The Foundation
An endowment fund in the service of operatic art
A lasting and transparent framework to preserve an exceptional legacy and to support artistic creation.
The Maria Callas Endowment Fund is the first international non-profit institution dedicated to preserving and promoting the work and legacy of Maria Callas.
Founded in 2017 in Paris, at the initiative of those close to the artist, the Fund brings together and conserves the largest Callas collection in the world. Established as an endowment fund, the organisation receives and manages gifts and bequests in order to finance, directly or indirectly, missions of general interest of a cultural nature. This status, created by the French Economic Modernisation Act of 4 August 2008, offers a flexible, lasting and transparent framework, well suited to long-term cultural patronage.
Our status
- Legal form
- Endowment fund (Act of 4 August 2008)
- Purpose
- To preserve and promote the work and legacy of Maria Callas: to bring together and conserve the Callas collection, to design and support exhibitions, events and audiovisual productions, and to ensure their transmission and outreach.
- SIREN
- 877 558 965
- SIRET (registered office)
- 877 558 965 00019
- Registered office
- 7 avenue de Bretteville, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Date of creation
- 2017
Governance
The Fund is administered by a board of directors chaired by its co-founder, who sets its direction and ensures the sound management of its resources in keeping with its purpose.
- Chair & co-founder
- Tom Volf
Our values
- Preservation — bringing together, conserving and documenting the Callas collection so as to pass it on intact to future generations.
- Transmission — introducing the work of Maria Callas, bel canto and the operatic tradition to the widest possible audience.
- Rigour — the pursuit of excellence, in the spirit that was Maria Callas's own.
- Openness — sharing great music through the exhibitions, events and productions supported by the Fund.