Maria Callas - Life and Art
by Alan Lewens, Alistair Mitchell
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Actor: Carlo Maria Giulini, Franco Zeffirelli, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Maria CallasDirector: Alan Lewens, Alistair Mitchell
Cinematographer: John Warwick
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Angel Records
Summary of Maria Callas - Life and Art
The most brilliant of all the documentaries about the legendary Maria Callas, Life and Art includes extensive interviews with her friends and colleagues, as well as priceless footage of "La Divina" in performance.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.
An excellent companion to Tony Palmer's 1987 documentary La Divina, Maria Callas: Life and Art 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. --Piers Ford
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