Maria Callas, my most beloved singer!

I'd like to tell you a little about my favorite singer, Maria Callas.  She was born in 1923 in New York but she was Greek and her real name was Cecilia Sofía Anna Maria Kalogeropoulos.
I met her through a television documentary of Film & Arts Channel when I was 15 years old.
I remember that her expressive eyes, the sincerity of her movements on stage, her ductile voice and her extraordinary acting ability surprised me. Her voice, her body and her face changed according to the character she played. She cold be an angel but she could be a demon too on stage!
She herself lived and died as if she had been an operatic character. She was a very ugly child and her mother didn't loves her, she became the most famous -and the best- opera singer of the world and then she lost her voice; she was the mother of a dead child and then she died for love and loneliness at 53 years old. She had a very sad life and therefore she acquired the necessary sensibility  to play tragic heroins. She didn't have especially a beautiful voice, she wasn't a perfect singer but she was able to understand the essence of the opera art and made it part of her own life.
I can say that Maria Callas changed a little my life, because I decided to study opera sing when I met her and I have the habit of listening to her music daily. Besides, my own sing teacher was student of Callas at the Juilliard's High School. I love absolutely Maria Callas because her art has a purely feminine force and she could mix the beauty with the ferocity of human feelings.
She has changed the concept of the Opera.
Some people divide the history of opera in two parts: AC and DC, before and after Callas.



Here, you can listen to the aria called Tu che le vanità of the opera Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi in Callas Concert at Covent Garden in 1962.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQfmSu7G6Ls