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Oldtimers at La Scala pronounced her singing sensational. All Milan has been talking this winter about Maria Meneghini Callas. This powerful new dramatic soprano is an American-born singer who has never sung a note in the land of her birth. Her parents, who came from Greece, took her on...
On her first opening night at La Scala, last December, 30-year-old Soprano Callas made a smashing hit in Verdi's Sicilian Vespers. Milan critics kissed their fingertips in ecstasy over her sureness, her "miraculous throat" and the "phosphorescent beauty" of her middle range. Her performances of Norma...
Two years ago it was a different story. La Scala heard her then and yawned. Maria Callas thinks she knows why: "I have a funny kind of voice, and often people don't like it the first time they hear it. One has to hear me more and more...
Maria Callas is married to an Italian industrialist and considers Italy her home. She would like to come to the Met, which has made her offers, but only for the right money and the right operas-her La Scala hit, I Puritani, for instance. Says she: "I don't...
The critics overlooked a boggled high note in the first act, and poured compliments on Conley's singing-but not on his bandy-legged acting. Milan's Il Tempo: "Conley has again proved his excellent vocal technique, his facility in moving among the highest notes," but, added Rome...