The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography
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The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography by Sophia Lambton
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The Callas Imprint is a revelation: a book worthy of anyone who is interested in learning more about how to live, and live as freely as they will their life to be.-OperaWire Of all the biographies of La Divina, this one is for sure the most complete. A masterpiece of scientific rigour.-OperaLife Italy This book resembles Callas' masterful ease on stage, the artistic precision-passion balance she manifests, a reward of the many overtime rehearsal hours for which Callas was often criticized by co-stars. The result archives nearly everything ever documented about and is as full-bodied, that is, polished as well as unvarnished, as Maria Callas.-Mari Carlson, Midwest Book ReviewA dense, well-organized narrative. Tells you everything you'll ever need to know about Callas in impressive detail.-BC Music Magazine
Coating opera's roles in opulence, Maria Callas (1923-1977) is a lyrical enigma.
Seductress, villainess, and victor, queen and crouching slave, she is a gallery of guises instrumentalists would kill to engineer. made by a single voice.
But while her craftsmanship has stood the test of time, Callas' image has contested defamation at the hands of dirt-diggers and opportunists: saboteurs of beauty.
Twelve years in the making, this voluminous labor of love explores the singer with the reverence she dealt her heroines. The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide to illustrate the complex of their multi-faceted creator - closing in on her self-contradictions, self-descriptions, attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer's on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams. the double life of all performers.
In unveiling of the everyday it rolls a vivid film reel starring friends and foes and nobodies: vignettes that make up life.
It's verity. It's meritable storytelling.
Not unlike the Callas art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781739286347 |
| ISBN 10 | 1739286340 |
| Title | The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography |
| Author | Sophia Lambton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Crepuscular Press |
| Year published | 2023-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 678 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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