{"id":14858,"date":"2013-12-02T01:33:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2013-12-02T01:33:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:33:35","slug":"maria-callas-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/maria-callas-90th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Callas&#8217; 90th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14859\" alt=\"Callas\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Callas-183x240.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, December 2nd 2013 marks the 90th birthday of the incomparable Maria Callas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Born Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulou in New York on December 2nd in 1934, she moved to Greece, her ancestral home at the age of 14 and entered\u00a0the Athens Conservatory\u00a0in 1940. In 1942\u00a0she sang Tosca in Athens\u00a0and\u00a0after several more roles in Greece,\u00a0returned to New York with her parents in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Callas\u00a0made her\u00a0La Scala debut\u00a0as Aida\u00a0in 1950;\u00a0and at Covent Garden\u00a0in 1952, the Lyric Theatre of Chicago in 1954 and at the Metropolitan in\u00a01956, as Norma.\u00a0She began\u00a0to sing\u00a0heavier\u00a0 roles like\u00a0Aida, Turandot, Isolde, Kundry and Br\u00fcnnhilde but after filling in for an indisposed colleague\u00a0as Elvira in the florid\u00a0<em>bel canto<\/em> <em>I puritani,\u00a0<\/em>she\u00a0began to concentrate on this style, for which she\u00a0became best known. She\u00a0performed the roles of\u00a0 Norma. Medea, Anne Boleyn, Lucia,\u00a0and Amina, as well as\u00a0Verdi\u2019s Leonora (<em>Il trovatore<\/em>), Violetta and Gilda, and Puccini&#8217;s Tosca,\u00a0to high acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her voice began to decline in the 1960s and her final operatic appearance was in 1965 as Tosca at Covent Garden.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maria Callas died in Paris in September 1977. 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