Maria CALLASAge: 531923–1977
- Name
- Maria CALLAS
- Type
- change of name
- Given names
- Maria
- Surname
- CALLAS
Sophie Cecilia KALOS
- Name
- Sophie Cecilia KALOS
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- New York birth certificate
- Given names
- Sophie Cecilia
- Surname
- KALOS
- Married Name
- Sophie Cecilia MENEGHINI
Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia KALOGEROPOULOS
- Name
- Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia KALOGEROPOULOS
- Type
- birth name
- Given names
- Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia
- Surname
- KALOGEROPOULOS
| Birth | 2 December 1923 New York, New York, USA |
| Common law marriage | Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS - View family from 1957 (Age 33) Greece
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Wikipedia
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Text: Onassis and legendary opera soprano Maria Callas carried on an affair despite the fact that they were both married. They met in 1957 during a party in Venice promoted by Elsa Maxwell. After this first encounter, Onassis commented to Spyros Skouras: "There [was] just a natural curiosity; after all, we were the most famous Greeks alive in the world."
Callas and Onassis both divorced their spouses but did not marry each other, although their relationship continued for many years |
| Relationship 16-20 | Maria CALLAS is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's great uncle's wife's husband's ex-partner.
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Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Citation details: 20 connections Text: Shortest in-law relationship
You →Ruth ALTER COHEN your mother →Frieda DRUKARSH ALTER her mother →Raizel (Galia) BARANSKI DRUKARSH her mother →Avraham (Tzvi) Hersh BARANSKI her father →Szymon BARANSKI his brother →Hinda KLEJNMINTZ BARANSKI his wife →Tauba (Tybie) DRUCZJAN KLEJNMINTZ her mother →Liba DRACZANA SPIEGEL her sister →Chana Sura SPIEGEL CIESIELSKA her daughter →Jack CIESELSKI CHELSKY her son →Dr. Morris Bernard CHELSKY his son →<private> CHELSKY MCKEAN his daughter →<private> MCKEAN her son →Maeve KENNEDY MCKEAN his wife →Kathleen KENNEDY TOWNSEND her mother Robert F. KENNEDY, U.S. Attorney General her father John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the USA his brother →Jacqueline KENNEDY ONASSIS, 32nd First Lady of the United States his wife →Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS her husband →Maria CALLAS his ex-partner |
| Married | Giovanni Battista MENEGHINI from 1949 to 1959 (Age 25) Italy
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Wikipedia
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Text: They married in 1949, and he assumed control of her career until 1959, when the marriage dissolved. It was Meneghini's love and support that gave Callas the time needed to establish herself in Italy, and throughout the prime of her career, she went by the name of Maria Meneghini Callas.
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| Death of a husband | 15 March 1975 (Age 51) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France
husband -
Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS
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| Burial of a husband | after 15 March 1975 (Age 51) Skorpios, Island of Skorpios Cemetery, Regional unit of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece
husband -
Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS
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| Death | 16 September 1977 (Age 53) Paris, Île-de-france, France
Source:
Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Opera Singer. She was temperamental, turbulent and tragic, often considered the Edith Piaf of the Opera. However, despite a short career that flourished for only two decades, she gave stellar performances at all the major opera houses in the world. Her outbursts during performances with audiences and directors resulted in firings and walkouts. Her debut at La Scala was in "Aida" in 1950; her first appearances in London, England (1952), Chicago, Illinois (1954), and New York City, New York (1956), were in "Norma". She is remembered today mostly for her stumbling private life starting with her marriage to Giovanni Battista Meneghini, a wealthy industrialist and avid opera fan, a man almost 30 years older. Ten years later she announced their divorce and commenced an affair with another older man, Aristotle Onassis, only to lose him in his marriage to Jackie Kennedy. She was born in New York City to a pharmacy operator who legally changed the family name to Callas. Maria was singing at an early age while studying the piano. At age eleven, Maria won an amateur radio singing contest and the prize was a Bulova watch. When her parents separated, she was 14, and her mother returned to Athens taking her along. She was quickly accepted into the National Conservatory and a year later made her stage debut in the Conservatories production of Cavalleria Rusticana winning a prize. During the Nazi occupation of Athens, she made her true debut at the Athens Opera as Tosca and then proceeded to sing Santuzza and Leonora until the allies liberated Athens, when she offered her services as an interpreter. In the postwar, she returned to the United States making her professional debut in Boccaccio with the Lyric Theatre Company in Chicago while using her reinstated name Maria Callas. She returned to Europe and her career spiraled at La Scala while concurrently engaged in a recording contract. She made her debut at the Met in Norma followed by performances in Tosca and Lucia. Maria gave up the stage for the jet-set life with Onassis. She made a comeback in Paris appearing in 'Norma' and then at the Met in Tosca. The final curtain for Maria went down at Covent Garden. Her career now over, she renounced her American citizenship expecting to marry Onassis, a destiny which remained only a dream. Her voice now virtually gone, she filmed an unsuccessful production of Medea then gave a number of master classes at Juilliard in New York and even after being offered the position of Artistic Director at the Met, she declined to make yet another attempt at a comeback. Maria made a disastrous European tour of recitals culminating in a final public performance in Sapporo, Japan. She became reclusive in her last year and died at her Paris Apartment without receiving medical attention at age 53 from a heart attack. She was cremated and her remains kept in a niche at the cemetery of Pere Lachaise until the spring of 1979 when the urn was taken by plane and scattered over the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece by the minister of culture for that country. A niche plaque was placed as a memorial by the cemetery while indicating the now empty space was the initial resting place for the urn containing the ashes of Maria Callas. Bio by: Donald Greyfield Maria CALLAS (1923–1977) [Photo of Maria Callas from the television talk show Small World. The program was hosted by Edward R. Murrow.] |
| Cremation | 16 September 1977 (on the date of death) Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: Maria Callas Famous memorial Original Name Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos Birth 2 Dec 1923 New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA Death 16 Sep 1977 (aged 53) Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France Burial* Cimetière du Père Lachaise Paris, City of Paris, Île-de-France, France Show Map Division 87, Columbarium, corridor J, Niche 16258 * This is the original burial site Inscription CETTE PLAQUE A ETE APPOSEE PAR LE MARIA CALLAS INTERNATIONAL CLUB LE 15 SEPTEMBRE 1991 Family Members Children Photo Omero Lengrini Onassis 1960–1960 Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 11 Dec 1999 Find a Grave Memorial 7635 Maria CALLAS (1923–1977) |
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| Last change | 3 November 2022 - 16:17:43 by: Site Admin |
| Family with Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS - View family |
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Birth 20 January 1906 Karataş, Izmir, Ottoman Empire Reference number K59 Death 15 March 1975 (Age 69) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France |
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18 years herself |
Birth 2 December 1923 New York, New York, USA Reference number K36 Death 16 September 1977 (Age 53) Paris, Île-de-france, France |
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Marriage: from 1957 — Greece |
| Aristotle Socrates ONASSIS + Jacqueline Lee BOUVIER - View family |
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Birth 20 January 1906 Karataş, Izmir, Ottoman Empire Reference number K59 Death 15 March 1975 (Age 69) Neuilly-sur-seine, Departement Des Hauts-de-seine, Île-de-france, France |
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24 years husband's wife |
Birth 28 July 1929 Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, USA Reference number K53 Death 19 May 1994 (Age 64) New York, New York, USA |
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Marriage: 20 October 1968 — Nisída Skorpiós, Ionian Islands, Greece |
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