Maria Callas

About Maria Callas

• Full name: Cecilia Sophia Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos
• Nicknames: Maria Callas, The Tigress
• Born on December 2nd, 1923
• Died on September 16th, 1977
• American-Greek opera singer

Maria was an opera singer which is an art for in which singers & musicians perform a dramatic work combining text & musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Patricia Racette is an American contemporary opera singer.

Childhood & Rise to Fame

• Began taking classical piano lessons at age 7
• Parents divorced and she moved with her mother to Greece
• Studied voice while in Greece
• Her husband at the time helped manage her
• Big break was a performance in Verona & Florence

Awards

• Grammy Lifetime Achievement (2007)
• Top Classical Album
• The Billboard 200

Songs

• Come Per Me Sereno
• Chi Mi Frena
• Qui La Voce

Qui La Voce

• First performed in 1953
• About a lover who left the one he loved alone & heartbroken
• Maria did have a failed love similar to the song
• Her husband and her divided & did not have any kids
• It is an opera song that moves the plot along, mix of singing and talking

Works Cited

• Biography.com
• Famoussingers.org
• Allmusic.com