BY MARION LIGNANA ROSENBERG
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Offstage Maria is really a very simple woman of humble background. Alceste, however, is a great queen, a figure
of classic nobility. Yet, through some mystic transformation, Casllas transmitted all Alceste’s royal
stature… From the moment Maria would step on the stage, she materially became the character she was to
play.
Carlo Maria Giulini