TONY PALMER

A Film About Callas - 30th Anniversary Edition

 

A study by one of the leading lights of music documentary directorship, Tony Palmer, of one of the most vividly remembered and sadly missed characters of opera. Tony Palmer pulls no punches, but the respect which he holds for his subject underpins the tenacity of his enquiry.

 

Callas had a relatively short career, lasting a mere 18 years at the top, belying the stature which she reached, and has held since her death 30 years ago.

 

Palmer says of her:

‘We witness on stage a broken woman who sings nakedly from her heart, about herself and her life, who acts with such incredible power and unashamed truth that we stagger back before what we know, in our hearts, is all of her.‘

 

At last, this powerful eulogy is released on DVD

 

Franco Zeffirelli, Giovanna Battista Meneghini, Aristotle Onassis, Graziella Sciutti, Luchino Visconti, Carla Maria Giulini, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Arda Mandikian, Nicola Rescigno, Nadia Stancioff, Nicola Rossi Lemeni, Lord Harewood, Sir John Tooley, John Copeley, Jacques Bourgeois, Madame Biki, Elvira di Hidalgo, Arianna Stassinopoulos, Michel Glotz, Polyvios Marchand

 

Tony Palmer Films DVD DVDTP103