Welcome to The Channel Zero Hour With J. C. Kaelin Website! The Channel Ø Hour With J. C. Kælin is J. C.'s weekly two-hour 11 PM - 1 AM late-night Saturday cable TV show, broadcast on the Altice cable network, and 24/7 online. Since its premiere on the Suburban Cablevision network in March of 2008, each month a new episode airs for four Saturday nights in a row on Suburban Cablevision's successor, the Altice network's entire Hudson County, New Jersey public access channels in Bayonne, East Newark, Guttenberg, Harrison, Hoboken, Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen. Secaucus, Union City, Weehawken and West New York (check your cable guide for the public access channel for your Hudson County community). It's also archived online for everyone everywhere in streaming video at ChannelZeroNYC.com. We look forward to your joining J. C. each Saturday night at 11 PM on Bayonne Altice Channel 19, on the respective public access channels of Altice's Hudson County networks, and on streaming video 24/7 at ChannelZeroNYC.com!
The Channel Zero Hour Epi. 55: La Divina Maria: Maria Callas!
The high art and tragic life of Maria Callas, American-born Greek soprano and actress (1923-1977), one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and, further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina. Born to Greek immigrant parents, she was raised by an overbearing mother who had wanted a son. Maria received her musical education in Greece at age 13 and later established her career in Italy. Forced to deal with the exigencies of 1940s wartime poverty and with near-sightedness that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career. She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal decline and the premature end of her career. The press exulted in publicizing Callas's temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her "the Bible of opera" and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: "Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artist-and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists." #MariaCallas #LaDivina #Sopranos #Singers #Opera #Divas #ClassicalMusic
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