Master Class

Terrence McNally, translated by Marios Ploritis

ISBN 10: 960032025X / ISBN 13: 9789600320251

Published by Kastaniotis, 1997

About this Item

First Greek edition. Paperback. 21 × 12cm, 100pp. Greek text. Terrence McNally's play about an imagined master class given by opera singer Maria Callas near the end of her life, in the 1970s. As she is dismayed and impressed in equal measure by the students who perform before her, she retreats into recollections about the glories of her own life and career. This copy illustrated with tills from the Greek production starring Katia Dandoulaki. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

Seller Inventory # 016025

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Master Class
• Publisher: Kastaniotis
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: Greek, Modern (post 1453)
• ISBN 10: 960032025X
• ISBN 13: 9789600320251
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The world can and will go on without us but I have to think that we have made this world a better place. That we have left it richer, wiser than had we not chosen the way of art.

The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play.

Terrence McNally's Master Class presents the legendary opera diva, Maria Callas, as she puts aspiring young singers through their paces in a series of master classes. Both moving and entertaining, this theatrical tour de force dramatizes the Callas phenomenon and "is an unembarrassed, involving meditation on Callas's life and the nature of her art. Such subjects are not easily dramatized, certainly not with this brio." (New York Times)

After opening on Broadway in 1995 with Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald, the play premiered in London in 1997 with Patti LuPone. It was last revived on Broadway and in the West End in 2011-12 starring Tyne Daly.