Sirmione, Italy

Posted by Zara on September 16, 2007

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Our third stop of our itinerary to Venice:

The spectacular station of Sirmione occupies narrow advanced springing in the lake Garda, its entry kept by a castle of XIIIe century surrounded of ditches and worthy of picture books.

Its small impeccably held pedestrian city is animated of fortunate customers which come, for the majority, to benefit from the complex of thermal baths and care.

At the end of the peninsula, you will be able to admire a panoramic sight on the lake by visiting impressive Grotte di Catullo, more important vestiges of Roman villa of Northern Europe.

Lake of Garda, the largest lake in Italy – Sirmione – Castello Scaligeri

The island juts out on lake of Garda

Gardenia hotel, Sirmione, where we stayed

Gardenia Hotel

Lombardia

The Map

Maria Callas

Maria Callas

We passed in front of her former house. And by the way do you know about her?

Who is she?

Here’s some details about her:

Maria Callas Soprano (1923-1977)

30 years ago, September 16, 1977, in Paris, Marias Callas joined the firmament of the eternal divas. Temperament of fire, vocalità eruptive, style plus expressionnist that angelica, the professional singer revolutionized the art of the lyric song.

In more of being diva assoluta, “Callas” was also a woman in her time, marries arranged and even wise pupil of sound mari/agent Giovanni Battista Meneghini says “Tita”, especially in love impassioned with Lucino Visconti, then of the Greek ship-owner richissime Aristote Onassis, alive in painful waiting, Pénélope with the tragic decline.

The silhouette and the face of the interpreter seize by their magnetism. In more of being an artist achieved, Maria Callas, carried by the excellence of her art, was also a radiant woman, with the irresistible charisma. Star on the boards, new icon of the evenings of the Jet set, she was also an admirable actress for the cinema.

On the scene as in the life, Maria Callas incarnates a woven ideal of romanticism, passion, intoxication, requirement… Here, opera and reality mix narrowly. Her life is a novel, her art, a disconcerting exception by her glare and her genius.

The artist dazzles us by his grace, his intensity, his beauty. 30 years after her disappearance, the Callas myth did not weaken. While remaining unequalled, the voice of the singer remains single. Of irresistible and disconcerting truth. Portrait-homage.

To commemorate her disappearance and to underline the heritage of the diva, here the wire of its life, bent as a novel which is one of our serials of the summer 2007. Not also on the topicality of the professional singer, since, for the 30 2nd birthday of its death, editors of Cd and dvd announce already enticing republications of which some news, more than advisable…

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