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Maria Callas

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First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.


— Maria Callas


#first #i #lost #onassis #then

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.


— Maria Callas


#ends #foresee #good #good teachers #great

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.


— Maria Callas


#down #elevator #going #i #like

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.


— Maria Callas


#like #marriage #myself #prepare #rehearsals

I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.


— Maria Callas


#demands #dignity #her #i #la

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.


— Maria Callas


#get #i #i can #kill #knees

If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?


— Maria Callas


#because #gets #helped #hurt #i

Love is so much better when you're not married.


— Maria Callas


#love #love is #married #much #you

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.


— Maria Callas


#ear #fails #heart #missed #music

On stage, I am in the dark.


— Maria Callas


#dark #i #i am #stage






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The renunciation also helped her finances as Maria Callas no longer had to pay US taxes on her income. Previously Maria Callas was shown in the commercial. "
Callas herself stated that in Opera Acting must be based on the Music quoting Maestro Tullio Serafin's advice to her:

"When one wants to find a gesture when you want to find how to act onstage all you have to do is listen to the music.

However her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "The Bible of opera"; and her influence was so enduring that in 2006 Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death Maria Callas's still the definition of the diva as artist—and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists. The press exulted in publicizing Callas's allegedly temperamental behaviour her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Aristotle Onassis. Her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press.

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