Maria Callas's Violetta was one of the wonders of our age: scarily elemental, supernaturally brilliant. After many unofficial releases, the tape of her 20 June 1958 London performance has now been ...

La traviata (The Fallen Woman) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the ...

Maria Callas sings one of the repertory's most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine Lucia, Giuseppe de Stefano adds to the bel canto fireworks as Lucia's beloved, Edgardo, Titto Gobbi is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music By Anthony Tommasini It is hard not to feel sorry for Leonard Slatkin in the aftermath of his withdrawal from the Metropolitan Opera’s revival ...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas tonight in Opera Night we hear Maria in Verdi's La Traviata but before that Jon Tolansky presents part two of his documentary ...

My mother had become an opera singer because she heard Callas singing La Traviata on the radio in 1958 – when she was 16 and the star was in her greatest decade. My mother would go on to train at the ...

Maria Callas as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbieri di Siviglia, at Milan's La Scala theater in 1956. The legendary – and controversial — soprano Maria Callas, who would have turned 100 on Dec. 2, ...

One of the star performances of the recent Fondazione Festival Pucciniano in Torre del Largo, Italy - The Novaya Opera of Moscow, accompanied by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, are proud to ...