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# **Vivaldi – Vespro a San Marco - Leonardo García Alarcon ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-vespro-146286663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/vivaldi-vespro-146286663?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Venice, San Marco, and the Sound of Sacred Splendour** In early 18th-century Venice, sacred music was never purely devotional. It…

# **Mozart: The Composer Who Loved the Vulgar** Mozart’s private correspondence—especially the letters exchanged with his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart (“Bäsle”) and with close family members—is saturated with scatological humor, wordplay, and deliberate…

# **Karl Böhm - Conductor, Austria with Maria Cebotari, Christl Golz and Elisabeth Hoengen. **- **1944**

# **Maria Cebotari with Karl Böhm, Paul Schöffler, and Anton Dermota** - 1949

# **Beverly Sills "Maria Stuarda"** **Operatic soprano Beverly Sills in costume starring in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at the New York City Opera in 1972**. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images).

# **Russian Piano School Series Part. 3** 133. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Sergei Rachmaninov 134. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 3, Preludes - Maria Grinberg…

# **Most Important Articles Published in Opera Magazine (1950–1981) - PDF MAGAZINES FROM 1970 TO 1981 ** **In this link you have access to all the issues published between 1970 and 1981 (pdf. format)…

# ***In honour of Marion Anderson. Standing (l-r): Jessye Norman, James Levine, Kathleen Battle. Marion Anderson is seated.***

# **Russian Piano School Series Part. 1 ** 01. Arensky - 24 Morceaux caractéristiques, Op. 36 - Anatoly Sheludyakov 02. Arensky & Liszt - Piano Concertos - Grigory Ginzburg 03. Bach - English Suites…

# **Pauline Viardot — A Life in 20 Chapters** **The Voice of Europe, The Muse of Composers, and One of the Most Influential Artists of the 19th Century** ## **Chapter 1 — A Childhood…

# **MARIA CALLAS AND HER HEROINES** Maria Callas lived her art so completely that the boundary between the woman and the characters she portrayed dissolved into something fluid, unstable, and profoundly revealing. To watch…

# **THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF MARIA CALLAS AND HER AFFECTIVE LIFE** Maria Callas was not only one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century; she was also a profoundly complex human being whose…

# **THE DEATH OF MARIA CALLAS — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** ## **I. The Final Context: Paris, 1975–1977** Between 1975 and 1977, Maria Callas lived almost completely withdrawn in her apartment on Avenue Georges-Mandel in…

Maria Callas with George Pretre

Maria callas with Karajan in 1956

Maria Callas and Leonard Bernstein

Maria with conductor Nicola Rescigno after a concert in Chicago, 1958

# **ANECDOTES & CURIOSITIES FROM THE LIFE OF MARIA CALLA*****S*** ## **1. Her Mother Sold Her Singing for Money** According to *Evangelia Callas’s memoir* and interviews with Maria in *Time Magazine* (1956), her mother…

# **Maria Callas – A Life in 20 Chapters** ## **Chapter 1 – Origins in a Divided Family (1923–1937)** Maria Kalogeropoulos was born in New York on December 2, 1923, into a Greek immigrant…

# **THE DEATH OF CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI — A COMPLETE ANALYSIS** *Illness, exhaustion, spirituality, and the twilight of the first great opera composer* Claudio Monteverdi, who transformed Western music from Renaissance polyphony into dramatic Baroque…

# **Maria Callas with Beniamino Gigli - San Remo 1954**

# **Antonio SALIERI (1750-1825) - La grotta di Trofonio - Dramma giocoso in two acts (Vienna, 1785) ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-salieri-144600982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-salieri-144600982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antonio-salieri-144600982?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Elisabeth Freyhoff**, soprano (Dori) **Maria Hegele**, mezzo-soprano (Ofelia) **Jorge Navarro Colorado**, tenor (Plistene) **Jan Petryka**,…

# **A portrait once said to be by Leopold Kupelwieser** (not authenticated) and said to be of **Franz Schubert**, probably drawn before Kupelwieser met Schubert. **Modern research suggests it is Karl Joseph Maria von…

# **Pergolesi - La serva padrona, Cimarosa - Il maestro di cappella - Carlo Maria Giulini, Renato Fasano ** Pergolesi: La serva padrona Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rosanna Carteri Teatro alla Scala, **Carlo Maria Giulini** Cimarosa:…