Very few people in this world can achieve the title of “greatest.”  Fewer still can be regarded as gifts from God.  Maria Callas was one of the few.  Known as “La Divina,” Callas’ divine skills as an opera singer remain unsurpassed even to this day.  Terrence McNally’s play Master Class asks us to examine this larger than life icon on a more personal scale.  The play serves as a fictionalized answer to the question “What must it have been like to be Maria Callas?”  We’re asked to take a journey with Callas as she relives professional highs and personal lows, and as we do so, we see that choices were made (both by her and for her) that transformed a young Greek girl named Anna Kalogeropoulos into Maria Callas: “La Divina.” 

During this Master Class, Maria will try to teach us that everyone’s life has transformative moments, “transitions” as she calls them.  And she reminds us that, much like in art, how we move through those transitions is what really matters in the end.