There was once a more mysterious version of celebrity. The wall that separated a famous artist’s performance from that same artist’s private life was more…
There was once a more mysterious version of celebrity. The wall that separated a famous artist’s performance from that same artist’s private life was more difficult to scale. Popular singers didn’t routinely executive produce advertorials stuffed with behind-the-scenes footage of themselves: no rehearsal time laid bare, no banal shopping trips, no nervous visit to their personal ear, nose, and throat specialist (to date, Justin Bieber has made two such films). Fans didn’t have the immediate access provided by the internet; a star was more or less allowed to keep the public at arm’s length.
Filmmaker Tom Volf reaches into the past to change that in “Maria by Callas,” a lovingly assembled documentary about the life and career of American opera legend Maria Callas, whose voice is considered to be among the greatest of the 20th century. Here, the private Callas is made public.
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