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Master Class

Terrence McNally author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th May '97

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Terrence McNally's unforgettable Tony Award-winning play presented as a fictional master class by opera singer Maria Callas nearing the end of her life.

The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play "unforgettable, worth swimming to New York to catch" (Benedict Nightingale)The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play "unforgettable, worth swimming to New York to catch" (Benedict Nightingale) Master Class presents the legendary opera diva, Maria Callas, as she puts aspiring young singers through their paces in a series of master classes. Both moving and entertaining, this theatrical tour de force dramatizes the Callas phenomenon and "is an unembarrassed, involving meditation on Callas's life and the nature of her art. Such subjects are not easily dramatized, certainly not with this brio." (New York Times)

Unforgettable, worth swimming to New York to catch * Benedict Nightingale, The Times *
McNally's well-crafted, quip-filled drama — which depicts Callas teaching at Juilliard, circa 1971 (her voice was virtually destroyed by then) — is less a biography and more a love letter to La Divina. * Entertainment Weekly *
Terrence McNally's brusque and brilliant rendering of Callas is the sort of meaty role actresses love to sink teeth and claws into. * New York Daily News *

ISBN: 9780413718501

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 96g

160 pages