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Digging Deeper with Master Class

Reading & Listening Recommendations from MASTER CLASS Director David Mong, Actor Anne Cullimore Decker, Accompanist Paul Dorgan & more. . .

BOOKS: Maria Callas

Callas at Juilliard: The Master Classes
By Maria Callas & John Ardoin
Amadeus Press, 1998

Callas: Images of a Legend
Attila Csampai
Schirmer/Mosel, August 20, 2007

Maria Callas Remembered
By Nadia Stancioff
Da Capo Press, May 2000

Maria Callas: Sacred Monster
By Stelios Galatopoulos
Simon & Schuster, 1998

Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend
By Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
Cooper Square Press; 1st Cooper Square Press Ed edition, December 25, 2002

Maria Meneghini Callas
By Michael Scott
Northeastern University Press, Boston in arrangement with Simon & Schuster, Ltd., 1991

Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis
By Nicholas Gage
Knopf; First edition. Edition, October 3, 2000

BOOKS: Terrence McNally

Master Class
By Terrence McNally
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1996

Terrence McNally: A Casebook
By Toby Silverman Zinman
Volume 22 of Casebooks on Modern Dramatists
Taylor & Francis, 1997

RECORDINGS

A note from Dr. Paul Dorgan

As for recordings, there are hundreds of them on various labels. She was contracted to EMI and for that label she recorded most of her great roles, some of them twice; after her death, EMI bought many of the "live" recordings of her performances at La Scala, cleaned up the sound, and reissued them. But buyer beware! These recordings were made in the 50s and 60s, so the sound is not the greatest; this is especially true of the "live" recordings. But having said that, Callas’ greatest singing is on the early "live" stuff from La Scala, bad sound, audience coughs and all!