"Actor: Maria Callas"

• Callas Conversations Vol 2 (Classic Archive) | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Maria Callas: Callas Conversations Vol 2

• Maria Callas - Living And Dying For Art And Love | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Maria Callas appeared for the very last time on the operatic stage at Covent Garden in the role of Tosca. Though a huge success it also marked the beginning of the end for this celebrated soprano who would never get over the loss of Aristotle Onasis to Jackie Kennedy. When Tosca stabs Scarpia is Maria Callas perhaps stabbing her unfaithful lover whose baby she bore in secret?

• The Art Of Piano / Singing / Violin | DVD | (25/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Art Of Piano: This magnificent film includes some of the most fascinating historical and musical footage which has been selected from film and television archives around the world. From Ignaz Jan Paderewski in 1936 to Claudio Arrau in 1970 the program illustrates a broad mixture of interpretative styles as also displayed by Horowitz Rubenstein Cortot Gilels Richter Michelangeli and others. Fascinating and revealing commentaries on all eighteen artists are given by pr

• Maria Callas: Life and Art | DVD | (26/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.38

  Long before the media's obsession with celebrity scaled its current heights, Maria Callas commanded headlines and column inches equal to any of the jet-setting elite of her time. In those terms alone, and much as opera purists might flinch at the idea, she was the Madonna of her day. But that is only one reason why her legend extends well beyond her place in the pantheon of great sopranos and so long after her death in 1977. An excellent companion to Tony Palmer's 1987 documentary La Divina, this documentary provides a well-rounded picture of an extraordinary talent who defended her art with the courage of a tigress, but whose turbulent private life gave her little except restless grief. It is crammed with concert footage and archive interviews. She was, as one of the contributors Franco Zeffirelli says, a genius of hair-raising stature and one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. But she was also a rather fragile human being. The tension between the two makes the telling of her story utterly compelling. The DVD includes chronologies of Callas' life and the many roles she played during her career. --Piers Ford

• Maria Callas - Live In Hamburg 1959 And 1962 / La Callas... Toujours | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Maria Callas in Concert, Hamburg 1959 and 19621. Gaspare Spontini - (La Vestale) Tu Che Invoco Can Orrore (Atto II)2. Giuseppe Verdi - (Macbeth) Nel Di Della Vittoria Le Incontrai... Vieni, T'affretta (Atto I)3. Gioachino Rossini - (II Barbiere Di Siviglia) Una Voce Poco Fa (Atto I)4. VIncenzo Bellini - (II Pirata) Oh! S'io Potessi Dissipar Le Nubi (Atto II)5. Jules Massenet - (Le Cid) De Cet Affreux Combat...Pleurez, Mes Yeux (Acte III)6. Charles Gounod - (Mireille) Overture7. George Bizet - (Carmen) Prelude - Habanera (Acte I) - Entr' acte (Acte III) - Seguidille (Acte I)8. Guiseppe Verdi - (La Forza Del Destino) Overture9. Guiseppe Verdi - (Ernani) Surta e La Notte...Ernani, Involami (Atto I)10. Gioachino Rossini - (La Cenerntola) Nacqui All' affanno E AL Pianto... Non Piu Mesta (Atto II)11. Guiseppe Verdi - (Don Carlo) O Don Fatale, O Don Crudel (Atto III)La Callas... Toujours1. Opening Introduction - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (Atto I)2. Sediziose Voci3. Casta Diva4. Fine Al Rito, E II Sacro Bosco5. Ah! Bello A Me Ritorna6. Introduction To II Trovatore - Guiseppe Verdi: II Trovatore (Atto IV)7. Vanne... Iasciami8. D'amor Sull' ali Rosee9. Miserere D' un alma Gia Vicina10. Introduction To II Barbiere Di Siviglia - Gioachino Rossini: II Barbiere Di Siviglia 11. Ina VOce Poco Fa (Atto I)12. Introduction To Tosca - Giacomo Puccini13-24. Tosca (Atto II)