{"id":11752,"date":"2023-07-17T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2023-07-18T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T22:10:48","slug":"royal-opera-house-celebrates-callas-centenary-with-callas-at-covent-garden-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/07\/17\/royal-opera-house-celebrates-callas-centenary-with-callas-at-covent-garden-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Opera House Celebrates Callas Centenary with New Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11753\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Callas-at-Covent-Garden-Exhibit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Callas.(Photo adapted via an original image by Sony Pictures Classics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exhibit joins worldwide celebrations of Maria Callas, the famed opera star who died in 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why all the fuss?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2023 marks 100 years since the birth of the Greek opera star and has been declared the UNESCO Maria Callas Anniversary. Callas was known to her fans as La Divina, and Leonard Bernstein once called her the \u201cBible of Opera.\u201d She captivated audiences with her voice, musicality, and stage presence, and offstage had a scintillating personal life. She publicly rivalled opera star Renata Tebaldi and had a longstanding love affair with the husband of Jackie Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis.<\/p>\n<p>Almost fifty years after her death, Callas remains one of the industry\u2019s most best-selling recorded artists. Terence McNally\u2019s Tony Award-winning play, Master Class, about a public class Callas gave at Juilliard towards the end of her career, is regularly performed worldwide. In 2020, a hologram of Callas went on a worldwide tour accompanied by a live orchestra. Earlier this year, the Greek National Opera held a festival dedicated to her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Opera House\u2019s exhibition will feature rare images of Callas and stories and anecdotes related to Callas\u2019 relationship with the famed opera house.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition runs through November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek National Opera will also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalopera.gr\/en\/herodium\/h-concerts\/item\/5448-callas-at-the-herodium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gala<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalopera.gr\/en\/greek-national-opera\/venues\/item\/5287-unboxing-callas-an-archival-exploration-of-the-pyromallis-collection-and-the-gno-archive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhibition<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalopera.gr\/en\/stavros-niarchos-hall\/kentrikis-skini-events\/item\/5288-mary-mariana-maria-the-unsung-greek-years-of-callas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">documentary<\/a> coming up as part of their tribute starting November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Those who can\u2019t make the trip to Greece or London will have to settle for archival recordings. Or, maybe a hologram.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maria Callas sings &quot;Casta Diva&quot; (Bellini: Norma, Act 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s-TwMfgaDC8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibit joins worldwide celebrations of Maria Callas, the famed opera star who died in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,1,80,233],"tags":[303,304],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/07\/Callas-at-Covent-Garden-Exhibit.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11768,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions\/11768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}