Master Class
by Terrence McNally
State Theatre South Australia/Adelaide Festival Centre
Optima Playhouse

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Master Class is New York-based playwright, Terrence McNally’s account of sessions Maria Callas held at the Juilliard School of Music between October 1971 and March 1972. These classes, as Rodney Fisher’s informative program notes remind us, took place at a difficult time for La Divina. Her career was, by this time – like her voice – if not in shreds, at least in …

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