00:00Tell me how it felt to be on stage.
00:02An exultation.
00:04An intoxication.
00:06Maria Callas' life is so heartbreaking.
00:09The world's premiere opera singer
00:10no longer able to sing like she once could.
00:13How would you carry on if you were not able
00:16to perform or direct or create?
00:19Is it something you could connect to?
00:20Well, in some way, I went through a few years
00:23where I was unable to leave my home as much.
00:25I needed to be more with my family.
00:28You had to turn off certain aspects of yourself
00:30to be other things you need to be at times.
00:32And so I was reminded of how much being a creative person
00:35and having the connection to other creatives
00:38fed so much of my life and how important it was
00:40and how much I missed it.
00:42So, yes.
00:43But I think I've built a life very full,
00:46separate from being an artist, and she wasn't able to.
00:49So if it was all gone tomorrow and I was just a mom
00:52and I was just, you know, working in the field,
00:55I would be very happy. I'd be okay.
00:57Pablo, is that something you could connect to,
00:58or did that help unlock the character of Maria?
01:01Well, I think every person that is in this job
01:05has that fear, of course.
01:07And I'm a little bit of a hypochondriac,
01:10so every time I have an eye problem, I think,
01:13what if I go blind and I'm not able to do my work?
01:15You know, and I've never been there,
01:18but I try to connect with how painful would that be?
01:22Because, you know, in the case of a singer,
01:24a singer is someone that, of course, can put out a beautiful voice,
01:29but what they do really is they listen to that voice.
01:33So it's a physiological process where they end up listening to herself.
01:38And that is, I think, what happened to her.
01:40She stopped listening to herself.
01:42And she realized it.
01:44So it's a very private sort of process and a very painful one.
01:49And in these films used as a human device,
01:53as a specific problem where she's able to look back because of that.
01:58You trained for seven months to learn to sing opera.
02:02How did that evolve your understanding of Maria?
02:05And is it also something you'll continue doing, you know,
02:07just singing opera around the house?
02:10It's hard to just casually sing opera around the house, right?
02:12Just like when I do, the children were like,
02:15oh, she's doing that again.
02:16So the train, they certainly went through a lot.
02:20But yes, when no one's home now, yeah.
02:22There was no other way to understand who she was without studying the music
02:27because that's who she was.
02:29When she was a young teen, she was kind of raised by these great composers,
02:33these stories, these characters.
02:35This is what influenced her life, her understanding, her worldview,
02:40and to become also the technician she needed to be
02:42to understand the discipline it required.
02:45I learned so much about her and what it is to be an opera singer.
02:49It's a complete and full existence.
02:54Walk me a table at the cafe where the waiters know who I am.
02:58and I'm in the mood for adulation.
03:01Spending so much time with her,
03:03is there something that she taught you that you'll take into your own life?
03:06I think she helped me to remember how much I...
03:10There's often too much focus today on celebrity.
03:14So you almost hide from the art or sometimes being an artist
03:17because it comes with all this other...
03:20She reminded me how much I really do love,
03:24because I don't love all of that, but I love being an artist.
03:28And it's a great pleasure and privilege to be one
03:33and to communicate with an audience.
03:34And I do love it and I missed it.
03:37So we won't see you at the cafe waiting for adulation like Maria?
03:40No, that's not me.
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