Just another music anecdote:
Photo of Maria Callas is linked from NZZ Newspaper
Last week we celebrated the 100th birthday of Maria Callas in the private circle of the friends and members of 'Ars Augusta', which is located in our neighborhood. We went there mainly for the enchanting voice of our dear friend Eleni Triada Ioannidou, a professional opera singer. Like Callas, she is of Greek descent.
Own photo.
She sang a few heartbreaking songs. And again, it was the kind of goosebump moments that lift you out of your everyday life. We talked about Callas' biography, watched YouTube videos showing her and reminisced. Everyone had something to tell. It was also about the future of opera, which seems to be in crisis.
The moderator was another old friend of ours who founded a philosophical café in our city, where we sometimes go to discuss and listen to lectures of real Philosophers which have studied this discipline.