Main site down

Dear friends, the main Callas site has succumbed to who knows what, perhaps a winter virus.

But there’s plenty of great listening here: Bellini, Verdi, and so much more!

Why not grab a cuppa and a snack (like the one Callas was pretending to prepare) and explore the archives?

Back at you soon.

And the blog goes on

Darling readers, please be aware that this blog continues at a new address: http://www.revisioningcallas.com/blog.

There’s lots of good stuff there, including Maria Callas in jeans and an essay for the anniversary of her death. Please come on by!

Re-visioning Callas and word of mouth

One of my favorite bloggers is the best-selling author Gretchen Rubin. In the past, I might have been envious of her success in a really toxic way, but now my attitude is: Why not learn from the best?

So, going forward, I will celebrate word-of-mouth day once a month and ask, with gratitude and humility, that you help spread the word about Re-visioning Callas. You might:

• Forward the link to this blog (http://www.revisioningcallas.com/blog) to a fellow Callas lover
• Follow me on Twitter (@revisioncallas)
• Link to a Twitter update
• Link to this site in your Facebook status update
• Become a fan on Facebook!

In the meantime, I need to acquire a leopardskin cloche just like the one Maria Callas is wearing in the photo!

Around the world with Maria Callas

Image from LuigiDesign
In the past thirty days, readers from the following nations have visited re-visioning callas:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, “Europe,” Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Thanks so much for visiting, and please be in touch!

Callas on holiday

Well, more precisely, re‑visioning callas is on holiday. It is Memorial Day in the States: On fait le pont, so posting will resume on or after 1 June.

Here are a few suggestions for your reading pleasure in the interim:

Visit colleagues and friends of re-visioning callas

Visit other Maria Callas sites

Follow re-visioning callas on Twitter

Get to know re-visioning callas opera tweeps on Twitter

Become a fan of re-visioning callas on Facebook

Visit the site of Agnes Fischer, the talented artist who created the image in this post

A presto!

Not much Callas, mostly admin II

Many thanks to Michael J. Bayly of The Wild Reed for his kind words about this humble blog.

Michael curates a beautiful and interesting site, Callas as Medea, which I warmly commend to you.

In fact, why not check out other excellent Callas sites? (I expect to start posting again soon, but travel, work, and being drunk on allergy meds are eating up my time.)

Re-visioning Callas on Twitter

Friends, please follow Re-visioning Callas on Twitter: http://twitter.com/revisioncallas.

As I write, Re‑visioning Callas has 99 followers. I am hoping for 100 very soon and for at least 1,000 by the end of 2010.

Publishers look at Twitter feeds when making decisions on contracts and advances, so please ask your friends to subscribe, too!

A quick reminder: You can become a fan of Re‑visioning Callas on Facebook.

It’s Maria Callas’s world

We just live in it!

Over the past month, people from some two dozen nations have visited this humble blog—a tribute to the enduring fame and prestige of Maria Callas and the indelible impact of her art.

Friendly greetings to readers from the United Kingdom, Israel, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Brazil, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Australia, Hungary, Italy, France, the United States, New Zealand, Iran, the Philippines, Guatemala, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and everywhere else.

Thank you for reading re-visioning callas, and please leave a comment or contact me: I would love to hear from you.

Administrivia

So, if you are wondering why I am late in publishing comments and even later in responding to them, it’s because Blogger doesn’t like my operating system.

My apologies, and rest assured that I am looking for a workaround.

Callas and intelligence

Since Maria Callas is patently more intelligent than anyone who has ever presumed to write anything about her, the definitive book on Callas will be written by herself or not be written.
The Musical Times (1961)

“The definitive book on Callas will… not be written.”

Oh, phew. That really takes the pressure off.

Bon week-end, peeps and tweeps. Listen to Callas singing Cilea. Back at you next week.

Not much Callas, mostly admin

Re-visioning Callas got a shout-out from Alex Ross of The New Yorker. I am humbled and grateful.

Thanks to a contact in Greece, I have more accurate information about the Omero Lengrini story. Look for a revised post (or a new entry) next week.

Callas slideshow

Over at the main Re-visioning Callas site, you will find a slideshow of Callas images with words by and about her.

Enjoy, and please let me know what you think.

Friends and colleagues

Please note: These lists are perpetual works-in-progress.

Sine quibus non
Alan Bern
Julianne Chatelain
Roberto R. Corsi
JRD
Giuseppe Filianoti
Mauro Ghilardini
Philip Gossett
Lisa Haas
John Habich
David J. Horowitz
Tasja Keetman
Vanessa Lann

Lucia e Gianandrea Noseda
Artour Parmakian
Anna Proger
Victoria C. Rowan
Mirella Sbolci
Stephanie Schroeder
Marina Taffetani
Francesco Maria Testa
Gianmaria Testa
WHRB
Sayumi Yoshida

I am grateful and indebted, as well, to KMA and family, Gay Bardin and family, Anna Barsanti, Joe Barsugli, William Breazeale, Cristina Gastel Chiarelli, Anna Costalonga, Victor Cruz, Alessandro Duranti, Sabrina Ellis, Ann Fontanella, Benedict Gagelmann, Artem Golub, Timothy Haven, Robyi Hicks Haven, Hugo, GSI, Darrel Kirkman, Dr. Shahrdad Khodamoradi, Robert O. Landry, Rebecca Paller and family, Brigitte Pantis, Ira Roldugina, Katarina Sawtelle, Robert E. Seletsky, Margery Hellmold Stone and family, Annamaria Testa, Boris Volunuev, and angels entertained unawares.

Colleagues
Alex Ross
Night after Night
ionarts
Parterre Box presents La Cieca
Roger Bourland writes about music and life

Callas links

Please note: I neither endorse nor denounce any of these sites. That said, those marked with an asterisk are ones that I find especially useful or compelling.

Maria Callas EMI Classics
Maria Callas on Naxos
Wikipedia entry on Maria Callas
Divina: The Maria Callas official site
Maria Callas performance annals and discographies *
Nina Foresti: La Callas e i falsi *
Life Photo Archive: Maria Callas *
Maria Callas in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea *
Drawings of Maria Callas by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sotheby’s: Maria Callas and her Pygmalion
Maria Callas & Swarovski: Jewels on Stage
Antiaesthetica: La Callas
Divina Records
Callas photos, cover art, and wallpapers
The Maria Callas International Club
Maria Callas: Deutscher Club
Serendipity: Maria Callas
Divas, the site: Maria Callas