The bust of the legendary diva of the Opera, Maria Callas, was permanently placed inside the Rome opera, where Callas had left, due to vocal problems, before the first performance of “Norma” was completed in January 1958.

It is a work by Greek sculptor Nikos Floros, made of steel, totaling seventy pounds.

The placement of the bust inside the theater, dedicated to Maria Kalogeropoulou, is yet another important move by which the Italian capital honors the memory of the inimitable Greek artist.

In addition to the sculptor, at the revelations of the bust, among other things, the ambassador of our country to Italy Eleni Srani and the director of the Rome Opera House Francesco Jabrone, who referred to the importance of the work as a live cultural bridge between Greece and the artist of the Greek artist, were present. Maria Callas.

In December 2023, our Embassy in Rome, in collaboration with the Opera of the Eternal City, had organized a night – tribute to “Divina”, with soprano Myrto Papathanasiou and pianist Yiannis Tsanakaliotis. It was a first move of symbolic “reconstruction”, six decades after the interruption of Maria Calas’ collaboration with this theater