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Callas Forever is a 2002 biographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, who co-wrote the screenplay with Martin Sherman. It is an homage to Zeffirelli's friend, internationally acclaimed opera diva Maria Callas, whom he directed on stage in Norma, La traviata, and Tosca. [1] It was his last film before his death in 2019.
Nov 25, 2004 · This fictional story, told in “Callas Forever,” has parallels with real life. Franco Zeffirelli , who directed and co-wrote the film, directed Callas on stage in “Norma,” “La Traviata” and “Tosca.”
Sep 11, 2024 · Since her death they had become intimately familiar with the many facets of her identity. From 1988 to 2002, a break in Callas-centric filmmaking occurred, but interest reignited thanks to Zeffirelli’s 2002 biofiction, “Callas Forever.”
Nov 5, 2004 · By Stephen Holden. Nov. 5, 2004. "Callas Forever," Franco Zeffirelli's worshipful cinematic tribute to his friend Maria Callas, is the kind of what-if movie you might have expected to be made...
Jun 25, 2005 · Having heard that Callas is now living a life of seclusion her former manager Larry Kelly (Jeremy Irons) suggests the unthinkable—he wants Callas to lip-sync her 20 year old recording of Carmen, the role she never performed on stage, and film Bizet's masterpiece. However, the voice that once captivated La Scala, Covent Garden, and the ...
Nov 11, 2004 · Perhaps excessive hero(ine) worship is to blame: the filmmaker claims that Callas is one of the three most important women of the 20th century along with Mother Teresa and Margaret Thatcher.
Callas Forever: Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan. The last days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas.
