No, this isn't the title of an avant-garde film or an HBO Series about the mysterious love child of two rival politiicans, now even more mysteriously translated into a higher state of being and appearing as her own ghost to reconcile them. I refer to the Nineties Band.
Back in the early Nineties, everyone was listening to Michael Cretu's Enigma. I started thinking of them while viewing/listening to all of Callas I could find on You Tube.
As so often is the case, the video for "Callas Went Away" doesn't match up at all well with the images that the music put in my head. You may feel differently.
I do love the way they've worked Callas's voice into the song itself (an aria from Werther, which sounds completely different against this background music.)...Anyway, I had the image whenever I listened to it of her driving off in her carriage (because of the hoof sounds) while, say, petals blew in the wind. You know, all pink, white, rose, red, and gold infusing heavenly blue: a metaphor for the death of a great diva. This is quite different from what I imagined.
"Callas Went Away" isn't the best known song on the album: I suspect "Mea Culpa" and "The Principles of Lust" are better known, not to mention Sadeness. Both helped bring about a revival of interest in Gregorian Chanting. (But it's just not the same without the background effects of Enigma...)
This band's definitely worth looking into if you're too young (or too old) to remember when their music was everywhere. I recommend pouring a glass of wine and listening to the entire album in a darkened room.
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