A fired-up Maria Callas (Tyne Daly) is hectoring a student. "I don't want it done like me, I want it done like Verdi!" "With music?" enquires the nervy pianist. "Yes," she snaps, "With music: this isn't a play." Quite. What exactly is Terrence McNally's Master Class? A classy version of "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Maria Callas"? Yes, but no. There's impersonation, but not of her singing.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00PM on February 7, 2012