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La dolce vita? Maria Callas, the life of a diva – in pictures
To celebrate the centenary of the soprano’s birth an exhibition of rarely seen photographs from the Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto archive showing her life on stage, and off, is at Gallerie d’Italia Milan until 28 February 2024
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Thu 30 Nov 2023 01.00 EST Last modified on Thu 30 Nov 2023 02.15 EST
Maria Callas receives a bouquet of flowers from publisher and writer Valentino Bompiani at Milan’s Savini restaurant on the evening of the 1954 premiere of director Luchino Visconti’s production of La Vestale (Gaspare Spontini), with the soprano in the title role. To her left is Visconti, at the head of the table is Callas’s husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini Photograph: Franco Giglio - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas rehearses for a production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at La Scala, directed by Visconti, April 1957 Photograph: Angelo Novi - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas at home in Milan, October 1957 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas trying on clothes under the gaze of the designer Elvira Leonardi (Biki), Milan, May, 1958 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt home with her secretary, April 1957 Photograph: Angelo Novi - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas and her husband Meneghini on a brief stop in Nice en route to Milan, May, 1959 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTrying on clothes in Biki’s atelier, Milan, May 1958 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterA reception organised in Callas’s honour in Venice, September, 1957 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt Milan’s Malpensa airport, December 1958, returning home from Los Angeles Photograph: Nicola Giordano - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas in court for the legal separation case from Meneghini, Brescia, November 1959 Photograph: Danilo Pajola and Nicola Giordano - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAt Cannes film festival, May 1960 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterCallas at the Capitol cinema for the premiere of Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita, Milan, February, 1960 Photograph: Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAristotle Onassis dances with the soprano at the New Year’s Eve party at Hôtel de Paris, Monte Carlo, December 1960 Photograph: Franco Gremignani - Publifoto
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterTenor Franco Corelli and Callas at the opening of a new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Poliuto at La Scala, December 1960 Photograph: Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterMaria Callas strolls through the streets of Milan with her secretary, Bruna Lupoli, March 1964 Photograph: Danilo Ghillani - Publifoto
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