soprano

Callas was a US-born Greek soprano, and one of opera's most well-known opera singers.

A talented boy soprano, he sung in St Michael's Parish Church.

The legendary soprano, stricken by illness, would no longer perform in the title role of Vincenzo Bellini's "Norma" before an esteemed assembly that included the President of Italy.

How fitting, then, that “Maria” begins like a gallery view of the mythic soprano’s storied history.

She had failed to appreciate that the work was conceived on different physical planes, with the soprano and the choir raised above the other singers, representing heaven.