Maria Callas - Living and Dying for Art and Love
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Actor: Antonio Pappano, Franco Zeffirelli, La Scala OperaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tdk DVD Video
Movie Reviews of Maria Callas - Living and Dying for Art and Love
Movie Review: An excellent documentary of Callas' last role
Summary: 5 Stars
To those who think that this is a single-track documentary on Maria Callas' career, you are right. The DVD focuses not on Callas the woman, or Callas the singer of the 50's, but the Callas who returned to the theatre after a brief liaison with that snide Greek snake, Onassis. The events in the film are reported factually, and there is much involvement from people in and out of the opera business. Great singers like Grace Bumbry and Placido Domingo were here to give the public their thoughts on Callas the artist, the musician, the great singer (she really was), and as a professional too. The director Franco Zeffirelli, who was a good friend of Maria, was also there to recount detail by detail the great amount of passion that Maria dedicated to this extremely complex role, and actresses like Judi Dench comment on Maria Callas' ability to act superbly. Dame Judi Dench herself is a great actress, and undoubtedly she only comments on the best if they truly live up to their name. She also said that she sang like an angel, and what is more is she did attend the performances Maria gave to London as Tosca.
Although very little survives of the video performances that Callas gives on stage, what little we have is enough to prove what a dramatic force she was to reckon with. After watching snippets of Act 2 of Puccini's masterpiece in fuzzy black and white, I was no longer thinking of Maria on stage. Instead, I was seeing Floria Tosca. Every gesture Maria performs is simply astonishing. Her Vissi d'arte is sung almost like a prayer, and the murder scene that follows the aria is bloodcurdling. Hearing Tosca say "Muori!!! Muori!!! MUORI!!!" with Callas' voice is nothing short of being raptured to dramatic and musical heaven. Just watch her and Gobbi interact, and you will know why the Callas legend survives even up to this day. It will never end. Callas is immortal.
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