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Maria Callas

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Maria Callas News: Angelia Jolie Portrays the Late Opera Singer in New Biopic Maria

Famed opera singer Maria Callas is the subject of a new biopic Maria, now streaming on Netflix, with Academy Award–winning actor Angelina Jolie portraying the late music icon. The movie received an eight-minute standing ovation after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this summer, not uncommon for the fest, that The Hollywood Reporter called “electric.”

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The movie reimagines the American-born Greek soprano’s final days in Paris in the 1970s, before her death of what was believed to be a heart attack at age 53. The highly influential opera singer was known for her coloratura vocal range and technique before becoming something of a recluse in her last years.

“I take very seriously the responsibility to Maria’s life and legacy,” Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter in October 2022. Indeed, she did. Over the course of roughly seven months, Jolie worked with opera singers and coaches—including “La Divina,” herself, via reco

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Roberto Alagna - The Story of a Tenor . . .

The career of Alagna could well be made into a novel. He was born of Sicilian parents settled in the Parisian suburbs. In the family, everybody sang, and he was not (was he told) the most talented: he was sometimes told to be quiet when his uncle with the sunny voice sang. But he had a calling. He honed his vocal technique listening to the recordings of the great tenors of the past, and following the guidance of an old master, Rafael Ruiz. For years, he spent his nights singing old tunes and playing the guitar in the cabarets. But deep inside, he was fond of opera, and his idol was Pavarotti. So when the tenorissimo came to Paris to sign autographs in a department store, young Alagna sneaked through the crowd, managed to approach him and tell him a few words. The right words undoubtedly, as he was then invited to audition by the maestro. He went there and earned a ticket to the finale of the Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia – which he won. This was 1988; he was twenty-four years old.

Alagna’s voice was then bright and radiant. I

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Maija Kovalevska

Maija Kovalevska is a Latvian soprano opera singer. Born in Riga, she graduate of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music and since 2003 hones her skills in Italy under the tutelage of Mirella Freni.

In 2003, Kovalevska made her Latvian National Opera debut as Elvira in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, a year later her brilliant performance as Donna Elvira in International Sigulda Opera Music Festival brought her the state’s highest prize in music- the Grand Music Award.

Also in 2004, she was the winner of the 10th Riccardo Zandonai International Opera competition in Italy and was second at the 3rd Jāzeps Vītols Vocal competition in Riga.

Kovalevska rose to international prominence in 2006 after winning Operalia- Plácido Domingo world opera competition in Valencia.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2006, starring first as Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème under the baton of Plácido Domingo, and later as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Thus a shining career was launched at t