Maria Callas

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December 2nd - Maria Callas’ birthday.  In 2013 there 90 years since she was born.


Maria Callas – a dramatic opera singer with an amazing, giant voice.
She had discovered singing as a child, it had become a career choice.
Maria was self-motivated, driven and worked hard to grow, evolve.
She manifested buoyancy and discipline enabling to problem solve.
 
Callas - a melodic soprano, bel canto with perfect timing, rhythm.
Her flexible, resilient voice allowed singing any character or theme.
Maria’s voice - God-given gift, it had been of wide range, amplitude.
Her stage performances - expressive with dramatic act or attitude.

While not understanding her path, Maria carried an intuitive notion.
Whatever she had done in life or on stage, she did it with emotion.
Callas was known for demanding personality, temperament, drama.
Her giant talent helped her to expand artistic or esthetic panorama.
 
Maria’s talent had perfected, flourished and rose above expectation.
From having been unknown she had become a worldwide sensation.
Callas succeeded implementing her vocal and dramatic versatility.
No one in history of opera possessed such an extraordinary ability.

Callas had outstood for her penetrating voice and distinctive tembre.
No one could challenge her phenomenon, she was in opera’s center.
Maria manifested courage, strong will, stamina, depth and musicality,
She’s stylish, extravagant, genius without losing a sense of humanity.

She was a glamorous, appealing, aristocratic woman who could impress.
Maria had exuded magnetism by the way she’d carry herself and dress.
Having succeeded to integrate charm, multiple talents and intelligence,
Callas established an innovative, dramatic, dynamic opera’s genesis.
 
December 2nd-Maria Callas’ birthday, we think of her in soul and heart.
Dramatic singing she delivered was masterful, superb, state-of-the-art.
Her legacy’s alive, and opera without her would have been incomplete.
Callas was a strong personality, bright individuality and natural erudite.


Copyright©2013 Mila Alper


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