Maria Callas in her career |
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An early role, Leonore in Fidelio, Athens, 1944 |
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Her first Norma, Florence, 1948
with Maestro Tullio Serafin and tenor Mirto Picchi |
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Norma, Epidaurus, 1960 |
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La Gioconda, Verona, 1952, with Maestro Antonino Votto |
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Rehearsing I Vespri Siciliani, La Scala, 1951, with Eugene Conley |
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Scala, 1956, with Luigi Alva |
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Fedora, La Scala, 1956 |
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Visconti production), La Scala, 1957 |
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Curtain call after La Sonnambula at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 1957 |
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Medea, Dallas, 1958 |
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La Traviata, La Scala, 1955, with Ettore Bastianini |
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Backstage after Lucia di Lammermoor, the Met, 1957 |
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Tosca, the Met, 1965 |
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Anna Bolena, La Scala, 1957 |
Maria Callas in her daily life |
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Callas in New York at age eleve, with her sister Jackie and unknown friend |
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With her mother and sister, Athens, 1938 |
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With her father, New York airport, 1956 |
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Maria in June 1947 on the ship to Italy |
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With Meneghini before their marriage, Verona, 1948 |
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The Meneghinis at home in Milan, 1953 |
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At a restaurant in Venice, 1956 |
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With Marlene Dietrich and Meneghini after her Met debut in Norma, 1956 |
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With Elsa Maxwell in doge's hat, Venice, 1957 |
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Greeted by King Umberto of Italy, Lisbon, 1958, with Maestro Ghione, Alfredo Kraus, and others in La Traviata |
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Maria in Frankfurt, 1959 |
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With Lady Churchill, Tina Onassis, her husband, and others, Greece, 1959 |
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Convalescing at her hotel on tour |
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With her chauffeur, Paris, 1976 |