Speaking of Callas, not necessarily many people now know her big name, and the 90s tenor Pavarotti may be a more familiar name.
In the 1950s, Callas's fame and stature were no less than those of Pavarotti in the 90s.
Callas
Even U.S. President John F. Kennedy's birthday celebrations were honored to invite Karas to sing.
Callas was received by U.S. President Kennedy after singing at his birthday celebration
She achieved so much in the field of opera that nearly thirty years after her death, she remains one of the best-selling singers on the classical music stage, known as the greatest "Queen of Opera".
However, such a world-famous opera queen and a big heroine who shines on the stage, in her emotional life, has always loved humblely and can never get rid of the role of the perfect victim.
Drama is like life, life is like drama, And Callas, like the tragic heroine she plays, falls for love.
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Callas was born in May 1923 in New York, Usa, to Greek parents. The parents had very different personalities, the father was easy-going, unambitious and had no interest in art, while the mother was lively and cheerful, ambitious, and dreamed of living an artistic life.
After his parents divorced in 1937, Karas was raised by his mother. Around the age of three, Karas's musical talent began to show. Karas's mother, who transforms her disappointment in her husband into her eagerness to become a phoenix, begins urging her to practice songs when She is very young.
The Callas family (second from left is Callas)
But my mother was in a hurry and didn't pay attention to methods, except harsh and harsh, Karas later recalled, "I started practicing songs every day when I was five years old. I hate singing. ”
When he was a child, Karas was like an ugly duckling, and apart from his good voice, the other conditions were not perfect. Her mother was always sneering at little Callas, as if she was afraid she wouldn't know she was fat and clumsy.
From the beginning of childhood, he was used as a mean-making tool by his mean mother, without the warmth of his family and the nourishment of maternal love, perhaps this is the reason why Karas, who has become an opera goddess in the future, is still inferior and insecure, especially in love relationships, always the most humble and cowardly.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="84" > forced by his mother to meet men</h1>
During World War II, Karas and his mother and sister had returned to Greece occupied by the Axis powers. At that time, in order to make a living, in addition to prostituting herself, her mother forced Callas and her sister to "meet friends" and flirt with German and Italian soldiers who were in the upper hand in the war at that time in exchange for milk and bread.
Callas did not do as her mother had asked, but her mother's actions left a permanent shadow on her heart. She never forgave her mother.
The mother's pushing her own daughter into a degrading situation is related to the later commitment of Karas to the wealthy Greek ship king, to his mistress, or many others.
After karas succeeded in her career, she tried to improve her relationship with her mother, but the friction and resentment of the past still made it difficult for her to let go, leaving Karas and her mother strange. Her mother also published a book scolding her for being ungrateful, which attracted media hype.
Such a mother is indeed speechless.
A person's situation in youth and whether the mother's love is abundant are too related to the child's sense of security and self-confidence in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="85" > career peak</h1>
In 1951, at the age of 28, Karas was already at the top of the world. Gifted, she is the principal soprano of the Skala Opera House, a focal point in the world's opera scene, a cash cow for record labels, and a target for media paparazzi.
And all this also came from the efficient operation of Karas's agent, Menegini, who later became her husband. As an agent, Menegini was extremely efficient: he helped Callas haggle with the theater over appearance fees; he arranged "walks" for Callas, which were measured in hours and could hardly breathe; he maintained relations with all the critics to maintain their positive opinions of Callas.
Even in order to maintain the image of the goddess Karas, he did not let Karas have children, and in order to have a better stage image, he forced Karas to lose weight.
Karas and husband Menegini
As an agent, he seems to have a natural understanding of how to uphold the myth of the soprano Karas.
In this marriage, Karas did not get the love that women needed most, but was reduced to a tool for making money. In this marriage, she will always have only work, rehearsals and performances, only the fanatical admiration of the audience, and fear, a fear of falling from the top.
Menegini put all the money Karas earned in his name, and justifiably divided up the extra half of her property, and then coaxed Karas, knowing that she was soft-hearted, and made her believe him again.
Callas once described her husband as "a lice" and lamented that he "once had no penny, and now he is a millionaire through himself."
