Silent Love
Sometimes you can speak, but words are meaningless. Sometimes you cannot say a word, but you speak in a hundred silent and meaningful ways.
from Ugly Duckling to Swan
Lovers and experts of Opera tell that Maria Callas had a great voice, and her dramatic performance on the stages was one of the best. She is one of the iconic artists who come first on my mind when I think of Opera. Franco Zeffirelli's film, "Callas Forever", with Fanny Ardant on the role of Callas, shows her latest years of life. She lived recluse after voice problems and heartbroken with the end of a big love affair. It also shows what people generally told about a side of her, such as, she owned a big ego, she was perfectionist, and temper too. Callas was not happy with her physical appearance before. She was fat and considered her image ugly. Even her mother, since her childhood, bullied her making comparisions with her beautiful sister, besides being very demanding and oppressive with Callas. It was a complex relation of mother and daughter. But Callas shaped her body and it did not last to become herself in icon of elegance and beauty. She loved...
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