Word: callases
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The colorful night marked Callas' debut as a stage director and the inauguration of Europe's newest opera house, Turin's opulent Teatro Regio, which has been rebuilt at a cost of $13 million to replace the original two-century-old theater that was destroyed by fire...
Unfortunately, that was the high light of the evening. The performance lacked polish. As a consequence of Callas' inexperience, there was a second-act barcarole scene without a boat; at the masked-ball assassination attempt, the dancers lined up at the rear of the set, their backs to the...
If the results of her first directorial venture were not all that Perfectionist Callas might have wished, she nevertheless had proved to be a sensitive director. From the first rehearsal it was apparent that she had mellowed considerably since her stormy singing days.
Callas sat at her director's desk, marking the score and consulting with her two co-directors, Giuseppe di Stefano and Fabrizio Melano. During the breaks, Callas and Di Stefano, friends for 20 years, laughed together about the old days-even the 1955 La Traviata performance in Mexico City...
As acutely aware of the singers' sensibilities as Callas and Di Stefano once had been of their own, they criticized ever so gently. When the singers needed correction, Callas refrained from public remonstrations and instead took them aside, instructing them out of earshot. "We are not here to bully...