Athens State Orchestra
A Tribute to Maria Callas
Maria (also known as Marianna or Mary) Kalogeropoulou, a resident of 61 Patission Street, was a young member of the National Theatre Opera Company (later the Greek National Opera) who took the lead role in six well- and lesser-known operatic works during the period of the Greco-Italian War and the German Occupation. Kalogeropoulou sang most of these diverse roles in Greek, and at venues that remain landmarks of Athenian cultural life: the Olympia Theatre, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, and the Pallas Theatre. Less than a year after the liberation of Greece in August 1945, the music critic Sophia Spanoudi announced in the Ta Nea newspaper that Maria Kalogeropoulou, later known as Maria Callas, “soon leaves for America, where she was born, and where she will certainly fulfil her potential…”
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