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Directed by: Michalis Asthenidis and Vasilis Louras
Co-produced by: The Greek National Opera
(In Greek with English subtitles.)
Release Date: 2023
103 minutes.
Screenings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
In 2023, Greece and the world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas! Enjoy the Atlanta premiere of the documentary made by Vasilis Louras on the unsung Greek years of the greatest opera artist of the 20th century.
The documentary sheds light on the years in which Callas came of age as a woman and as an artist –that is, in Athens during the Second World War– but also on the years after 1957 when the diva, by then renowned internationally, reconnected with Greece.
While the 14-year-old Kalogeropoulou, on arriving in Athens back in 1937, would first introduce herself to her fellow students at the Greek National Conservatoire as Mary, she would go on to sign her first contract with the Greek National Opera in 1940 as Marianna. In March 1945, a little before leaving Athens for New York, she would make a concert appearance as Mary Callas – an artist ready to spread her wings and soar into the heights of a great career that would bring her fame across the entire globe as Maria Callas.