Callas can fully understand how in a relationship he has become a tool of others, but he just can't get rid of it. This deformed victim role was also repeated in her later entanglement with the Greek ship king.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="87" > great dedication</h1>
Due to the decline in sound quality due to weight loss and the intensification of peer competition, all this makes the well-informed Karas unable to resist the great dedication of the famous scumbag, billionaire, and Greek ship king Onassis.
In 1957, shortly after meeting Callas, the king of the ship carefully organized a trip to sea for her on the famous yacht "Christina", and former British Prime Minister Churchill was also invited to travel.
Karas and Churchill on the yacht Kristina
Although Meneghini himself was a millionaire, he felt like a poor relative compared to Onassis, and Karas himself gained the experience of loving and being loved for the first time.
Soon, Karas fell. In 1959, after divorcing her husband, Karas completely threw himself into the arms of onyxes, the king of the ship.
However, this was not a matched love, and Karas, who was known as the Queen of Opera at the time, was completely reduced to Onassis's tool to make other women jealous and take advantage of the opportunity to elevate himself under the mental toys and physical abuse of Onassis.
Karas and Ship King Onassis
While tangling with Karas, the scumbag Onassis also secretly sends autumn waves to other women, such as Lee Laziver, the sister of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who is a famous socialite in the upper social circles of New York.
Lee Raziver
It was she who introduced her own sister Jacqueline Kennedy to on-Ones. And the sister's first lady of the United States is more loud and more face-saving, so in 1968, half a year after the assassination of her younger brother-in-law Senator Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy desperately cut off her beard and married onyses to the ship king Onassis.
Jacqueline Kennedy
The one who was hurt the most was Karas, the once-famous opera queen who was now an outcast.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="93" > once again become a tool</h1>
Things are unpredictable.
Onassis's marriage to Jacqueline turned out to be a complete disaster: the shrewd ship king found himself the "world's first widow" cash machine, Jacqueline was able to spend the equivalent of the current 4 million yuan to buy 200 pairs of shoes at once, and Onassis realized that he had been treated as a fool.
Married Ship King Onassis and Jacqueline
So he launched a retaliatory offensive.
In addition to having the paparazzi take nude photos of Jacqueline basking in the sun on her own beach and post them in the world's major media, the man-versed ship king also used the jealousy between women to stimulate his wife Jacqueline.
Jacqueline's nude photos were published in the world's major media
To become a generation of ship kings, naturally not an ordinary lord, he can let his legal wife's nude photos dominate the world media, but also shows that from the depths of his heart, he did not regard Jacqueline as his wife at all.
Otherwise, no matter how big the heart is, it is impossible to let the nude photos of your lover be humiliated in public, which is not equivalent to letting yourself be humiliated.
Karas and the King of Ships dine at a steakhouse
He also had dinner with his old lover Callas at a steakhouse in Paris and managed to inform the paparazzi to get the media to expose the moment.
Sure enough, Jacqueline was counted. The day after she saw the newspaper, she spent less than 24 hours from New York to Paris, had dinner with the king of the ship at the same restaurant, and challenged Callas as if to declare her sovereignty—I was the king's rightful wife.
After that, it was another shopping spree.
The worst was Callas. She became a tool for the selfish couple's wrestling tactics. She will always be a spare tire in the eyes of the ship king.
That night, she swallowed a large number of sleeping pills and attempted suicide.
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Although the Ship King had begun to work on the divorce process with Jacqueline when he was terminally ill, he died before the marriage was completed. The only personal item he said was said to have brought with him to the hospital at the time was the red cashmere blanket that Callas had given him on his 65th birthday.
Kalas never recovered from this defeat.
In 1977, at the age of 53, Karas, a 53-year-old opera goddess, was found dead in her Parisian apartment. Her body was only found two days later.
The singing of Callas in her heyday was so beautiful, and it is precisely because of this that people regret her short artistic life.
Perhaps due to her thin and selfish mother, Carlas has been used as a tool since she was a child, although she has always played the role of a glittering heroine on the stage, but in real life, she always plays the role of the humble to the dust spare tire.
Her whole life has been trapped by emotions and hurt by scumbags. As everyone knows, in love, the more humble a woman is, the more she can't get it.
Heaven forbid, retribution is not pleasant. The Boat King and Jacqueline did not live long: the Boat King died at the age of 69, and Jacqueline was only 64 years old when she died of lymphoma.