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Divina Records
- their stock of those extra few minutes of rare recordings is just amazing. And they certainly know their stuff.

A Callas Primer by Marion Lignana Rosenberg
- excellent choice of recordings, especially the Norma one. The rest of her site is very well worth visiting too for the Bush-related and human rights issues.

'The reissued official Callas discography reveals the art that will last, which the diva's image often obscures'
- Huh?! Ok, it does have an extensive list of links and lots of info. But I'm not sure how I feel about these 'Maria, not Callas', 'Maria, the woman', 'Maria behind Callas' most regurgitated clichés in the operatic world.

The underwear site
- This one is the Official Site(!) taking part in the sale, sometime ago, of her underwear and practically everything private she owned. Not that I was not prepared to pay good money for some of those items , but when encountered with bad taste you just have to name it for what it is. I have nothing against bad taste and this site proves it. But bad taste is simply not good taste. The undead fail to recognise this universal truth.

Her Astrology Chart
- Deals with 4 critical questions: 'From whence (sic) comes her famous temper? From whence (sic) the two rich older men as lovers? She is famous for her voice, yet there is nothing in the second house or Taurus. So where is it? AstroDieting: how did she go from 200 pounds to 130 in 1954 and keep it off?'
And my question is: if there is nothing in Taurus in the first place, why should she be exposed to all this Taurus-related stuff?







"If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . . . The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni."

W.H. Auden


Straniero! Non tentar la fortuna! Gli enigmi sono tre, la morte una!



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