We [singers] must do everything an instrumentalist does, plus more. It is very serious and difficult work, and it is not done out of our bravura or by willpower alone, but out of love, a devotion to what you adore. That is the strongest reason for anything.
—Maria Callas
Maria Callas celebrated her name day on 15 August—in the Greek Orthodox calendar, the Koimisis tis Theotokou or Dormition of the Virgin, known in the Western Church as the Assumption.
Listen to one of Callas’s earliest recordings, the 1949 RAI “Casta diva” from Bellini’s Norma, and remember. (Please, if possible, download the sound file instead of playing it directly from this site.)
thanks. nice recording.
Posted by: alan | 31 August 2006 at 00:19