Christos Hadjiyiannis

June 30, 2021

The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, by Marina Abramović

By Christos Hadjiyiannis

In her latest work, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović stars as Maria Callas. The work opened at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich on 3 September 2020. In his review of the opera, Dr Christos Hadjiyiannis, Scientific Project Manager of NetMAR, suggests that the opera borrows much from late antique and early medieval texts that thematise the suffering of Christian women.