Callas in her roles

More than any singer of her century, Maria Callas is remembered role by role: the priestess, the courtesan, the sorceress, the mad bride. She did not simply sing these women — she gave each of them a face, a walk, a way of suffering that the stage had forgotten and has sought ever since.

These pages tell the story of her defining roles — where she first sang them, what she changed in them, and what traces of them live on in the Foundation's collection: photographs, recordings, letters, costumes.

• Amina — La sonnambula
• Anna Bolena
• Carmen
• Elvira — I puritani
• La Gioconda
• Lucia di Lammermoor
• Medea
• Norma
• Tosca
• Turandot
• Violetta — La traviata