From The Guardian:
"The British production house Future Films has announced it is about to start work on Callas, a feature film with a screenplay based on the best-selling Callas biography So Proud, So Fragile, by the Italian author Alfonso Signorini. A-list stars Anne Hathaway and Penélope Cruz are rumoured to be in talks about taking the lead role in a joint British and Italian venture that will focus on the singer's tempestuous relationship with the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. The screenplay has been written by Niall Johnson, who wrote the 2005 Rowan Atkinson comedy Keeping Mum, and it has been delivered to the film-makers in the past few days."
One of the few mezzo roles that has star quality: Carmen.
Here's a clip from the movie* I mentioned:
* From Comments: There was a great movie made of Carmen years ago - wonderful cast - Julia Migenes-Johnson, another soprano but singing way out of her range, my heartthrob Ruggiero Raimondi, and Placido Domingo. That movie sticks with one.
And here's another movie version with Grace Bumbry, a real mezzo:
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Oh, neither, really. It might be interesting. /me types a thousand words then erases it all. I obviously know too much about her.
It's hard to imagine either actress mustering that degree of steely control, but who knows. People these days are flopsy bunnies.
The Callas Julliard master class tapes are MUCH fun to listen to.
It's hard to imagine either actress mustering that degree of steely control, but who knows. People these days are flopsy bunnies.
The Callas Julliard master class tapes are MUCH fun to listen to.
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