1. Maria Callas
Maria Callas whose birth name was Maria Anna Sophie Cecilia Kalogeropoulus was an American-born Greek singer and actress. Maria was born on the 2nd of December 1923 in New York City, New York to George Callas and Elmina Evangelia. Her father set up a pharmacy business and changed their family name to Callas from Kalogeropoulos. When she was a child, Maria studied the piano. Her parents were separated when she fourteen-years-old. Then her mother migrated back to Athens with Maria and her sister. Maria received her musical education from Athens.
She started appearing in some roles in Greek National Opera. Maria gave her professional debut in 1941 with a small role in “Boccaccio.” She later returned to the United States. And she met her father in 1945. She then got a job in the Metropolitan Opera as a singer behind the...
2. Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato whose real name is Joyce Flaherty is an American actress, producer and songwriter. Joyce was born on the 13th of February 1969 in Prairie Village, Kansas. She belongs to an Irish-American family. Her father was Donald, a self-employed architect and her mother was Amy Hetherington, a music teacher at a school. She was the sixth of seven siblings. Joyce and her siblings attended St. Ann Catholic School, where their mother worked as a teacher. She later went to Bishop Miege High School. She studied vocal music education from Wichita State University (WSU).
After her graduation from WSU, she went to the Academy of Vocal Arts to pursue graduate in vocal performance. Joyce started her professional career with several regional opera companies in 1998. She appeared as the lead female character with Tod Machover’s &...
3. Fanny Ardant
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant or Fanny Ardant is a French actress. She was born on the 22 March 1949 in Maine-et-Loire, France. She was a child of a French cavalry officer. She is the youngest of her five siblings. She is raised in Monte Carlo. She went to a convent school over there. When she was fifteen-years-old, she discovered Proust. Fanny admired Proust’s writings a lot. She used to feel that those writings are for her. Her father died when she was seventeen-years-old, and she never recovered from that shock. Just a few days before her father’s death, Fanny started acting on stage. But as her father died, she followed his advice and went to a university in Air-ex Provence. Fanny read Political Science. After her graduation, she took a job. Where she worked for a French Embassy in London, she continued working on more...
4. Tom Volf
Tom Volf is a movie director, producer, and an amazing vintage photographer of the Hollywood film industry. He, as a director, has done great work in Opera, fashion advertisements, and documentaries. He has a great inclination towards photography, and he loves clicking pictures in classic cameras such as Rolleiflex and Hasselblad. His pictures have got published in various magazines. He even had few exhibitions of his self-clicked pictures. In the year 2017 his movie Maria By Callas was released, which was a biography, on which Tom has worked for several years visiting different places, meeting close friends and colleagues of Maria Callas, an Opera singer. He has also made two other movies in the early 2000s; Les Aritos and Le Negre De Moliere.
...5. Thierry Bizot
Thierry Bizot is a television producer and French writer. The following article will provide the biography of Thierry Bizot. Thierry Bizot was born in Milan on May 12, 1962 (58 years old). He is the grandson of Jean-Jacques Bizot, deputy governor of the bank of France and nephew of Jacques De Larosiére, governor of Bank of France.
He has three siblings Philippe Bizot (brother), France Bizot (sister), Beatrice Bizot (sister). He studied at Henri- IV high school in preparation for HEC and a graduate of Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences. Thierry Bizot Career: Thierry Bizot has started his career as Marketing Director and General Manager of L’Oréal Parfumerie, Belgium in 1986. In 1995, he joined M6 as director of entertainment and magazines.
He launched several music programs such as Flas...