tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post9212519167373532106..comments2023-05-21T14:23:20.795+01:00Comments on Diary of a divergent student: Style Icon Series: Maria CallasNatashahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03977312935522378086noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post-44949911780766657562010-07-22T08:48:01.653+01:002010-07-22T08:48:01.653+01:00No, don't be sorry I love hearing it! People ...No, don't be sorry I love hearing it! People are most engaging when they are passionate about what they are speaking of! Also when they know what they are talking about!<br /><br />I had one course in opera in college, just a crash appreciation course and we didn't study this opera. We only covered the top ten I think :)<br /><br />That is one of the most horrible saddest stories ever heard by me. What a vicious and cruel man.<br /><br />I was just asking my husband what she died of so young last night. Maybe she had high cholesterol. They weren't so knowledgable about that then. Wasn't she somebody famous' mistress, too? Some politician's? I will have to look it up. <br /><br />Thanks for the synopsis and I hope Scarpia rots in Hades. :)Daisy Dukeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02990009110777338331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post-79918967887329068662010-07-21T21:24:50.846+01:002010-07-21T21:24:50.846+01:00Basically to explain the context of this aria and ...Basically to explain the context of this aria and what happens after: Tosca (played by Callas) is a singer, who is in love with a painter called Cavaradossi. However, because she is so beautiful and talented a man called Scarpia (who is the man in the film with her) wants her for himself. Just before the scene in the film bargains that he won't kill Cavaradossi if she gives herself to him. She sings this aria as a prayer to God, asking why this must be her fate.<br /><br />Scarpia then says that he will perform a mock execution for Cavaradossi in order to keep up the pretense, and Tosca agrees. So the morning of the fake execution arrives and it happens, but Scarpia deceives Tosca and actually has Cavaradossi killed. She runs forward to check his body, but then is discovered over his dead body and is accused of killing him. As the soldiers rush in, she says that Scarpia will have to answer before God, and hurls herself off the edge of a parapet in the Castel Sant'Angelo (which I think is in Rome)<br /><br /><br />And Maria Callas died of a heart attack, so not only was she young, but she died of something so common!<br /><br />Sorry for the explanation of the story being so long, it's hard for me to condense things, especially when I enjoy them and feel passionate about them!!Natashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03977312935522378086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post-29152860128158080902010-07-21T17:33:20.805+01:002010-07-21T17:33:20.805+01:00wow made me cry i love this feature
pure is a bea...wow made me cry i love this feature<br /><br />pure is a beautiful word.<br /><br />had no idea you were tall!<br /><br />natasha, you must tell us what happens after this point in the opera! please don't leave us hanging! :)<br /><br />that was a very young age for her to die.Daisy Dukeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02990009110777338331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post-82355681356025250802010-07-21T15:23:30.581+01:002010-07-21T15:23:30.581+01:00I know!! What a woman!I know!! What a woman!Natashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03977312935522378086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139887513701831645.post-68646225269417125802010-07-21T14:37:28.669+01:002010-07-21T14:37:28.669+01:00omg. She. is. amazing!!!
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