Maria Callas as a fashion icon

TY · ‎03-10-2010

"The Cut" fashion website has some wonderful photos of a young Maria Callas as there is a new coffee table book about her fashion style - Maria by Callas. Wow, Maria Callas was so pretty and stylish when she was young.

Take a look at the photo gallery:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/maria-by-callas-remembers-style-of-opera-singer-maria-callas.html

The photo below was taken in 1948. I love Maria's look and her hair in this photo.

Trix · ‎03-16-2010

As lovely as the younger Callas is, I thought she was still quite stunning as a 40+ (which is how I remember her most). She died rather young at age 53.

Aside from looks, Ms. Callas, although remembered as an international icon, was an American born treasure. For anyone who lacks an appreciation of opera, listening to a Maria Callas performance might change their mind. INCREDIBLE!

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Stunning, stunning photos, TY1. What an elegant woman. I always feel bad for the way that Aristotle Onassis treated her.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

Beautiful! I don't think I've ever known of her.

golding76 · ‎05-19-2012

I was fortunate to catch her at the end of her career at a concert at Miami Beach's auditorium. [1973?] It was a mixed blessing, though. She had lost her voice but not her dieted-down figure.

There was a lot of screeching (I know this is horribly disrespectful as she died not too long after I heard her), and her performance was deserving of pity.

She performed with Giuseppe Di Stefano, with whom, it was rumored at the time, she was having an affair.

Her famous line was: "First I lost weight, then I lost my voice, and now I've lost Onassis."

Yes, Onassis should not have dumped Maria for Jackie, whom he later faulted for all his losses -- especially the loss of his precious son, Alexander. He called Jackie "the witch" in Greek.

Add-on: The concert was March 21, 1974, and Callas died in September 1977. Miami Beach was one of the stops on what was to be her final world tour.

MIAMI BEACH
Auditorium
21 March 1974
Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano
Robert Sutherland, accompanist

Quale, o prode, al tuo coraggio, I vespri siciliani
Suicidio!, La gioconda
Vainement, ma bien-aimée, Le roi d’Ys
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera), Carmen
C’est toi? C’est moi, Carmen
Io vengo a domandar, Don Carlo
Voi lo sapete, Cavalleria rusticana
Tu qui, Santuzza? ... Ah ! Lo vedi ... No, no Turiddu, Cavalleria rusticana
O mio babbino caro, Gianni Schicchi

golding76 · ‎05-19-2012

From a Chicago Tribune piece:

The Black Widow

- Many superstitious Greeks blamed the many tragedies that befell Onassis -- the death of his son, his business reversals, finally his own death, on Jackie. During his funeral, the Greek word atyhya, which means curse, could be heard. (Moutsatsos)

- Onassis himself thought she was responsible for his son's death and called her "the witch." (Klein)

ETA: I have always been besotted with Jackie as a fashion icon and did not embrace these beliefs. However, I did find it odd that Jackie's beloved son died in an aircraft accident as did the son of Aristotle Onassis. Did Onassis curse Jackie?