Maria calas biography

Maria Callas (December 3, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a Greeksoprano.

Maria calas biography

She was one of the most famous and most controversialopera singers of the 20th century. She had a very distinctive voice of great range, power and agility enabling her to sing a wide variety of roles and was a singer-actress of great dramatic intensity.

She was dubbedLa Divina (The Divine One) by her admirers. She was mainly associated with the Italianrepertoire, particularly Bellini's Norma, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Verdi's La traviata and Puccini's Tosca.

Maria callas biography

Life and career

Maria was born Maria Kalogeroupoulou at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center in New York City, to Greek parents, she returned to Greece in 1937, with her mother and older sister.

There, she studied singing with Elvira de Hidalgo, and made her debut while still a teenager with the Athens Opera in 1941.

During a short return to America to visit her father in 1945, she auditioned at the