| 2007 is the thirtieth anniversary
of the great Maria Callas’s death. The exhibition
“Maria Callas, the myth goes on”, which
is opening on Thursday 14th December 2006 in Rome, is
the first one of the celebrations in programme the following
months all over the world. Patroness of the opening,
on Thursday 14th December at 6.30 p.m., is Giulietta
Simionato, famous mezzo soprano, Maria Callas’s
friend and colleague.
Maria Callas and Giulietta Simionato at the Opera House
in Paris in 1965 (“Norma”)
The Museum of Musical Instruments,
venue of one of the most prestigious and rich collections
of musical instruments, will house the Exhibition dedicated
to the “Divina”, becoming, for longer than
a month, till January 28th 2007, the place where the
voice, charisma and legend will be represented together
with the singer’s most concealed and human aspects.
The Exhibition, conceived by Bruno Tosi, president of
Maria Callas cultural Association, staged by architect
Marco Rietti and arranged by Lia Del Fabro of Solea
Association, will be very rich: in the
magnificent rooms of the Museum, in fact, there will
be dresses and jewels worn by the “Divina”
on the stage and in her private life, but also letters,
bags and hats, blowups, unpublished photographs and
portraits; and, besides, evidence referring to her relationship
with Pasolini in Medea, audio and video recordings.
At last the cookery recipes written by herself and collected
in restaurants worldwide, recently edited by Bruno Tosi
in his book “the Divina at cooking” (Trenta
Publisher).
Callas, during her life, was admired and hated as well,
passing, in public and private, through triumphs, scandals,
cinema and theatre, dramatic moments, restlessness,
and tears till that September 1977 in Paris, where she
died alone and mysteriously at the age of 54.
The Exhibition, which follows a chronologic
and critic ideal path through the towns mainly connected
to the prima donna’s name, is carried out thanks
to the contribution of Lazio Region, Culture and Sport
Council Department, sponsor of the project, and is supported
by the Culture Council Department and the Environment
Council Department of Rome.
“The Divina truly loved Rome-declares the president
of Maria Callas Cultural Association, Bruno Tosi-, She
was in the capital town since the beginning of her career
and here she sang about twenty times, till January 2nd
1958, when a great scandal caused the interruption of
Norma at the first act, in the very opening of the Opera
House, in the presence of the President Gronchi.
That evening provoked a deep wound in Maria Callas because
of the consequences and the inevitable reprisals; the
artist tried, in vain, to make the fact clear and to
justify herself.
Thirty years after her death, Rome owes something to
the greatest singer of the twentieth century and maybe
of all the times: a repairing deed that may delete the
unjust incomprehension’s, with an ideal “embrace”.
This is what “her” audience wants and so
she ideally will sing again in Rome, on the wave of
unforgettable memories.
MARIA CALLAS THE MYTH GOES
ON
Rome, National Museum of Musical Instruments
9a Santa Croce in Gerusalemme Square
December 15th 2006-January 28th 2007
Opening hours: every day (except on Mondays,
December 2006 25th, 27th and January 2007 1st, 2nd)
from 11, 00 a.m. to 7, 00 p.m. Free entrance.
con il sostegno del Casinò
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