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unusual facts about Callas


Félix de Beaujour

Louis Félix-Auguste-Beaujour, (Louis-Auguste Feris) (born 28 December 1765 Callas, Var - July 1, 1836 Paris) was a French diplomat, politician, historian, and French ambassador to the United States.


Alessandra Ammara

She also won major prizes in other piano competitions, like the Casagrande, Viotti, Iturbi, Callas.

Dallas Opera

Callas returned the following year to perform in La traviata in a production by Franco Zeffirelli and in Medea, directed by the Greek director, Alexis Minotis, two of her infrequent performances in the United States.

Histiaea

Histiaea (now known as Istiaia), the city in Euboea on the NW coast, at the mouth of Callas river, west of Dion.

Johan Schmidt

He won the Maria Callas Competition in Athens, and was prized at the Queen Elisabeth (1987, 4th prize plus Audience prize), Tchaikovsky (1990, 3rd prize - ex-aequo with Kevin Kenner and Anton Mordasov) and Van Cliburn (1993, 4th prize) competitions.

John Ardoin

Callas at Juilliard (1988) focuses on her master classes given in New York in the 1970s and it inspired playwright Terrence McNally to write the Tony Award-winning play Master Class.

In June 1966 he became the music critic at The Dallas Morning News, only the second person to do so, but his most well-known writings were about Maria Callas, who was considered the godmother of the Dallas Opera after her 1958 appearances there.

Tullio Serafin

Médée (Callas, Scotto, Pirazzini, Picchi, Modesti; 1957) Ricordi


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