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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Monica Bellucci: Maria Callas Letters and Memoirs

Monica Bellucci is on the road as Maria Callas.

December 3, 2022
842 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014

Monica Bellucci’s screen credits include appearances in the Matrix franchise, Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Call My Agent!, and the James Bond clunker Spectre. Now she’s on the road as Maria Callas, delivering material reverentially assembled and published by Tom Volf, who also directs. French editions of Volf’s books (Callas Confidential and Maria Callas: Lettres et Mémoires) are available in hardcover or electronically for $30 or less. The English edition (Maria by Callas) goes for north of $900. What’s an Anglophone fan of La Divina to do? Book Bellucci. —Matthew Gurewitsch