Press

The Maria Callas Foundation's work — films, exhibitions, restorations, publications — has been covered by the French and international press since 2017. Journalists are welcome to get in touch for interviews, visuals and documentation.

Press contact

The contact form, subject “Press and media” — the Foundation answers every press enquiry, and can provide high-resolution visuals from its collection (with mandatory credit © Fonds de Dotation Maria Callas) as well as interviews with its president, Tom Volf.

Press kit

• Press kit (PDF) — the Foundation, the collection, ten years of achievements, the museum project.
• Logotype: black (JPG, 300 dpi) · white (transparent PNG) · vector (PDF)

High-definition visuals

Ten photographs from the collection, free for press use to illustrate any article devoted to the Foundation, its projects or Maria Callas. Mandatory credit: © Fonds de Dotation Maria Callas. Any other use requires a licence.

• Verona, 1947 — the year of her Italian debut, at the Arena
• With Luchino Visconti at La Scala, 1954
• Madama Butterfly, Chicago, 1955 — one of her only three evenings in the role
• Medea at La Scala, 1957
• Rome, press conference, 7 January 1958 — five days after the evening of 2 January
• Portrait, New York, 1958
• In concert with Georges Prêtre, 1963
• Last Norma in Paris, 1965
• "Les Grands Interprètes", Paris, 1965
• Tokyo, 1974 — the farewell tour

Selected coverage

On the Foundation and the museum project

• Le Figaro — Centenaire de Callas : et si Paris se dotait d'un musée pour sauver l'héritage de la diva ? (December 2023) — read the article
• franceinfo Culture — Musée, films, concerts : cent ans après sa naissance, les nombreux hommages à Maria Callas (2023)
• Classica — Le Fonds de Dotation Maria Callas
• Centre Européen de Musique — Série Patrimoine : Maria Callas (2022) — read the interview

On Callas – Paris, 1958 (2023)

• ClassiqueNews — interview with Tom Volf on the restoration of the 1958 recital
• Opera Online — Callas – Paris, 1958 bientôt au cinéma
• Forum Opéra — on the charity screening for the Foundation

On Maria by Callas (2017–2018)

• Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, RogerEbert.com — reviews of the film's US release (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Screen Daily — Sony Pictures Classics nabs Maria Callas doc
• Ôlyrix — interview with Tom Volf (2017)
• Europe 1 — on the 40th-anniversary exhibition at La Seine Musicale (2017)

On the exhibitions

• Coverage of Maria by Callas at La Seine Musicale (2017, 30,000+ visitors) and at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco (2018, inaugurated by H.S.H. Prince Albert II) — see the exhibitions

In brief — about the Foundation

The Fonds de Dotation Maria Callas (Maria Callas Foundation) was created in Paris in 2017 at the initiative of Tom Volf with Maria Callas's close friends and associates, Georges Prêtre being its honorary president and co-founder. It preserves the world's most significant private collection devoted to Maria Callas — 200 hours of original recordings, 5,000 original photographs, 150 handwritten letters, stage costumes — and works towards the opening of the Maria Callas Museum in Paris for the fiftieth anniversary of her passing, on 16 September 2027. Ten years of achievements · The collection · The museum project