Vadim Zhuravlev. Picture, basket, cardboard

In Paris, these days from the auction, personal belongings of the Great Opera Primeonna Maria Callas are sold. Already found those who wanted to vilify the chinchilla fur coat and artistic wigs of the singer. It would seem that there is nothing special about this: Callas was a superstar, 30 years ago, who had borrowed the minds of the townsfolk by the very fact of their existence. Not to mention, about numerous scandals: incredible weight loss, divorce with her husband, an affair with Aristotle Onassis. They sell things by Marlene Dietrich or the dresses of Princess Diana.

The subject of the bargain this time was a collection, which was supposed to be the basis of the First Callas Museum. The museum in her last Parisian apartment, in which she had spent her recent years without loved ones, without love, without a voice. Every morning dozens of her fans came here to see how Primadonna Assoluta would pull the curtain. She was found dead in this apartment 23 years ago: the final conclusion of doctors did not put a point in her biography. Still remaining a mystery, whether she died her death, or, unable to withstand the loss of a great voice, set off her own life.
The body of Callas was cremated, and the ashes were dispelled to the sea. Federico Fellini shot his famous film “and the ship floats” about this, and a empty niche with the letters of the MS remained in the Pere Lashez cemetery in Paris. With the destruction of the idea of ​​the Kallas Museum, the last hope of its fans disappeared - to build the temple of his La Divina, Divine (the nickname of Callas for all times). Now everyone can create their own small memorial niche or a shelf with Callas discs, decorate it with portraits or flowers - this is optional.

Nevertheless, the Kallas Museum could become a symbol of overcoming, no worse than the Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum in Moscow. All her life, she heroically overcame the hardships of earthly life. Children's complexes: She was not loved by a bitch-mother. The consequences of a heavy car accident, after which she was in a coma. Severe attempts to break through to the peaks of the opera world: she was scolded for the shortcomings of the voice (and there were many of them), and correspondence battles with Renat Tebaldi became an opera legend. The eternal struggle with their glory: her fans of the ambulance were taken away from the premiere of "Traviata", and the ill -wishers followed every unsuccessful note. Finally, the battle for female happiness: marriage with a rich old man, a scandalous romance with Onassis, who became Kallas Waterloo after the escape of the latter to Jacqueline Kennedy.

Thanks to Kallas, the opera after the war was born again. After the singer’s appearance on the stage, the hearing of the operans already began to be indecent on the stage alone only with rules and firing. Or just sing, without thinking about the acting side of opera art. Together with Callas, great directors came to the opera (starting with Lukino Visconti), who squeezed the genre of costumed concert. And the fact that the thick -breath primadones of the past (Tolstoy have better voice sounds) have come graceful beauties - this is also the merit of Callas. She triumphed only 10 years, but it was the greatest decade in opera history. Callas records are still reprinted with unprecedented circulations: they are still buying them. Now, here are the things you can buy and boast in front of the goods: I go to the mink mantle, which Onassis gave Callas before leaving to Jacques.