La Callas une invitation à l'opéra

Description

Taste the pleasures of opera thanks to the unforgettable voice of La Callas! Didier jeunesse continues its work of introducing young audiences to classical music and invites them to discover, with this new book-and-CD, five Italian operas: Tosca, La Bohême, La Traviata, Norma and Madame Butterfly. Performed by Maria Callas, they plunge the listener into the magic of bel canto. Each opera is told like a breathless, poetic or tragic tale. Young readers will be moved and fascinated by these powerful stories, true tragedies with universal overtones. Enough to nourish their imagination and give them a taste for, or a passion for, opera forever! The CD features the diva’s most beautiful arias, as well as duets and choruses, to showcase the richness of opera. At the end of the book, a few pages provide details on what an opera is, the work of a soprano, etc. It also includes a biography of Maria Callas evoking her difficult beginnings, her talent as a tragedienne, her voice vibrating with emotion, and her difficulty in handling fame. A sumptuous gift book illustrated by Nathalie Novi, long fascinated by opera and by Maria Callas, who found here stories worthy of her talent! This book-and-CD contains everything we dream of in her: a dramatic intensity she conveys like never before, a sense of setting, expressive landscapes, moving portraits and refined aesthetic details, like those lovely butterflies, those graceful head tilts, those sumptuous dresses in shimmering colors...