Following a review by Christopher Corwin, figures from in and around the box react to Pablo Larraín‘s new film Maria
Christopher Corwin reviews Pablo Larraín‘s Maria
The first clip of Pablo Larraín‘s Maria Callas biopic staring Angelina Jolie has been released
Born on this day 100 years ago
Several opera companies across the globe are marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas with performances of operas identified with her.
“The first two images of Angelina Jolie as famed diva Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic Maria have been revealed”
These are my findings and opinions (and I welcome rebuttals)!
“What emerges from this handsome but sentimental film is a portrait of the artist in decline, cocooning herself in defensive victimhood.
“Trove Thursday”’s latest folie de grandeur is an overflowing three-part explosion of post-war divas in live performances of unexpected arias always in the “wrong language.”
Anna Netrebko is Maria Callas in Terrence McNally‘s Master Class!
Today at 2:00 PM, Our Own JJ presents the “other” great Maria Callas Traviata from 1958, the glorious performance of June 20, 1958 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Tomorrow (Sunday) a staged reading of The Lisbon Traviata will be performed at New York’s LGBT Community Center.
Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.
“If Maria Callas remains the prototype of the stormy operatic diva, then Renée Fleming is the anti-Callas.”
Today would have been the 90th birthday of the quintessential prima donna.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
