Maria Callas

Maria had the best artists present in in the international theatres, among which the performance of Aida by Giuseppe Verdi put on in Mexico in 1951 ws memorable: Radames was Mario Del Monaco, in this page I propose to the listener the Nile duet, besides the exceptional rendition, that evening the two artists competed with each other for “shooting” and holding the longest notes, a true clash encounter between titans whch remained unsurpassed

The clash between the two artists behind the scenes are known, since, being two opera stars, they hardly put up with each other presence in the same opera, who knows how much truth was there in that, but, it appears the they were in love and in agreement in this photo from the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini where both had an enormous success