The Italian Institute of Culture in Athens is hosting a traveling exhibit devoted to everyone's favorite historical diva (or at least: well-known diva), Maria Callas. The Greeks will have a chance to see the phenomenal exhibition, which displays 517 personal objects of la Callas (and from a few of her colleagues) throughout her career. The exhibition titled, "Maria Callas: One woman, One voice, One myth", («Maria Callas: una donna, una voce, un mito»), has been curated by the president of the Associazione Culturale Maria Callas in Venice, Bruno Tosi, in recognition of the 30th year of her passing, which will be this September 16 (from 1977).
Costumes, gowns and clothes that she had chosen to wear backstage in between scenes (by Dior and Lanvin); famous costumes that she had worn in some of her last stage appearances; jewelry, letters, telegrams -- even cooking recipes -- as well as family pictures, both of Giovanni Battista Meneghini and of Aristotile Onassis, can all be found on display.
Just when you think that you've heard of like every single retrospective on Maria Callas, there always seems to be one more lurking around.