Callas e os Seus Duplos: Metamorfoses da Aura na Era Digital

Nearly half a century after the death of Maria Callas (1923-1977), the myth of the singer persists. In addition to exhibitions, documentaries, and biographies, new projects in which digital media play a decisive role are multiplying: a virtual duet, a holographic show, a multimedia opera-performance. In this book, I examine the paradox that runs through these projects: on one hand, the fascination with the dissemination of copies, avatars, and doubles; on the other hand, the obsession with the values of the original: authenticity, presence, immediacy. After all, in an era marked by the triumph of technical reproducibility, does the aura suffer a decline or a metamorphosis? And what does the acceleration of the Callas myth tell us, not only about the artist but also about us and our time?