Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore”: I have lived for art, I have lived for love.

Love and Music (Vissi d'arte) performed by Sinéad Campbell-Wallace and the Orchestra of ENO at Battersea Arts Centre.
Heroic opera deaths reimagined
Seven arias are sung in their original language as Callas performed them.
- Violetta’s aria from La traviata, Act 3: “Addio, del passato”
- Tosca’s aria from Tosca, Act 2: “Vissi d’arte”
- Desdemona’s aria from Otello , Act 4: “Ave Maria”
- Cio-Cio-San’s aria from Madame Butterfly, Act 2: “Un bel dì, vedremo”
- Carmen’s aria (Habanera) from Carmen, Act 1: “L’amour est un oiseau rebel”
- Lucia’s aria from Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: “Il dolce suono”
- Norma’s aria from Norma, Act 1: “Casta Diva”

Watch Ginger Costa-Jackson perform Habanera from Bizet's Carmen with the Orchestra of ENO
These seven arias all have one thing in common. All seven are the final arias sung by the heroine before they tragically die in their respective operas, hence the “7 Deaths” of the title.
The films are titled “Burning”, “Knifing”, “Jumping”, “Hara-kiri”, “Strangulation”, “Consumption” and “Madness”. These titles each match the deaths of the heroines.
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Watch the trailer for ENO's production of 7 Deaths of Maria Callas
The opera ends with an eighth and final death. The scene is set in a hotel room in Paris where the real Callas died.
As well as classic arias, there is new music from Serbian composer, Marko Nikodijević.

Eri Nakamura, Marina Abramović, ENO’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas © Tristram Kenton
7 Deaths of Maria Callas Production Gallery







