was the mistress of Aristotle Onassis. She lived for about three years after his death. She died of a heart attack - a depressed and broken woman. It was said by a person on this DVD who knew her, "When a person has a heart attack, the person must be faced with making a decision, even though the time is very short, as to whether to live or not....Maria must have decided not to live." My wife probably had that in common with Maria also.
This DVD is a work of art in more ways than one. The DVD not only captures beautiful excerpts of opera's greatest diva, but also chronicles the life and death of this beautiful person and provides us with lasting memories of greatness.
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