| All over the world preparations
are going on to celebrate and recall Maria Callas, prematurely
dead on September 16th 1977 in Paris in a tragic and
mysterious way. Also our Association will be fully involved
in promoting initiatives in Italy and all over the world.
The first notice is the issue of a
stamp and a special recollection in Italy. The Communications
Minister, Mr. Mario Landolfi, previously, on December
6th 2005, demonstrated a very great interest, assigning
the philately conference the accomplishment of the project
(see picture below).
The philatelic programme besides includes
the tribute to Maria Callas; about this we will give
you, in a short time, further details. Up to now we
thank the visitors of our site (more than 80.000!) who
have subscribed the signatures collection for the initiative,
giving a strong contribution to the acceptance of our
request at the Communications Department.
This is an event which honours us
very much, and it is for us also a great ambition to
have obtained the entitling of a Callas street in the
heart of Venice, just behind the monumental building
of the Fenice Theatre. Also in that occasion we promoted
a signatures collection by the site WWW.CALLAS.IT;
in a short time another one will start for the entitling
of a street Maria Callas in Hamburg, where the Divina
gave a series of unforgettable concerts.
Callas is a myth all over the world,
but we must keep on mind that she is Italian, and her
career and marriage too; nevertheless, by her incomparable
singing, she succeeded in bringing our great music and
opera heritage everywhere. She was an insuperable performer
of Bellini, Donizzetti, Spontini and Cherubini, just
to mention some big composer, without forgetting Puccini.
Maria Callas with Beniamino Gigli in Sanremo, 1954
We will not miss to announce, step
by step, new, prestigious news related to the myth of
the Divina.
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