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From:  David Geary <dgeary@s...>
Date:  Tue Jun 11, 2002  6:18 am
Subject:  Re: Callas Forever

>Were the director other
> than Zefirelli, I could imagine them simply focusing on her private life,
> and not on her onstage career - but I can't believe Zef wouldn't focus
> mainly, if not entirely, on Callas the PERFORMER, and all that that
> entailed.

It seems the film takes place in the last months of Callas' life, and is the
(fictional)
story about a producer who talks Callas into filming several of her roles using
the
existant complete recordings. They start with "Carmen", there are several scenes
from it in the movie (I saw a trailer on Italian TV) therefore the recordings
are used
throughout.

David







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